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On Trump, autism and tylenol: A student I was talking to today had it exactly right on this latest White House bullshit claim “It’s at the perfect intersection of hating disabled people and wanting women to be in pain” There’s not only no link, the claim is both ableist and misogynist.

If using acetaminophen during pregnancy caused autism, almost every kid in the last 40 years would have been autistic and we would be living in a high speed rail paradise.

I try to remember that while they were fighting the ban on gender affirming care for minors here, one of the (trans) lawyers did a thread reminding folks that they're really good at making this feel like an overwhelming groundswell, but it is one clown car of debunked experts on a road trip.

Not only don't I think this is a crank theory, I think it's obviously true almost at the sun-rises-in-the-east level.

Whatever happened to read-only Fridays…

Gen Z coworker excitedly detailed her plans for a young professionals group at our workplace and then added, "there's no technical cutoff...but it's meant for people in the early stages of their careers". Girl just say you think 34 is old, it's fine

They’re not removing the recommendation for MMR and chickenpox vaccines, just for the combined quad-valent MMRV due to a higher incidence of febrile seizures in children under 4. Read the article before you panic.

Girl, same

Pregaming my quarterly search on Free Republic to check the horrible opinions my dad won't dare express in front of me

Bugs 🐝 🐞 🪲

if they keep going after trans people and then also furries, there's not going to be anyone left who can keep level 3 networks and the publicly switched telephone network running. it's going to be a human rights AND infrastructure disaster.

spoiler, it's not just about psychic powers

Please enjoy this bird I saw in California.

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

Pov: you got a dm from an account you don’t follow

one of the most upsetting things about coming up in 1990s evangelicalism is watching all the people who built an entire entertainment industry fetishizing individual conscience in the face of public censure turn out to be bog-standard cowards with I think the sole exception of Amy Grant

Funniest possible person to say nothing bad happened when he was a kid as a result of everyone having guns

If the thing you bequeath someone is a bequest, then when you go on a quest, are you queathing?

this has got to be a joke

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

Happy Bisexual Visibility Month 🩷💜💙

have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Imagine if Florida is taken off the map by Hurricane Wubbo…

Putt-Putt Goes to War

and very important doodle i have no explanation for this it just exists

average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything

"what are they going to do with the life size Gundams when they're done with them" well. I'll tell you what they should do. they should wait for some 15 year old kids to climb inside the cockpits and abscond with them while Tomino laughs in the background

One of the worst ills of social media is the idea that you must both have and share an opinion on everything. E.g.: Nextdoor’s new AI-generated “discussion prompt” feature. What do I think could have been done? Who fucking cares! I don’t know shit about auto shop fire safety and neither do you.

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

The occasional of James Dobson's death is a good time for this quote.

This is beautiful

This is really fascinating Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

me rn

when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe

AI is going to be another Dot Com Bubble 🥴

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

I think selling government regulations not as an alternative to "freedom!" but as an alternative to "everyone constantly sues each other over everything" would be a good idea bsky.app/profile/mich...

what Americans seem to want is to be able to buy whatever product they want without government interference but also an ironclad guarantee that all store-sold products are safe, and we just need to recognize that these are contradictory ideas and we're gonna have to make people mad about the former

If something is incorrect on Wikipedia, it can be sourced, traced, disputed, fixed. If it's wrong in the LLM, it's just...wrong. It's not a fact explicitly stored somewhere, it's just a string of words generated by a probability map

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text

"We want your feedback, but we're going to burry the feedback form in a blog post and probably ignore every other kind commentary." Link to the form: forms.gle/mfgZGnhDMaKe...

I think about this skit all the time, by a very young Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MWp...

I think this is a very insightful statement about what we call "AI" and will be chewing on it for a while