health reporters are generally in the business of trying to report the truth. political reporters at the NYT are hired to report what politicians say, and to deliberately ignore the truth (if they have any idea what it is.)

There was no experience like staying up late to watch this on broadcast TV, knowing that all over the country people would be simultaneously saying "what the fuck just happened there, then?" at exactly the same time as you.

Raptcha

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Generative AI - Ethical use of mātauranga. Mātauranga Māori is taonga. Highlights (mine): 1. Check with Māori rep from ethics committee 2. Don't use prompt to generate mātauranga Māori 3. Never use or generate tapu data 4. AI use must be acknowledged #GenAI #DataIsTaonga #LIANZA2025

NOW: Māori AI & Data Sovereignty - embedding values in tech. Keynote by Dr Karaitiana Taiuru. According to #WAI262 and #TAI262 claimants, Artificial Intelligence is listed as one of the three catastrophises Māori face in 2024. #AI #DataSovereignty #LIANZA2025 #libraryconference #library

I think it's still unclear whether they are actually Christian nationalists trying to destroy democracy. We should probably spend more time debating it.

Also a reminder he says antifa so it rhymes with Latifah

The government won't tell you that they are fascists, but they will tell you that anti-fascists are their enemies.

Also just in case Democrats think this isn't about them

Trump has signed an executive order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organisation.

Celebrating Astronomical spring today here in Aotearoa New Zealand. The season that brings up more Lenticular clouds due to the increasing influence of westerly winds down here in the Roaring 40s. Kā Kamu-a-Hakitekura (Walter Peak and Cecil Peaks)

Your regular reminder that trying to 'cure' autism or queerness is as medically implausible as 'curing' left-handedness, aversion to coriander, or not being able to roll your tongue. They are part of normal human variation and will keep showing up in every population in roughly the same proportions.

This is, I think, the best push alert and makes me wonder why this directness isn’t the norm.

I often think how among all the other things it is against, fascism (and its attendant authoritarianisms and make-believes) is fundamentally a war against complexity—against the inherent complexity and multiplicity of the universe and social reality—and against any efforts to understand them as such

I normally take ibuprofen for my assorted pains but now that I know tylenol is good for autism I may need to switch.

Auē. Moe mai rā, te ariki. Kua hinga te tōtara o Te Waonui a Tāne. www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/09/23/a...

Anyway, good day to be in a country that uses different drug names than the US.

Maps without New Zealand (derogatory)

LRT: 🎶 Mor-poooork-ia

9/19/25: Curtis Evans, a veteran, carries the American flag through gas from federal officers in front of ICE facility in Broadview, IL

The homeopathic cure for autism already exists

Notably and unusually, neither Fox News or Newsmax is carrying Trump's autism press conference live

The label of a drug is close to a sacrosanct document. It represents the trust between the government and the user of the drug that the drug is safe and effective and that all risks and benefits are accurately outlined. Changing it to suit a political agenda is imo an earthshaking matter

I know this is a radical position that will probably enrage people But hear me out: What if this thing we call autism is just the way some peoples’ brains work Not an illness. Not a brain injury. Not a defect. Some. Peoples’. Brains. Are. Different. And they don’t need to be fixed

Here’s another oldie! New comics will return soon! 🦇

most important job at any big company by far right now is the chief racism dial calibrator

Anti-humors groups melt down over reports officials to link disease to miasma.

Shana tova, peeps. May it be a year of health, of safety, and of collective liberation. ❤️‍

My painting AUTUMN CORNFIELD

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

LOL oh wow the anti-vaxxers are mad that RFK Jr is saying Tylenol causes autism instead of vaccines. “We didn’t wait 20 years for Bobby to finally speak and then get served Tylenol as an answer.”

Was discussing the Odyssey with my 14-year-old daughter, who commented that men will start the Trojan War instead of going to therapy.

One of the many problems with the FC is the change made in 2014, which removed the presumption against unsupervised contact between family violence perpetrators and children!

BIG at SCOTUS: Court grants Trump's request to immediately fire Rebecca Slaughter from the FTC **AND** announces it will consider overruling the 90-year precedent that (along with a statute) otherwise protect her from being sacked. Justice Kagan writes a dissent, joined by Sotomayor & Jackson.

HOLY DUSTY ICEBALLS!!!

Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons: -Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular -Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact -Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones

'the comments' comments existed and we, the company, had feelings about them

BREAKING: Disney said 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' will return to the air on Tuesday after it had suspended the talk-show host following threats by the chair of the Federal Communications Commission over comments the host had made about the assassination of Charlie Kirk reut.rs/46knyIw

NEW: An app launched by Cancel the Hate, a website for anonymously reporting those accused of speaking ill against Charlie Kirk, was leaking user data. Cancel the Hate declined to respond to my inquires & removed the app from its website shortly after. san.com/cc/app-for-o...

When I interviewed older South Asian British people about their retirement decisions over a decade ago, a large number said they had kept a passport and land in India and Pakistan 'just in case' When I asked 'in case what?' they responded 'in case we are told to leave Britain'

Our 'Special Collections' contain an array of of propaganda material, including antisemitic, anti-Nazi and anti-Communist items. This newspaper clipping from the collection includes a cartoon published on this day in 1938, in response to the policy of appeasement towards Hitler's expansionist aims.

“21% of americans trans” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person is not transgender. Genders Georg, who lives in new york & transitions over 10,000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Technologically advance a band: Queens of the Bronze Age

Before the lightning struck, it was one grey chicken. [Alt text: A photo taken in front of a window showing two chickens: one with dark feathers, one with pale feathers. The countryside scene outdoors is split by a dramatic fork of lightning hitting the hills in the background at just that moment.]

Further pondering. We don't have an equivalent to this documentary, because the NZ Government acted swiftly and effectively, while the UK government was slow, corrupt and incompetent www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

LOL

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see