It's a myth that banning a book increases that book's readership. For most books, banning has the chilling effect the censors want. Your favorite banned books need to you be loud for them!

This is called the tails to teeth ratio, and I think in the US armed forces it's like 9:1. Most military theorists believe that a higher ratio is actually better, because the more support troops you have per soldier, the more effective that soldier is! Pete Hegseth is not a military theorist.

Well don't I feel stupid

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

I’ve been combating medical misinformation for over two decades, and this feels not just quantitatively different, but qualitatively different.

Call me a filthy commie but I think blowing up boats without actually knowing who or what is on them is really evil and wrong

You look at every culture that's ever existed and the running theme is everyone pretty much just wants to play/dance to music, make art, eat stewed meat wrapped in flat bread, and tell stories about the shapes we find in the stars. Somehow we turned that into wars and overtime and profit margins.

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

It strikes me that quite a lot of people knew for the last year that the guy running our horrific deportation squads took a bag with $50k in cash from undercover FBI agents investigating corruption, and it didn’t get out until now.

The only reason I'm not a nsfw artist is because I'm a coward and I don't publish my stuff, but I wanna say LET P0RN ARTISTS BE FREAKS IN PEACE! Wanting art to be "sanitized" is, and always will be, fascism. Today they come for them, tomorrow they come FOR YOU.

cancel disney+ and throw bucks at small press. buy an indie game. save your cash to help people in need. i am not asking you, i am telling you to start pirating shit again

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

One thing that bothers me tonight in particular is how so much of this is happening because of grand and sweeping capitulation by the media, by companies, by Congress, by people in power. Even when they don’t have to — they simply comply, acquiesce, and appease.

Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.

Author: "So anyone who publicly questions the life and works of the martyred patron saint of free speech is fired from their work, run out of civil society, arrested, and possibly killed." Editor: "Don't you think the satire is a LITTLE heavy-handed?"

There's no excuse for the Vice President of the United States to use a heinous killing as an occasion to baselessly frame political opponents as accomplices to murder while threatening to use the power of the government to attack them. This dangerous rhetoric will only fan the flames.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Storytime: There was a person who was incredibly nice and I thought he was a good friend, I trusted this person. He also sexually assaulted several people. Once I knew that I no longer thought him being nice to me meant he was a good person.

"This tech isn't going away!" "This is inevitable!" "Adapt or get left in the dust!" are all things we're being told by the same people who were telling us you're going to need a blockchain dingus to unlock your front door two years ago.

because they'd never fly at full staff again.

I may truly despire everything Kirk stood for but I am also a history nerd and know what happens when political violence starts ramping up.

I tried to be full-time as an artist. I got burnt out and felt guilty working on my own art instead of commissions and contract work because it didn't immediately bring in money. Now I can focus on art again without the financial stress and my art is better for it.

How many people gonna die because some women laughed at these guys‘ dicks

Gift article because I encourage everyone to read this account of SEAL Team 6 murdering a group of North Korean fishermen in a failed espionage mission that was hidden from Congress.

Seem to recall when the Biden admin was (misleadingly) accused of putting pressure on social media companies to change their editorial policies (most of which were rejected) we were told by a large segment of the population (and a few judges) that it was the worst violation of the 1st Amendment ever

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

I consume a lot of history YouTube and these things are an absolute scourge. It’s bad enough having shitty people pretend they’re historians (stay away from alt history) out there uploading, the flood of these has been nuts.

RFK Jr. is going to release a report on what he thinks are the causes of Autism Spectrum Disorder. There is reason to believe it won’t be trustworthy, so @defendpublichealth.bsky.social has released our own evidence-based report of ASD risk factors to the public. Vaccines aren’t one of them.

Correction: The military committed the extrajudicial murder of a number of civilians in international waters. Drug running is not a capital offense.

“We have observed approximately 90% of the workers targeted for terminations due to a perceived association with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are women or nonbinary,” said an attorney representing federal staffers. (Published June)

Give me the most French thing you’ve got. No, that’s too French

Oh, I have good news.

✏️ Happy Labor Day! 🖌️ Did you know that AI “art” is labor theft? Hi. I’m a professional traditional artist of over 15 years & I was able to make a decent living until 3 years ago. In May 2023, over 50 of my paintings had been scraped without my consent to fuel AI image generators like Midjourney.

It's first Monday so the night I run Vampire the Dark Ages but it's also a holiday so a lot of players weren't available. Planned a chill game for those who could play: the Toreador Chamberlain throwing a party for the domain. My players made their own drama and now there's a dead body.

Excellent. Dragon Con, like many conventions, has a no AI policy. Break it and you forfeit your spot in Artists Alley.

No it's not. Does he bear some responsibility? Yes. But saying it's all his fault excuses the actions of Trump and Republicans. Merrick Garland couldn't have fucked up the way he did if MAGA didn't exist. They have the primary blame.

I cannot recommend a cleaning buddy enough if you've got ADHD. They don't have to clean, they just have to be present to get you back on track when you get distracted. My art studio still needs work but 5 hours of cleaning got it to a stage where the art clutter isn't overwhelming anymore.

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

Oh, I eagerly await the lawsuits and hope they bankrupt Zuckerberg. Case law is pretty clear about the right of publicity.

And if you're interested in watching the time lapse, it's up on YouTube youtube.com/shorts/56-Lc...

Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.

Finished up these food studies. #digitalart #artpractice

This is the time to get Pritzker and Walz into primary shape. It's the time to put up every objection to Governor Teefs who has no principles.

Was up absurdly late last night because I hyperfocussed on doing these studies. Got to finish them today.

Maybe it's my "echo chamber" but it feels like all of the "We MUST protect children online!" people suddenly have nothing to say about a chat-bot talking a teenager into committing suicide.

We need to stop using a framework of 'ChatGPT killed someone', it feeds into the myth of the system's agency & OpenAI's framing. The right framework to use: OpenAI is continuing to perpetuate an indefinite industrial disaster. The oil pipe is not at fault when it breaks. The company that built it is