friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

"Ah."

Just learned that the East Wing was where President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, and President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act.

September 2025 research finds post-Covid loss of smell may be permanent. It doesn't happen to everyone, but why would anyone risk this if they knew? Study link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Story from The Independent: www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

“ …those who relate to others as though they are not worthy of respect ought to be treated with the regard that orientation deserves.”

yes, bay area, that was an earthquake. the dogs are still freaking out.

If you are not an Online Elder who was active in the online journaling circles back in the day m, you might not know about this beautiful story, so here ya go! tomatonation.com/stories-true...

www.fbi.gov/wanted/law-e... Democratic state politician Melissa Hortman and her husband have been killed in what appears to be a "politically motivated assassination. Democratic state lawmaker John Hoffman and his wife were also shot. Police say they are looking for a suspect Vance Luther Boelter.

Personally, I love vaccines. I love not getting diseases

they do oppose the CA midcycle redistricting (& they also opposed the Texas one) - which is consistent if not very awake to the fascist threat. members should probably tell the org what they think! but it's really good that they're not part of the mailer action

hey Californians, if you got a mailer (already!) against the fall special election to counter Texas gerrymandering, the League of Women Voters wants you to know that the mailer was lying about them - screenshotting with alt text here:

Can confirm.

I'll never get over that supplements, woo, etc. mostly don't require FDA approval and are an example of unscrupulous capitalism run amok and Big Pharma is heavily regulated and can be sued if they try to sell you sugar water, but everyone thinks it's the opposite

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

One of the benefits of private browsing is getting to see ads for objects I'd never encounter otherwise, such as the Acquity UPLC Chromatography tool, which separates substances based on their differing affinities for a stationary and mobile phase. It's my personal (free!) version of Stumble Upon.

A lovely interview by @jasonspank.bsky.social:

On days like this I find it so hard to reconcile our human actions with the almost impossible odds that we exist at all. I wish we treasured and valued each other. I wish we realized there’s more than enough for everyone. That we belong to each other, we need each other. That we are all we have.

I think my exact words were “you no longer pay taxes, which means you’ve opted out of library service.” It felt amazing.

As someone who has worked counter-influence on the DOD side, this is an excellent 🧵!!!! If you're curious as to the empirical theory behind what @asharangappa.bsky.social is describing, it is techniques of neutralization & drift.

Wow when I saw this post, it was so wild, I had to look up the raw trade data for myself. Sure enough, U.S. wine exports to Canada have fallen off a cliff:

If anyone is curious about the air quality in London, Ontario rn or the fact that n95s keep shizz out of your lungs…

RFK Jr's "MAHA" report came out last week. It misinterpreted data, had broken links to some citations, and cited 7 articles that don't exist. That last one is a hallmark of AI hallucinations. How much of the MAHA report was AI generated? 🤔 www.notus.org/health-scien...

I was reading up on the history of diphtheria and ran across this interesting fact.

I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing

"I'm convinced that if the world survives these dangerous times, it will be tens of millions of small things that do it. Keep on!" — Pete Seeger

Added #AI to workshop conversation cards. The confidence of fabrication. It’s between professionals speaking with strong opinions but no lived experience and holding space for people with lived/living/first-hand experience. Should you keep quiet?

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.

HERE:

good news, classicists: AI is 100% ready to teach your Advanced Latin class

This is Messier 13. It is just visible to the naked eye, if the sky is dark enough. Edmund Halley spotted it in 1714 and wrote “This is but a little Patch, but it shews it self to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent.” I mean, look at it. Image: ESA/Hubble, NASA

I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do

Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.

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Literally accurate, visually deceptive. A+

A play in two acts.

@booker.senate.gov looks wonderful 24+ hours in. The righteousness & love of country that grounds him must be so powerful in this moment. Grateful for his enunciation of our shared American values. Outraged at the ways the USA’s greatness is being trashed by Musk, Trump & their order-followers.

An instrumental cover of Nessun Dorma playing in background. OH: Oh! This song was in Stepbrothers!

Thank you Senator Booker! I hope your colleagues follow your example.

governments should spend money, literally all their fucking money. on taking care of the people from whom they got the money. on building cool shit for the people from whom they got the money to use, like highways and public works. this is real easy how can these people be so bad at this

based on a real guy?? i met him twice and he has been enriching my life ever since?? www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

This is a wildly dangerous sign — the idea that there are only five SCOTUS votes for paying congressionally mandated invoices for work *already* done!? This should be as basic a test of Article I as you can get. And that does not bode well for decisions to come.

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

People don't realize enough that "only that one really old guy knows cobol" is functionally equivalent to "only phylis knows how to change that form" or "suraj is the only one who can change that spreadsheet"

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

You know who should've won an Oscar last night? The person who designed the little 'Gravity on / off' buttons in Alien Romulus.

18F was dissolved because it saved money. We pushed back against contractors who tried to screw American taxpayers. We showed how cheap and good government software can be. Musk hates that. writing by Dan Tangherlini via @donmoyn.bsky.social

There might be an assumption that DOGE is bringing in incredible coders to replace bureaucrats. But that is not the case. Some DOGE members applied to the US Digital Service before Trump took office. None of them got very far, because they lacked basic skills. From a founding member of USDS.