Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, government filings, essays, or, as this paper finds, lawsuits) will break under a wave of AI.
dhuartson: Don't let anyone talk you out of spending $15 on a new hobby. That $50 will be the best $400 you ever spent.
This is not wrong.
This is just to say
the desert has eaten
your trunk
that was atop
your pedestal
and which
you were probably
envisioning
as eternal
forgive me
I couldn’t look
upon your works
and despair
I mean, nobody hears about Helen Keller's political activities, just about how 'inspirational' her life was, so that's part of it too. You can't take an out of focus photograph of trees and overlay a political statement the same way you can overlay a pithy quote.
I don't know why people don't know it, but I'm guessing it's because it's more .... inspirational? not to have to consider context.
Pope Leo to inmates at Bata Prison: “No one is excluded from God's love! Whoever rises after a fall is stronger.”
Unironically I am finding this paragraph really inspiring right now??
Like, y'know that James Baldwin quote about how, oh, you think that no one in history has ever suffered the way you are suffering, and then you read?
I guess politics was always like this, huh?
NEW: On top of all the cuts to legal entries, Trump (i.e. @uscisgov.bsky.social) slashed green card approvals by ~half in an effort to boost ICE arrests of legal immigrants. USCIS has *ended* humanitarian green cards, working with ICE to arrest pending applicants. www.cato.org/blog/uscis-c...
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/...
sorry to be earnest on main, but it really is important, lol.
not to make a grand point, but “being able to handle a Look Stuff Up Guy” is the difference between a fun and healthy bullshit session and “our current HHS secretary and the three-hour podcaster dominating the charts”
Sowing/Reaping
BENNET: Do you agree that 89% of children who died from flu were unvaccinated?
RFK Jr: I don't know the exact number
BENNET: That is the exact number, Secretary Kennedy
RFK Jr: *death growls*
BENNET: You took down the HHS communications promoting the flu vaccine. Do you regret that?
Gosh who would have done that? Oh.
Obviously Bhattacharya is a hypocritical hack. That’s who he is, it’s priced in, so I’m not so angry at him. I’m mostly angry at the useful idiots who accepted and promoted the “he’s part of a new generation of freethinkers open to new ideas” bullshit.
Gosh. Who could have predicted this state of affairs? www.techdirt.com/2024/12/10/f...
*nodding* autistic mummy
Still your fault:
This is so cathartic, because this is how I want to talk to that weirdo.
Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.
And in any event that exists as a tech thing now anyway.
impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community
Ansible wasn't his (and the word was Watsonianly borrowed from Le Guin anyway). Raman/varelse, I guess.
The argument isn't just about if the numbers economists like to track *fail to capture* capture some underlying economic reality, but if those numbers which *improved from Trump 1 to Biden* are therefore completely irrelevant to economic sentiment in some way.
Because some comments make me think people missed the PSAs I do semi-regularly: if you were born before 1987, you should get a MMR booster now. The second childhood dose of MMR wasn't added until 1989, and folks who were older than 2 (the age for the 2nd) may not have gotten it.
Louis the Pious offed his remaining brothers in 811 to clear his path to succeeding Charlemagne as king of the Franks
"actually, from a constitutional perspective, who won an election is unknowable"
By Ilan Wurman
That's really interesting, especially the suspicion of motives part. I wasn't trying to say that nobody thought that way before 2020 (maybe my experience is the unusual one!) but that I don't think these were "basic liberal values", as you put it. (Again, maybe it's me.)
Is someone going to tell him that the flu killed more US troops in WWI than any battle did (and that war had chemical weapons so horrific that they were banned afterwards)?
