Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Stands on rooftops: 📣 🗣️ 🗣️THERE IS NO LINK BTW ACETAMINOPHEN & AUTISM. IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR MANY YEARS IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 🗣️THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE TALKING ABT THIS IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO EXIST. 🗣️IT IS EUGENICS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. -EmilyPhD

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

Officially bringing back reading while I walk places, specifically for this book.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

I've been in grad school for exactly 3 weeks which means I've read just enough theory to feel like nothing is real/everything exists only as an abstract, arguable construct and this clearly is where way too many assholes stall out.

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

Anyway, I started "A Memory Called Empire" last night and damn, what an opening.

Elected lawmakers aren't just there to carry out bureaucratic technocratic procedures. They are your agents, to stand between you and the force of the state, empowered with the people's "she speaks for us." This is what representative democracy is for, at its best in the face of its worst failures.

Final ACIP update for the Covid vaccine: 1) Covid vaccines for all ages will be based on individual decision-making (no recc). 2) 65+ can just go and get it. 3) 6 mos-65yr, vaccine informed consent will be required to be discussed prior to receipt with 6 points of mandated misinformation 1/2

I feel like part of the problem is that in the modern era, especially in the United States, people think that in order to count, they have to post about their activism or what they're doing. But here's the thing: you don't. 99% of what I do is stuff I never mention on social media.

PAs generally make minimum wage and have no union or organization to provide a safety net. Certainly all of the assistants are unlikely to have enough saved up to cope with a sudden cancellation or pause, nor could they line up a rescue gig.

JUST IN: Vaccine advisers to the CDC have voted to recommended against using the combined measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine for children under 4. https://cnn.it/3K73pNn

Hundreds of people detained at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration processing center west of Miami, Florida, appear to have vanished. They have disappeared from the ICE online database, and their lawyers and families have been unable to locate them. english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-...

see the beans. eat the beans. be the beans.

I am reading the equivalent of 2.5 books a week on top of grading work from 50 undergraduates but somehow had an out of body experience tonight and signed up for my union's comms committee.

always impressed when the cat goes right to her food bowl less than a minute after horking up her first attempt at eating breakfast.

reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

*looks directly at bsky devs*

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

This is all he said.

FOX news host suggests we euthanize the homeless, someone goes into two encampments and starts shooting. 13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74.

I always get nervous when he takes certain big risks. He called me to personally warn me. As is often the case, he knows what he’s doing. All the respect to @evanurquhart.bsky.social for following his instincts and calling out hypocrisy.

I have been successfully covid-jabbed. Every time, I try to remember and recapture some of the elation of getting that very first shot, the way we thought the world was changing for the better.

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

My favorite hobby right now is starting to watch movies that have an intense pileup of cringe/other bad feelings right as I am too exhausted to keep watching for the night. Anyway, I'm sure everything's going to work out great for all those nice people in that Magnolia flick.

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

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Reporters on the ground in Chicago are screaming to be heard over the false narrative that Pritzker defeated Trump there. PLEASE listen to them.

Nothing teaches you how people process scientific concepts in real time quite as humblingly as reading the lab assignments of undergrads to whom "distance from the Sun has no bearing on Earth's seasons" was just taught literally three different ways.

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

After reading approximately a squillion pages of Marx this last week in the name of political ecology, I just gotta ask: where are all the good gelatinous blob/congealed labor memes?

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

Kudos to the post for beating me to this. Finishing up a story on this today. Have been digging into the legality of situation & its scary that there aren't a lot of protections in place to stop presentation & actions on bad data like this that contradicts CDC info.

Willie Nelson, still a real one: www.kare11.com/article/news...

The fact that all the climate orgs are right on top of condemning political violence around the Kirk shooting, before any details are known, but many have yet to say a word about Gaza is a pretty good illustration of why the climate movement has repeatedly failed to build an actual movement.

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

One teen is dead after a student fired on schoolmates at Evergreen High School in Colorado, injuring two before shooting himself

When a mile-wide tornado hit St. Louis, the entire back wall of DeAmon White's house was blown off. The third floor of his mother's home was gone. The next morning, at 8 am, the phone calls started: Would he be interested in selling his home? @grist.org

I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

Many congratulations to Laura Garbes (University of Minnesota) on the publication of her pathbreaking sociology of the culture, idealism, and contradictions of public media. Out today on Princeton University Press.

The absurdity of "you sling words for a living, therefore you must become a video influencer" is becoming more and more salient

When they say "AI is making me faster than ever" this is the kind of productivity they mean

For those who wonder, this is a pretty normal biking experience in NYC

"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.

Every covid vaccine I've ever gotten has given me one terrifically swollen armpit lymph node that lingers for weeks, and I'm always mentally cheering, go little B cells, go go go.