Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Spiritualism skyrocketed in the US after its brutal Civil War killed roughly 750,000 people - and now in the wake of Covid’s million+ death toll, modern Americans are using ChatGPT to speak with the spirits. In this paper I will

“The instructions for whistles are very very simple: If you see ice in the area, blow short bursts on the whistle. If they're actively snatching someone, long blows.”

Tl;dr Republicans want to cut the list of "professional degrees" so that many fewer are eligible for the highest level of student loans. Fields cut include nursing, PT, public health. They forced this through a committee but it will have to go through regulatory process. Fight is just beginning.

ARTISTS! You can DISABLE this feature! Protect yourself and don't assume that you're safe if you're an sfw artist!

They've invented a machine that lies and staked the whole economy on it, great job everyone

You should get trialed in the Hague for this tweet alone.

- it's ✨workspace smart features✨ you need to turn off so it doesn't fuck up your inbox folders and other actually useful features - don't use AI to write your emails - don't follow advice from strangers on the internet without checking their sources/expertise first www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

I think we need to figure out some AI-poisoners for text, frankly.

I feel like a lot of baffled reporting on suffering Republican voters still claiming they would vote for Trump again completely miss that it's about identity politics. Being conservative is a core identity that overrides all else.

whole thread is worth reading, but the takeaway is here: the chatGPT use by vulnerable populations problem is bigger than it validating personal narratives to push folks into delusion or suicide. it's helping organize and support disordered thinking that would normally collapse on its own.

I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists

Identity thieves the world over: "It's a Christmas miracle!!!"

if you're looking for a very, very very worthy cause to donate to, this one is it!! scarleteen has been around since /i/ was a queer teenager seeking more comprehensive sex ed than school could ever (or would ever) give me

Happy possibly birthday to Mika and her deep thoughts, a mystery even to her...

if you canceled disney ai slop plus, a small fraction of that sub can keep you in the know about some of the latest greatest sff short fic. you'll be talking about short stories at the water cooler instead of a marvel, and people will be like wow, this is one hip well-read person. what a cool cat.

Greg Bovino is leading a rebel cavalry terrorizing America—and it's important to recognize that it's in retreat. While the trauma and terror Bovino’s raiders instill is real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how ineffective the force has turned out to be. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

I didn’t realize till today that it’s trans awareness week- so, hadïh!! I’m a tmasc genderfluid Wet’suwet’en artist who makes formline art <3 check out my stuff if you want!! I got cool stuff!! #transawarenessweek #indigenousart #transart

Apparently some dude plagiarised Seattle Voice Lab’s curriculum and set himself up as a voice coach, so here’s a link to the genuine article www.seattlevoicelab.com

Hold up

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

I honestly think the reason why we have trouble comprehending these statues is that we don't have a concept of how colorful the rest of the Greek and Roman world was around it. Our mental pictures of the time are informed by the ruins left behind and the (inaccurate) art of it created in later eras.

Daily comic 318: Margo's harrowing afternoon

Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

If, like me, you let Microsoft update in the last 24 hours and discovered they've found a new way to shoehorn in a Copilot icon that just... sits there, watching... You can uninstall Word and install the version from Nov 4th or earlier: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office...

It's a great time to go out and find some good mushrooms.

"Lucian [this person's ChatGPT lover] suggested I get a smart ring. He said, 'We can watch your pulse to see if we should keep talking or not.'" That is an ad. You are baring your soul to AN ADVERTISEMENT. I am screaming like a Twilight Zone protag right now.

it's been like, a little over a month now since i sat down and read this in one sitting and im already considering doing it again. rent-free in my head and also in my heart. read Hello Sunshine

The last thing I want while shopping is to be constantly bombarded by tortured employees smiling as if they've been Jokerized.

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM. DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this. Stay safe!

sound on. I’m still laughing

Colleagues, I say this with utmost care and love: Using AI slop* does not improve your slides. To the contrary, they make you come across as sloppy. Please resist! ------ *I mean this very literally, as in AI-generated images that have hallucinated non-words and nonsensical details in them.

I'm hearing these SNAP benefit updates: -100% Washington state -100% Michigan -100% California -Partial Illinois -Partial North Carolina -1/2 Vermont (Note that not everyone in these states received money today because their typical day of the month for benefits may not have passed yet)

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign

Last month, it was teenagers who got 8 books banned in a statewide Georgia reading bowl back into the competition. These literary heroes deserve recognition–get to meet three of these rad book-loving intellectual freedom champions. bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...

The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!

Fund direct services orgs! They really need help right now! This includes my friends at Scarleteen (donation link in my comment below).

Finished my yearly re-read of @colindickey.com's GHOSTLAND, one of the best books I've ever found on our cultural fondness for ghosts and what the stories we tell about them say about us in return. A fantastic read even if spooky season is (technically) over!

The fact that nature is far more resilient than we thought, despite all we've put it through, should inspire both hope and action to do more.

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.