These people cannot conceive of the whole "answer-shaped responses" thing. They keep asking if the LLM is lying or not, and the answer is "stop asking". It's like DJT - he doesn't lie, because he doesn't understand the concept of truth. It's like asking if a Magic 8 Ball is lying.

Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

Turtles are better than people.

@msnbc.com reporter at the 1:15 mark. “The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings

I keep saying this: individually, the anti-vaxxers at hospital protests were the loneliest people I had ever seen. But together, they were a community. Oppositional defiance disorder is basically becoming the basis for an entire worldview; a rejection of the modern world and modernity itself.

This is really rather good

No shit, Sherlock. Long COVID tied to substantial loss in work productivity www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...

Discussed here. sciencebasedmedicine.org/revisionism/

Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!

This story explains a LOT of things: ChatGPT appears to be rooting on sociopathic mental illness by validating every delusion of grandeur. It also explains, in part, the hype cycle around AI: rich people, addicted to praise, invented a Compliment Machine. www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...

This kid runs circles around the reporter

Excellent reflect from most awesome friend and colleague @mark-ungrin.bsky.social. "Five years ago, on April 3, 2020, the world’s top bioaerosol scientists warned the WHO that COVID was transmitted in infectious aerosols, tiny particles that drift in the air like smoke.

Sharing with everyone reading this thread the story breaking this news and putting it into context: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Happy International Women's Day! A reminder that this specific screwup has now killed ~25 million people. A world that allows an influential, entitled, ignorant man to just shout down a smarter and more knowledgeable woman 👉can literally kill you.👈 www.wired.com/story/the-te...

spotted in the toronto star

Everyday Objects Made More Interesting 🧵 1/8

We are just beginning to understand the long term effects of COVID. This is why public health measures are important for preventing downstream effects, especially those that are unknown at the time.

it is, of course, incredibly scummy for the atlantic to paywall the chat logs on a huge story, but thus is the way of the modern media industry: journalism in service of profit. here’s gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

"But her emails" seems so very weak... (It always was weak, but now...)

AI isn't just wrong, it's often really, *really* wrong: arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/a...

Share...important!!! deanblundell.substack.com/p/the-disinf...

CBC science show Quirks and Quarks just had another great episode talking about the long term damage caused by each COVID infection. If you're starting to wonder why so many hard-core scientists are so contemptuous of our public health institutions, listen to this. www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

Yep! Everybody thinks "man regulations are a drag on business" until they get a reputation for gross products & nobody wants to buy their stuff anymore. A very real risk that we're grabbin' onto with both hands right now.

Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.

#cdnpoli #onpoli #Canada 🇨🇦 #CanadaSky #TeamCanada #CanadaProud #CanadaStrong #ElbowsUp #ViveLeCanada #BuyCanadian

A critical point to understanding the lack of good public health guidance around COVID and #longCOVID: the people whose job it is to provide you with an honest assessment of the risk COVID poses to your health are the people who let it rip while insisting there wouldn't be a risk to your health.

Russia hitting the hotel filled with foreign volunteers immediately after Trump cut intelligence to Ukraine is probably not a coincidence.

J'aurais vraiment préféré que le covid long soit examiné comme un phénomène d'actualité, et non purement historique. Ça se lit comme si les vaccins avaient tout réglé...

Tadaa.

The quoted sentence takes you to whole new worlds every three words or so.

"Made in the USA" is now synonymous with "Don't buy this. Just don't. Find something else. Literally, anything else."

This is the Russia-Ukraine story again. I'll let you guess who's who in this one.

"Despite multiple attacks by the eagle, the goose remained unbowed. The raptor, defeated, flew off." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You can’t overstate the historic importance of today’s speech to both American and Canadian citizens by Canada’s Prime Minister. Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w

Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us. That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Since I have defended and supported the WaPo in the months since the election and the infamous pulled endorsement, I feel obliged to say: this is very, very bad. A dear friend at a Post vet says it's the worst thing to happen to the Post in its long history, and I can't argue.

This applies to his "51st state" talk as well.

Every single article about Trump being “elected” Chair of the Kennedy Center must mention in the headline that Trump *fired all the Board members that wouldn’t vote for him.* “Made Chair” is such weak, passive language that fails to call out what’s really going on. Our media must do better.

This weekend I've decided to finally read Balaji Srinivasan's terrible fucking book, "The Network State." I've put this off for as long as I possibly could. Here goes. thenetworkstate.com/book/tns.pdf

Normally my weekend off from social media would start tomorrow morning, but I need to unplug early. I've typed, deleted, and retyped the same post three or four times, and each time I get angrier and sadder. @monsterologist.bsky.social said it best. Please take care of yourselves, loves. 💕

To bookmark & share when dealing with Covid minimizers... CDC Releases New In-Season Estimates for COVID-19 and RSV | NCIRD | CDC (Dec 19, 2024) www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-...

Satire? It's so hard to tell these days.

“Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.” A Sumerian proverb, as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.