Cathy Leamy

oh no current mood

Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis. Troy Tassier is a professor of economics at Fordham University and the author of The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks.

"Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis!" The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, held in August 2020, was the epitome of the individual choice mindset. Of course it spread cases outward and caused infections, illness, and death. A new research paper allows us to watch the Sturgis Covid wave spread across the US.

Paralympic curler from Cape Cod! That rules! ✊🔥

YouTube video by Rick Steves' Europe Rick Steves' Iran (2009)

This is a beautiful portrait from the inimitable @ricksteves.bsky.social of the people who are suffering in Iran, both under its theocracy and from our nation's warmongering.

looking for a freelance video editor with experience with actual plays, please DM me if you are interested in doing some long-form editing

Yesssss!

That is going to be a handsome-ass movie

I would absolutely get you business cards that read “Noted Biblical hog scholar”

As ICE Moved In, Minnesotans Set Up a Shadow Medical System. It’s a Lesson for Other Cities. - KFF Health News President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis forced families into hiding and catalyzed informal medical networks to deliver critical health care services.

Thousands of Minnesotans are still too scared to leave home, even for desperately needed medical care. So doctors and nurses have quietly operated informal, underground medical networks to bring that care to them.

Propellant. — ethanmarcotte.com We cannot separate the everyday use of “AI” platforms from their use in death and war.

“These tools, and the companies that manufacture them, have tremendous costs — to our labor, to our environment, to our futures. And as we’ve been seeing, those costs also include actual human lives.”

Good and important read by @ethanmarcotte.com.

ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propel...

The fundamental problem with genAI is EVERYTHING it does is role play

Ask it to add numbers and it acts like how it thinks a calculator acts

Tell it to write u a CV and it acts like how it thinks LinkedIn acts

Tell it you're going to blow up an airport to get it a body & guess what it says good

Later that day on a call with a Boston colleague there was a framed painting of a Dunkin Donuts Iced Coffee hanging on the wall like it's, ironically, JFK.

The Paralympics start today and WE HAVE A HEIST????

The cover: tight on Alysa Liu's face; she's wearing a collar, lots of baubles in her hair, and her gum piercing is visible.

Alysa Liu's lying on the floor, surrounded by tech that is older than she is.

Alysia Liu, crossleggged on the floor.

Delighted by Erika Long's photos of Alysa Liu for Teen Vogue.

One of those adjustable letter boards where someone has spelled out, "IT HAS BEEN 0 DAYS SINCE SOMEONE POOPED IN THE LOBBY"

Sign in the vet's office yesterday

i love the handful of people responding to this to say that Dunks is bad coffee

i don't think they understand that New Englanders' affection for Dunks is only incidentally related to the quality of their products

A mirrored tray with art of Mighty Mouse holding a huge vial of cocaine and winking while saying “HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAY”

A mirrored tray with art of Mickey Mouse saying “LAY IT OUT!”

A mirrored tray with art of Archie, Veronica, and Jughead. Veronica and Jughead are walking away while Archie says “BUT RONNIE I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO PROM” and Veronica says “SORRY ARCHIE, BUT JUGHEAD GOT THE BLOW”

A mirrored tray with an extremely off model Jiminy Cricket marching off and saying “IF THERE IS NO BLOW …… THEN I SHALL GO!”

Please enjoy this collection of vintage mirrored coke trays I found on eBay as part of an insane estate sale 12 years ago and just remembered existed

My city has left X! So proud of them ✊❤️

I’m real tired and nothing changes :(

oh no the to-do’s got worse

now activating “I gotta do everything around here my goddamn self apparently!” mode

I am always here for @maklelan.bsky.social giving people the business 🔥✊

Aw man, heal up soon bud

This is me. The examination and the note-taking and the thoughts they spark, that’s how I process and understand. Consuming a generated summary would skip so much of the actual productive work.

(looks at to-do list, sighs) let’s fucking go

I know! I’ve seen your posts about it! That does it, I’m blocking off time in my calendar

Oh wow, nice! Thanks for posting about this! I gotta finally go watch it

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Early 70s Sears catalog fashions come in two broad categories:

1. Lifted from some dystopian future where sex and drugs are forbidden.

2. Lifted from some dystopian future where sex and drugs are mandatory.

was just telling a friend about this christian holy war thing until this skeet snapped me back into having a working brain