Lori/Ella Drake 🖋️📖

Now I'm back to looking for a calendar app.

Gaahhhh. another company that doesn't need my money.

RIP to an incredible actor, Alfred Bester is one of my all time favorite Lawful Evil villains

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

"Australia's national broadcaster told a parliamentary hearing on Tuesday that the robots.txt opt-out mechanism proposed by AI companies as the centerpiece of a copyright compromise has already been documented as bypassed by those same companies" www.ibanet.org/AI-and-copyr...

How hard is it to understand that in a rights grab, opt-out is highly unethical?

Fall is here. So we can finally talk about this serious topic... Jonagold vs. Honeycrisp apples.

“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”

Thread. Thanks for the detective work @tuphlos.bsky.social

I'm hearing talks about increases of 25-30% in health insurance next year. Our rates have basically doubled in three years because the GOP took a wrecking ball to insurance. Never let them claim they're the party of small business again.

Dozens of employees at Boston Dynamics have petitioned the company to stop the sale of its robot dogs to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

this is me again saying dems need to stop campaigning on policy and go full vibe/meme based because that's how you get this cohort and there's a lot of them

The Cambridge institution’s Boston outpost, set to open this fall on Union Street, will add a cafe, a children’s area and wine at book events.

Had the latest scam email variant, in this case a purported contact from a radio station inviting me to join a "virtual interview program" which is of course a "paid author feature service". Key scam indicators are a gmail address that ends with (organisation).org(at)gmail.com and

A first-of-its-kind cancer vaccine is helping significantly reduce the chances that melanoma patients' tumors return. Drugmakers Moderna, based in Cambridge, and Merck announced the results Thursday.

Voted!!!

Microsoft literally told fragile white guys to use AI to compete with Black co-workers.

My husband made pork chashu. Sooooo yummy

If you’re in STEM and you’re eligible to vote in the midterms…YOU BETTER BE VOTING. I want “I VOTED” sticker selfies in the comments. This is an unconstitutional robbery of our scientific ecosystem cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

I want to marry his comebacks.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

one day Musk will be thought of as one of the biggest mass murderers of the 21st Century

ProPublica is looking into the ways insurers’ continued use of prior authorization is impacting patients. We need your help to figure out if the process is still leading to delayed or missed treatments, tests, medical equipment or medication.

Fund training colleges for heat source engineers, solar engineers, wind farm development. Built a green economy. Reduce dependency on oil. Energy sovereignty. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Seeing as it's the spookiest season, how about some books with ghosts? Also swearing, violence, massive body counts, and a necromancer with extreme anger management issues. The Eric Carter series www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/EC2/e...

And hey, the full-cast audiobook of the final EC book, CULT CLASSIC, is on sale until 11/5! www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

Wow.

the political part aside, it seems like a pretty big problem that a social media company controlled by a conglomerate that includes two Hollywood Studios is banning an account dedicated to a film from one of its competitors!

they’re going to censor this into a blockbuster

"I suppose you could say that insisting on the rights of all people is issuing a "political purity test." But this ignores the fact that those who refuse to enter the tent unless you push other people out of the tent are *also* issuing a political purity test." www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...

Massachusetts - early voting is officially underway! 🗳️ Make a plan to vote 🗳️ Research your ballot 🗳️ Find your polling locations 🗳️ Cast your ballot WhereDoIVoteMA.com

This afternoon, we need to bring in anything that can't handle 32° Had a pretty good gardening year. Not ready for it to be over 😢

"...making music without any of the tedium or expense involved in doing it the old fashioned way" Because becoming a capable musician (or artist or author or other creative) is only about the end product, not the blood, sweat, and tears you put in. Not the satisfaction of conquering your doubts. /s

Call Chuck Schumer and tell him to defend Ilhan Omar publicly or resign. (202) 224-6542

Thread.

A spokesperson for the MBTA said the prolonged detention of railcar shells by U.S. Customs and Border Protection has disrupted production and delayed deliveries. www.wcvb.com/article/mbta...

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

Her "immigration status" is that she's been a US citizen longer than either Melania Trump or Elon Musk. The Democrats SHOULD use this opportunity for 100% solidarity with one of their own, and throw the fucking kitchen sink at Trump and his Republicans. I doubt they will but would LOVE to be wrong.

I really don't think folks who weren't there grasp just how much these generations really were shamed or even prosecuted for stuff that giant companies do all the time now like ffs, websites used to shame people for 𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 images without paying the site that hosted it for their bandwidth!