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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them

People say AI has no business model; but tbh I think part of the business model is getting people so hooked on it by the means of cooking their brains alive, that they then will pay any price to even function in everyday life. Rent your basic life skills.

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

They're literally doing the meme

this is going to be a big i-never-thought-leopards-would-eat-my-face moment

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Wu: "God bless our City, God bless our people, and God save whoever messes with Boston."

@themountaingoats.bsky.social Hi John — Really looking forward to The Complete Lyricks. How did you choose the range of years to include?

They want us to feel helpless. They want us to stay quiet. Honestly forget sometimes that I have outlets to not do either of those things.

I gotta say: this recognition that I need to be in community to survive this shit is AT COMPLETE ODDS with my introversion and misanthropy😫

2. Cultivate empathy. One way authoritarians defeat democracy is by trying to destroy empathy. Their strategies depend on dehumanization, demonization, and division. One of the best ways to resist is to actively cultivate empathy. Democracy depends on empathy.

I’m struck by how the prisoners practice of care counteracts the state’s practice of humiliation.

Big thanks to @wbur.org for helping us spread the word on our favorite books of 2024: www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

life with @hhharlow.bsky.social

It's a worldwide trend. What is wrong with the young men?

ive seen crunchwraps more supreme than this court

The number of U.S. children & teens killed by gunfire rose 50% in just two years, according to a 2023 analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2019, there were 1,732 gun deaths among U.S. children and teens under 18. By 2021, that figure had increased to 2,590.

"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic. www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

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Georgia officials have dismissed all members of the state's Maternal Mortality Review Committee, which is charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women, in response to ProPublica's reporting on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller.

Now that’s a subskeet

BREAKING: CVS Health, UnitedHealth Group and Cigna are suing the Federal Trade Commission, claiming that the agency going after drug middlemen over high insulin prices is unconstitutional.

Recommended: 42 incarcerated writers from across the country describing the experience of extreme heat in carceral settings. Prisons are often explicitly excluded from public health standards about heat exposure in buildings. prisonjournalismproject.org/2024/09/19/w...

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