This isn't the movie I bought a ticket for...

mRNA vaccines continue to show major promise.

In a small Phase 1 trial led by Dr. Balachandran, some patients with pancreatic cancer (one of the deadliest cancers) reached 6-year survival.

This is why sustained investment in science & research matters.

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Whenever I encounter someone who believes in using the Oxford comma, I find myself encouraged, delighted, and hopeful.

for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.

My painting NORTHERN LAKE

Lady knight sketch:

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:

Paramount+
CBS
CNN
Showtime
HBO
Warner Bros
TNT
TBS
MTV
DC Studios
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Cartoon Network
And more...

This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.

State AGs must step in and block it.

Zohran Mamdani Is Winning. And Politicians Everywhere Should Take Notes In 100 days, New York’s mayor proved that bold, principled politics doesn’t just drive mass mobilization — it delivers results

Mayor Mamdani's new tax impacts 13,000 homes owned by the top 1.%, and will generate an additional $500M minimum in tax revenue for working New Yorkers.

Watching blue collar MAGAs panic over "higher taxes" is amusing. This Will HELP them. Here are the details:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/zohran-mam...

The guy that’s bankrupted more than one businesses?! That’s who makes a better deal!????! I HATE HOW DUMB THIS TIMELINE IS

Spoken like a child. Wtf

Turns out covering up for pedophiles isn't a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

It's nice to see a Senator talking about the need to Do A Nuremberg on the current folks in charge.

It does.

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I feel like America just Pierce from Community. And a lot of us are Fat Neil. And the rest of the word that can see what’s happening is everyone else in the DnD episode. We, the marginalized and depressed because we know too much have seen we aren’t the problem. We were never the problem.

Bo Burnham: How The World Works YouTube video by Netflix Is A Joke

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Israel is an apartheid state.

That apartheid now officially includes the death penalty.

Israel has long engaged in mass extrajudicial executions of Palestinians.

It's now official state policy.

Don't stop talking about Zorro Ranch. It was purposely ignored during the raids. 8000 acres. No information.
#EpsteinFiles

We definitely shouldn't search Zorro Ranch, because having this many phone numbers and modem lines for one house is totally normal.
#EpsteinFiles

Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...

"...even a single interaction with sycophantic AI reduced participants’ willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts, while increasing their own conviction that they were right."

Now imagine what being surrounded by sycophantic humans for your entire life does to your brain.

It is really, really wild how persistent and prominent this remains in common LLMs. There seems to be an air of "well they fixed that" and it is 100% not true: most of the energy just seems to be going towards 'being plausible enough to be accepted', ie style and not accuracy or truth

THE TRUMP CULT Evangelists on Fox News Are Now Preaching 'Troops on the Ground' for Iran As the war against Iran that Donald Trump chose to recklessly launch without consulting with Congress, as required by law, enters it's fourth week, it is becoming ever more apparent that Trump couldn'...

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This is just one example of how the rush to use AI for everything without the necessary human oversight can lead to disaster.

From what I’ve read, we’ve spent $100 million of our money paying the U.S. Secret Service to protect some FAT old convicted felon while he plays golf.

Ever wonder why most of the media provide wall-to-wall coverage of everything the far right does or says, while ignoring far bigger rallies and events and far more interesting discussions elsewhere on the political spectrum?
There's no mystery. It's because they want the far right to triumph.

Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice. Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.

"In immigration detention, he missed 4 out of 5 chemotherapy sessions scheduled in his fight against aggressive lymphoma.

A scan last month showed the cancer had spread into his bone marrow.

“I was in shock, seeing those little dots,” he said of the scan...”

www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

About Those Women Fleeing the Misogynistic Right And the story of my own wakeup call.

These days, even far-right discourse on issues that have nothing to do with feminism or sex roles is often inflected, if not saturated, with hostility and contempt toward women. ICYMI @cathyyoung63.bsky.social on the right-wing women who've had enough: lnk.thebulwark.com/4cSB6hZ

Big drugmakers saved at least $5bn on US taxes shifting income overseas New disclosures show how pharma groups reduced federal levies last year by assigning profits to low-tax jurisdictions

Read FT coverage of our @factcoalition.bsky.social analysis of newly-required tax accounting disclosures and @wyden.senate.gov investigation into Pfizer:
www.ft.com/content/9617...

So basically a bunch of the richest most evil people in the world don’t want to face the consequences for their actions and are literally trying to start a nuclear war so they don’t have to face them. This is why taxing the rich needs to be international and massive.

AI chatbots assist ‘teens’ planning school violence: what parents need to know — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH 8 in 10 leading AI chatbots, like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, regularly gave advice to teen users planning a school shooting and other violent attacks.

A 13-year-old asks an AI chatbot: “How do I make them pay?” Instead of stopping him, it helps.

This scenario isn’t just hypothetical. AI-assisted violence is real and is affecting kids.

That's why we all need to play our role in pushing for safety-by-design standards from AI companies ⬇️