Spring has sprung! #flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling #gardensky #flowerreport

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using with no explanation.

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.

COVID is the gift that keeps on giving in ways we are still discovering, and every study like this makes me glad I never stopped masking

My partner put on this movie Mercy with Chris Pratt as a troubled cop on AI trial and Rebecca Ferguson, who will never in her career be more wasted than this, as the AI judge. It is so preposterous I can’t even. Like utterly ridiculous on so many levels. Effective only as unintentional comedy

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

This is nuts. The only reason to do this is the cruelty and the racism. It will actively harm the U.S. economy. We're not talking about undocumented migrant workers here. These are legal PERMANENT residents.

I know I bring this up a lot, but I am so annoyed at the romanticizing of the 1990s. "I'm raising my kids like it's the 90s, so that means no screens, no shuttling them around to a million extra curriculars, and no artificial ingredients." Bitch do you mean the 1790s

50+ photos of the signs, banners, American flags, giant frogs, and Marie Don-toinette’s cake from Seattle’s No Kings 3.0 march

My chonky cat had her checkup yesterday and went from 19.4 to 14.8 pounds. The vet told her ohhh you did such a good job losing weight! Excuse me, I’m the one carefully measuring her food and getting screamed at. Though I suppose I should be grateful I haven’t been murdered in my sleep

Assuming they don’t want to be accountable for AI investments when they don’t perform and it all collapses

Republicans pretend to care about families in many ways, one facet of their hypocrisy is letting prediction markets proceed unchecked because they enjoy making money from them. Meanwhile, skyrocketing gambling addiction is going to wreck a lot of families

Very insightful

I want to hear every high profile Dem support infinite resources for investigation and prosecution of Trump admin wrongdoing. ICE, insider trading, the goddamn ballroom, all of it. Not punishing Trump the first time was a colossal failure. Every single crime and criminal must be investigated.

All these pictures people are taking of un-masked ICE agents chilling at airports are useful, because later the identifying details like tattoos can be compared to photos of masked agents once they go back to committing human rights violations in the streets.

Everyone who publishes a recipe that claims onions caramelize in 10 minutes goes to culinary hell where your only knife is one of those serrated pumpkin carvers for children, you must cook exclusively in a microwave capable only of 5% or 500% power, and you can access only AI recipes

Single easily accessible kill switch for disabling AI absolutely everywhere or GTFO

“The air travel crisis is deliberate” A must read from @lebassett.bsky.social who flew into Laguardia only 30 minutes before last night’s accident. 😳 open.substack.com/pub/laurabas...

Really good work here My core takeaway is the CEO of Superhuman/Grammarly is well coached and weasel worded, as most CEOs are, but he’s also absolutely without conscience and believes not only your writing, but also your name and likeness, are his to exploit and at most will pay you in exposure

My boys? Beastie.

You don’t say

If the Oompa Loompas sang about you, what character flaw would they highlight

Excellent overview of states that govern through extraction from citizens to attract billionaires who demand more extraction

I cannot reiterate enough with the frequency and gravity it deserves that every reinfection increases the cumulative risk of Long COVlD. Our PMC survey data (n>2,000) suggest it is rare to avoid LC after 5+ known infections. I'll talk more about that again Sunday night in Becky's Space.

hearing someone say they regularly talk to ai chatbots for anything does feel like they just rolled up their sleeve to reveal a festering zombie bite

Oh so the metaverse is dead dead

Name a performer you're always happy to see in a film or series

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

Prediction markets gamblers will escalate to attempt coercion and physical violence against people they believe control things they are betting on Gambling often ruins addicts and their families. Now countless others are going to be pulled into this toxic cloud through no fault of their own

Search your camera roll for “Hell”

I just found a video of Concrete Blonde’s 1993 live performance on 120 Minutes, performing “Everybody Knows” by Leonard Cohen (39:25). You’re welcome.

The deference American society gives to the imagined potential of young white men, the effort our institutions expend to shield them from the consequences of their own actions at the expense of those they harm, is patriarchal poison injected deep into every vessel and tissue of this country

OOPS

"Under a new rule, the State Department will be able to revoke trans people's visas over "misrepresentation." It'll give ICE grounds to suspect all trans people of being in the US illegally."

This 100% I worked in tech and spent free time messing around with stuff because it was fun to learn and do more. Looking back it’s like that was someone else. It’s been a long journey with many phases, but today’s tech bros are just unreserved evil and wealth extraction. Nothing left to love.

what the fuck is going on in Sam Altman’s head

Unpopular take: I want there to be as much energy going into physical accessibility as there is going into digital accessibility. I don't want new software or AI tools hyped to me until we can get ramps, handrails, and accessible toilets. WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY.

Really upsetting and will be expanded on to enforce patriarchal gender roles in innumerable ways. If this is legal, states refusing to fund or allow sterilization surgeries or even contraception because women aren’t “appreciating their sex” isn’t a long leap

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Claiming people aren't nice because they don't say please and thank you to the plagiarism exploitation autocomplete machine is quite the take, given all the authors and artists whose work was exploited never got a please, thanks, or compensation while AI companies get billions in investment

How is access to tools now supposedly essential to doing your job considered part of your employee compensation that you have to negotiate and not equipment to perform a job that the employer provides like a laptop @edzitron.com

It’s even worse than that, because the administration’s policies have radically contracted admissions to PhD programs. Not only have they gotten rid of PhDs, they’ve bombed the pipeline of folks who might one day replace them. It’s scientific infrastructure terrorism.

I am anti death penalty but willing to make an exception for post Trump tribunals Dems need to be running loud and proud against this depravity. There is absolutely no reason not to - no one who likes this will vote for them anyway

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Why have at least five men who were credibly accused of sexual misconduct been hired by Paramount Studios by owner David Ellison, son of Larry - an excellent question raised by The Wrap.