“cognitive ***amplifier*** tools”?????? where???

not surprising, unfortunately, but still... jfc. I hope a group of victims sues the shit out of Musk

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write." A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption. B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

Somebody please stop me from buying more seeds. Or at least figure out a way to transfer my mortgage so I can move to a place with more land. 🌱

gonna change my username to "alt joseph" so everyone knows I'm the real joseph unfortunately fake josephs have taken over and ruined everything. Follow me and I'll tell you what is really going on

i made a helpful reference

The Nazis passed a bill in 1933 called the Enabling Act which gave Hitler dictatorial powers - which is 100% part of liberalism. Maybe you don't like the bill. Maybe the bill hurt some people and had bad outcomes. But that's part of liberal democracy

write it slant

No offense but who cares

well thats fucked up

'The Ethics of Behaviour Change Technologies' Investigates the broader societal and philosophical implications of these types of behaviour change technologies. bit.ly/4s0b0i7

My son made homemade ice cream stars with chocolate and rasberry sauce for an evening activity

Eh, I'm actually trying to learn how to garden toward the goal of maybe 30-50% of my diet. It is.... not easy! Here's a picture of the rows I'm preparing. I took this season off b/c if getting busy with other stuff, so now Im getting ready for Spring

Vaccine liability and shared clinical decision making. How RFK Jr. meddling w/ the US vaccine court & liability is bad for everyone: plaintiffs, vaccine manufacturers, lawyers, and all Americans who rely on vaccines; while also perpetuating mistruths abt what the court does and the good it serves.

As a professor, I have a legal duty to alert my college if I suspect a student is a victim of abuse, manipulation, and/or harassment. How does that happen when OpenAI EDU/ChatGPT is the perp? For context, I teach "AI" and machine learning. I'm not anti-tech but GenAI should be shot into the sun.

In September 2023, Lilian Weng, then Head of "Safety" at OpenAI, used her public Twitter account to announce how ChatGPT could be used as a therapist, and encouraged users to also use it as such.

suicide epidemiology is pretty specialized, and trump’s regime has purged nearly all of the federal health researchers who could study this, and they cut most of the grant funding for academic research. that being said, the evidence we do have is damning, as is the lack of regulatory action

Happy to have contributed to this volume on epidemiological obfuscation (eds Jephcott et al) with a reflection on "Epidemic Corpses and Photographic Obfuscation" comparing Ebola (2014-16) to French colonial approaches to plague in Madagascar www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

As Margaret Killjoy has emphasized, “deescalate all conflict that is not with the enemy”. If we can all loosely coalesce around giving the boot and the middle finger to these fascist dweebs and their cowardly bootlickers, we can go back to arguing about dumb shit later.

Got out of bed every morning. Did stuff. Went back to bed.

Entrepreneurship is like a carnival game. The rich kids can play until they get whatever prize they want. Most kids can get a shot or two. A few win, but most lose. And the poor kids are working the booth.

If you're the sort of nerd (not derogatory) who'd be inclined to read a hot-off-the-presses essay on the historiography of the American far right, then this open-access essay is for you! Thank you for your attention to this matter. escholarship.org/uc/item/9sg0...

I'm a gnat's asshair away from just letting all y'all learn shit the hard way, and literally all that's stopping me is the continued understanding that I gotta fuckin live here too.

Make a Bind Movie Casual: The Spy Who Put Up With Me

they’re all christmas movies if you watch them on your phone in bed while hiding from family drama

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.

It is 7:15 am the morning before Christmas and my neighbor down the street is practicing the drums with his windows open and he is not very good at it

Gmail is now lying to me b/c of AI bullshit. These headphones are in transit.

Just watched The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965) and... holy crap, what a great film

This is the way Get involved in your local races. City commission, state reps, etc. There is a ton to do. But among the most pressing: winning state legislative races in whatever district you live in So maybe work on that

Since Ioannidis is quoted in Science today, I'd like to share something many of us probably (mercifully) missed. Six months ago he published the most insane under-estimate of Covid mortality averted by vaccination I've seen: 2.5 million deaths globally in 2020-24 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I was sitting at a table at Archives II going through a carton of files from the Drug Enforcement Agency. Opened a folder from the 1940s. A bunch of cannabis seeds fall out and spill all over the table. I look around. No one is watching, so I sweep them onto the floor and keep working

he is just so weird and pathetic

There is an easy solution this

PSA: Blocking is better than muting. All muting shitty people does is allow them to continue being shitty in your replies while you pretend they're not there. Block early, block often. Any short-term "attention" they get is outweighed by the long-term benefits of removing them from your space.

I wish a single journalist or leader would reach out to me I have the scientific expertise, lived experience of a trans person, and am literally a science communicator for my career I'm willing to explain this even though I know it will decrease my personal safety!! bsky.app/profile/jeym...

The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...

Too. Much. Music.

Noam Chomsky? FFS, I know it is not really a surprise, but now we have to cancel Noam fucking Chomsky? That sucks.

My son is in Poland right, visiting Auschwitz where many of his relatives were murdered. What a world we live in

My review for @lawfaremedia.org www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

I really do wonder what it will be like when there is no longer a presumed connection between an image on a screen and reality. No more "photographs," no more "news footage," no more experts or pundits on screen taking at us. Maybe no more celebrities Maybe it will be... a good thing?

Sincere question, because I bet there are examples I am overlooking, but: What are examples of other products or technologies that a big segment of consumers detested and resisted like people detest and resist AI?

It's that time again. For the next 24h, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related Qs in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Responses are for information only & NOT medical advice. Can't believe it's the last one of the year. #AskAnIDDoc December 2025 edition.

I'm sympathetic to people losing their jobs to A.I., but I'm going to make an exception for Brian and his entire industry Ghostwriting is the human precursor to A.I slop. Among other problems, it has had a highly deleterious effect on the reliability of published medical literature

exactly right part of why I continue to spend time on this place is so I can expose myself to very smart takes like this. I learn a lot

this came across my tumblr dash and I am trying to take it to heart. I bring it to you in case it can also bring you peace