Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

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sitting at work and sighing because I miss her (balatro)

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford Medicine have devised an influenza vaccine that prompts immunity to ALL four major flu subtypes AND shows potential against bird flu, indicating a significant advancement in flu prevention and a potential increase in vaccine efficacy. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

Adobe is getting so much flack for their AI features that in sponsored social media posts they’ve stopped using the term ‘AI’ & now call it ‘text to vector art’ 🙄 Don’t let them dodge pushback because of this rebrand attempt & imo they can still fuck ‘emselves for stealing work from their customers

the CDC is again trying to limit the 2024-25 booster availability to provably immunocompromised and elderly people. they’re taking written comments through the 17th. please take a minute to let them know boosters should be available to all who want them: www.regulations.gov/commenton/CD...

I can't shorten the new dragon age game into DAV because that is @advancedstick.bsky.social's name in my head. I have instead been calling it DAVE

the pic makes it look like George Lucas and Sy Snootles are going through a celebrity breakup

Police are violently clearing the encampment at the University of Michigan this morning.

dude i saw this on fb and i almost threw up from laughing so hard

Idk who needs to hear this but centrists are not de facto swing voters, and swing voters are not de facto centrists.

My other car is a Fourier transform

The vagueness of the threat is critical. They know that legal citizens will get swept up in this. They know it will be a dehumanizing process for everyone. They know it is a blank check for the worst people in LE to terrorize whoever they want. That is the point.

one of the things that strikes me about the consistency and outspokenness of tennant's trans and nonbinary support is that he doesn't make it about his nonbinary child. I'm sure that has helped focus his opinions but he frames it as an issue of principle, history and philosophy. as he should!

This is my Mr. Hyde moment.

“What the heck—why is the ground rippling and splashing? Why are my feet wet? I don’t understand what’s happening or what all this water is! Help! Map, do you have any advice?!”

Just browsing the very normal US National Map apps.nationalmap.gov/viewer/

I finally saw a cybertruck on the road today and it is as ugly in real life as I imagined it would be

HOW COOL IS THIS? For the FIRST time in ONE BILLION years, two lifeforms have truly merged into one organism. In a new study, researchers report that a nitrogen-fixing organelle has been identified IN a marine alga. Meet the Nitroplast! Let’s talk about that! 🧵⬇️ 🧪

Old enough to remember when universities were told that security costs were not an excusing for abridging free speech

The destruction of Gaza, by USA weapons.

This whole thread but especially this:

This autism awareness month I want to see more people care about what happens in ABA

Hmm. This has given me a lot to think about. ballsandstrikes.org/very-serious...

Trump: I will seize control of the federal bureaucracy Press: Is this a change election? Trump: I will take revenge on my enemies and put undesirables in camps Press: Let’s check in with the latest polls Trump: I want to be dictator Press: Has Trump cooled his rhetoric?

I am, somehow, less interested in the quality of Nancy Reagan’s brain game than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops

this is a great reminder that gas-powered leaf blowers are INCREDIBLY horrible polluters because twin-stroke engines combust terribly inefficiently (for the benefit of weight/size), so not only are leaf blowers pointless (WIND EXISTS) and dangerously loud, they're basically mini asthma machines!

this may seem absurd, but small engines like leaf blowers, chainsaws, and other lawn care equipment are unbelievably awful for the environment and our neighborhoods which is something we knew in 2000 and yet only recently have they begun being banned in some jurisdictions. all for "clean" lawns.

happy international women’s day to the original international woman

ya know, sometimes I think about the amazing multitude of wonderful people who love me And then I think about how sometimes I get despondent because one human may not like me quite as much as I want them to And I think maybe, just maybe, I need to chill the heck out.

chefs kiss www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

I saw Wicked on Broadway recently and one of Elphaba's lines to Glinda is "Not everyone can travel by bubble" and I really wanted her to add "....Doug"

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We never ask this about bombs.

(flirting) can i fumble you

DOCTOR: The great clown Pagliacci is in town. Go see him, he'll cheer you right up. INSURANCE COMPANY: most we can cover is a 10 minute telehealth call with Ronald McDonald

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and that's a wrap! okay I know it's not 00.30 here YET so technically the last panel is gazing into the future but I know myself pretty well at this point, alright

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