Entomologists worry about the bugs circulating in Texas. Programmers worry about the bugs that are in the AI code. Epidemiologists worry about the bugs everyone keep contracting. And as for me, I worry about the people who aren’t bugged by any of this.

Let’s talk for a minute about why that WIRED article upset so many people with ME/CFS and/or long COVID. If you were lucky enough to avoid having to know about the PACE study, you should know now. The gist: in the 00s, a badly designed clinical experiment ruined lives. me-pedia.org/wiki/PACE_tr...

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

Actionable: Tony Apanovitch was on death row for 30 years, new dna evidence exonerated him. Two years later the Supreme Court sent him back to death row, not because of new evidence, but because the paperwork wasn’t processed properly. Sign the petition, help an innocent man beat a corrupt system

"She was famed for her ability to add humanity to material that might seem mechanical or theoretical, as well as for figuring out which pieces of the story were guaranteed to make the audience happy." @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social in his obituary for the late editor & creative, Marcia Lucas:

Your friendly reminder that FUCK AI, FUCK THAT GUY, AND FUCK THAT GUY TOO.

Every time data centers are brought up, I'm reminded of a recent meeting I had with a person working in that sector who mentioned how important power demand modeling was, because they projected if the grid were to go down in Phoenix during peak summer, 30,000 people would die in the first 24 hours

So many of my favorite people are hurting right now. It really sucks. Hailey is a brilliant person and in a decent world she would be prosperous af. She's going thru a tough time for no fault of her own. If you can spare even $5 right now I'd be so grateful! <3

birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it, let’s all do it, let’s run for governor of california

Mamdani continues to win the Getting Shit Done Olympics.

it is in absolutely everybody’s best interests to develop some hobbies aside from Phone

According to this Harvard study, Elon Musk's cuts to USAID through DOGE are responsible for an estimated 400,000 preventable deaths of children in Africa. hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Using AI to do stuff at your business is like hiring someone you would fire in the first week because they screw up all the time. And they’re more expensive and they ruin the environment and sometimes they tell people to kill themselves.

OH FOR FUCKS’ SAKE ENOUGH OF THIS ASSHOLE ALREADY.

"private index providers ... have fast tracked SpaceX to be added to indexes like the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100 ... On aggregate, SpaceX operates at a loss, a factor that would ordinarily make the company ineligible to be added to certain indexes without the 'newly announced fast-entry rules,'"

I've loved this since I first saw it and happily get to blast it back out every pride.

Both/all.

Current cancer patient here. Despite having a best-case type and stage of cancer, I only managed to schedule 6 hours of work last week and 10 hours the week before. The only reason to make a rule like this is to kick sick people off Medicaid

Boosting for the evening crowd: I got a star from Publisher's Weekly for my picture book debut - out next month. 😭

I'd love it if you'd consider pre-ordering or requesting for your library:

Oh god I loved this essay. I don’t even have to reread it (though I may just for the enjoyment of it), because I remember it so well.

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Spy Games

Could not be more perfectly timed, wow and congrats!

Happy, happy pride to you all: to everyone who’s visibly, loudly queer, everyone who accidentally or on purpose flies under the radar, and everyone in between. May we all thrive as ourselves ❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Air conditioning is unapologetically a good thing because it helps people not die. And one good thing about air conditioning is that it largely needs to run during the day when solar power is at its maximum: it can and should align with clean energy goals.

GOOD NEWS! Amivantamab has demonstrated unprecedented results in an international trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.

New Capital Weather [Gang] page is live! Welcome! www.capitalweather.com/welcome/ Wishing you all a safe parting from WaPo

Kudos to the Capital Weather Gang for breaking free of the Washington Post. Best of luck on your next chapter -- follow them at @capitalweather.bsky.social

My parents adopted a sweet little baby boi. Say hello to Leo! 🥰❤️

Separate post: Strength to your shield arm, Jersey. Fuck ICE. Love, Minneapolis

🤣😂omfg they’re serious? 😂😂😂🤣

Can we try replacing patriarchy with puppies?

MOOD 🔥

These men are running around all over the place telling on themselves. If you aren’t a better professor than Claude fucking resign and let someone else do your job. There is no shortage.

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

I don’t want to scare anyone, but basically every time I talk to a current or former government lawyer they tell me we are going to need a new Constitution. Because this one is inoperative.

interesting how elected officials who say they want to “lower the temperature” only hold the unarmed side of a protest to that standard.

I’m here to report that fresh homemade bread and wildflower honey that you bought from the bees’ keeper is just as delicious as that sounds.

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

JEEZUSFUCK

new Bluesky motto just dropped

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

NYC, we're running 2K for 2-K. That's right: we're hosting a 2-kilometer race with New York Road Runners while signing families up for free child care for 2 year-olds. Sign up, lace up, and sign up again for 2-K starting June 2. Register to run: register.nyrr.org?event=cc912a...

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