Or we could end societal transphobia, Brianna

there are now hunger strikes in at least two immigrant prisons: North Lake here in MI and Moshannon in PA.

folks inside in PA say one of their comrades vomited a nasty green and guards told them it was just a cold.

folks in MI are talking about months in prison with no idea what's happening.

My favorite quote involves directly telling the LLM that it doesn’t have access to the images and must guess: “Explicit guessing appears to engage a more conservative response regime, in contrast to the mirage regime in which models behave as though images have been provided,” the researchers wrote.

Frontier AI Models Are Doing Something Absolutely Bizarre When Asked to Diagnose Medical X-Rays Frontier AI models generated "detailed image descriptions and elaborate reasoning traces" without ever seeing the images.

“The number one [takeaway] would be that just because the AI is saying, very convincingly, that it is seeing something, it doesn’t mean that it is actually seeing that.”

Holy fucking shit, just use humans.

Post from headquarters news.bsky.social with video from Tucker Carlson and the text “Tucker Carlson: I'll be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. We're implicated in this. I misled people.”

if you post this clip, you should also post clips from the same episode of him saying the 2020 election was stolen, the civil rights movement was “disgusting,” and trump can’t be racist bc he has sex with black women.

tucker didn’t have a change of heart over trump; he had a change in strategy

Last One Laughing. A group of comedians have to last 6 hours without laughing. Anyone who laughs gets kicked out of the group. The UK versions are better than the US version, but they are absolutely LOL material as you watch people try to refrain from reacting to genuinely ludicrous material.

To me it’s more like a social lubricant issue. I don’t ask for or expect smiles, life is hard. But a simple “Thank you” or “There may be a short wait” when checking in is the kind of ack that makes people feel seen. But I give massive leeway to anyone dealing with hordes, like ER or airport check in

And thus the difference between Gen X and Gen Z. There have been at least two generations of kids (maybe more) who were raised with being polite as an option, not an expectation. What I would have preferred is you don’t have to hug every relative, you should politely greet those entering your home.

I don't think handing the parking lot attendant my ticket is the most thrilling experience of my life, but I still smile and say thank you because I'm not a fucking sociopath

For goodness sake, he’s not naming and shaming, he’s bitching about a less than pleasant interaction.

I’ll agree that expectations in Europe (+ elsewhere) aren’t what they are in the US for f2f customer service, but one can counteract the distant stare with an, oh, good to see you again comment delivered in a neutral tone. It’s hard to cope with seeming resentment that checking in is an imposition

Shed - a short film by Stephanie Jeter In this mysterious tale, a couple’s relationship is tested by the big shed in the room.

my pal @stephaniejeter.bsky.social is pulling together the funds for a cool and emotional short about grief, loss, time and space.
if youve got the means, supporting art is a good way to counteract all this horrifying unmaking we're in midst of.

On Earth Day: environmental investigations can be tough and take time, skills and persistence —but they are possible, and they matter. Here are some tools and resources our team has used in investigations to track wildlife trade, wildfires, and oil spills… 🧵

Incredible thread. The level of in person community-building and mutual aid that came out Minneapolis is unprecedented in modern American times.

Black-and-white oval studio portrait from 1865, taken by the renowned French photographer Nadar, depicts Clémence Royer (1830–1902), the pioneering French intellectual, philosopher, economist, anthropologist, and feminist best known for producing the first French translation of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species in 1862. In the image, the thirty-five-year-old Royer is shown in a classic three-quarter pose, her head turned slightly toward the viewer with a calm, intelligent, and resolute expression—her gaze direct and thoughtful, lips closed in a subtle, serious line. Her dark hair is parted severely in the center and styled in an elegant, thick curl that falls over her right shoulder. She rests her cheek on her left hand in a contemplative gesture, elbow presumably supported just out of frame, conveying quiet intellectual depth. She wears a dark, richly textured 19th-century dress with a high lace-trimmed collar, elaborate lace cuffs, and a prominent circular medallion or brooch pinned at the throat. A wide decorative belt or sash accents her waist, completing the refined yet serious attire typical of an independent woman of letters in mid-19th-century France.

Clémence Royer was French self-taught #polymath born #OTD in 1830.

+ Best known for producing the first French translation of Charles Darwin’s 𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴
+ First woman elected to the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 1870 & remained its only female member for ~15 years

#WomenInSTEM

You know how sometimes you don’t drink enough fluids and you wait a really long time to pee, and your pee sinks to the bottom of the toilet bowl in a concentrated pool of urine that has a specific gravity about 3x that of water and doesn’t really dilute itself into the bowl. Yeah, that happened.

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.

You have to be a certain age for it to immediately spring to mind.

Absolutely possible it was July. I was traveling so much at that time and we got weird warnings about different countries all the time. But this one was so specific, a concern about flights, and so vague at the same time that it stood out, particularly in retrospect.

An image of the Rick Steves Guidebook Page Binder in action.

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As was revealed that they heard the implosion of the Titan submersible when it happened but didn’t share that info with the searchers until after it was found.

That would piss off Ghislaine so much. She wanted that baby.

They will pay for Mounjaro but the studies show it’s not effective to switch between the two. I would take Zep if I had the money.

I can never prove this, but I was on a State notification list and I swear there was a vague warning about something to do with planes in late August 2001 but it wasn’t actionable. Never was able to find it again.

My doctor and I talked about a change but because I have diabetes Medicare won’t cover it and I’m poor these days. But I’ll take Ozempic forever because of the heart, liver, and kidney protection it offers. I take forever meds for asthma, it’s no different in my mind.

Jessy Blackburn #aviation pioneer #pilot #business
#WomenInSTEM #engineer #STEM #science
#CelebratingWomen #woman #WomenInBusiness

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Book cover of Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot Diaries #6) by Martha Wells. A spaceman robot stands in front of a 6-armed larger robot.

Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot Diaries #6) by Martha Wells interweaves a well plotted murder #mystery with #SciFi as our favorite Sec unit plays Poirot. #audiobooks #BookSky 💙📚

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Anyone who visited the following locations during any of the listed dates and hours may have been exposed: Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport’s Customs federal inspection station in the international terminal arrivals area, and lower level international bag claim area, on April 12, 2026 from 7:50 - 10:30 p.m. FastMed Urgent Care (2827 Smith Ave. Baltimore, MD), on April 14, 2026 from 5 - 8 p.m., and on April 17, 2026 from 12 - 3:30 p.m. Sinai Hospital’s emergency department main waiting area and pediatric emergency department, on April 17, 2026 from 3:30 - 7:10 p.m.​

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Fashion in full force at the SF Cherry Blossom Festival 2026 7/14 3 red Shibas on leashes wearing colorful Japanese robes

One of the Shibas in a beautiful green floral robe

Black and sesame Shiba in a blue Japanese robe. The Shiba is tall and slender and looks tres chic

there was a Shiba parade in San Francisco and all the shibas wore yukatas it’s too much

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