There's something incredibly reassuring that the godfather of Cyberpunk, among whose characters are included many Artificial Intelligences, is conscious of the ethical harm that current GenAI carries with it and is humble enough to be self-aware and reflective about a little accident.

Yes. Our papers and grants that mention Covid are rejected at a disproportionately high rate. The topic evokes shame and guilt among those reading the documents.

Good morning. Also F**ck ai

How do so many people who work in education manage to make it through six years without knowing that COVID causes brain damage that affects kids' academic performance? How?? They aren't in denial, they actually don't know. This thread is mind boggling. 🤯🦠🧠🤯😷

Covid causes brain damage. Covid uses our skulls as a viral reservoir. Covid causes damage to blood vessels, like the ones in our brains. We allowed an entire generation of students to get infected with a brain-damaging virus and have done next to nothing to stop more infections.

Researchers warn of severe long-term damage to the brain after Covid following new study January study of essential workers (with blood samples before & after COVID infection) found those with long-term neurological symptoms had higher phosphorylated tau—a protein linked to early brain degeneration

A non-house-related law we want to see: If you buy a relic from a past disaster that was the result of human arrogance, you must donate double the amount to help mitigate a current one. And no tax breaks. #ClimateChange

We made a little audio/visual vignette. The words are not from our book, but reside in the same neighborhood. Photos taken with a #Holga in San Francisco, on @ilfordphoto.com 400. #Booksky #BelieveInFilm #GothicLit

Excellent overview of post exertional malaise by Todd Davenport. Strong recommendation from me to read and discuss. We can’t get ME/CFS right until we get PEM right.

New collab between Tom Waits and Massive Attack drops today. A statement on both the violent suppression of dissent and the epidemic of Veteran homelessness, this protest song and audio-visual cenotaph is a must hear/watch. #SpinThisHouse #HousingIsAHumanRight youtu.be/L-57FrioeuE

Housing is a human right. A lack of housing should never violate your civil rights. But here we are.

'In recent years, Mould says she has seen a "huge change" with more children arriving at school with speech and language difficulties, difficulty regulating their emotions, and issues with going to the toilet'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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itch.io/b/3612/spicy... Here's something neat, I'm gonna drop this here - the 2026 Spicy Queer Smorgasboard has got 50 participants, and almost 90 different items and this stuff starts extremely cheap. The cost of everything's up - except this! You want comics, books, games? Nab this bundle!

COVID is immune damaging. What's concerning is the duration of dysregulation doi.org/10.1186/s129...

Only by confronting our darkest places, can we even hope to get out of the mess we are currently in. Innocent babies suffering neurological damage from COVID infections, before they have even had a chance in this world. Change must come or what sort of future are we heading into?

Around 49% of people catch asymptomatic COVID. Don’t confuse asymptomatic infections with having immunity. We have no testing in place, you can still get tests, they aren’t as accurate so you should repeat over a period of days. If you see others about you coming down with it. Rest is important.🧵

Today, on #AskThisHouse, a Shakespearean conundrum about paint. You can ask us your house questions too. #BookSky #GothicHorror

We will always want to know what’s behind the papered-over window on #FensterFreitag. Murder? A bad renovation? People who hate nosey photographers? Which is worse? #Polaroid #BelieveInFilm

TRAILER: Buried Alive with M.E. I’ve spent the last months making a film for M.E. Kills, an online exhibition by A Quiet Storm. People with ME die every week. Many more are left to rot in dark rooms without care, disbelieved and dismissed. It’s a living death. #pwme #millionsmissing #severeME 1/

I open up bluesky to find I’m a failure again. The world is a beautiful place. We’re making more money than we ever have. Business is booming. Nobody’s poor, they’ve all been lifted. Don’t listen to all the people around you in real life. Just look at these charts.

Help! I'm looking for people with ME/long covid or similar who do something creative (eg painting, photography) that is inspired by nature to feature in my book. Ideally people more severely affected than me, so bed bound or partially bed bound #mecfs

It seems many researchers involved in Long Covid and ME/CFS are not even pretending any more to care. Wearables, Ozempic or the like. With no appropriate safeguards. Whatever it further their career

For me, the report this week from OECD on the global financial costs of Long Covid is a smoking gun. This isn’t about “the next pandemic.” It’s about the fact that the economic ruin we’re all racing toward and #LongCovid are the same thing. I explain why here: www.patreon.com/posts/covid-...

From a former newspaper journalist. Wake up you No Kings folks. You’re omitting a huge item in the buffet of grievances against government. It’s leading to many of your grievances including accelerating everyone’s short-fuses, poor short-term memory & incapacity to understand what’s going on!

Your vitamin D isn’t going to cure the persistent viral infection that’s in your platelets & bone marrow causing immune dysfunction & vascular damage with every SARS-CoV-2. Get your head out of your ass.

So many people with long COVID used to be healthy, young, and athletic. You can't just wrap yourself in a protective blanket of denial, reassuring yourself that you're "built different" and that only The Vulnerable (tm) get long COVID. The virus doesn't care that you identify as healthy.

A reminder that any analysis of pandemic impacts on kids / education / economy that does not include a serious examination of the effects of #longCOVID is worthless, and one that does not even mention it should be assumed to be deliberately deceptive unless there's a good reason to think otherwise.

Today is my traumaversary, or Covidversary as we tend to call it. Six years ago today, I woke up to a text message that the mare was giving birth. I leaned down to grab some clothes, and the whole room started spinning. Then that constant cough started. 1/

Biden grossly mishandled COVID and pushed deaths higher. Had schools open before there was a vaccine for kids. I know 6 years is a long time but it ain't that long.

And public health still can’t even say the words Long Covid

... Those protesting today should have also protested when Biden/Harris were also attacking democracy & civil liberties, supporting genocide & endless wars and crippling public health.

It is amazing how much anti-science crap is being posted on social media recently. This includes denying the moon landing, flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, Covid deniers, and claims Biden successfully handled Covid.

The complaints are the same re both Trump and Biden. They both have very similar records. Biden dropped the Covid plan he ran on and switched to Trump's strategy to please short term business interests, contrary to medical recommendations.

A skeletal warhorse engulfed in flame, ridden by a shadowy ghost rider named Annihilation. But she won't budge because she didn't get her morning apple.

Here is some wallpaper and lace for #TextureTuesday, because the state of the world is more than we can handle at this moment. (This image comes from Bless This Art House, a book of visual art about houses, that will come out with our short story collection) #notebook #collage #booksky

"Everyone becomes disabled eventually" sounds like a threat, but it's actually just a reality that people purposefully ignore

The opening sentence: "Whether you find AI exciting or frightening, its widespread use—including among students—means we all need to learn how to interact with it responsibly" is so obviously terrible on a pedagogical, political, psychological and basic human level. The @aft.org should be ashamed.

It can feel like shouting into the void (or at least a bubble), but I'm so, so sick of lazy AI use in art & creativity. Being able to write clearly* is an essential skill, and these days basic graphic layout probably is too. Beyond that, find a friend, pay someone to do something properly.

What I’d NEVER do as a brain injury rehab doctor: • Motorcycle • Tackle football (for my kids) • Ignore BP • Skip helmets • Normalize repeat COVID infections Because I take care of what happens next.

Way too many people in this thread are asking what the problem is with repeated COVID infections or how they can be avoided. This is year seven of the pandemic. 😷🧠💉😷

Normie Randos Using AI: oh wow, this is such a neat digital toy! Look at how it just makes a picture or writes an email! Professionals and Subject Matter Experts: Burn it down with the fury of a million suns over an uncovered parking lot in Phoenix

The frustration that I have… I still don’t think the government has *ever* clearly communicated the long term risk to health that COVID-19 poses… and so most people still have no idea of the real pros and cons of getting infected or spreading disease.

They never give you any credit for all the shit you don't start.

ECONOMIC DEPRESSION PRO TIPS • Rebuild offline community. Connect with neighbors/family. • Rebuild relationship to land. Grow food, take care of local waterway. • Rebuild hard copy media libraries. Movie (DVDs), books (paperback), feet pics (printed, high gloss full color).

The most important thing to understand about "integrating ai into the classroom" is that anybody who tells you it's important has poop where their brain should be, and is just fine with endangering your children because they're fascinated by the poop in their own brains.

This #Caturday we would like to thank our feline sensitivity reader, Winslow Stewart McCready, for his work on the cat-related stories in our book. He approves. #BookSky

A new book of #GothicHorror fiction is coming to the neighborhood. #BookSky

If you didn’t already believe this before 2020, you probably do now after 6 years of unrelenting eugenicist propaganda about “underlying conditions,” “people who were unwell to begin with,” “personal risk assessment,” “you do you,” the vulnerable will fall by the wayside,” “Covid is mild,” etc

Shared this on insta & will share here too. If you’re not in the ME or Long Covid communities you’re likely unaware of just how often we have to watch young people die.