@jotief.bsky.social
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I went to immigration court in Seattle to observe the kids docket. These children, some as young as three years old, are expected to understand complex legal processes and represent themselves in court.
That’s not due process.
That’s not due process.
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I went to immigration court in Seattle to observe the kids docket. These children, some as young as three years old, are expected to understand complex legal processes and represent themselves in court.
That’s not due process.
That’s not due process.
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When you listen to public health advice from the govt about covid please keep in mind that a great many government officials in these roles literally do not care about us and regularly do things that increase the spread of disease and death
After two infants died, the Louisiana Dept of Health under the leadership of the new incoming deputy director of the CDC, delayed notifying the public for months of a whooping cough outbreak. Instead, he ordered DOH to stop promoting vaccines. Pertussis is currently a national health crisis.
Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak
After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
When you listen to public health advice from the govt about covid please keep in mind that a great many government officials in these roles literally do not care about us and regularly do things that increase the spread of disease and death
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This is a great piece. It’s the most basic of questions.
Why Did So Many People in Epstein’s Circle Look the Other Way?
First of all, in order to ask questions about the young women he preyed on, they’d need to see them as people.
www.thenation.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This is a great piece. It’s the most basic of questions.
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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“YORAM HAZONY IS SURPRISED BY BLATANT ANTISEMITISM IN THE MAGA COALITION — BUT ANTISEMITISM IS SECOND NATURE FOR NATIONALISTS” By @benlorber8.bsky.social, 11/21/25 … 1/
Yoram Hazony is Surprised by Blatant Antisemitism in the MAGA Coalition — But Antisemitism is Second Nature for Nationalists
On November 20, Israeli nationalist Yoram Hazony sat down for an interview with conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to offer an explanation for the rise of antisemitism on the MAGA Righ...
religiondispatches.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“YORAM HAZONY IS SURPRISED BY BLATANT ANTISEMITISM IN THE MAGA COALITION — BUT ANTISEMITISM IS SECOND NATURE FOR NATIONALISTS” By @benlorber8.bsky.social, 11/21/25 … 1/
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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To be clear, this is actually a really good example of Christian Zionism which *pre-dated* political Zionism.
Why I don't trust philo-Semitic conservatives, in one subtitle
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
To be clear, this is actually a really good example of Christian Zionism which *pre-dated* political Zionism.
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It also really makes me realize what a torturous experience Facebook was towards the end of my time there. It felt like you had to constantly battle the algorithm and train your own perceptions/interests not to engage with content. At a sensory level, that was deeply unpleasant.
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
It also really makes me realize what a torturous experience Facebook was towards the end of my time there. It felt like you had to constantly battle the algorithm and train your own perceptions/interests not to engage with content. At a sensory level, that was deeply unpleasant.
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One of the really nice things about Bluesky (as opposed to, say, Facebook) is that I can stop scrolling and enjoy a video like this without having to spend the next week having similar videos dominating my TL. It's a real relief to feel free to just look.
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
One of the really nice things about Bluesky (as opposed to, say, Facebook) is that I can stop scrolling and enjoy a video like this without having to spend the next week having similar videos dominating my TL. It's a real relief to feel free to just look.
een goede paper
“examines how eugenics has resurfaced as a blueprint for contemporary ‘tech-utopian’ & nationalist projects in the West….tech capitalists & conservative elites deploy eugenic logic as ‘common sense’ solutions to social challenges such as climate change, ‘gender ideology’ & fears of depopulation”
Building the ‘Fitter’ Future: Eugenics, Tech Capitalism, and the Politics of Existential Risk
Abstract. The appointment of Elon Musk as head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) exemplifies the unprecedented and troubling
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
een goede paper
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Deeply absurd. This Google PDF published on a blog (arxiv, not peer reviewed) claims an LLM is "PhD level" but in most cases the MAJORITY of reference URLs were invalid or inaccessible.
A PhD sitting down and just fabricating >50% of sources = career ending
arxiv.org/abs/2511.11597
A PhD sitting down and just fabricating >50% of sources = career ending
arxiv.org/abs/2511.11597
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Deeply absurd. This Google PDF published on a blog (arxiv, not peer reviewed) claims an LLM is "PhD level" but in most cases the MAJORITY of reference URLs were invalid or inaccessible.
A PhD sitting down and just fabricating >50% of sources = career ending
arxiv.org/abs/2511.11597
A PhD sitting down and just fabricating >50% of sources = career ending
arxiv.org/abs/2511.11597
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Also, lower Michigan, btw.
Rural Michigan community urges officials to reject data center for Facebook parent company Meta
YouTube video by MLive
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Also, lower Michigan, btw.
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Freelance “reporter” degrades journalistic truth by shitting out llm-generated articles with made up quotes from real experts, & fake quotes from other people who don’t exist, passing them off as her own “investigative reporting”
This will destroy our news landscape
thelocal.to/investigatin...
This will destroy our news landscape
thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Freelance “reporter” degrades journalistic truth by shitting out llm-generated articles with made up quotes from real experts, & fake quotes from other people who don’t exist, passing them off as her own “investigative reporting”
This will destroy our news landscape
thelocal.to/investigatin...
This will destroy our news landscape
thelocal.to/investigatin...
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noah smith used to regularly DM me about the fact that his silicon valley venture capitalist buddies were going off the right-wing deep end because they were afraid they would get MeTooed for the fact that promotions for young employees at the startups they were funding were gated by sex
he once DM’d me and a couple of other people to tell us that we were wrong for calling him dumb about lab leak conspiracies and that some people he knew were working on a story that would make it crystal clear and it that was getting ready to drop soon, this was like, 2021, maybe earlier
October 10, 2023 at 5:38 AM
noah smith used to regularly DM me about the fact that his silicon valley venture capitalist buddies were going off the right-wing deep end because they were afraid they would get MeTooed for the fact that promotions for young employees at the startups they were funding were gated by sex
The disdain for "incremental" is also translated into how the techbros see economic and technologic innovation.
The NIH director told attendees the NIH doesn't do enough innovative research.
“What puts lives at risk is doing research that’s incremental,” Bhattacharya said. “All it does is advance the careers of the researchers that do it. It results in publications that don’t get used and aren’t replicable.”
“What puts lives at risk is doing research that’s incremental,” Bhattacharya said. “All it does is advance the careers of the researchers that do it. It results in publications that don’t get used and aren’t replicable.”
November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The disdain for "incremental" is also translated into how the techbros see economic and technologic innovation.
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A strange mishmash of influencers, anti-ageing entrepreneurs, Big Business leaders (Walmart, Google) and top govt officials gathered at the ritzy Waldorf Astoria in DC.
Notably absent were any academic researchers or clinicians. Instead, panelists criticized the medical establishment all day long.
Notably absent were any academic researchers or clinicians. Instead, panelists criticized the medical establishment all day long.
There's an exclusive, closed-to-media MAHA summit tomorrow. Here's the full agenda I was leaked
In attendance will be JD Vance, RFK Jr, Bhattacharya, Makary, actor Russell Brand (who is facing rape and sexual assault charges), and dozens of other MAHA influencers and people in Trump's orbit
In attendance will be JD Vance, RFK Jr, Bhattacharya, Makary, actor Russell Brand (who is facing rape and sexual assault charges), and dozens of other MAHA influencers and people in Trump's orbit
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A strange mishmash of influencers, anti-ageing entrepreneurs, Big Business leaders (Walmart, Google) and top govt officials gathered at the ritzy Waldorf Astoria in DC.
Notably absent were any academic researchers or clinicians. Instead, panelists criticized the medical establishment all day long.
Notably absent were any academic researchers or clinicians. Instead, panelists criticized the medical establishment all day long.
AI has hit the MLM stage
Feeling queasy now I've learned that Google is not only now offering Gemini ambassador certificates to teachers but also awarding students and *children* to be corporate AI mascots. Coercive normalization of commercialized digital education. blog.google/outreach-ini...
November 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
AI has hit the MLM stage
It has been two weeks without people praising Bill Kristol on my timeline which was nice.
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
It has been two weeks without people praising Bill Kristol on my timeline which was nice.
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You don’t have to like Nuzzi or approve of her conduct to understand that Lizza’s choice to publish the material that he is publishing is meant to sexually humiliate her in public in retaliation for disappointing him romantically. The term for that is revenge porn.
ryan lizza is a bad person
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
You don’t have to like Nuzzi or approve of her conduct to understand that Lizza’s choice to publish the material that he is publishing is meant to sexually humiliate her in public in retaliation for disappointing him romantically. The term for that is revenge porn.
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bsky.app/profile/chba...
ironically LW/SSC became woo bc it made the reified notion of Science into a self help program
ironically LW/SSC became woo bc it made the reified notion of Science into a self help program
"Let's turn some reified notion of Science into a political tendency" — People about to create another of the stupidest political groups known to humanity. Like, I personally watched New Atheism collapse into transphobia and Rationalism (LW/SSC) become some Neoreaction front. It doesn't work.
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 AM
bsky.app/profile/chba...
ironically LW/SSC became woo bc it made the reified notion of Science into a self help program
ironically LW/SSC became woo bc it made the reified notion of Science into a self help program
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"Drawing on a corpus of over 15,000 scholarly articles published between 1800 and 2024, we map the linguistic landscape of eugenics in scholarly discourse to reveal its institutional, scientific, and sociopolitical entrenchment"
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Echoes of Eugenics: Tracing the Ideological Persistence of Scientific Racism in Scholarly Discourse | Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimiza...
dl.acm.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"Drawing on a corpus of over 15,000 scholarly articles published between 1800 and 2024, we map the linguistic landscape of eugenics in scholarly discourse to reveal its institutional, scientific, and sociopolitical entrenchment"
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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I repeat: the CEO of Roblox, a service where a little less than half of the users are under the age of 13, thinks his service would make a great dating site.
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I repeat: the CEO of Roblox, a service where a little less than half of the users are under the age of 13, thinks his service would make a great dating site.
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The platform is the home of a huge number of predators who engage in sextortion, trade child sex abuse material, coerce kids into producing more of it, engage in suicide grooming, coerce kids into self-harm or harming their families, coerce kids into committing hate crimes, and so much more.
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The platform is the home of a huge number of predators who engage in sextortion, trade child sex abuse material, coerce kids into producing more of it, engage in suicide grooming, coerce kids into self-harm or harming their families, coerce kids into committing hate crimes, and so much more.
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Eugenics
They want eugenics
They want a new race of “superior humans” which is called Nazi-ass level eugenics
They want eugenics
They want a new race of “superior humans” which is called Nazi-ass level eugenics
Therapies using gene-editing technology are starting to appear. But these treatments have their challenges
Tech billionaires want to make gene-edited babies
Widespread bans don’t seem to be a hindrance
econ.st
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Eugenics
They want eugenics
They want a new race of “superior humans” which is called Nazi-ass level eugenics
They want eugenics
They want a new race of “superior humans” which is called Nazi-ass level eugenics
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from government by consultant to government by consultants using generative AI.
decades of degrading government capacity to actually govern has left it open to further degradation through ai hype and perceptions it enables further cost cutting.
decades of degrading government capacity to actually govern has left it open to further degradation through ai hype and perceptions it enables further cost cutting.
Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent
$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months
theindependent.ca
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
from government by consultant to government by consultants using generative AI.
decades of degrading government capacity to actually govern has left it open to further degradation through ai hype and perceptions it enables further cost cutting.
decades of degrading government capacity to actually govern has left it open to further degradation through ai hype and perceptions it enables further cost cutting.