Combination of chatGPT encouraging delusions, and Silicon Valley billionaires, podcaster Candace Owens (now #10 on Spotify) talking plausibly about witchcraft as @gilduran.com has covered, shows suicide is *least harmful of the death scenarios*. 🎁 link: www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...

Nov 24 Executive Order on AI says: www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/... "The Order instructs the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (APST) to coordinate the national initiative and the integration of data and infrastructure from across the Federal government." #privacy

There is no debate! You send them!

TV news websites now provide most of the local reporting in America now. With this corporate acquisition more journalists will be laid off. finance.yahoo.com/news/broadca... #censorship #journalism

Nov 18 Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the Education Department www.latimes.com/california/s... "Another transfer puts Health and Human Services in charge of ... management of foreign medical school accreditation." #RFKJr will carry out Trump University, the sequel? #education

Amen. #RFKJr #COVID #antivaxx

nymag.com/intelligence... "It’s tempting to blame all this on the pandemic, an unprecedented stress test on human minds. We emerged blinking into the daylight after spending years on our couches, staring into screens, and repeatedly catching a virus with neurological side effects ..." #COVID #dumb

"A.I. enthusiasts such as Princeton’s D. Graham Burnett claim that literacy is a historical aberration, no longer fit for this world. Outside a few elite institutions, Dr. Burnett argues, there will soon be no point in asking students to read books." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... #AI #literacy

Thinking that the 7 Democrats & 1 independent may be geniuses. Let people see their healthcare cost sky-rocket. Have a public debate just before ACA subsidies expire. A public debate highlighting R's complete lack of a plan. MAYBE we can come a real solution, including Rs + Ds.

Q: So Dr Oz said that-- JEFFRIES: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr Oz seriously.

As Brian Deer documented in his book on the antivaxx movement, "The Doctor Who Fooled the World" antivaxxers proliferated in Facebook groups. It's gotten worse. Now Zuckerberg's ad system charges a premium to user-flagged "scammer" merchants, instead of banning them: www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

As Brian Deer documented in his book on the antivaxx movement, "The Doctor Who Fooled the World" antivaxxers proliferated in Facebook groups. It's gotten worse. Now Zuckerberg's ad system charges a premium to user-flagged "scammer" merchants, instead of banning them: www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

A week after the arXiv was forced to tighten down on submissions because of overwhelming volumes of AI slop, bioRxiv is throwing the doors wide open.

I’m with Sailor Mike. WTF.

The fossil fuel-Silicon Valley alliance is official:

I've been thinking along these lines wrt literacy, democracy, culture. But she's applying it to #climate . Great 🧵:

CA Governor Gavin Newsom just vetoed the "No AI Bosses" act. The legislature passed this, and the gov vetoed it. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

I like to think that I personally ruined the workplace.

Celebrating tonight’s results by going out and getting really vaxxed

You ever get the feeling sometimes people intentionally use neurodivergent status to be terrible people to other neurodivergent people and operate under the understanding that only they can actually have autism , adhd or other brain stuff going on

i am not against machine-learning technologies as such, but i will always be opposed to the use of such technologies to generate simulations of the products of human thought and creativity. i will never willingly interact with a counterfeit human.

🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales about the site’s history and why right wing figures like Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson are attacking it. ❓ Has Wikipedia earned your trust? How is it a part of your life? 📻 Listen:

Other countries are not coming to save scientific research & academia. Maybe to poach a few high-profile scholars. But no one is going to do things at scale to replace 🇺🇸, & most every other rich country is also doing educational austerity. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

A lot of it’s not laying off people for AI. It’s laying people off, hiring contractors in cheaper countries, and *claiming* they were replaced with AI.

Given the demolition of the first lady's wing, the "East Wing," given Dr. Oz said this week American families are "underbabied" it's now a requirement you all know about @juliaioffe.bsky.social 's reporting in her new book about her native Russia, "Motherland" www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMvu...

I am an infectious disease Dr and I would gladly find something else to do with my life if we were able to eliminate all infections through vaccination and public health measures.That's how strongly I feel about infection prevention & the positive impact of vaccines. I am ok with being out of a job.

Until SNAP is funded, here’s an ongoing list of Bay Area restaurants where SNAP recipients can receive free food. Just bring your EBT card!

This is why the AI "bubble" will not "pop" anytime soon. Also, the antivaxx-fossilfuel axis lives. #alberta #antivaxx #AI

My newsletter addresses infected media about infectious diseases. I care about mass media because it raised me! This series at @talkingpointsmemo.com is so special & important, I am re-reading each installment. Thank you for producing it. Happy 25th Anniversary! talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25

I expect a lot more of this "action for action's sake". When you can't surrender or submit for true connection, provocation & fighting are sufficient substitutes www.nybooks.com/articles/199...

If you want a deep dive into the background and operations of the Alt National Park Service, I highly recommend this banger of a video by @adenng.com. And Aden did what I couldn't: he found AltNPS's likely t-shirt distributor, and got us a much better idea of how much money the account is making.

The kids are alright, y’all.

It's also because antivaxxers are now running government departments.

Because Facebook is a place of despair that I spend as little time interacting with as possible, it's easy for me to lose sight of the sheer size of AltNPS's audience there. Their "standing by at waypoint" post from last week has 657 likes here on Bluesky. On Facebook? 24,000.

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust. From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad." I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Shootings at three homecoming weekends at three separate high schools in one region. What is going through the phones to these shooters? I want to see what they've been seeing. Remember the saying "divide and conquer"? We're living out "fragment and conquer". #attunement

AltWatcher is the best account in the news social sphere.

I don't know a lot abt Bari Weiss. But doing my COVID disinfo project, I discovered: telling the truth has heretofore pissed people off. _Now_ with anger emoji-scoring (+5 for 😠, +1 for 👍) ... angering others is the priority. Truth is a distant second. #disinfo www.wsj.com/tech/faceboo...

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

Ha! Well done by @theverge.com www.theverge.com/news/789991/... #privacy #surveillance

OMG I feel seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntmn... 19:00 - 24:00 especially. Public Relations + social networks + AI + conflating "influencers" with journalists = "a triple threat. An uptuple threat." #media #disinfo #climate #antivaxx @amywestervelt.bsky.social publish your book already

@hcrichardson.bsky.social As we teach each other what "bad faith" and "good faith" means in contracts, What is the historical precedence of presidents saying this: May 04 2025 Trump, asked if he has to 'uphold the Constitution,' says, 'I don't know' (NBC News) - www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

My latest for HEATED is about the political nature of land defender killings and some of the people who did the tireless work of protecting their land from illegal resource extraction heated.world/p/the-politi...

For shorthand, I'm referring to this pattern as the "Solnit4". People are posting Solnit4s in public health conversations in response to Tylenol week. I'll explain later.

Argentina President Javier Milei is in the news, as President Trump has announced plans for the U.S. government to bail out Argentina. apnews.com/article/arge... Milei's administration slashed healthcare spending by 48% and in May welcomed RFK Jr. as a consultant on health policy. #RFKJr #antivaxx

Sept 08 RFK Jr.'s planned report linking Tylenol to autism crashes shares of parent company Kenvue (Fortune) fortune.com/2025/09/08/r... #stockmarket #shortsales #forensics #antivaxx #RFKJr #Tyelnol ... Who here can do stock forensics to spot the short-selling? This was in the works for weeks

In which Jesse Bryant explains the connection between accelerationism and climate politics, and why tf Joe Rogan is always talkin about the Kali Yuga www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh9b...

I remember when @maddow.msnbc.com was promoting her book "Blowout" she shared an epiphany while researching it. I think it was at CommonWealth Club, she described the realization as (paraphrase) "oh wow, weaning from oil is going to ... change ... borders of countries!" #itshappening #climate