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Thousands of Minnesotans are still too scared to leave home, even for desperately needed medical care. So doctors and nurses have quietly operated informal, underground medical networks to bring that care to them.

“These tools, and the companies that manufacture them, have tremendous costs — to our labor, to our environment, to our futures. And as we’ve been seeing, those costs also include actual human lives.” Good and important read by @ethanmarcotte.com. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propel...

The fundamental problem with genAI is EVERYTHING it does is role play Ask it to add numbers and it acts like how it thinks a calculator acts Tell it to write u a CV and it acts like how it thinks LinkedIn acts Tell it you're going to blow up an airport to get it a body & guess what it says good

Later that day on a call with a Boston colleague there was a framed painting of a Dunkin Donuts Iced Coffee hanging on the wall like it's, ironically, JFK.

The Paralympics start today and WE HAVE A HEIST????

Delighted by Erika Long's photos of Alysa Liu for Teen Vogue.

Sign in the vet's office yesterday

i love the handful of people responding to this to say that Dunks is bad coffee i don't think they understand that New Englanders' affection for Dunks is only incidentally related to the quality of their products

Please enjoy this collection of vintage mirrored coke trays I found on eBay as part of an insane estate sale 12 years ago and just remembered existed

My city has left X! So proud of them ✊❤️

I am always here for @maklelan.bsky.social giving people the business 🔥✊

This is me. The examination and the note-taking and the thoughts they spark, that’s how I process and understand. Consuming a generated summary would skip so much of the actual productive work.

(looks at to-do list, sighs) let’s fucking go

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Early 70s Sears catalog fashions come in two broad categories: 1. Lifted from some dystopian future where sex and drugs are forbidden. 2. Lifted from some dystopian future where sex and drugs are mandatory.

was just telling a friend about this christian holy war thing until this skeet snapped me back into having a working brain

i’ll just keep posting variations on elementary human decency, not that it matters

having written about how banning web scrapers from a code forge i host made it usable again and saved ~60€/y in power bill, let me tell you: you cannot fathom the offloaded cost of GenAI on small web hosts. it is a veritable distributed denial of service to the entire web. Every web admin sees it.

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

Sometimes for no reason I think about how on Reno 911 (2003-2009), Ben Garant wears a flack jacket over his cop uniform. He’s the only one who does, and it’s part of his character’s portrayal as a paranoid, over-armed redneck. Now, a couple of decades later, that’s how every cop I see is dressed.

This has to be the hardest piece of figure skating-related art in the history of figure skating

*Ice-T voice “The kids are calling it “Dry Brushing”. They’re using a brush with minimal paint and moisture to create a textured, scratchy, or diffused effect on a dry surface. They’re highlighting textures, and achieving a rustic or weathered look in various mediums. Twisted shit man”

I had a moment of extreme synchronicity so I pulled a Tarot card like I do and I’m pretty sure the Tarot just told me, “Girrrrl you are all stopped up in your life like goddamn gastroparesis”

Welp, back in the familiar old ADHD-addled pit of “I have so much to do and only myself to blame”

A long-asleep corner of my brain just zapped awake and yelled, “Scrolldown fug!”

Hey, please take your meds and have some water. We need you. Be good to yourself.

“Layoffs are not productivity-related, so you can’t protect yourself through productivity”

SCIF now stands for “Some Curtains In Front”

idk how @metrokitty.bsky.social missed that Whitaker is a vampire. there's that whole scene where Santos says "are you a vampire Huckleberry?" and he says "uh yeah uh actually uh I am" and Dr. Robby says "almost 3% of the population are vampires" and then looks at the camera and goes "and that's ok"

Whatever you were doing to help your community yesterday still needs doing tomorrow. There is mutual aid to distribute. And neighbors to shelter. And hormones to produce. And weapons shipments to block. And prisons to burn. And a war to stop. Rest is a friend. Consistency is a requirement.

Never forget: 8 years ago a random person on Craigslist wrote the most effective ad for the Toyota Corolla, ever.

Again, it is interesting that a single generation was entrusted with the richest, most advanced empire the world had ever known and was just uninterested in keeping it going

The pro-AI arguments all sound just like the pro-COVID arguments. "Oh you don't want this? Well, it‘s going to happen to u anyway. Its here now so shut up and take it what are u gonna do abt it?“ Enjoy.

And Ramadan

that top DOD officials spent the entire day feuding with a tech company and the boy scouts before launching a war in the middle of the night should probably inform your opinion about how well planned and executed this will be

I do miss being able to joke about astoundingly dumb things without being immediately like oh hmm they're gonna do that

please rest assured that I am haunted by the email I owe you

This pole with the rounded cap used to support the catenary wires for the electric streetcars which ran down a lot of residential streets (like North St here). It'd cost money to remove so now it's a mount for a speed limit sign. The bones of cities past are all around us if you know where to look

Getting ready for #WillEisnerWeek here at Countway! 🎤 Wait Time Is Over for Eisner's "Waiting-Room Willie" 📆 Monday, March 2nd @ 12:30pm 📍 Countway Library, Boston 🎫 Free & open to the public! Sign up at countway.info/willie #GraphicMedicine #WillEisner @noethematt.bsky.social @adlewis.bsky.social

For House of Mystery, I was describing a demon’s office in hell and asked Luca Rossi to draw “one of those posters with a kitten hanging from a tree branch that says ‘hang in there’” because I thought that would be funny. He, being Italian, had never seen those posters, so he drew this instead:

One "school-aged" resident was exposed and diagnosed with measles out of state. The other case involves a Greater Boston resident who recently traveled internationally and has an "uncertain vaccination history."

You know what? I'm trans. I destroyed myself and formed something better from mere ashes. I shaped my entire personal universe from fucking scratch. I am not going to let anyone tell me that isn't awesome, in the literal definition of awesome. I am not going to be quiet about it.

the heavy heavy monster sound!

As Black History Month comes to a close, we like to celebrate inspirational Black public health pioneers with Cambridge connections. (1/3) www.cambridgepublichealth.org/public-healt... #BlackHistoryMonth @cambridgemass.bsky.social #CambridgeMA

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Every time you get COVID-19, your risk increases for Long COVID, organ damage, disability, & more, & there’s no way to know which infection will be the one to cause it! Protect your lifelong health by protecting yourself from COVID-19. Learn more about Long COVID: www.cdc.gov/long-covid/a...

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

The Azores islands are the westernmost point of Europe and the easternmost point of Rhode Island