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I’m not familiar with Ecosia! How is it compared to DDG? Also, I feel you in terms of research.

A great read, and sobering because of 2 points (elaborating on OP here):

- Google’s AI overview often sources back to aggregators, not original articles, which you could argue is theft of intellectual property and revenue

- their AI is also exploitable - it can be seeded with false information

I think about this the time.

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

Just so we’re all clear, and for the dozenth time: there is a direct through line between our society deciding that we’re fine with disabled and immunocompromised ppl dying and being driven out of public life so we can all have fun and the resurgence of this word

Looks like Patriot Front marched in my home town today. I say "looks like" because they were around for less than half an hour doing a march and posing for video and bounced when community started showing up, as cowards do.

PF marching in downtown Louisville on a Saturday is very revealing about the org because everybody here knows downtown is dead on the weekends, especially the night after fireworks. They wanted to make their little video and pretend to be strongmen without actually running into any people lol

Every week someone tells me they had to put Covid aside to focus on bigger issues like fascism. The thing is, eugenics and fascism go hand in hand.

Historically pandemics have ignited fascism & normalized eugenics & indifference

"It's fine because the executive order is still barred in blue states."

Folks, PEOPLE IN RED STATES DESERVE HUMAN RIGHTS TOO, AND LOTS OF IMMIGRANTS AND MARGINALIZED PEOPLE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THE EO LIVE IN RED STATES.

Meanwhile, MIT has done brain scans to show what using AI does to us. Deeply disappointed in this blog post.

www.media.mit.edu/publications...

@megpillow.bsky.social, also, like Claude isn’t telling us what we want to hear so we feel comfortable using it.

Exactly

It’s all over the place, but the fact that there’s response to EVERYTHING.

Deeply disappointed, but also the comments section is WILD.

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Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin' The violin is smaller than a human hair and has

There's comic timing, and then there's physicist comic timing
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One thing I have learned from the past five years is that a majority of cishet white Americans who consider themselves empathetic and good people will take no meaningful steps to stop mass death as long as the people who are dying are "part of the plan," as the Joker might say.

A lot of people, including in my hometown, just had their lives destroyed by a horrific storm.

Remember when the media and politicians talk about how “strong” and “resilient” these communities are that they’re saying they don’t need that much help. It’s one of Neoliberalism’s most insidious tricks.

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Today opposing counsel insisted to the judge that I not be allowed to write up the order because the executive branch has determined that trans people are dishonorable and untrustworthy so thanks for that

(The judge, thankfully, ignored him)

Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.

Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.

Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.

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Disability Pride Month/Disabled Joy Hello, my name is Julia Métraux, and I am Mother Jones' disability reporter. For Disability Pride Month, I'm looking to do a series of four as-told-to stories on how disabled people find joy in their ...

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Orange blending into green book cover of "neurodiversity: a very short introduction" by Robert Chapman and Sue Fletcher Watson, with this text written in a white font.

Excited to say that "Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction" written by myself and @suereviews.bsky.social is finally ready to preorder! Afaik the first general academic introduction covering the ND movement, ND studies, and applications of ND theory in practice.

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"elder scrolls" is just me looking at my phone

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Just spoke with my CDC sources. They were in tears.

Budgets cut. RFJK has ordered them not to publicize bird flu symptoms in exposed workers. Not to test them. Not to speak.

They know people are getting sick. And they’re being forced to stay silent.

This is not just a cover-up. It's cruelty.

Pandemic truthers take over HHS Covid site Covid.gov now redirects to a page attacking masks, New York, and Anthony Fauci.

Who needs accurate health information? Not the US government.