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The latest Covid variant (razor blade throat) seems to have increased transmissibility resulting in more people ending up in hospital. Most healthcare systems haven’t adopted clean air standards or mandatory respirator use. Hospital acquired COVID has a 10% fatality rate My guide to avoiding it

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SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

submitted 19 hours ago • 411 comments

Dammit, now I’m craving tacos.

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"The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “real pollution, not CO2.” The bot is told to frame these arguments in the most reasonable possible way" "chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:

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if you know anything about katie miller i’m marisakabas.04 on signal

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Breaking: HHS is canceling a $600 million contract with Moderna to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.

submitted 1 day ago • 277 comments

Another shoe drops.

submitted 1 day ago • 108 comments

Excessive caffeine during the day; OTC sleep aids plus melatonin at night; barely-restrained hysteria; a certain ideation; rage-filled fantasies; trying to figure out how to GTFO.

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Is everyone else just kinda going through all of life now with a constant low-grade awareness that we’re between one and three years away from the start of the kinetic phase of our present constitutional crisis? And if so how are we coping with that?

submitted 2 days ago • 127 comments

me, reading DOJ’s Abrego Garcia motion to dismiss

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

"Anyone who has ever played or seriously engaged with sports knows, however, that 'fairness- is often the first word out of the mouth of a loser." -Tom Ley defector.com/its-a-great-...

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Thus far, this webinar is doubling as a course on basic rare-books cataloging rules. There’s an hour left, and I sincerely hope to learn something I don’t know.

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In a DCRMR webinar, and am being reminded that Official RDA is pseudo-intellectual gibberish.

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So at 2 (nb. I work 6:30-3) on the Friday before a long weekend, my supervisor tells me that I’ll be discussing rare Portiguese law books with a visiting scholar from Brazil on Tuesday afternoon.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Hey while we're talking about who has what it takes to handle the 2 a.m. phone call defector.com/what-do-you-...

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

“The whole backwards-looking Biden frenzy mostly seems like an excuse for the press to look away from the present day.” Scocca in peak form. defector.com/what-do-you-...

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.

submitted 7 days ago • 207 comments

If I’m doing a training for a new ILS and am asked to change a 245$c to “something unique,” I should NOT use “Heywood Jablome,” right? Sigh.

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You’re reborn as a cartoon character. Who are you?

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CDC platforms have stopped warning the public about disease spread. One of the CDC's main newsletters that alerts health professionals about outbreaks hasn't been sent since March. And most CDC social media accounts have gone over a month without posting their own new content.

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

MY LATEST: Adriana Smith Died 3 Months Ago. Georgia Could Make Smith’s Family Pay to Use Her as a Human Incubator.

submitted 9 days ago • 40 comments

To be catalogued in my law cart: 3 manuscripts and a volume with a flag reading “Multiple bound-withs” stuck in it. Boo.

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“With the increasing numbers of COVID‐19 cases globally, the number of leprosy cases with COVID‐19 is likely to increase.” (and the leprosy in this case was resistant to first line antibiotic treatment, causing the person have to be on steroids indefinitely, which is not fun.)

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The year is 2025 and white women are still comparing shit that happens to Black women to the handmaid’s tale because they refuse to read another book or watch another television series. It’s exhausting. Using Black women’s bodies for breeding. Remind you of anything nonfictional? Maybe?

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

@cynthiagibas.bsky.social

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I was reading up on the history of diphtheria and ran across this interesting fact.

submitted 14 days ago • 311 comments

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

submitted 15 days ago • 237 comments

The same thing happened to a woman named Marlise Munoz over a decade ago. We covered it at @rewirenewsgroup.com. From Lynn Paltrow, cofounder of Pregnancy Justice, and lawyer and ethicist Katherine Taylor: rewirenewsgroup.com/2014/01/09/m...

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"

submitted 15 days ago • 1591 comments

Word. Can we for ONCE not do the circular-firing-squad thing and focus our firing (metaphorical … or not) on the actual fucking enemy?

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Distracted by searching the Corpus iuris canonicis to see if any of JD’s recent actions are grounds for excommunication per canon law. I should probably get back to work.

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