We thought about making an April Fools joke, but there's so much medical misinformation out there we didn't want to risk accidentally making it worse. Instead, here are some tips for avoiding being fooled by misinformation any day of the year.

This is something tech people don't grasp about nonfiction writing: the process of deep research, of deciding which little details are interesting or which obscure anecdotes have historical value, is all part of the creative work of writing. It's not grunt work. It can't just be automated.

“As more people experiment with generative AI as a search tool, mistakes like these can damage reader trust when they believe they are going with a publisher’s top pick—and then purchasing a TV that’s not even part of their recommendations.” www.wired.com/story/i-aske...

My dude out here floormaxxing

Black Sinners fans, please consider submitting all of your brilliant essay ideas to this call for abstracts by Friday, May 15, 2026, as this looks like it will be an amazing Sinners Reader: The Blues, Black Horror, and the Jim Crow South anthology, as edited by Black English prof, DuEwa M. Frazier!🔥

That’s one hell of a cover…..

This is cool, and I don’t think it’s helpful to describe it as merely “accidental”

Even the most LLM-pilled people I know think Copilot is garbage.

Visiting the Steiff Museum today! 🧸 When Margarete Steiff made her first little elephant in 1880, she unknowingly sparked a global phenomenon: the world of plush toys. Born in 1847 and living with the effects of polio, Margarete defied expectations of her time to found what became...🧵1/2 📷 me

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

It’s the last day of the month! Rent is due TOMORROW and we at StandWithMinnesota.com currently have zero donors. ICE is still here, and there is still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and help if you can! Thank you! 💐

Off the record, just for y'all here on bluesky, my work crows caught me literally an hour ago trying to sneak out to the parking garage without peanuts. It ended up costing me an energy bar.

“Have you developed bonds with many crows at your home and on campus?”

The fact that RFK Jr. doesn’t want people to take the measles vaccine but is encouraging people to inject this shit tells you all you need to know.

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

Or, ooh ooh ooh, you ready to learn about a Filipino pronoun with origins in CUSTOMER SERVICE?

til The Snorks were a ripoff of The Smurfs??

They’ll get stuck in an infinite loop in the very first meeting

Suddenly wondering if AI code tools are effective because of focus as much as skill. Hook them up to Slack and make them attend meetings and then see how they compare to the humans.

I think efficiency might actually suck and we might all be better served by the belief that dying before we are "done" isn't something to avoid but a rather lovely universal outcome.

vicious 😂

do not taunt Happy Fun Ball

So fucking funny to sell this to big businesses and world governments

trump rolling up to scotus like "don't forget i own you" and then scotus going "yessir" right after 8 million people marched lmao that would be amazing. anyways, someone's already drafting the constitution of the Second Republic right

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

they really don’t know what existential dread means huh

if you think your job sucks, remember the turnspit dog

this is really bad

NEW: Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided personal data for ICE tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target.

Some of my neighbors have begun wearing kn95s as a “hack” during pollen season, which is interesting. I can only hope that they start to realize it’s also so, so worth it to do this in relation to respiratory disease spread too—even if the effects are not always as immediate and obvious.

Wearing a mask is such a simple way to protect your health in crowded indoor spaces, especially high-risk places like hospitals. It still blows me away how many people would rather get sick over & over again & potentially get long-term health issues from COVID & more, rather than wear a simple mask.

Is it #TransDayOfVisibility Celebrating with short thread of historic trans slavs 🏳️‍⚧️🥟 Starting with Czechoslovak transman, Zdeněk Koubek (1913–1986). Olympic golden medallist, caught in crosshairs of Nazis weeding out "hermaphrodites" from the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

If you're a writer who can't be bothered to write, you can be sure that this reader won't bother reading (or paying for) your "writing".

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.

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

Continuing to marvel at how generous a lot of dystopian sci-fi has been. Can’t remember any set dressing that portrayed the hellworld security robots functioning on the same level as a poorly maintained fast food drivethru speaker complete with poorly trained worker

BREAKING: Judge Richard Leon enjoins Trump ballroom construction in suit by National Trust for Historic Preservations. Order stayed for 14 days to allow for appeal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

a harbinger of how even the more successful efforts to undo all this damage using standard, traditional methods will not be enough

Remember when they made these things do the stupid little cute dance to try and lull people into thinking they wouldn’t be policing, harassing, and carrying invasive cameras or guns in the near future.

In Atlanta:

On trans day of visibility, I always want to acknowledge those who can't be visible. Because it's not safe, they're not ready, or they're still figuring it out. Whatever the reason, whatever amount of visibility: you are valid, you deserve joy, you are loved. <3

Gilead has a drug that could prevent HIV with just 2 injections a year. MSF said "we'll buy it name your price." Gilead said no. Let that sink in. Pharmacological innovation without access for those who need it does not accomplish its potential. www.eatg.org/hiv-news/pre...

I hope this joke doesn’t bug you

“We have long challenged Gilead’s pricing practices, but their outright refusal to sell lenacapavir is deeply troubling,” Doctors Without Borders officials wrote in an open letter…It also called the restrictions “unconscionable,” given public funding contributed to the development of the medicine”

Banging on this that batteries met up to 44% of demand on the CA grid yesterday, roughly equivalent to 6 hoover dams. Cheap batteries are powering the grid. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicola...

Disturbing. This study suggests that just one encounter with a syncophantic chatbot tends to "erode prosocial motivations," even for sophisticated users.