There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education. America’s children deserve better than this.

Only total contempt for viewers or an insanely cloistered reactionary world view could let someone look at lifelong propagandist and reactionary siren Bari Weiss and try to sell her as some great nonpartisan hope. We live in hell.

Happy "mental is hocus, health not pocus" month to all who celebrate

Aw yeah that’s what charts were designed for

I used to think people who didn't care about getting sick must not know anyone w/ Long COVID, because how could someone witness what people w/ LC are going through and not do everything they can to protect themselves/each other? But listening to @ezra.zone, being the lone masker, etc. — I was naive.

where is the solidarity? where is the urgency? why is the vast majority of advocacy happening on the backs of sick people who are already suffering?

today is the three-year anniversary of the covid infection that turned into long covid. it has completely rewritten the course of my life. it has brought me untold levels of physical suffering. it has devastated my mental health.

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

dudes rock

So um. This is what's been up with me for the last year. I hate hate hate asking but very much appreciate your support. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...

There are few things as humbling as trying to figure out the copier at your new job.

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

RAN after this driver to take a picture of his incredible vest!!! I want one so bad but he said they’re only available for MTA workers 🏆🚍🏆

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

What the actual fuck. US Tennis Association: “We ask all broadcasters to refrain from showcasing any disruptions or reactions in response to the President’s attendance in any capacity, including ENG [Electronic News Gathering] coverage.”

🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US. Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.

Great news, fellow NYers!

Can reporters please stop calling RFK Jr a "vaccine skeptic" and just call him what he is, which is an anti-vaxxer?

"How to Report ICE" zines are available for free printable download for these places: California Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area Florida Massachusetts NC Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Zine request form in folder. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Indeed. But the end of the acute phase doesn't mean that we are no longer "during COVID" – in fact it means we've moved to a new phase, one where the chronic, long-term impacts of COVID (not just Long COVID!) are significantly impacting population health. This is why I find the distinction critical.

This has shaken me to my core.

I spoke to a tech activist attorney representing the parents of a teen who died by suicide, allegedly after receiving instructions on hanging himself from ChatGPT, in the first wrongful death suit against OpenAI. She believes we’re seeing a shift in public opinion on AI and can expect more suits.

asked for comment, mayor adams said, “chips are my dollars when I walk into the bodega of success.” he added, “the ridges are my religions and the flavors are my saviors when I open the Ruffles bag of life.”

Sorry to everyone not watching The Gilded Age, but the good news is you have 534 months to watch all the episodes before the airdate of the next season is announced.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

I said this on the other site (sorry) but: Something particularly bad about that Cuomo post is that it's spreading a lot of misinformation about NYC housing policies and I worry that it will turn people who don't live here against rent stabilization, which is a lifesaving program for so many NYers.

The world I want to live in protects the most vulnerable and marginalized people in it. People with severe ME/CFS are one of the least-recognized but most marginalized groups of people I am aware of. Please, take some time today to learn about the condition.

Today is Severe ME/CFS Awareness Day. If you aren't familiar, ME/CFS is an utterly debilitating, usually life-long condition with no approved treatments and often, no medical care. me-pedia.org/wiki/Severe_...

When you grow up a casual fan of one team and cross over to the other side, it is essential to get the cool merch

Dems didn’t fight RFK hard enough. People like Bernie and Polis were even like “yes we can work with him on health policy”. They should have dug in much harder and now there’s no way to get rid of him as he dismantles our health and biomedical science systems

I think it's really important to acknowledge the first part, but I am so deeply, deeply disturbed by this.

catapult genAI into the fucking SUNNNNN

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the argument that AI in the context of art is “just a tool” completely elides the fact that the point of art is to participate in the fucking process of making it

And to think, there won't even be a season 4 of And Just Like That... to cover the earthquake some people just experienced.

Play ball!

Free plums and propaganda.

Man, what is going on this week? I thought we learned in, like, 2018 at the *latest* that posting through it is not the solution. And yet!

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

Just came across an Instagram account that posts these ~beautifully moving stories~ that are so clearly AI, and yet 99% of the comments (including from celebrities and major philanthropists, etc.) are like, "Wow, this is so beautiful! Thank you for sharing this, there is good in the world!!!"

I’m hardly exaggerating when I say this is the dream

Just came across a post from someone crowdsourcing to find the person who'll become their spouse so I'm starting to wonder if I'm using LinkedIn wrong.

Some words go together like jelly and peanut butter… wait, that sounds super weird. A pair of words that is used in a fixed order in an idiomatic expression is called an ‘irreversible binomial.’ ‘Peanut butter and jelly’ is an example of an irreversible binomial. 🧵⬇️

Every deportation stayed, every person who can go home to their family, is a victory. Today, JFREJers (incl @bradlander.bsky.social on his birthday!) other electeds, attorneys with The Door & clergy accompanied new NYers like Yasir to their hearings. Join us: jfrej.org/deportation-defense

I don't think people realise how much LLMs are dependent on prompting and how fundamentally a sentence can throw them into disarray. You aren't really hardcoding anything either - it's entirely how the model interprets your prompt. A reckless and nightmarish thing to deploy at scale

I know Americans like to rag on British journalistic ethics, but if we’re going to use hacked material for a story we’d go through *multiple* public interest tests to check the import of the story outweighs the criminality involved. Certainly where I’ve worked, anyway. Do you guys…just not do that?

By popular demand: Schmear Campaign! Shirts! Tote bags! Sweatshirts! Show your support for #Zohran for Mayor, UWS-style. (With apologies to Louis, Lillian, Saul, and Stanley.) www.bonfire.com/schmear-camp... A portion of the proceeds will go to the WFP, to help Mamdani in the November election.