“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

New @ghostcopnyc.bsky.social. And a lot of you want this, right now.

smoke weed every day

they're going to burn this whole mother fucker down because they had to integrate drinking fountains

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Reposting in acknowledgment of the millions dollar Black AI

I just spoke to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander as he left police custody following his arrest at immigration court. Here’s what he said:

lol got to watch the premiere coding genAI repeatedly fail at a simple auth implementation task until it failed a test, just ignored the error message from that result, assert that the code was now “perfect and ready for production”, and ask if I wanted to ship it to prod. The future sucks lol

but maybe we have a little window of opportunity for people to reflect on how absurd it is to demand decorum that gives space to honor a truly vile man whose time on earth was spent making things worse for so many. maybe people will see how their empathy is being exploited.

how do pearlclutchers facilitate our descent into fascism? simple. pearlclutching is a demand for decorum, assimilation - to control people & narrow their choice of actions to a select few “acceptable” options. they use social shame & influence to push this. authoritarianism does the same.

maybe now people can take a breath, notice how odd it is that those advocating for fighting against trumpism (by way of rallies and donating to the dnc) are so fiercely scolding any joy at a repugnant bigot meeting a violent demise that HE ENDORSED. why are they doing so much kumbaya for a fascist?

maybe now we might have a rare opportunity to shine some light into cracks forming in the collective chokehold fascists have on our social foundation where people can notice how strange it is that, for example, the new york times is honoring a white nationalist extremist.

the far right is raging because kirk was so effective at forcing white nationalist extremist politics into the mainstream. he built a $92M empire off of forcing schools to host fascists, teaching people debatelord whataboutisms in defense of bigotry & thrashing at anyone who dares to push back.

lol lmao Dude so mad we got a new gender neutral toilet

Follow up question

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excuse me, we toss trash BAGS into the street. then our rats chew holes into the bags and spread the trash around. it's called an ✨ecosystem✨

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

civilization vi leader two turns before you destroy his lone attacking trebuchet unit with a missile cruiser

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NYC earthquake?

lol good thing nyc paid like $350M for extra train cops so we could sit in a station and wait 25 fucking minutes for them to show up when called

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

They agree with him. And he’s a safer bet for the structure and system they want to maintain Than actually getting the buy in on full reporting And it’s not just the papers It’s a system that demands Trump and yes Epstein stay unresolved Like #metoo / #blm It’s permanent triangulation

A personal update.

I kind of wish more who think radically politically & act politically enjoyed fiction. It makes me sad to see folks only read theory & nonfiction. We need to gather what can only be gained by journeying with art. I think I'll provide recommendations for fiction that pairs well with the fight here.

Activists Hawk Newsome & Chivonna Newsome run down on NYPD and shut down their BBQ holding them accountable to the same laws they harrass and arrests the Black Community for! #NYPD #NYC

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Reminder that Palestinians are still here, Still being killed with our tax dollars, still need help

lol really funny how the business dipshits piss themselves if they need to pay a dollar more in taxes, but are completely silent as their taxpayer funded R&D they’ll never be able to do themselves is completely gutted. RIP to the American economic/scientific engine.

10 reasons not to rank Andrew Cuomo *at all*

lol mailbox is completely fucking full with racist ass Cuomo mailers. Westchester-living shithead doesn’t even know mailboxes in the city can hold this much trash

yeah Columbo is ACAB but also there is an episode where he tracks down a secret Nazi war criminal named “Stephen Mueller” so…

our queer book fair was rained out so we're trying again on Sunday, this time at Access Oasis accessible garden in Astoria! *hundreds* of free LGBTQIA+ books plus: free snacks and zines from people's bodega, free button- and patch-making from qns collab, and more. tell yr friends!!

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Most large scale AI and machine learning systems are built directly on the back of exploited human data annotators in the global south.

A pigeon has perched itself on a Spectrum News camera as a crowd of roughly 100 continues to rally outside 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan. 3 Ford SUVs exited, with a handful of demonstrators yelling “Fuck ICE” as they exited.

fuck ice

ppls forum version tomorrow

ffmpreg

All of these systems are built off the backs of exploited laborers in the global south, it’s literally just a matter of degree how direct it is.

"why do so many people hate cops"

lol I imagine the next post will be bemoaning the lack of giant parking lots in downtown areas so he can drive his enormous SUV in from the burbs

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