A happy Jade tree.

The current AI bubble is NOT a confidence scheme how dare you call it a confidence scheme don’t you realize if you undermine public confidence in it the whole thing falls apart?

I haven't shopped Target since their DEI fuckery and I'm not planning to ever ever ever again

Hmmmm. The case against Hernández was developed, the indictment secured, and his arrest and trial arranged by the Trump 1.0 administration. So what happened? Look for a seven figure payment in crypto...

If you'd like some good news on AI, the last few weeks have seen execs across multiple industries strive to hide AI usage labeling on their products because, as many of us have said FOR YEARS, the audience that *doesn't* want AI is substantial and we will reject your product whole hog for using it.

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

We hung Nazis after the Nuremberg trials and the photos were shared widely across the world. I'm only sharing history here.

Not a real study. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/24/d...

It’s been six years since the first reported case of SARSCov2. It’s never too late to wear a mask. It’s never too late to clean the air. Every infection avoided or delayed is a win for long term health. We can drastically reduce transmission if everyone does their part.

The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever. Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years. They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has

Though it doesn't work with all of them, I have found I will return to locations where it does work.

When i lived in IA, it was a purple state. In the last 20 years, IA took a hard right turn and its politics are indistinguishable from Alabama's, complete with abortion ban and regressive taxes. Now they have horrible brain drain and credulously wonder what caused it. tinyurl.com/2fyah23c

If LLM data centres that serve generative AI platforms were erased from the Earth… …we’d be fine. They prop up nothing of essential value we can’t do ourselves. If we let them proliferate for a generation, we may lose institutional expertise.

“why the fuck are we invading Venezuela” should really be on at least a couple of chyrons

There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal. Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.

USians? United Statesians? Wut? Not happening. In Persian the demonym for the US is Amrikaii for American In Arabic it's Amriki Turkish is Amerikalı I'm not using USians in any language unless I'm saving character count in a post on here

Cacao was for everyone.

PSA to neurotypicals - asking “why” is not arguing. “Here is how a thing is.” “Why?” Is not an argument. It’s a request for more information. Why is the thing that way? Teach me.

I felt like this story wasn't being discussed enough by mainstream media, so we jumped on it for our live coverage today.

The best way to prevent getting norovirus is to wash hands with warm soap and water for 20 seconds. Hand sanitizer alone does not work well against norovirus. #RSNA25 abcnews.go.com/Health/us-ca...

I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.

Physicians: we have an ethical obligation to stand in solidarity with nurses. Nursing is a profession worthy of resources and respect. If we can’t say that out loud, we’re not practicing justice, we’re enforcing hierarchy.

At 2.5 months post-harvest, only the purple/black fruit remains from that initial harvest. The high concentration of anthocyanin pigments is supposed to help discourage some spoilage molds, so this fruit remaining is good to see. I have plenty from a later harvest yet to be examined in detail.

Setting aside the question of whether or not we are ready to phase out the use of animals in research (spoiler: we are not), there is an ethical way to do this. Abruptly shutting down research programs means that many animals are going to be euthanized! www.science.org/content/arti...

I’m getting more and more of these too. It’s depressing.

My art shop has a collection of my original bird drawings. Good news for buyers in the USA, your art will be sent duty paid, and art is exempt from the tariffs! folksy.com/find/shop/th... #Birds #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #ChristmasGifts #bsnm

Graptolites are some of the coolest animals you may not have heard of. Colony creatures, zooids at the tip add on to the branches. Eventually sexually-born larvae swim out to start new colonies that stretch out zooid by zooid.

I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people." www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...

LLMs destroy context. You used to be able to tell a crank website from a good source partly by its style. But now we have a tool that puts careful research, incoherent garbage, and intentional shitposting through a kind of grammatical instagram filter, presenting them all with the same credibility

An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center we're really not prepared for what's coming

Someone on the Minneapolis subreddit caught Waymos being delivered. We need the City Council need to ban the use of driverless cars. The technology isn't there. Our city cannot be a testing ground for 1.5 ton autonomous projectiles.

“High deductibles” just mean poor people are left behind. Disabled people are left behind. People with pre-existing conditions are left behind Disability & poverty aren’t moral failings They can happen to anyone no matter how healthy they are Enough blame. Healthcare for all.

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

No justice, no peace is a fact, not a threat.

btw, have you looked at etymonline.com ? One of those fantastic, crap-free, labor of love websites. I learned stuff about late antique / early medieval cross-borrowing between Romance and Germanic while I was looking up spy, espionage, sabotage, sabot

ok you know what? in this instance i fully support anish kapoor being aggressively litigious

Plant geeks giddy about finding a parasitic flower. It's really lovely.

Two true things. 1. Marjorie is crazy and has no greater ambition than self-promotion. 2. She has a keen understanding of where the Republican base is, and moves there before her other colleagues do. (1) is why I don’t trust her. (2) is why Trump is scared of her.

Republicans have "won" the right to uninsure millions of Americans, nearly all of them self-employed, farmers, and business owners, the exact people they pretend they want us to be.

I would not say the voicemails I just left for Wyden and Merkley were particularly charming or articulate but I do think my panic was clear, as a freelancer who only has access to healthcare at all because the ACA exists

I just. we were WINNING

Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care? What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.

STAY. AWAY. FROM. WILDLIFE. Keep your trash locked up. Do not feed wildlife or otherwise encourage it to hang around human habitation.

Such a good negotiator! “If you don’t end the shutdown, I’ll blow up the filibuster! If you do end the shutdown, I’ll… blow up the filibuster anyway.”

In 2024, ACA was approx. 125B. There are 340M Americans. If trump has his way, we’ll each get about $368 to pay for our healthcare each year. 🧐

If you don’t schedule time for maintenance, the instrument will schedule the maintenance for you.

An amusing thing from my bioinformatics work... If you can re-frame your problem as a sort problem, you get to leverage the decades of effort put into making sort algorithms efficient rather than having to do a lot of deep math yourself.

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going! Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists. We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

And then a hero comes along… Thank you Turkey!