NEW: The naysayers said there were no good uses for AI, but as @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social explain, it actually appears to be pretty good at letting North Korean hackers inept enough to expose the prompts they used to "write" their malware steal millions in crypto.
SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
They can't even do their *fake* math right. They want to claim that if increasing from X to Y is an increase of Z%, then dropping from Y to X is a decrease of Z% (it's not). But 600% of 10 is 60, not 600.
Not even if you use the stupid way of calculation they do. They want to claim that if going from X to Y is an increase of Z%, then going from Y to X is a reduction of Z% (which is not the case). But here, 600% of 10 is 60, not 600. So they can't even do fake math right.
Remember, these are the guys trying to take over the Fed...
we all know I have no life, so:
As the ladies of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social said, the amounts of attacks show what invaluable scholarship you provide. Thank you
BREAKING: A federal appeals court has upheld a Texas law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom.
Students' right to be free from religious indoctrination is protected by the Constitution. We won't stop fighting.
"We will provide cheap healthcare to those who don't need healthcare, and provide no healthcare to people who need it." That's one way to make sure that those who pay for healthcare pay low prices, I guess... but it's also Eugenics AF.
Nice easter egg about "Parks and Recreations"!
Is this, in addition to being one of (or *the*) least productive Congresses, also one that has had the most members resigning under an ethics/scandal cloud? Three in just the past couple of weeks...
I still went out of my way to get it (and the "Returning Favorites" companion) in 2022...
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
To explain the hallucinations? I mean, if the agentic ai is high...
I guess someone was high when they came up with this?
For the next Hell episode:
@emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social
I was hoping for this! Now just need @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @mjsdc.bsky.social to discuss it as a chaser this weekend...
It's exclusively for use in April, May, and June; or in September, October, and November?
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"There ought to be a law" pales in comparison with "There ought to be a Congress"... This is literally stealing from nation's coffers to benefit himself.
Very happy to know we'll have the benefit of your takes!
The national media is eating up this report as justification for perpetuating the lie that universities themselves - as opposed to decades of attacks from the far right authoritarian party - are responsible for eroding trust in higher education. You can almost hear them salivating at the chance.
These are the guys who go around saying that the Establishment Clause was only meant to keep the State out of the Church, but not to keep the Church out of the State. Now that the shoe is on the other foot they complain about the Church opining about the State, and tell the State to go after Church.
Brewster's Millions taught us it was hard to just give away a fortune...
A researcher says she made up a disease with two posts on Medium, which led to Copilot telling users it was "intriguing and relatively rare." Posting two preprint papers about it online led to ChatGPT diagnosing people with it. 🧪
skepchick.org/2026/04/chat...
DOJ released a report claiming the Biden administration “weaponized” it when it prosecuted violations of a law that prohibits violence, threats, intimidation or obstruction used to prevent people from entering reproductive health clinics. That report, debunked here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Ah, the text of the law says the commission begins functions in January 2029. It's definitely not about getting rid pf Trump, it's about setting up the Commission for the future.
Days after the president blasted the Pope as “weak on Crime,” his own DOJ moved to dismiss criminal cases against individuals convicted of conspiring to use force to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
Some of the conduct for which Rhodes was convicted:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/oath...
The message this sends is that if you plan violent acts on behalf of President Trump, he will do everything in his power to make sure you see no consequences.
GOVT ASKS DC CIRCUIT TO VACATE CONVICTIONS AND REMAND FOR DISMISSAL IN OATH KEEPERS AND PROUD BOYS CASES. Stewart Rhodes, Ethan Nordean, everybody. ...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
