@marynmck.bsky.social
Journalist. Contributing Ed at Scientific American. Senior Fellow at Emory Univ's Center for the Study of Human Health. Books: BIG CHICKEN, SUPERBUG, BEATING BACK THE DEVIL. All my stories at https://authory.com/marynmckenna. No more diets only riots.
Thank you for starting this. Very happy to join, I will email them.
Dear everyone,
As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.
A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.
That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
Frozen water adjacent. We think not.
My Minneapolitans, I am relying on you.
I would guess the dead writers didn't.
I literally filed my claim in the Anthropic book-poach this past weekend.
Is this what life as an Actually Human Authored (™) writer is going to be now? Spending our energy chasing co-option by robots that make their masters orders of magnitude more than any of us ever will?
"This kind of scrutiny improves our products, and we take it seriously" is not:
We sincerely apologize we misrepresented your hard-built identity and skill.
It is:
Oops you caught us but thanks for showing us the event horizon of your notice! We'll thieve more subtly next time!
-ish
Having JUST filed my claim in the Anthropic settlement (all three of my books pirated) I would love to know!
(repost to attach my fury to the correct image)
To be exquisitely clear, I never volunteered for this, I was never asked about this, and I do not consent to this.
Pretty sure everyone I know on the list (much longer than what is shown) would say the same.
Grammarly can fuck off to the edge of the universe and keep fucking off beyond that.
oh fuck no
(but thank you for letting me know)
In one week! At 6pm ET on Thurs 19 March I'll interview @drtomfrieden.bsky.social about his new book THE FORMULA FOR BETTER HEALTH. This is part of the Health Storytelling series at @emorycshh.bsky.social AND a production of the Atlanta Science Festival! RSVP: humanhealth.emory.edu/events/livin...
worth a read.
Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Media coverage of this needs to start with informing people that the JCPOA existed, what it did, that it was working, & that Trump unilaterally destroyed it, & inform them that anything now is almost certain to fall short of that.
lol. lmao.
The part where Epstein blackmails a mother saying if she doesn't pay him a lot of money, he'll do something with the nude photos he took of her young teen when he raped her.
The mother cooks the books at her real estate job stealing $22,000 to protect her daughter. She eventually does prison time.
The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.
every year a little death
I mourn the loss of the Beloit List, which every year told profs what references were incomprehensible to their freshmen, (And accidentally provided a hilarious reminder for people who needed to lie about their age.) collegeadmissionsstrategies.com/this-years-c...
Submitting, for consideration:
it's true, they opened for ELP in the garden of The Prospect of Whitby out in Wapping the summer before ELP broke big on the Isle of Wight.
Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.
Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
90s nostalgia is over, we're going back to the 1970s, kids.
Filling up your gas tank on payday and either installing a lock on the gas-cap cover or learning how to siphon without poisoning yourself.
Please listen to this advice and follow it.
In the UK, 446 people were saved from death from sepsis in just 6 months after creation of a healthcare helpline that allows patients or families to request an urgent review of their care. The law creating it is named for a 13yo who died from undetected sepsis. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for