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> “A lot of the work [CDC probationary employees] do is duplicitous with AI,” … > “I happen to be a doctor. I know a few things.” 🧐🧐

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 19 days ago • 541 comments

I generally disdain op-eds as they too frequently seem to be more opinion than supported fact, but I read www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... by economist Allison Schrager because I'm every hopeful. Long story, short: It's got cites and plausible analysis until it gets to the bads of single-ness. 1/3

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

submitted 20 days ago • 246 comments

It's going to be a long four years, especially if we make ourselves insane misreading budget documents. This is a story where multiple things are true at the same time and it's a warning about how we consume information going forward gizmodo.com/the-400-mill...

submitted 20 days ago • 90 comments

Amy Berman Jackson: "Michael Fanone’s heroism will never be moot" www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/07/a...

submitted 27 days ago • 15 comments

"If you encounter a broken web interface, which you will, today, probably multiple times, this setup is fundamentally why it sucks so badly. It’s not the binary in your computer at fault; it’s the binary we ascribe to our brains." Why is everything binary?

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

submitted 28 days ago • 809 comments

Evidently, this is Venus next to the moon. Apologies for my crappy phone camera.

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Turns out egg prices were only a justification not to vote for a woman of color.

submitted 36 days ago • 366 comments

As the article notes, OpenAI ingested vast amounts of data of un-stated provenance to train its LLMs. Not sure I feel much empathy for the allegations that their data was stolen to train DeepSeek. Also, the allegations feel conveniently timed.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Everything is so damn stupid.

submitted 37 days ago • 89 comments

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

submitted 106 days ago • 474 comments

RIP David Lynch

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No women I know listen to audiobooks. /s Though it probably is hard for some women to listen to the named podcasters.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

From the article: “But others came to Hegseth’s defense. “I’ve literally never heard of ASEAN and I’ve followed geopolitics all my life,” one X user said.” The X user is 4?

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Tori Amos interview from a month ago: www.theguardian.com/music/2024/d... I’m also sad about the things she is grieving about (Trump and Gaiman, mostly), so I hope I can find ways to make our world better.

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I'm introducing a version of a thing you already have, but now it has AI Imagine being able to do something you would never ever want to do. Well now it's finally possible thanks to AI

submitted 59 days ago • 8 comments

This article describes so many astounding and fishy aspects of this new fluoride-in-water study. If people really want to change that policy (or really any major policy change), I wish they would insist on consistent, unbiased, and verifiable methodologies.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Missed this a month ago. I’m not surprised by this becoming more relevant to us. arstechnica.com/ai/2024/12/y...

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"In the U.S., an average of about 900 people a week have died of COVID-19 over the past year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

From the linked PBS article: “In the U.S., an average of about 900 people a week have died of COVID-19 over the past year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

If you subscribe to this list you’ll block good people like @faineg.bsky.social and @brooklynmarie.bsky.social

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Why paying for a newspaper (or real journalism) is worth every penny. Florida is no longer the Sunshine State. To get a public record, you often have to hire a lawyer.

submitted 68 days ago • 148 comments

Lindy West’s Love Actually takedown is still one of my favorite pieces of writing www.jezebel.com/i-rewatched-...

submitted 70 days ago • 52 comments

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submitted 86 days ago • 94 comments

Nate Silver’s post confuses me so much. Every time I think of a question that might clarify some aspect for me, I think “but the whole thing still makes NO sense!”

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

I used “solipsistic” in a book discussion the other day. I hope I used it properly.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

There’s a lot of research and real-world data that observes that humans are bad at split-second switching between low / partial attention and high / full attention, like what might be needed when driving and an accident is imminent.

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I occasionally use ChatGPT to “improve” emails for people in other orgs that I am asking for something (better pricing, a favorable policy decision, etc). I treat it as editorial feedback. I still feel a little icky making my individual style more average and, essentially, machine-generated. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️☹️

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A Brief History of Men Today Are Too Feminine and Women Too Masculine 🧵

submitted 113 days ago • 63 comments

I’ve gotta give props to EM for continuing his longstanding tradition of reducing everything to a meme or crypto joke. Everything we hold sacrosanct is defaced.

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

I think today is a good day to make and eat nachos. Need chips.

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

As my mother is in a shelter in SRQ, and friends continue to recover from Helene, recent evidence and journalism are reducing my optimism: wapo.st/3zRBFHE

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