So glad for my FloMask rn. Had to take partner to the ER (he's mostly fine) but at least I'm not feeling like I wanna rip my mask/face off after 20 mins like other masks.

While camera-based speed and red light enforcement are great and speed governors will help stop the worst repeat offenders, what we really need is for the police to actually enforce basic traffic laws like “you have to actually stop at stop signs and red lights” and “your car needs license plates.”

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

Here's a teenager who understands that bicycles deliver the freedom that auto ads promise.

Every ad now

The weird reality of 'rare' diseases is that almost everyone knows someone who is affected by one. 1 in 10 people in the US, and *at least* 1 in 20 globally, will have a rare disease during their lifetime.

I don’t have much hope, but if any story will break through… Bigger issue is evangelicals’ problems are literally fundamental www.npr.org/2023/08/05/1...

If you find yourself thinking "cyclists don't belong on the road" then the logical corollary of that is to support safe, separated cycling infrastructure. But in my experience it is often the same people who vociferous oppose cycling infrastructure who also abuse cyclists for riding on the road.

Since Bluesky gets to control the convo and Sarah can't post while she's suspended, here's her side of things:

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I'm just a delicate garment in a machine wash world

“OpenAI argued its AI models didn’t store/copy specific training data but, rather, reflected what they learned based on the entire training data set. Since the output was generated as a result of user inputs (prompts), it wasn’t the defendants, but the respective user who would be liable for it.”

As an autistic person: I’m able to engage in small talk, just not well. I WILL leave bad impressions, despite what some allistic people are claiming (I have 31 more years experience in this than you). Small talk is more about non-verbal communication than even other forms of conversation.

The next time someone calls cyclists entitled this article will be the first thing I share velo.outsideonline.com/news/tesla-d...

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

we found the origins for the logic behind the waffles tweet. jfc

My daughter was really struggling with her reading. In grade 2, I ignored the schools reading system and started doing phonics with her at home. Suddenly knew how to read. Books became fun and not a cause for tears and frustration. Literacy died the moment the schools turned away from phonics.

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

Konstanz, Túbingen and Heidelberg are all lovely places to live.

if you voted in Seattle you gotta make sure your ballot counted now

Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.

The thing is like if we want to fight back against prudery and sex negativity we also have to stop referring to stuff as 'gooner art' and accept that nsfw shit that reads as 'for the male gaze' has as much a right to exist as your favourite yaoi

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to "help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

Please someone write this story so I can forward to friends: what Google AI has done to smaller media websites, that is, Google Zero. Anecdote: was having someone over, said I'd made a green tomato chutney w/ last of my tomatoes, she said she asked ChatGPT and it recommended a couple of cheeses. 1/

New York AG James said she's received complaints of stores in her state refusing EBT cards and has already sent out several cease and desist letters. Stores are not allowed to refuse SNAP benefits. If this happens to you, call the AG's hotline to report at 1-800-771-7755.

Does anyone else want a crack at this? I was getting paid $19/hour and paying child support.

Something I'm more broadly concerned about is charity fatigue. The asks being made of all of us by nonprofits are not going to decrease as time goes. People are being hit from all sides and both money and time for most people are finite. Which is why I'm tapping this sign from a few hours ago...

Urbanist knitters, I need you to know about these mittens: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

I never realized how much of our system runs on good faith and responsibility, rather than strongly enforced structure.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

One of the most important provisions of the ACA was eliminating pre-existing conditions exclusions from insurance plans. Folks need to be reminded that if the ACA goes away, so does that provision.

Anti-bike lane sentiment is totally irrational, it’s people imagining a person they don’t like who bikes and getting mad at them.

I have to confess "your browser's AI can be made to steal your banking info via prompt injection because it runs with full privileges and treats all text as equally authoritative sources of instructions, including the text of pages it's summarising" is more surprising to me than it should have been.

I want to send you a FREE signed copy of one of my books. Lots of food insecure people are about to lose SNAP benefits. Donate $36 or more to any food insecure person and I will mail your FREE signed copy anywhere in the continental US. Email your receipt to [email protected]!

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

Re-sharing because this guide has now been updated to include local restaurants offering free meals. Please share widely if you are in Northeastern Massachusetts! ne-arc.org/wp-content/u...

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

It has begun. And even the Jeopardy ads on Hulu are for fancy fake Xmas trees already

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

"Petro-masculinity" is such a good phrase.

Hey, friends! Christine isn't able to Door Dash rn & needs $246 tomorrow to pay for the app fee & phones. Landlord is working w/them. Moved in today. Even if she picks up more hours at Quik Trip, she won't get paid soon enough. Pls share this and give, if you can. Thanks!! spot.fund/22j3vcmsc

someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES

"We've all starting talking like robots" Speak for yourself. Some of us are not "we," because we don't use the giant environment-destroying rape culture theft machine.

Nothing to see here, literally! Just 6ft me standing, you read that right, standing upright in front of a truck. @thewaroncars.bsky.social

ADHD friendos, CHECK YOUR MEDS. You may only have the manufacturer on your pill bottle, so check that for "Sun"

Repair Video xkcd.com/3163/

Today someone was telling me how bad socialism is, and then later was lamenting how SNAP and Medicaid are under attack. I think a lot of people truly don't realize what socialism is other than a boogeyman they've been conditioned to hate.

Meet your inner cat 🐾Please open thread scroll through, if you’d like to know your inner cat according to your birth month 🐈‍⬛