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So AI has risks. AI companies think we need to slow down. How about we stop subsidizing data centers and compute costs and build the true costs and externalities into the pricing?? Seems like the market could help address the problem if we stopped these sweetheart data center deals.

Me: please indent Msft: would you like that summarized for you? Me: no, just indent, and keep the same font Msft: you want a totally new font 3x bigger? Me: ack no, who would want that? Msft: some engineer who has never thought about how any of our tools are used by actual users, prolly

So many women have this experience of deciding to give in and get it over with. And then question themselves because they "gave in." Giving in is not consent. It's coercion.

Heartbreaking truths. And clear facts highlightung that those who purport to care about protecting children via bathroom laws and the like are really about upholding their white nationalist view of the patriarchy and maintaining their power and control.

“more children have been preyed upon by republican politicians than have received gender reassignment surgery. let’s talk about that.”

I wouldn't be surprised if the whole "infectious only once symptomatic" understanding of infectious disease transmission is knocked on its head as zoonotic disease prevalence increases. Yay climate change.

This should be an Onion headline, but sadly for us it's a real one.

It is a very big deal @nytimes.com. What are the repercussions for journalists who use AI irresponsibly, eroding readers' trust but more critically, fundamentally affecting how readers understand what's going on in the world?

be one of the first to see the new documentary MOMS CLUB at a virtual screening tonight! Q&A with filmmakers and experts to follow. donate to their gofundme to join: gofund.me/94fd38456 **if you cannot afford the donation, please reach out—i'll see if i can get you in!

Emojis are too small and I can't enlarge them to see what's happening, so I'm always at risk of misunderstanding them and sending the wrong one. Are you tipping your hat at me or flipping me off?

This is beyond incredible. I love this energy.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

Really interesting article that is one of the better studies to affirm what many of us already sensed: take it easy way longer than you think after covid (and other illnesses). Don't rely simply on when your outward symptoms have improved. Give your whole body the rest it needs to recover.

I unknowingly ate candy with malitol syrup in it and by golly is that an ingredient I am going to avoid forever and a day. Promptly had terrible stomach pain and diarrhea for the rest of the evening. No good very bad ingredient.

Absolutely loved this by @katie-drummond.bsky.social It calmed my CNS that is overflowing with big feelings about AI to know there are reasonable people out there who can lead us through the mire of AI hype. It is very 'Use AI. Not too much. Mostly rely on humans.' www.wired.com/story/ai-jou...

Here's to bringing back the term Luddite with pride and solidarity! From the must read book The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social

POTS used to be so rare, that they made a Dr House episode about it. #LongCOVID

Why did hulu abruptly stop airing this extra inning playoff game to show me a rerun of a dumb show???

It might be a good time to talk about the problems w/ Bluesky. And I'll try to focus on some of the lesser known issues and stay away from the current discourse regarding Jay and inconsistent moderation. This'll be a quick thread. 🧵

So I'd like to show a demonstration of what this "waffles" thing is. Here's a conversation between *this site's* CEO, some random guy, and the cofounder of "Tangled", a GitHub clone built on top of Bluesky's protocol. Please take a moment to really think, about the shape of this thoughtlessness.

“Children today receive roughly 4-5 times as many shots as their 1986 counterparts, yet are exposed to 95% fewer antigens and only modest increases in aluminum. We’ve achieved far more protection with far less immune burden through decades of scientific precision.” www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/t...

YES! Services aren't meant to make a profit, they are to provide a public good. Capitalism has rotted our brains into thinking government services need to break even / turn a profit.

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

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Omg. Chatgpt is just autofill on steroids. All the scifi movies about AI taking over got it wrong: we are going to cede control to the algorithm not bc it's sentient but bc humans are lonely, bored, and gullible.

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Cuomo is a bully "Cuomo’s whole concept of leadership is rooted in manipulation, braying meanness, the belief that he should never have to face consequences; it’s the accrual of power built not on accomplishment or innate talent, but on the diminishment, disrespect and objectification of others."

Moderation lists for the win! Here's the list if you want to subscribe bsky.app/profile/skyw...

Really sharp @lauren-goldstein.bsky.social piece. laurenmgoldstein.substack.com/p/on-authori...

More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California, including the lower Blue Creek watershed, have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history. grist.org/indigenous/i...

This is a huge problem with tariffs historically! If an American car is $20k and a Japanese car is 15k, slapping a 100% auto tariff on Japan and turning that Japanese car’s price to $30k means that American automakers can raise their prices to $25k and still sell the cheapest car in town.

One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about the ultra wealthy abusing the system and cruel people having unchecked power over all of us.

OPINION: Don’t have Medi-Cal? Cutting it will still hurt you – here’s how. buff.ly/B7jjbIy ⬅️ via Watsonville Hospital CEO Stephen Gray

1/ Most people still don’t know how to use a rapid antigen test (RAT) correctly. So here’s a 🧵on how to get the most accurate results and avoid spreading COVID: