Repolling… how we doing chat 🦠

wear a mask my friends, especially if you're in new york.

Recruiting people to work for the Trump administration after all that’s happened to everyone who’s done so before must be like drumming up enthusiasm for a human sacrifice.

"around 0.15% of users active in a given week have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent": openai.com/index/streng... "800M weekly users": techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/s... even on the conservative end, that’s so many people

Guardrails are not working. Period. If you spend any amount of time on these you will soon see them slip. No matter what they add or implement, it won’t be enough — if they continue to attempt chatbots as replacement companions, then tech corporations must be liable for any and all wrongful deaths.

Repolling… how we doing chat 🦠

If the most talented man alive, Trent Reznor, announced he was playing at the “Trump-Kennedy Center” I would take the nine inch nails T-shirt I happen to be wearing off my body right now and find a frying pan

Tickets were FREE

Y’all, it was a free show. They don’t charge at whatever the hell this venue is called now, unless he changed that when he rebranded as well. I’m telling you, Chuck is totally in the clear because he made this an entirely new venue that’s unrecognizable from the prestigious institution it once was.

Trump is now suing because he wouldn’t perform for him. I am trying to think of another iteration of the executive branch across its sordid history that has been this fragile in the face of the mildest criticism. Petty? Cruel? Yes. Pathetic? Truly a contender. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

There seems to be a sense that movements operate "efficiently" or "inefficiently" and that sense never seems to account for state violence and repression. lol.

I also started mapping out ways to extract closed captions into JSON for searching content or topics/keywords. If enough people express interest, I’ll throw together a blog post to prep for the prefiled new bills.

I have no idea if anyone will find this useful, but there’s software used by a plurality of state legislatures to stream and archive their hearings. There’s no function to save those videos in many cases which makes them inaccessible to some, If you need it because you’re doing policy or whatever:

Re-upping this in case someone needs to hear it going into the weekend and New Years. You aren’t alone— this is the hardest time of the year for so many people, and there’s *nothing* wrong with you if you’re one of them.

So much this, and so much more than you can ever know if your rights aren’t power’s favorite cudgel atm. If you don’t think every time you walk into a room “who here actively works towards my elimination from society? Oh, just the one? I’ll stay over here then unobtrusively hiding behind the salad.”

lots of queer folks endure lousy holiday family time because it’s better than nothing, because of a vestige of obligation, or there’s still love there. i’ll get confrontational on someone else’s behalf but i rarely stand up for myself. i tried it this year & lost myself family thanksgiving & xmas.

The last 24 hours have seen some of the most dehumanizing, disgusting posts of the year. This reporting is about internal comms from the team that makes them. The things they were instructed to show are horrifying, but the things they were told to remove or de-emphasize are even more revealing.

BREAKING: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena. The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses. New, at Law Dork:

Thinking of everyone who treated Trump as a serious person over the past few years and how we probably could have ended his career ages ago. “When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert” apnews.com/article/kenn...

coworker literally bringing in his moms extra oxygen unit because he's having trouble breathing with what he describes as "just a cold" "not a big deal"

Is it just me or does everyone sound sick this year? Raise your hand if holiday illness has already taken you out.

“In one horrifying case, Omnilert’s system misidentified a student’s bag of Doritos, labeling it a handgun. It wasn’t until an armed police squad detained the 16-year old student at gunpoint that they realized the system’s error.”

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all. And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

Some thoughts on the Levy Review: - it's mostly but not entirely okay - if you're in England, opt out of data collection - it avoids confronting the biggest problems - it ignores 15 years of health research - there are clear examples of better practice - move trans health to primary care already!

I know of a 40,000 patient clinical trial where the SAS programmer determined the key secondary outcome as positive if Y=time to stroke < maximum follow-up time. Y=missing -> positive outcome because with SAS missing < anything. The error still stands.

Remember when an entire generation was raised on media the premise of which was that there was a conspiracy to convince the public that conspiracy theories mostly existed to hide actual conspiracies?

This week in US health policy: a dozen underwear companies have to register as medical device manufacturers now, but a different group deliberately increasing measles cases is protected advocacy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

One of my trans friends asked me to let people know that the FDA is now sending out warning letters to companies selling chest binders. They are reclassifying them as "medical devices" which will be impossible for most companies to legally comply with. This is the bare-minimum care for trans adults.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

You can’t stop people from binding by decree. You can only stop them from doing it safely.

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.

One thing re: bans on gender-affirming care is that for all the hand-wringing about procedural expense, capacity, and physical safety, these bans explicitly allow and encourage similar procedures to be used without consent on intersex kids. We wrote about this: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The next few days are going to be hard. The fear is palpable. So please, if you’re at all wondering: I wish you could see how much the world needs you. Right now, all that matters is getting to morning. * thetrevorproject.org/get-help/ * pflag.org/resource/support-hotlines/ * translifeline.org/

cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”

It is so hard right now to imagine any light ever shining brightly enough again after this year. I have never been more fearful about the future. But every year I sit with this photo for all of Hanukkah as I try and remember all those before who thought the night would never end.

hi, cis folks! today, congress votes on 2 bills —HR498 & HR3492—one bans medicaid funds for providers of trans youth care; the other criminalizes that care, imposing penalties including jail. either one passing destroys lives. we need you to call & tell your rep to vote no. tap into the 🧵for more

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

People are going to die

Impossible to read this Amnesty report on the Everglades and not immediately picture an antebellum southern plantation. “Described as a cage you would find at the zoo, where people are shackled at their feet and wrists and chained to the ground, under the hot sun.” www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten...

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

If you are ever, for any reason, asked to keep a list of names to send to a special email address, you 100% do not do that.

“Employees with driver’s license offices across the state, from El Paso to Paris to Plano, reported the names and license numbers of these people to a special agency email account.“

It’s only cancel culture if it’s from a specific region of Brooklyn, otherwise it’s just sparkling censorship.

The House is expected to vote this week on Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill to make providing trans youth with gender-affirming care punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Life-saving health care is on the line. Tell your members of Congress to reject this bill NOW. 

deeply annoyed to learn the one closest to me only convenes at 9:30am mondays because if there was a thing i could do with all that free time i have it would be get on the fucking library board and be the person who reminds the resident crank that not even her friends *want* to hear her thoughts.

The library board wouldn’t remove a picture book about a trans boy so they dissolved the whole board. “The book has been banned by three school districts — Carmel, Indiana; Palm Beach County, Florida; Stillwater, Minnesota — and nationally by the DoD in military schools” archive.is/2025.12.14-1...

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.

I don’t think people realize how often search summaries are wrong. I’ve noticed that Gemini often can’t parse deviations in formatting so often when it pulls “facts” from tables the variable head and the value are from totally different observations. It also conflates sources leading to this.

Why is the head of the world’s preeminent medical science research institute relying on an anonymous, anti-vax, software engineer known only as “Ben” for his COVID epidemiology? The answer does not bode well for the future of science based medicine. open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor... 🧪 #episky #NIH