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13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

28 years of cyclosporiasis testing Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. All are back because of this science denying administration.

“Your horror has been stolen from you” is a 10/10 sentence.

ICE agents shouldn’t be executing people on the street even if they ARE the target of the warrant

victory lapping on this one

Okay, UKsters, the media is useless re: extreme heat, so let’s do this. I’m from Southern California, spent the last ten years living outside Seattle, which has a similar climate to Scotland, where I am now. Here’s what I know. 1. Heat exhaustion and sickness are no fucking joke. Do not tempt them.

—of people who die during heat events do so at home. A large portion of those victims have an air conditioner, but did not turn it on. The energy bills are high, but no cost is greater than losing a life. Stay safe and careful, and when in doubt, rest.

And we aren’t doing it because we’ve been dying to make short form video. It’s because the big tech companies spent squalling and years building addictive closed platforms, so that’s where users are.

Yeah I don't feel like enough gets said about how "pivot to video" is really about "pivot to centralized platforms," it's not like anyone's saying to send out mp4s via RSS, it's all just another front in the project to dismantle podcasting's original decentralized model

Happy Pride Month to my magnificent LGBTQ friends and my magnificent LGBTQ enemies 💜

Happy Pride, you beautiful motherfuckers 🌈💖✨

Happy Pride Month! You know who doesn't change their brand image to rainbow just for June? Ctenophores. They make their gay little rainbows all year. It's a Pride parade in the ocean every day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. 366 every four years. 🦑🐙

Name a song with "girl" in the title but replace girl with squirrel if you'd like: Church Squirrels, by Beyoncé

Bad Squirrels (either Donna Summer or M.I.A., works either way)

I can say this about progress: 10 years ago, whenever I hopped my happy tail online to talk about children’s rights or children’s liberation, the response was mostly silence. Today, a lot more people understand what I’m talking about and how it’s tied to where we are today. That gives me hope.

“clown event still possible” put that in your pocket, I can already tell you that this is the key phrase of 2026

We don’t have universal healthcare for the same reason that white southerners poured cement into their community swimming pools rather than let their black neighbors swim in them. Racism is ruining ALL of our lives.

He's been predicting that since September 2002, when offered Congress his "guarantee" that a US regime change war in Iraq would "have enormous positive reverberations in the region" and bring an end to Iran's Islamic Republic

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

Trump and Israel started bombing Iran while in the middle of negotiations Trump is starving Cuba He’s threatening to annex Canada He removed the leader of Venezuela He’s threatening Greenland He’s aiding a genocide in Gaza This is the man who took your tax dollars for his “Board of Peace”.

Just called my US rep, @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co, to tell him to impeach for Trump for this illegal war. You can call your US rep, too. Find them here: reps.fyi

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

Cops kill people pretty much every single day in this country. Stop saying that “ICE isnt law enforcement - it’s a fascist street gang” Cops ARE a fascist street gang. And the fact that you can’t see that is one of the reasons we’re in this shit

She was then sent back to Dilley from the PICU and denied her prescription medications. Disease is being weaponized to kill people our government considers undesirable. I hope you can connect the dots to how they told you to throw off your masks and stop getting vaccinations.

This or just dumping people *in the woods* AND sending folks out w/o their phone or I.D. Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate." I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0

For years, I’ve said something many of you did not want to hear: that “good white folx” would eventually find themselves harmed by the very systems, institutions, and policies rooted in the myth of white supremacy that you believed protected you by default.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

if you vote for another cent for this you are a collaborator. this is a litmus test for every politician for the rest of my life

You cannot tell voters that this regime is an existential threat one day and aid and abet it every other day. Either you're lying or you are complicit, neither of which makes you fit for office.

As shitty and nightmarish the very concept of ICE is, I really feel heartened and almost a little patriotic at how every city uses it's topography and culture to resist. Traffic jams in NYC, absurd costumes in Oregon, running ICE into the woods in NC, ice on ICE violence in Minnesota, etc.

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

They were 8 and 11 years old