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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 1h

Terrifying

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2h

Okay so a I have a true little story about how the episcopal church funded the local BPP chapter’s ambulance program and all I’m saying is, Episcopalians: they may surprise you!

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 3h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 3h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 2h

I think professionals who work with disabled people are still being taught that only person first language is appropriate. I’ve been in spaces, as a parent who uses identity first language for my kids, where I’ve had to push back on that assumption.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 3h

you cannot remedy racism without focusing on race. it's asinine to try.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 3h

When Brazil adopted quotas for higher ed, the percentage of Afro Brazilians in higher ed shot up 400 percent and all of them did as well as non-affirmative action students.

The idea that affirmative action is stigmatizing and elevates unqualified people is a BS argument.

Screw SCOTUS. Higher Education Needs Racial Quotas. (Updated)

If the United States leaned into racial quotas instead of running screaming from them, we might have seen results like Brazil's.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 3h

why are we pretending that race shouldn't be predominant when remedying racism?

it's the same problem I've always had with affirmative action being about "diversity" rather than quotas.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SHOULD BE ABOUT QUOTAS.

REMEDYING RACISM IN VOTING SHOULD CONSIDER RACE PREDOMINANTLY.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 4h

Not only is it invented, it is ASININE.

We've had the Voting Rights Act for 60 years.

On top of 88 years of Jim Crow and 250 years of slavery.

If there is a time limit, it should 250 + 88.

I have such loathing for these justices.

Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 4h

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3h

The Episcopalians have been activated. Repeat: the Episcopalians have been activated.

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 3h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 5h

I thought that’s how precedent was supposed to work . . .

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 5h

CJ Roberts: "Allen v. Milligan took existing precedent as a given."

Uh ... ok? What? The litigants challenged existing precedent in that case too?

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 14h

every person in that Politico article looks like they came out the womb wearing transition lenses

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 7h

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 16h

John Mayer, you leave that nice Kat Stickler alone.

Demi Lovato commenting “GET A JOB. STAY AWAY FROM HER.”

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 18h

I need to get this off my chest.

Uncomfortableness should not be a word. The word is discomfort.

Comfortability should not be a word. The word is comfort.

Stop adding syllables.

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 21h

God, I loved that game.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever I see men complain about the male loneliness crisis or unique emotional/psychological issues faced by men, it’s very clear that they just don’t see women as full people capable of experiencing the exact same emotions they do

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 1d

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah, I know. It’s real fucking dark, LMSFGB.

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 22h

Did we solve the male loneliness epidemic? Are they going to stop bothering women now?

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 22h

OpenAI says it will soon roll back some of ChatGPT's safeguards, and even allow the chatbot to engage in erotica for adult users.

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for adult users | TechCrunch

OpenAI says it will soon roll back some of ChatGPT's safeguards, and even allow the chatbot to engage in erotica for adult users.

techcrunch.com

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 23h

Never has the phrase “looks like a thumb” been more appropriate.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 1d

I loved @tamis.bsky.social’s memoir! I especially recommend the audiobook.

Audiobook of Cry for Me Argentina by Tamara Yajia

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 1d

It’s time, beyond time, really, I’m leaving Substack. I didn’t do it before because I had no other income to rely on. I don’t think abandoning spaces is always the right answer but sometimes it’s necessary www.patreon.com/posts/why-i-...

Why I am leaving Substack | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

Dreamed last night that Skrillex, an artist I have never listened to and am unsure if he still does stuff, released a CBD drink called Skrelax. “The ultimate in skrelaxation”. Ok

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 1d

The only thing that will reverse this is maybe the courts, and probably more effectively red states saying they want this restored. Also, stop electing Republicans.