The defense secretary is derisively comparing the media to a maligned group of rabbinic Jews, the FBI director is denying reports of drunkenness on the job, the vice president is in a two-front theological war with the pope and Erika Kirk, Donald Trump is still president, and gas is $4. Happy Friday
The real story of smallpox vaccination begins not with Sarah Nelmes (the milkmaid in question), or Jenner, or James Phipps, or Benjamin Jesty but with Turkish folk practitioners of variolation, enslaved people like Onesimus, and Indian variolators.
There would be no vaccination without variolation.
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.
I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
appreciate Layla highlighting this.
i need people to understand that:
1) the path to positive American influence on I/P runs through people like Biss
2) it is incredibly alienating to people like me when people like Biss or his predecessor Schakowsky get monstered because they're Jews
Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.
This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.
Imagine being too imperialist/neocolonial/openly rapacious for the Catholic Church
The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
The three journalists who helped ruin Ava Cordero's life when she tried to stop Epstein in 2006 *currently* work at NBC News, New York Magazine, and News Corp Australia. The one at NBC News is covering... Epstein.
Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title…
“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”
Way to devalue my experience.
Thread of some services/software I'm using instead of various billionaire-owned surveillance/fascist/"A.i." trash products:
For my newsletters, @buttondown.com. Does the job! Great customer service - usually get personalized responses within 24 hours. (Never gonna join Substack.)
after all why not? why shouldn't I believe it's butter?
A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.
It’s my sincere religious belief that conservative Christians should be fed to lions for the amusement of crowds in sports arenas, and if you think that that’s hateful, then you’re not respecting my free speech and may be instigating violence against me.
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
A Dershowitz bag lunch special capping a day that started with Cheney dying and saw Mamdani win would have to go down as the first good day of year
This is a table attempting to explain why a NO Kings protest is necessary in a country that doesn’t have a King. Grievances from the Declaration of Independance are in one column and the second column is a partial list/reason for saying he is displaying similar behavior as King George III. This is a screen shot of the table and it is followed by 4 more screen shots of the table. Section 1/5
Table on grievances in Declaration of Independence continued. Section 2/5
Table on grievances in Declaration of Independence continued. 3/5
Table on grievances in Declaration of Independence continued. Section 4/5
So many on the right don’t understand why this protest is called “No Kings”. The list of grievances from the Declaration of Independence is in one column, followed by a partial list of ways Trump is similar. If you have better examples than ones listed here, you can include them in replies.
Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.
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Jesus christ.
I am so tired and so disappointed.
All these people went "yeah, I'll take an audio book paycheck over solidarity with trans lives, that's cool."
Every single one should be ashamed.
Why are the accents in the Thunderbolts movie so bad
once again tapping the sign
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
Plantation Barbie 2.0?
then die
And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...
