And "the environment" isn't just an abstract; it's the place we all live, and are dependent on for life.

I have tried using AI to find papers that say a specific thing. Most of the time, they DO NOT say the thing that AI tells me they say. I have a much better success rate using conventional search methods, but this strategy only functions where conventional search methods have not been broken by AI.

Hantaviruses are zoonotic viruses that naturally infect rodents and can occasionally spread to people. Here’s what you need to know about #hantavirus: What they are, how they spread, the symptoms, and how to prevent infection.

If a disease kills people with health problems and only makes healthy people sick those people aren't healthy anymore, they have health problems and then the next time it only kills people with health problems and only makes healthy people sick and then

AI generated graphics look like shit Just saying

Not only is this true but a few years before SARS-CoV-2 we had fully-fledged influenza pandemic emergency plans (complete with dedicated staff and drills) by 2014 which would have been highly adaptable to other respiratory viruses, but these were mothballed before 2020.

Who could have seen this coming Oh right... everyone

Mother’s Day burger perfection

Billionaires did this.

I am a person who took a page out of my children's book. I ignore that thing freely and leave it behind wantonly. Battery dead? Oh no, guess there's no point taking it. It's very useful when I need it but I don't need or want to be in communication with everybody all the time

Because we treat people who have gotten rich as requiring intelligence and skill even when the data is really clear that amassing significant wealth is based heavily in luck.

Have y’all heard of Inner Eastside for All? We are kicking out “centers and corridors” and using a big brush to repaint the zoning map - join us! portlandneighborswelcome.org/inner-eastsi...

Rich white people are a trip because they'll just be all Har har har my great grandpa was quite a scoundrel, he made his first million defrauding widows and selling orphans to sex farms before he came out West and changed his name. Anyway, work hard and you will succeed, that's what I always say

Multnomah County Homeless Services had $67 million cut from its budget this year but there's room in Oregon's budget to give a billion dollars to rich grifters I guess

What's shameful is that there wasn't already a second-home tax, and that most places still don't have one in the works.

“In fact, for “race” to be constructed, the Slave had to exist — and had to exist as the antithesis of health.” — Da’Shaun L. Harrison, Belly and The Beast: The Politics of Anti-fatness as AntiBlackness

People who have keyword alerts set so they can hop into the comments of people they don't follow and don't know anything about are among the most irritating kinds of people. It's like their hobby is ruining jokes and being condescending. How do they not know?

Pls to be putting in my hips now thx

YEP. It's sadistic, because they know we know and they absolutely revel in it. The cruelty is the part they get off on; knowing that we are their better in absolutely every way except for institutional power.

You can tell the guy who said that has never been naked with a woman or even ever really talked to a woman on a personal level because no we fucking don't.

We have imprisoned Bob Writerguy, author of "Don't Create the Torment Nexus" because the Torment Nexus we created turned out just like he said it would. Bob must have planned this from the beginning.

Men who are craving giant hairy balls are NOT doing it to appeal to women! Balls shouldn't be any larger than they have to be. Men could be like "My balls are high and tight; you won't have to think about them at ALL" and that would be a selling point for every woman I've talked to about balls.

Just really peak skyline placement

I hate this trend. I saw high-protein Cinnamon Toast Crunch at Costco. I accidentally ended up with high-protein pretzels in my grocery order. A. Most people don't need more protein than they already get in their diets B. This is still ultra-processed junk food C. Tastes like assballs

"EMERGENCY🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Our suffering hasn't stopped for a moment We are starving, besieged, reduced to eating tree leaves. Our tent is torn, we are afflicted with all kinds of diseases, we live on filthy sand😭 We desperately need your donations🤲 $10 is enough to save our lives🤲" chuffed.org/project/1580...

I just want to reiterate that AI is a scam, and we are living with the sabotage and deterioration of the greatest information and communication tools ever developed by humankind in order for big tech to force-sell their scam to us.

"It's not out fault, it's the fault of a body of literature that has existed for almost a century!"

My turtle has figured out she can just bully the cats away from their dishes and eat their cat food.

Remember when robots were cute and useful? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Oregon, LET'S GOOOOOOOO

When you and a moot start a 19 reply conversation in a bigger accounts mentions

Oh great. Like we need this amid the rising tide of ignorance.

So in my obsessive orange blossom perfume buying birthday spree, I bought three from a perfumer I'd never heard of before, Talee Perfume, apparently a one-woman operation. I got her dupes for Yum Boujee Marshmallow, Paradoxe, and LDBS. I got them today and THEY ARE SO GOOD OMG!!!

‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

TIL that menopause can trigger lactose intolerance this is bullshit

I know a ton of people who could really use this book! And this right here is why I'm glad I'm on the skyline.

Not ending homelessness is a choice. It's a policy position

Ironically, the US economy was recovering pretty well until 2025.

Because asking billionaires to participate as citizens of the society they extract their wealth from is the exactly the same as calling descendants of slavery the n-word, apparently.

I don’t think it’s at all controversial in terms of food studies/food history to say *most* food takes are, or can be used as, proxies for slurs on one subgroup or another. It’s why I am, at best, deeply suspicious of “lighthearted” food hot takes here & elsewhere.

this whole thing feels like it was written by a very stupid child

Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/

Local and regional elections are what sets the stage for national elections. Your vote matters. In local and regional elections, your vote matters even more.

I've noticed.

HELL YEAH

2016: Black students complaining that dehumanizing language on campus and in the media is dangerous 2016-2026: cancel culture hysteria, these students are whining about nothing 2026: Black people losing the right to vote on a state-by-state basis ANYONE WANT TO REVISE THEIR ASSESSMENT?

I have made my stance on the nazi tattoo guy very clear and yet every day a white man who looks like the heads side of a coin jumps into my mentions, unprompted, even if I am not speaking on him, to tell me that he has it on good authority (himself) that the nazi tattoo guy will be just fine.

Manual use of tech tools across industries and platforms is being purposefully hobbled to force users to switch to AI tools, which will be "more functional" than the enshittified manual approach only because of the deliberate enshittification Sabotage might be a better word than enshittification.