Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!! Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optout— although obviously that is not enough. www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

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The Palestine Festival of Literature has launched an online publication, and the intro essay is worth your time. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

The Iranian Red Crescent has sent a request to the International Criminal Court calling for a criminal investigation based on the US/Israel's systematic attacks against civilians and civilian objects including: 6,668 civilian structures 5,535 homes 14 hospitals 65 schools

Right, it’s valuable that the US had to jump through so many hoops to get this data There’s no perfect security but there is slowing them down

The creepy system that serves you targeted ads has been used by the government to track peoples' locations, new reporting confirms. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.

To reiterate something I said to my boss that ruined yet another one of her Mondays, "We're going to have to reeducate the entire world on cyber security in short order as everyone seems to have forgotten everything." This is less about the package attack and more about the triage bot.

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It’s Wastewater Wednesday! How are COVID levels? We’re using two sources to help us keep track of the country and our state of Oregon. Thank you to @michael-hoerger.bsky.social for the map and graph, and OHA for continuing to track data coming from our wastewater treatment centers!

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

I was planning on doing an art stream today. Unfortunately, due to lack of spoons and needing to do Adulting™ tasks, I need to postpone until Thursday. See you then!

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I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

New month, same chaos. Come body-double and co-work with me while we zoom around the universe in our decorated dumpster fire of a ride. #QuietCoworking #SuperSweetBot #OnTogether www.twitch.tv/ohjaechaos

In this interview, @angeenoel.com discusses how gaming can bridge cultures, close gaps, and inspire the next generation of Indigenous storytellers and innovators. redpopnews.com/gaming-cultu...

People overseas love their kids just as much as you love yours. Your kids aren’t more special just because they were born on US soil

There are so many ways you can contribute to and connect with your community! Here are a few ideas.

this is extremely dangerous.

Plainclothes DHS agents reportedly showed a fake missing-persons bulletin, for a 5-year-old girl, to dupe a Columbia University security guard -- and snatch an undergrad student from her room. Before dawn

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

We are in the middle of a mass disabling event that no one wants to acknowledge. At the same time, we’re seeing increases in assisted dying legislation. It’s not a coincidence. It’s a cull. This is one of the reasons we say masking is resistance. Wear an N95 and help protect yourself & others!

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

No, there is not a "crime wave" driven by non-U.S. citizens Recent data show that just 3% of people jailed are non-citizens. And since most people detained in jail have not been convicted, it’s likely that only a fraction of that 3% have actually been found guilty of any crime.

Gosh if only anyone had said anything

Please research Kessler Syndrome & visit the FCC public comments to voice your disapproval. Space is infinite but the area surrounding earth is very finite.

This is important y’all. This is our chance to save the stars.

Yeah so that Ring ad that aired at the Super Bowl about 'Search Party?" 404 Media now has proof that it won't just be used to locate dogs... www.404media.co/leaked-email...

This is really interesting!

So I want to say something: I am getting the biggest annual bonus I have ever received in my professional career as an epidemiologist and that is due to the performance of the healthcare industry as the country is RAVAGED by this man’s policies The healthcare industry profits when PREVENTION fails

Saturday Morning Ghosties -- now with CURSED objects. Muwah hahahahhaha! Come watch Bestie and I try not to die in Phasmophobia www.twitch.tv/ohjaechaos

again... GTFO of Substack.

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

Substack isn’t just “platforming and monetizing Nazis” now. It is also promoting service providers that make money from pushing people to gamble on and seek an 'edge' in just about anything. Polymarket: “Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.” www.theverge.com/news/881292/...

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

#FDA backs down on #Moderna: The agency had refused to review the company's licensure application for an mRNA flu vaccine, but after significant pushback has relented. www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/f...

Public comment on Dr Oz's proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth closes 2/17 One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states www.patreon.com/posts/149210...

It's also worth remembering that this narrative is Nazi in a way that actually pre-dates the Holocaust. Hitler rose to power telling a story of a Germany shackled by guilt and shame (and of course the material concessions fallout) from WWI

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Whenever people gush over AI I'm going to think about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle being utterly convinced that he'd discovered real scientific evidence of real fairies because he saw these pictures

Artists and photographers of Blacksky, Bluesky, and all of the fediverse: I implore you to use alt text! Here's how, courtesy of @manningkrull.bsky.social: manningkrull.com/digital-phil... I want to share your art and photography! Let's accommodate our friends and comrades who use screen readers!

#important #trans #transgender #LGBTQ #feedback #comment #gender #medicine #treatment #health The deadline for this is coming up in just over one week. If you're a clinician, parent of a trans child, trans adult or just an informed ally who cares, please take a look at the attached post.

Scoop: The NIH infectious-diseases institute (NIAID) will soon scrub “pandemic preparedness” and “biodefense” from its web pages, according to e-mails I obtained. The directive is the start of a broader shake-up at NIAID, which has long been attacked by Republicans.

Reminder to cancel your Nitro💕

Before Nirvana, before Pearl Jam. There was Tina Bell, and her band BamBam. Tina Bell, is The Godmother of grunge, a mantle rightly earned! She played a pivotal role in shaping the genre during a time when it was predominantly white male-dominated.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

“With minor tweaks, Ring’s tool to search for lost dogs could be used by law enforcement to track people,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @Metro.co.uk. “Homeowners don’t have to participate and privacy regulators can investigate.” metro.co.uk/2026/02/09/...