this is a very good tool!! i did not make it though tbc i just talk about it a lot :)

On why the American fantasy of concealed carry for personal protection is even less realistic than the fantasy of running into Sydney Sweeney crying on the beach because her boyfriend just left her and you start talking and turns out she's always wanted a regular guy who hunts and drives an F-150…

One of the coolest things a student ever wrote after taking my Indigenous Studies intro course was, "if settler colonization is a structure, not an event, then reconciliation needs to be a structure." And she was absolutely correct.

A lot of people are fighting over whether or not watching a video of someone's death makes you a better activist or person and I would like to gently suggest that what you do in response to the video's existence is what matters, whether you watched it or not.

personal gratification has no place in activism, and pretending you can close the “emotional distance” and that this, somehow, makes you stronger, better, and more effective despite REAMS of actual research proving the opposite? that’s 100% self-serving gratification.

if doctors felt the pain the patients felt, they couldn’t practice if therapists panicked with their patients, they couldn’t help if teachers felt illiteracy when a child couldn’t read, they’d become useless if dog trainers growled and pissed on the floor, etc etc

of course you’re supposed to have “emotional distance between yourself and the event” and you always will have you will NEVER know what it was like to be the passenger, or the victim’s wife imagining you can remove “emotional distance” is a type of pornography

With respect, this is not generally how it works. Most people can't handle it. Those that can are generally broken or breaking in some way. Moreover, people don't realizing that it's breaking them. At best it gives you waking nightmares and at worst it hollows you out, numbs you, and makes you cruel

Selenium - the OG polysilicon solar material - breaks into double digit efficiencies! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I suspect this will be happening for a very large number of people. I never signed up but I doubt that stopped by GP from sending them my medical records anyway. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

He mentioned products for verisimilitude, to give you the idea that events were taking place in the same universe you live in. I'm glad he did it because now when I do it no even bothers to question why, it's just worldbuilding. The book I'm writing now has name brands in it, because the world does.

I do think if you're white and Christian in America you're obligated to confront the fact that YOU GUYS are the group everyone else is joining forces to protect each other from, like solidarity between Black and Jewish communities in Chicago developed because the same groups were targeting them

Kendra asked about how learning about Fred Hampton and COINTELPRO in my 30s changed my perspective on like, what America is and how I exist in it as a white person, and I had a lengthy thread of thoughts

I am happy to! I like answering this question. I think the simplest way to sum it up is that it's like, someone explained to you how the magician did that card trick. or Dorothy realizing Oz the Great and Powerful is literally just some guy. you can read the docs so you can see how the scam was done

First as a victim of war, then someone reporting from a war zone, and finally, reporting on war globally onkine, I have seen it all. I wish I could unsee it all because even pictures seen online will stay with you. It's another way you get C-PTSD. Protect yourself.

Some mental health first aid if you've watched something that's fucking you up. I'm a qualified and registered therapist, and EMDR practitioner. 👇

Everyone can do this — “This will be my final post on this platform under its current ownership. I will not lend my voice to a company that has chosen profit and ideology over the basic safety of children.” bsky.app/profile/tupp...

jewelry is decorative and intimate and personal and it pisses me off seeing that item slot used for something that looks like shit and makes everyone's lives worse

The reviews are in for Tears of the Left bourbon

awful to see. gambling ads must start including warnings about post-structuralism

They will discover the limits of heat management via infra-red or black body radiation quite quickly

Saw a post theorizing you now encounter more people listening to things on speakers in public spaces because Apple banning the headphone jack did not result in people switching to Bluetooth headphones, it resulted in people abandoning headphones. I'm on an airplane RN and. Thinking about that. Hard.

I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.

Media in the last week of december: "Do kiwis take too long off in summer?" Prime minister: "I'll be back to work on the 3rd or 4th of Jan" January 7th (and counting): Prime minster: *crickets*

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of finding one constructive real world offline thing you can do to use your particular skills in service of fighting fascism as a psychological defense against the constant drumbeat of fuckery

Lego has NOT fallen www.theverge.com/tech/854556/...

This seems very relevant and a significant problem in the NZ environment, not just in health, since small entities (e.g individual practices) are most at risk and without support it pushes those small entities towards amalgamation & corporatisation in order to fund appropriate systems.

So is this sort of thing going in our AI strategy or

> The stolen data relates to [...] approximately 45 Northland-based GP practices, approximately 355 “referral-originating” GP practices across a number of regions and patient-uploaded files. This is a subset of the stolen data and is not limited to Northland patients.

If one password got you the records for 120000 users, the password is not your problem.

my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility

Always a Pratchett Quote for everything:

Pretty textbook on how not to do crisis communication for this type of attack. So here’s a little thread on what to do instead. 🧵 If you don’t know, I’m Hadyn Green, Principal Communications advisor at @first.org and my job is to go around the world teaching people how to do to cybersecurity comms

A request for #rstats help. Motivated by a real-world problem I'm facing, I wrote a package designed to help new users wean themselves off using rm(list=ls()), and nudge them in the direction of better practice. I would sincerely appreciate feedback before I send it to CRAN

From this story it really seems like MMH was a business out if its depth in the global online environment. How can you say you had good security and also say the hackers ‘came in through the front door’? Isn’t secure password practices/auditing a security 101 thing? www.rnz.co.nz/news/alert-t...

One thing in the news story of WellSouth unloading on MMH- It does mention in passing it is/was believed most affected people were in Northland (my speculation is that this might relate to how different PHOs were using it in order to cause a geographic difference)

Ppl ask how a chatbot could give someone psychosis and it’s not the chatbot-as-tech but the dialog and storytelling the chatbot engages in with a vulnerable person in the right way (for that person)—which could be carried out by another human, but the delivery mechanism of LLMs makes it available.

This is strongly my belief about what is going on with chatbot psychosis. It’s a kind of runaway disordered thinking brought about from having the wrong kind of conversation with another person (or even yourself), similar in ways to falling into a cult or conspiracy theory belief.

My girlfriend works in advertising and often the client picks the worse option, I once asked her why they dont just make all the options other than their preferred one comically awful and she said because then the client still picks that one and now you have to make it.

It's the most magical time of the year — when estimates of last year's global average temperature anomaly come out. Time to dust off my "last year was hot" auto-response.

The internet is great because it allows minorities of all sorts to form communities when normally they would simply be drowned out or segregated. Unfortunately, having an identity be primarily online causes mass insanity.

NetSafe warns Manage My Health users to be suspicious of emails including personal details

My personal guiding question remains this: What have I done to alleviate suffering today? Convinced that being able to answer that affirmatively each night is what has powered me through the past few years, and lets me sleep at night.

Read theory www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...

its crazy thinking about how every decade there's a made up sex panic where adults make up something like a rainbow party or sex bracelets to scare and titillate themselves and everyone puts it on the local news but the actual child sexual abuse material machine is fine

i think this site really needs to figure out how to grow the non-politics verticals (the baseball moment was a good thing!) because i suspect a lot of the bad clusters come out of the political clusters driving 95% of ENG-lang posts

don't put up with the internet being weird at you, man. there is no award for "let the most strangers say inane shit at me" so if you're not locking down posts when they get out of control, please let it be because you are enjoying the shitshow!!!!

somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work. lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply

Many, many people will nod along somberly to this skeet and then wake up tomorrow and say "okay, but this *specific* trans woman actually, totes for reals deserves it." There's always going to be an exception to the rule that keeps the cycle going.