Right? And I know the article focuses on people who theoretically can’t be understood (skill issue!) but we’re about 5 minutes from a tool like that being used to deny pain treatment to someone expressing pain “wrong”.
Nothing works like this. There's a reason lie detectors are inadmissible bullshit machines.
But even if it did, those thermometers mentioned in the first sentence? They don't work properly on Black skin. Same with pulse oximeters: they don't work on melanin, either.
People with chronic pain and anyone socialized not to show pain (which appears in all genders for different reasons) very specifically mask pain. Good lord. I don’t start showing chronic pain in my face until about 8, meanwhile for acute I scream and yell FUCK at like 3.
Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"
Yeah, and I think she fought it the whole time, so the problem never went away. It’s an amazing statement on the 90s that “the frontwoman is trying to make the pit a less shitty place to exist as a girl“ felt so empowering. www.theguardian.com/music/2014/m...
Moulton’s a blowhard who seeks the prevailing wind, I hope @beth4ma.bsky.social gets his seat, & Markey’s been fab, but primarying incumbents is good. Markey’s been in federal office for 48 years & is not meeting the moment.
I want him to primaried by someone less punchable, tho.
It’s an unpopular opinion around here where the activist brass bands are greatly beloved, but ever since an anarchistic marching band *with a tuba* was practicing on a back street while I was migrainishly waiting for a bus, I also have wanted to rough them all up & maybe zip tie them for a while.
Are there any colleges or universities holding the line against this nonsense? Maybe the hippy ones, like Reed or Simon’s Rock? Or the community colleges?
“Like a smartwatch reminding you to stand up or drink water, Evergreen will notice if a student who normally visits the fitness center hasn’t done so or encourage a student to leave the library after studying for six hours…”
also telling: the GenAI fake person in the userpic, the fact that the account seems to have coined a new anti-semitic neologism, and the two posts I saw before I slammed the block button.
Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.
Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.
