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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1h

Intersectionality in the hands of fools is a reactionary force.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2h

This is a good catch. The statutory authorization supposedly being used to transfer R&D funds to regular payroll is, in fact, expired, just like the regular appropriations are also expired.

Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 3h

Not that Trump/Vought/Hegseth gaf, but among other ways in which the law says this may NOT be done:
A) The part of 8005 I've underlined in green says money transferred to another account is "available… for the same time period" as that other account; that other acc't expired on Sept 30.

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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 2h

Proportionally, the magic set of voters that show up in midterms and not just Presidential years are educated and aware of how economy works. The less informed, less economically literate show up only in Presidential elections

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2h

Peisistratos literally tried once to overthrow the Athenian government using an unusually tall woman masquerading as the goddess Athena.

They have always been this dumb. They sometimes succeed anyway.

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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 2h

The extra crazy thing is that an old anatomy text book is just as good as a new one; nothing has changed in the last 50 years about what we know of gross human anatomy

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 2h

For all the excellent uses of AI, a BIG, BIG problem is that some people are using it as a way to automate semi-fraudulent (or even literally fraudulent) tricks designed to bypass their regular responsibilities.

In this extreme case, to profiteer by forcing students to buy a fake textbook.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 2h

Delivery of CRISPR is one of the issue— virus, nanoparticles, etc targeting the correct set of cells

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 2h

The most important thing we need to do is radically reform to allow a ton more housing to be built - both to make living a lot more affordable, and to grow our congressional / electoral vote power.

Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 2d

You’re absolutely right that we’re not building enough housing. The construction rate collapsed in 2006 and never recovered. This is why rents are so high.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2h

In #Odesa, the choir and audience continued the performance in the shelter of the Philharmonic Theater despite a Russian attack.

📹: y.krasinskyi

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2h

It's striking that even in the defenses of Bari Weiss's broader thing no one ever says that she or her website does good work. Even the people that admire the success she's had selling lite reactionary shit to rich old guys top out at "people do seem to like it." You could defend Jake Paul that way.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 4h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 2h

Because it comes from the Oracle of Delphi

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2h

Medical advice from LLMs can be more persuasive than real doctors, even when it's wrong https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/why-empathetic-ai-can-be-too-persuasive-for-canadians-to-resist/

More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Vered Shwartz says the human-like tone of AI-generated responses paired with their confident presentation can easily convince users that the information is trustworthy, even when it's inaccurate.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2h

Petition to call “anti-DEI campaigners” what they actually are. I propose professional racists, hired bigots, mercenary chauvinists.

BronSays @bronsays.bsky.social · 3h

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests."

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 2h

Alex Thompson and Nate Cohn are big mad that the public has generally sided with Democrats during the shutdown rather than Republicans

Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 4h

Hilarious how mad the press is the shutdown isn’t hurting Dems so they are pivoting to shit on them anyway possible

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 2h

I’ve read like three paragraphs of Martin Luther’s writing and that was enough to know the Germans didn’t need our help on this one

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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 2h

I am more strict- did you advocate for voting…those who vote X but , by their behavior online and offline, convince 10 more to do otherwise are just as culpable

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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 2h

No patience with these spoiled assholes. People with stakes will do anything to vote. bsky.app/profile/okwo...

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 2d

Was told today about Indigenous people in Brazil who were desperate to vote against Bolsonaro. There were no polling booths in their villages so they got buses to the city, and when the military blocked their buses many miles from the city they got off and walked there. Fight for your vote, always.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 15h

Anyone with any familiarity with the history of Jewish people in Europe should be aware that Euros didn’t need to learn about segregation from us (if anything we, perhaps unconsciously, picked it up from them)

chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 21h

Post like this and I unfollow and mute. This is erasing centuries of European pogroms and other violence prior to WWII by making America the sin-eater for the entire Western world. I won't have it and I won't let it slide:

Cærsten (@cara.city) posted:

"we didn't cause Nazism" dude Hitler based the Nuremberg Laws on the Jim Crow south and Lebensraum was partially inspired by the native genocide of the 19th century idk what to tell you
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By quote-posting:
Will Stancil‬ (@whstancil.bsky.social‬):

we didn’t cause Nazism. whatever caused incumbents to tank in 2024, it wasn’t unique to us. we aren’t uniquely corrupt, or violent, or authoritarian. there are good things and bad things about our country like any other, and Americans work a lot like people anywhere

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the gentlemanly drinker @gentlemanlydrinker.bsky.social · 15h

Obama said something to the effect of - great you elected me. that is step 1. step 2 is holding my feet to the fire (i.e. don’t dust your hands and conclude your work is done).

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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 2h

The quoted post is why l have no pati with those folks

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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 2h

They’re tired you see? Which, to me, it simply means the stakes aren’t that high for them (and if they are, they are just too entitled to think they might) bsky.app/profile/okwo...

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 2d

Was told today about Indigenous people in Brazil who were desperate to vote against Bolsonaro. There were no polling booths in their villages so they got buses to the city, and when the military blocked their buses many miles from the city they got off and walked there. Fight for your vote, always.

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Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 15h

I'm baffled by the number of people who seem *offended* by the idea that yes, you really have to keep on voting, in every election, forever.

That's what living in a democracy means! It's never done, you can't just sit back and ignore politics forever.

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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 13h

"I wiped my ass once! Why I gotta do it more than that?"

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 5h

This is getting directly to the trust issue, and is a demonstration that they understand a bill with their ask isn’t enough for them to believe their ask will be respected.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5h

Wow, so it’s illegal to make plans with friends now

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