“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

For the love of Gritty PLEASE contact your reps and demand a push for this to be approved here in the states. At the very least do it for at-risk folks like myself.

This made it into the public record at tonight's Bainbridge Island planning commission meeting, with a comment from someone identified as Olivia.

Mother sues cops over death of daughter after stabbing. “The lawsuit stems from a June 5, 2024 incident and claims officers violated the civil rights of 29-year-old Peyton Bradley by restraining her while she was ‘visibly injured, bleeding & in acute medical distress.’" www.kvue.com/article/news...

What was a moment in world history where the book burners were the good guys

NEW: A new Supreme Court order will continue to allow patients to get mifepristone—one of two drugs commonly used in U.S. medication abortions—via telehealth, through the mail, or from a pharmacy. @natasharoy.bsky.social and @hegemommy.bsky.social have the story.

ICYMI last night…

Judge orders Dr. Idris Robinson reinstated at Texas State University. “Professors do not give up their constitutional rights when they accept a job at a Texas public university,” said Dr. Aimee Villarreal, President of the Texas State University chapter of Texas AAUP-AFT. 👏👏

The words walking, bicycling, equity, climate, repair, and their derivatives are entirely absent from this article. And they’re still working to advance a bill before the new Congress. This is our transpo opposition, and it is useless. Devolve the program, stop digging the hole we are trapped in.

/2 Also: being drunk doesn’t make you a fucking bigot. Being drunk removes your social inhibitions about being an OPEN fucking bigot.

Full chart: climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

Totally uncool as in "global warming, whatever." Climate change is an economics issue, a health issue, an ag issue, a housing issue, a refugee issue, a public safety issue; you can talk about it in those terms, but not talking about it is not addressing the largest crisis of our time.....

Meanwhile, "Majorities of Hispanic/Latino (64%) and Black adults (61%) in the U.S. are either Alarmed or Concerned about global warming, and they are more likely to be Alarmed or Concerned than are White adults (50%)." Not what this says.

Masks off time. Things have changed in the South?

I think it’s funny and quite American that the assumption when someone says “billionaires shouldn’t exist” is that the speaker means “billionaires should be killed” rather than just taxing down their wealth 💀😅

If you find yourself in jury selection, remember you don't have to volunteer any information beyond what is literally asked. Just saying.

RFK Jr. did HWAT kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

Excuse me @clevelandclinic.bsky.social? You let RFK Jr. do what? Did the patient give informed consent? What is RFK Jr.’s vaccination status and did he mask while at your facility? This all seems not in the best interests of patients.

ARTEMIS laist.com/news/eaton-f...

Literally a heist from government coffers and/or de jure instead of de facto impunity for tax crimes. We fought a revolution to not be ruled by a king.

The "total (election) procedural war" that Trump and Republicans are conducting has roots in McConnell's total (parliamentary) procedural war in the Senate and, before that, in Gingrichism in the House before that. A full generation of the partisan demolition of democratic practices and norms.

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The Senate fell one vote short of formally shutting down the war with Iran, with John Fetterman casting the decisive vote.

Quite the performance

The courts have quashed the extremist referendum to break up our country. Danielle Smith knew this referendum wasn't legal. The Crown signed treaties with the First Nations 30 years before Alberta was created. First Nations will defend their rights. Will Smith back down or burn the house down?

When I was an AUSA, I literally put people in jail for counterfeiting for less than this image that Trump just posted on Truth Social.

On that $100 dollar bill. Not God Bless America but God Bless Donald Trump. WTF. This asshole has to go. Come on nature speed up.

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

I want it on a t- shirt.

Personally, if I were filing a lawsuit to stop South Carolina Republicans from breaking up the state's only majority-Black district under the guise of "partisan politics," I would put Rep. Ralph Norman's "this district is WAY too Black for Republicans to win!" quote in the very first paragraph

Elections Complaint Targets Conservative Podcaster Brandi Kruse and Let's Go Washington The complaint hinges on whether Kruse's frequent advocacy for the initiative campaign is a form of in-kind donation or editorial commentary.

The constant, pathetic boot licking is really weird.

Burgum: When the sun goes down, solar panels produce zero electricity. The whole machine doesn't work. Rep. Huffman: I request to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the Secretary is unaware of. It's a battery.

Enten: "It's not just one poll. The five worst polls ever for any president on inflation, they all belong to Donald Trump and they have all occurred in the last month. What we're talking about here is the worst numbers ever. Joe Biden isn't in there. Jimmy Carter isn't in there."

if the NYT opinion columnists wants to solve the FP problems trump has created, they might consider calling for Trump to resign with half the enthusiasm with which they called for biden to resign.

This! The Times editorial board today marked up its authoritarianism scoreboard with nary a word about Trump's incapacity.

The entire purpose of the Voting Rights Act was to prevent states like Louisiana from disenfranchising Black voters through devices like gerrymandering Now that the Supreme Court has disemboweling the Voting Rights Act, states like Louisiana are disenfranchising Black voters through gerrymandering

i am begging you not to quote dunk the lame ass WaPo opinion podcast into doing numbers. let it die in darkness

Some good news.

I hope they’re all whining that Bluesky is an echo chamber.

Collective Punishment is a War Crime.

Collective punishment is also illegal

ESPAILLAT: What happens to a child if a family is split bc they're thrown out of a home bc of the status of the dad? TURNER: Families have to make good decisions E: So the child should pay, even if the mother is a citizen & the child is too? T: If a family is breaking the law, everybody suffers

BTW

Fascist acceleration.

New from 404 Media: spoke to four people who attended a trade show where senior ICE officials spoke about how much Palantir is supercharging their arrests. List of 20 million people on ICE agents phones now; increased chance of successful arrest from 28 to 80% www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.

I want every Democratic leader in the country to study this list of actions allegedly taken by TN Dems to resist MAGA's assault on Democracy... and start following the TN example.

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