🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

I’m stating to understand how that man could have gotten tea bagged hundreds of times. Did he by chance spend time with an intact dog? Because this has been what’s going on at my house all morning. He’s not even humping, just trying to get the old lady to play.

It’s a good sign when your therpist is suddenly more formal about assessments and documentation right? That means your report card with all As is coming soon right?

One of the most important yet elided facts for understanding the Holocaust is how very, very, few people did anything. There are movies about them, yes. They are not examples standing in for many more though. Half a billion people lived in Europe and 28,000 are recognized as having protected Jews.

The two truths: 1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it. 2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.

When the US admits that they killed any “military-aged men” who walked within 3km of a downed pilot they mean any boy lanky enough to be a teenager and any middle-aged man able to walk unaided with a cane got shot in the head for the crime of walking.

Our friends at Firestorm are struggling in the face of disaster capitalism. A queer- and worker-owned bookstore that has, over and over, been there for the community. They let me set up a referral page with them. Books from my podcasts, my books, and books I love firestorm.coop/r/killjoy.html

Can anyone donate to help get Sippy into stable housing?

If you don’t test, you can NEVER confidently say “it wasn’t covid.” (If you DO test and it’s negative…unfortunately, the same applies. Keep testing throughout your illness—tests can give false negatives, and Covid sometimes likes to hide for a few days!)

I just saved this one. 👋

10 years of gaslighting about the left sinking democrats and they finally admit they’d rather lose with their guys than give an inch on policy

Hard power is the bomb. Real power is the bill. Because while you can scare people with nukes, you control them with your currency. #petrodollar

This is why I say, sincerely: Nex Benedict was murdered.

News from today confirms NYU Langone has still not started care. Mayor Mamdani has yet to push for enforcement of NYC Human rights law against the hospital, which is in his power. He has yet to direct H+H to absorb trans youth patients. He has maintained radio silence.

I’m sorry but epidemiologists that don’t mask anymore are definitely not the people I’m listening to about environmental exposures and fertility. If you want me to believe you know what you’re talking about irt fertility I’m going to need you to not hand wave away animal studies.

A bunch of legal podcasts and analyses will be discussing today's SCOTUS decision with lawyers who are neither queer nor trans, so if you want to talk to an attorney who (1) is actually trans, and (2) experienced conversion therapy, hit me up. [email protected].

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

anyway, interview more romance authors and ask them about the politics of their work! I mean we managed to write a series so accidentally prescient we ended up kind of becoming our own main characters during the Whistle Adventures and no one is asking me about it. 🤣

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

There are going to be a lot of intersex cis women, especially from the global south, who will be ruled ineligible and then subjected to terrible discrimination or worse in their home countries. Prior sex testing regimes have resulted in suicides and ruined lives.

The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes. In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

it’s the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the site of which — it’s easy to forget — is an active classroom building our Lilly Sabella went there to talk to professors and students about what it means to study on the same floors where the fire took place

Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

well i don't want to write about harry potter again so i'll just link this review of hogwarts legacy where i did my absolute best to try to demonstrate that there is no way you can seperate out jk rowling's political worldview from this text, it's impossible www.polygon.com/reviews/2360...

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

A 3-year study published in Pediatrics examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregnancy. n.pr/4uXOx6X

So the Stan girlies have shown that a lot of the accounts that are posting this weird Chappell Roan made an 11 year old girl cry were also used in the Blake Lively/ Amber Heard smear campaigns and considering she just ditched an agent for being in the Epstein files- I’m with them

I think it's vitally important that everyone know that when baby bear cubs are orphaned and taken to our local wildlife center, they get fed and rehabbed by people masking their scent and wearing costumes like this so they don't get habituated to humans

Seven dogs stolen from their owners have gone viral after escaping from an illegal transport truck and making their way home. They traveled around 17 km together, led by a corgi across highways and fields, now safely back with their respective owners..🐶🐾🥺❤️

For years, when we had conversations about intersectionality, I attempted to include the experiences of children & was dismissed. This is changing. Which is good. What would be GREAT is more people, adults really, being able to hear how much sense it all makes when a child says the same thing.

I found a wild pot plant on a walk with my dog. I’m not great at plant identification but it had the classic pot leaf shape and was covered in glittery hairs and I’m not aware of another plant that sparkles like that 😂

No exaggeration, I think this is one of the most important stories in US health care. MAHA makes a lot more sense if you see it as a hostile takeover by the quackery industry

Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.

Nightclub owner at centre of meningitis outbreak says “something isn’t making sense”. “There's been a lot of talk about how hard it is to transmit… …but actually, it was transmitted a LOT more easily, by the looks of it, than they're suggesting.” www.lbc.co.uk/article/meni... 🧵

If you were someone pinging critics with ‘it’s just lighting cleanup’ a few days ago, I need you to use this as a jumping off point to thinking about your susceptibility to talking points and marketing rhetoric more generally. It was right there in front of all of our faces.

We cut housing production in half starting in the 90s. If we'd kept building housing at the rate of the 70s and 80s, Massachusetts would have half a million more homes today - 3.5M instead of 3M.

if you wanna know what it's like being a particular kind of trans person in the UK then my friend is now on her fourth court mandated victim of crime compensation award. I guess being assaulted is one of the more viable pathways to funding gender affirming healthcare.

It’s that time again: I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE! Donations are down, but ICE is still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and help if you can! Thank you! 💛

A lot of folks are surprised by the roots of restorative justice and how often those processes included things like deplatforming perpetrators or banning them from a specific organization. Which is an indicator of how RJ has been co-opted in recent years by people who want to sanitize impunity.

I've seen this echod among many of my left and labor friends, and I think it erases that many FARMWORKER labor activists hadn't, and they're the ones who we need to keep fighting alongside to win reforms, solidify contracts, and setup a century defining victory in 2029. 🧵

these are death camps

mind-boggling to me that i still have yet to see a single democrat utter the phrase “every republican president of your lifetime has destroyed the economy and started a war”

Brain-breaking anecdotes about religion in the South for everyone talking out of their ass. The church I grew up in was a Southern Baptist church with a gay Choir director and a lady assistant preacher. With the SBC, said no more lady preachers, the head preacher said they would leave the SBC.

never been a fan of how leftist men somehow think they’re better than their political enemies wrt sexual violence

Shout out to all the guys with charts who told me there was no way we were undercounting while I watched nursing homes and hospitals refuse to test and send my friends’ elderly relatives home to die of “respiratory illness” to keep their official numbers down.

COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...

Did I mention that Book 3 is a Knox compliant fair play murder mystery? Because Book 3 of #theWondersofMundus is a Knox compliant fair play murder mystery set in the sleepy village right next to an instanced dungeon in an mmo.