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Gut punch of a story about an Amazon engineer who trusted ChatGPT-4o to manage and reduce her seizure med dosages. You'd hope someone who made it into a top engineering position would have known the limits of AI circa May 2024 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...

If you ever need to explain path dependence (or why you need to understand where a system has been to understand what is doing now or how to shift it) here's an illustration.

Someone I know in their 20s said they view Halloween as the last unofficial day of summer and 🫠🫠 i said Halloweens used to be cold

This owl was getting banded and tagged by the Rocky Point Bird Observatory. For the owl’s safety, he/she was wrapped up. These photos…🤣🦉. So cute.

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As people take a greater number of medications across years or decades, experts say, the risk for adverse drug interactions increases. One way to advocate for yourself? Keep a list of your meds handy.

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

gift link but only good for 7 days www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Odyssey 3hrs Musk 4hrs You Can See Everything 3hrs Not great for those of us with walnut-sized bladders 😩

All in for the Elwha Watershed! Forest defense is climate defense. Please sign!

This is really terrible news. Helen was one of the best. Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69 www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/h... via @statnews.com

Added to "Things I Didn't Know I Should Be Worried About" file 😳

"You'll see us grow to 20 gigawatts by 2030."⁣ ⁣ Voltus just raised $225M to pay factories, warehouses and big box stores to use less electricity. DOE says the country needs 80 GW of this by 2030. Dana Guernsey wants Voltus to be a quarter of it.⁣ ⁣ New episode of Energy Empire out now 🗽🔌

@alletson.bsky.social sat down to interview conservative legal advocate J Christian Adams about his claims of widespread election fraud. Things got contentious and he walked out… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

GREAT ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE NEWS!!! (Not a typo!) The Indonesian government has cancelled its insane Food and Energy Estates project, which would have deforested a land mass the size of Maryland. Amazing work by @mightyearth.org. A massive victory for the planet. mightyearth.org/article/indo...

The Community Reinvestment Act is at risk of rollbacks that would dramatically weaken banks’ obligations to invest in working-class communities and help them recover from disasters. We can’t allow this to happen. Submit a comment now: https://on.nrdc.org/3WbqGU7

Sorry, lengthy 🧵: @hellgatenyc.com is a small but important experiment in building journalism infrastructure that is resilient to the polycrisis gutting news media (and the civil society and democracyfor which a healthy independent free press is a prerequisite). We just issued our annual report:

With 8.3 billion people on the planet, we’ve learned to define wildlife recovery so narrowly that we can celebrate a species’ comeback even as the ecosystem supporting it continues to unravel.

Feels accurate

Today Permitting Reform advocates are all pivoting to the message that this bill will make tech companies bear the costs for data-center power use. But here's a fact: the lobbying group for Big Tech loves the bill and wants it to pass. Weird contradiction, no?

This is a bad bill—bad for environmental justice, bad for climate, bad for humans. Some good people are fighting for it b/c they don't believe we can get better, but straight up, it's a bad bill. Sometimes we have to fight like hell for better options; it's the only way we get them.

I was speaking to my wife about the death penalty in regards to several of the high profile sexual assault cases and she was shocked when I told her about the Innocence Project and the hundreds of death row inmates released because they were imprisoned wrongly. Most people don’t know these facts.

You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.

"Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us."

"Thiel’s destruction of Gawker, a publication that attacked virtually everyone, was the first shot fired in this era’s remarkably successful war against the free press. The war itself is not new. It’s just that today’s iteration of it is so very on the nose." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...

New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...

Was listening to the bbc broadcast and was sure they were talking about the Cornell Seven but actually no they were discussing similar goings-on in India and that is the point its everywhere 😓😓

It’s the first documented outbreak of bird flu in captive mink in the U.S., and an advocacy group is raising concerns about Utah’s response.

Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide

RI is once again looking at putting our own extreme heat worker protections in place. I would like to note that we did something similar w/reproductive health care access & we were glad we did ecori.org/as-climate-w...

“If Vance manages to succeed Trump, Thiel - his benefactor, mentor, and maker - will become the most powerful man in the world.” ~ @gilduran.com