Public health experts have been begging news outlets to stop using needle shots because a quarter of Americans have needlephobia and will avoid getting vaccinated because of it and these images feed into it... and yet we (as an industry) still keep using them
Image of a book entitled End Times Fascism - and the fight for the living world. A wide burst on a yellow background with red letters.
One year after our original Guardian essay, Naomi Klein and I are excited to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. It will be on bookshelves on September 15th and is available for pre-order. More details below. bit.ly/4cbLfEr
Wow!!!
'A new water-based, eco-friendly battery based on tofu brine.'
It is important to note that battery breakthroughs like this seem to happen all the time in academia, but not all “make it” to market.
interestingengineering.com/energy/china...
No need for deep sea mining
China’s water battery breakthrough can last 120,000+ cycles, outlast lithium-ion by decades
Chinese scientists unveil a non-toxic, water-based battery that delivers over 120,000 cycles without fire risks of lithium-ion systems
interestingengineering.com/energy/china...
CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao
Happening now: a small protest at O'Hare is marching through terminal 1 this evening outside Chicago.
ICE agents have been spotted inside the airport all week.
Folks chanting, "ICE out of O'Hare! ICE out of everywhere!"
I looked into if Medicaid-funded providers who oversee disabled people living independently are ready for worsening climate events. The support they need from the federal government isn’t there, and it’s worsened under Trump. My latest for @motherjones.com.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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As a cis woman it is hard to find the words to articulate how I feel about my safety being used as a pretence for this egregious bullying of children
the cruelty. ffs these are *children* and this is trauma
As ICE continues to intimidate and violently assault people without provocation protests like the one seen here, outside of airports, need to continue until ICE withdraws!
Credits: @atlantanewsfirst IG
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has issued a rare condemnation of the U.S. over Trump’s “disastrous” war on Iran, saying that it causes an irreparable rupture with the U.S. akin to Germany’s rupture with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
Goldman Sachs reports that 300 million full-time jobs could be replaced by AI by 2030. Labor turnover is high and hiring has slowed. 71% of Americans worry that AI will cause permanent job loss. As young people about to enter the workforce for the first time, the fear of unemployment is understandable, but we cannot save ourselves with the very tool that is putting us at risk. The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship. Editorials represent the majority view of members of The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board who meet regularly to discuss issues relevant to the Penn community. This body is led by Editorial Board Chair Jack Lakis and is entirely separate from the newsroom. Questions or comments should be directed to letters@thedp.com.
An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it.
From the Penn student paper:
www.thedp.com/article/2026...
I wonder how much of some people's discomfort with "eugenics was a science, and framing it as outside the histories of science is dangerous" is because they need to believe in science as moral/good.
Ive yet to meet a historian who would believe this, though (I am happy to be corrected).
She's right, and she should say it. Bluntly: people do not know how to criticize the scientific process and scientists specifically without pretending that modern normative science isn't really, really fucking racist, sexist, ableist, and riddled with bigotry of all flavors.
The Sora implosion is the first big breakthrough moment with AI that gives Metaverse vibes, or at the very least Dot Com Bubble vibes.
the first domino to fall in the ai bubble
NEW: The California AG has asked a court to immediately pause a Republican county sheriff’s investigation into last year’s redistricting referendum election, arguing his seizure of more than 650,000 ballots “threatens to create a dangerous precedent.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
“It’s inevitable” “you can’t roll it back” “you just have to accept it”
BREAKING: A New Mexico jury found Meta violated state law in a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general, who accused the company of misleading users about the safety of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and of enabling child sexual exploitation on those platforms reut.rs/3Pr7oHe
BREAKING: New Mexico jury finds that Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp are harmful to children's mental health and orders Meta to pay a $375 million penalty.
📣NO KINGS IS THIS SATURDAY 3/28
SO many reasons to go!
-Iran war
-ICE terror+prison camps
-voter suppression
-airport chaos
-zero! net job creation in 6 mos
-skyrocketing healthcare/food/gas costs
-zomg corruption
-Epstein files
-on & on & on
🧵tips, tricks, trainings, etc
First: Find your event ⬇️
This! 👇🏽 I've quite literally lost count of the number of medical terms that we are renaming so they are not named after the nazi doctors that discovered them...
"eugenics and scientific or medical racism etc wasn't real science™"
Be for real, come on.
Science has always been part of heinous things, was implicated in and facilitated colonization, slavery, the Holocaust more. All of this IS part of the story of science.
WHY are you sanitizing this?
"Gen AI is good for accessibiwity" not the current one, actually. On the other hand, telling autistic people to rely on a machine that lies to them is actually a really funny appeal to accessibility to defend Gen AI use.
Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff
And what I’m calling “opportunity theft” is the theft of someone’s future and their potential by means of robbing them of appreticeship, menteeship, and experience now. Using AI to perform the tasks that students and trainees do in the early phases of training and education is opportunity theft.
There are hundreds of reasons to be against GenAI. Here is YET ANOTHER that I think lots of people haven't considered.
