We found out completely unrelated to our own actions, that our kid can say “bubble”?! Miss Rachel was doing bubbles and he breaks out the word like it’s nothing. Daycare, man! We’ve never done bubbles with him at home 🙈 (now we have because how can you not blow 🫧 when your 13 mo old says “bu-bo”)

I can't even express how important it is to see someone who was willing to give up the thing she was best at, that some would say she was born to do. To only come back when she could love it again, and do it on her own terms. And then win a gold medal BECAUSE she found the joy and the fun in it.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

We have AI but I still can’t get the labcorp link to just give me a copy and paste edit of a lab trend I want to document in my note, or combine quest and labcorp labs and other 3rd party labs into the same trend graph

while I wish we too had Consequences For Horrifying Crimes over here, Andrew and Trump are like the two most famous, powerful and well-protected men in that whole file and it’s impossible for this not to change the math completely. other men will be afraid today who weren’t yesterday

Rest in power, Virginia Giuffre. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Librarian here. We grant library cards to ALL residents, no matter their age or legal status. Our ID requirements pertain to establishing residency only. Do not invoke libraries, which embrace *everyone* in its civic fold, as a precedent for measures designed to *suppress* civic participation.

“Aspires to be a stupider version of stock footage” is a pretty dead-on description of a lot of this stuff. This all reminds me of how one of the things Theranos was accused of was pretending their machines were doing bloodwork when it was just standard lab testing and bleep-blorp marketing.

To be fair Brazil and South Korea cracked down on Yoon and Bolsonaro *precisely because* they have been dictatorships in living memory, and the UK monarchy let itself be investigated like this *because* other monarchies collapsed. Assuming your institutions are unimpregnable per se... not so smart

It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.

An office where he had no important duties, powers, or responsibilities

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

I encourage everyone to read Virginia Giuffre's memoir, Nobody’s Girl, published posthumously in October 2025, and to share it with others. The best way to honour her legacy is to believe & support sexual abuse survivors, and amplify their voices above the power & wealth that seeks to silence them.

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

The British monarchy is more accountable to the public than the American presidency.

Anyway, every time another person who is not Donald Trump gets arrested for something is just another reminder that Chief Justice John Roberts and his lawless Supreme Court majority are the most notorious aiders and abettors of crime and corruption in our nation's history.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

good thing so many schools over-complied in advance🙃

Lots of people lost their jobs over this. Students lost badly needed resources. And the people who got f’d over were disproportionately already marginalized, underpaid & trying harder than they should’ve had to just to do their jobs in environments that were uncaring at best if not outright hostile

It speaks volumes how many institutions were all too happy to boot these people and programs the second there was even a fragile, unpopular, dubiously legal “reason” blithely handed down from a deeply corrupt admin.

It’s really just a cycle of seeing people react to something that ICE does to the people they imprison and thinking “this is something that prison abolitionists have been specifically warning about for decades”

I have been saying this for almost a year and it is long past due for Dems to adopt this framing for 2 reasons: 1) it is entirely and demonstrably true. 2) the public must be prepared for the enormity of what will be required to dismantle the criminal organization and create a better democracy.

“AI can make mistakes” might as well be the slogan of our era. Even boosters admit that you need to spin the vibe code slot machine a few times to get a jackpot. An employee with that degree of consistency would be fired. So how do we redirect some of that unlimited grace from machines to humans?

“A pneumatic tube system today for a new hospital… is like putting a washing machine or a central AC system in a new home. It just makes too much sense to not do it” www.tubetalk.media/p/pneumatic-...

It is absolutely a choice.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

American culture from 1776 on was Black, was Indigenous, was Spanish, was Jewish, was Quaker, was a whole lot of different things which then often got together and made splendidly non-European things, and most of our music has an African mother.

you should replace “used an llm” with “hired a guy on fiverr” and see if the idea’s still good if you have a set of systems in place and granular enough tasks that are fuzzy enough where fudging it is still better than nothing, yeah it might be fine — in respect of quality — to use an llm to do it

the closer kids are to teenagers the more effective this is try saying "6-7" to a 13 year old and watch them wither and die inside

Remember: In the prevaccine era, measles would peak in late winter- early spring. Don’t be surprised if in the next few weeks we see a surge www.aol.com/articles/us-...

I’m supposed to “build my own gem” Meanwhile I don’t even trust AI to touch my spreadsheets because AI can’t do math I don’t know if people even fully understand what they mean when they something now has AI-infused technology. Like does anyone understand how it actually works.

Super fun to sit in an all company all-hands meeting hearing about how the market is fully behind AI-centered healthcare models and they are actively working to integrate more AI into our daily tasks. While also knowing the reports coming out that show AI tools still constantly under perform

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

The relevancy of it all.

The annual HIPAA training I have to do and the time I was literally given a written final warning at a job for “breaking HIPAA” (I didn’t) by looking at MY OWN medical records is SCREAMING at this blatant violation by our government. Can someone give them a written final warning please?

Here is the meat of it: "Defendants chose to operate a detention facility, so 'they must meet constitutional standards.'"

This sentence will be repeated by courts supervising all the warehouses ICE is buying, more often than it should have to be.

for those of you who don’t know, the French team is made up of an emotional abuser and a woman who actively defends her rapist boyfriend they are dreadful and nobody should celebrate this medal

Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized. And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

Anyway wanna see what Olympic champion same sex ice dance looks like? Of course you do. m.youtube.com/watch?v=TRTL...

ISU: anyway this pair that has absolutely thrown victims under the bus and threatened people who speak publicly? Throw all the levels you can at them. Gold medal.

I’m a no on Cizeron.

whatever there is to say about what’s getting thrown in the bucket called AI, I can’t get past how it has been forced on us, breaking things that work. And given the state of things, I need tools that work. There’s no time to waste on something that maybe might work (enrich someone else, poison us).

This article immediately labels @emilymbender.bsky.social and I as "curmudgeons" because we don't think that the spicy auto complete has a concept of the self.

I'm grateful that Kyle surfaced all these extraordinary opinions slamming the Trump administration for the illegal detention of immigrants. This one leaps out in part because the judge is warning us that abuses being inflicted on immigrants now are a preview of what could be unleashed on citizens.

Constantly feel like I’m crazy for wanting technology to just do what I’ve told it to do, instead of being just unpredictable but overly-confident random output. This has been the constant battle between forced AI-scribe adoption at my workplace while I’ve been kept from macros/smart phrases.

If they're going to make me teach AI, they're going to get my version of AI

I’m so sick of “it’d still be worse without it” or “it’s no different than risk of human error” takes on AI bs. Maybe actually it is worse with it and forced adoption of new technology is a pretty clear signal it’s not actually progress.

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...