At least in my case, all the so-special human element of medicine did was put up roadblocks and make me miss almost a month of work---even putting aside the 20 years of patronizing bullshit I had to sit through about how I was imagining the migraine-like auras that preceded every episode.

Every single word in this headline is a surprise

I think in limit cases people will admit this—like I think most people understand that Hitler murdered Jewish people because he hated Jewish people. but in American politics it is just hard to get people to think about white supremacy as a real force that drives people. even now!

...... i'm sorry, they wanted to invade greenland because red lobster nixed the unlimited shrimp promotion? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Holy fuck

The opposite of the "woke mind virus" should be called the "right-wing brain worm".

a while ago one of my juniors asked me if a video in Chinese was legit, and I looked at it for like two seconds and said "this is Falun Gong." she asked me how I could tell and I explained that it had the exact same visual stylings and cadence as Chinese state media, but the bad guys were reversed

Hormuz vessel crossings: @bloomberg.com

go to an Indian Christian church in Canada or the US and ask every uncle over 50 about their politics it's bad (speaking from personal experience)

Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂

Trump on the new plane he's been gifted from Qatar: "This plane was transformed into a White House at a level of luxury that nobody has ever seen before"

Small businesses are usually one or two of three things: a niche business for a very niche market, a hobby that is just barely sustainable as a job, or the last refuge of someone who otherwise is impossible to stand being around. Otherwise, they tend to grow.

>becomes prime minister >wins largest majority seen in labour history >pivots the party hard right, cracks down on palestinian protestors and privacy rights >completely destroys the labour party >resigns what was bro doing any of this for

there is a very simple response to anyone who suggests replicating starmerism here: absolutely the fuck not

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

The remake of just one of the movies she starred in made over a billion dollars last year alone, and she still died in poverty from an extremely preventable infection. We need universal healthcare or we don’t have basic human rights.

pete hegseth is engaged in open racial discrimination against black officers. the clear message is that there is no place for black or women leadership in his military

Reminder that at one point when Zuckerberg was trying to break into China he asked Xi to name his child and Xi was “for the love of God, have some self-respect you weirdo”

i’m reading the new @quinnslobodian.com on Musk and the book makes a very persuasive case that Musk’s upbringing in apartheid south africa are at the core of his ideology

This used to be bigoted but now lots of people say it so it can’t be bigoted seems to be a thesis that could, perhaps, use further examination.

One thing I learned when I was just out of college and watching 6-8 hours of Fox News a day for my research job at Media Matters: Ingesting hours of propaganda on a daily basis changes you, no matter how smart you think you are. If you don't notice the changes, that just makes you an easier mark.

Trump doesn’t care if the US outlives him

genuinely we need to bring back IRL third spaces before online civil society radicalizes itself into absolute nonsense

"we can't just take people's money" yes you can. you do it all the time to non-wealthy people. don't lie to us.

there needs to be a coordinated global effort among democracies to destroy this man's financial and social media empires and leave him impoverished and powerless

I'm still a little catatonic from Musk deciding to go pogroming right when it could theoretically have blown up the biggest payday of his life. But he made the bet that Wall Street couldn't give a shit. And he was right.

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

The Art of War is War 101 For Dipshit Nobles and somehow that’s still much too complicated for the vast majority of war-waging dipshits over the course of history

yeah like just looking at how stilted the language is, the random capitalizations, etc. it looks like they fed the farsi original that trump told them to sign blind to claude and are just now figuring out whats in it and how you have to be very precise in treaty language as it turns out

The media loves the tale of Brianna Ghey who tragically killed herself due to the pernicious influence of social media and transgender, except for the fact she was murdered by transphobes in a park, but she was out and about as a trans girl, so basically She got herself killed whats the diff

liberal democracies will never be safe with musk this powerful—they must unite to break him my latest with @newrepublic.com c/a @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2119...

The reason cops kill is because the job attracts people who fantasize about murder.

Lol, of course Ezra fucking Klein is listed as an attendee of Peter Theil's cult-building "dialog society."

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

Exciting news: I just learned that @boltsmag.org has won a Nonprofit News Award tonight. The award is for the powerful (& distressing) story reported by @burness.bsky.social on the zealous prosecution of a community of American Samoans by the state — you may remember the article:

Oh but giving Ukraine 70 billion in military assistance was a bridge too far I guess.

"generative AI to me feels like a corporate DDoS on society in a way that is really disorienting" "we're running on the fumes of knowledge produced in the past and underfunding and undermining knowledge production and serious science right now" Perfectly stated, @alixdunn.com

NPR is comparing a trans woman fleeing Texas for her personal safety with a conservative fleeing Seattle because he was annoyed with his neighbors. This is honestly insane both sides framing to a degree that is just blatant lying by omission.

This isn't just about Laverne, this is a story of trans people being purged from all facets of employment. The functional unemployment rate for trans people is roughly 30% or higher. Trump has made it convenient for companies to not hire trans people at all. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

If Trump dies in office, expect Vance and Miller to cite "stability," "national security," and other bullshit excuses to go on an authoritarian bender that makes Minneapolis and the Charlie Kirk purges seem quaint.

crazy to think that perhaps because trump is not an ideologue and is a little attentive to public sentiment he is less likely to go full tiananman square than miller and vance

Good enough to make me want to add alt text

New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...

the way i get treated before and after transitioning has been a constant shock. i used to be treated as an expert sr engineer, but afterwards i would talk on the exact same subjects and get treated like a junior engineer about it

As a trans woman I had the I guess novel experience of being like a magical coding prodigy in the eyes of my peers and managers right up until I transitioned, then was "under-performing" and put on a PIP fairly soon afterwards. The shift was pretty jarring

Feels like a lot of STEM guys believed coding was the hardest thing a human could do, and assumed that once somebody invented an AI that can code, it would follow naturally that the AI can do all of the lesser non-coding things that other dumber people were doing

I really don’t need your advice on how to deal with people being assholes I’m expressing a concern about the level of asshole people are being.

We don’t always know what problems are hard for LLMs. So devs evaluate on tasks HUMANS find hard or on broad benchmarks. What if we could instead anticipate which scenarios a model will fail on—all without evaluating specific input examples? 🧵NEW PAPER by @jenniferlumeng.bsky.social

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

This seems genuinely fascistic. Hot take, I guess, but I don't think that people should be arrested and charged with terrorism for holding cardboard signs that say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."