Amaro Tuninetti, Ph.D. 🦇

oh dang so they are just *dumb*

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

She has no real way of explaining the danger of their situation to her son, who is 17 years old but cognitively closer to a toddler. And as a single mother too weak to forage, she has no real way of ensuring their survival. She also is too old to benefit from a recent policy change the Thai government made in a bid to prevent mass starvation, granting work rights to some of the 107,000 Myanmar refugees who, like her, live in Thailand’s border camps. Her son never learned to speak, and needs her help with everything from getting dressed to using the toilet. Since the funding cuts, their survival has hinged on the charity of her Christian church, whose members occasionally give her handfuls of their rice. She suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and begins to sweat and grow dizzy when her hunger is at its fiercest. Some days, she eats nothing.

when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

oh dang so they are just *dumb*

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

Altman seems to be "surprised" by all of the exact most obvious parts of the public reaction to Sora, right down to the mundane stuff like "people will mostly want to share videos in groupchats"

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

it takes a windmill 27.7 hours to generate one transgender athlete

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice. See our paper here:
www.cell.com/current-biol...
@currentbiology.bsky.social #bioacoustics

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

The entire US government is being redirected to attack innocent residents

gotta say I don't think it's a great sign for society that the top editor of a major American news outlet thinks we're in a "fight for the West." (against WHOM, Bari?)

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

autumn cleanse 🍂📸🌿

also is it just me or could a decent chunk of these throws have been ruled out for a foot coming up?... at least it looks that way from the couch

Science Cat is noting down important data:
• PHYSICS FOR CATS is out on Thursday!
• There is a launch party at @goshcomics.bsky.social!
• More details are at www.tomgauld.com

“They talk about [Diego] like he’s a street baller. But he never played on the streets. This conception that you only develop the kind of skills he has as a Latino is by playing on the streets, that’s bullshit,” says Armando. “It was all by design. From training. From encouraging his creativity on the field, from discipline. He had to learn the mental aspect of the game quickly. We never criticized him for trying new things. That translates to his game now.”

Absolutely love this, from Luna’s brother. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Oregon Republicans know they can't use an image of the actual (small, tame) protest in Portland to illustrate Trump's fever dream and their fake intel, so they had to make one from stock photos of South American "Policia" leaning on riot shields + what looks like Brazilian football fans with flares

Please enjoy 10 seconds of a fat groundhog enjoying an apple at my sister's house 😊

Trump rolled YouTube into paying $22 million for his ballroom “This is a political payoff, pure and simple.”

Here’s @tinanguyen.bsky.social detailing the results of the incredible settlement YouTube paid to Trump for no reason except cowardice www.theverge.com/policy/79135...

Why did more than 1,000 people die after police subdued them with force that isn't meant to kill? Every day, police in the U.S. rely on common use-of-force tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without killing them.

3/ [In a 3-year long investigation, @apnews.com identified 740 prone restraint deaths over a 10-year period in the U.S. The team that created multiple publications and a film were Pulitzer finalists]

Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill?

autumn cleanse 🍂📸🌿

danggg any idea where/how the water went in? RIP 😔

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

time.com/7323442/sout...

I don't LIKE calling cops and fascists pigs. Pigs are intelligent and social and provide a net positive to the world

No sé cómo no se te cae la cara de la vergüenza

"that's just not who we are" i say to the american SS beating me in the street

and me with the "alexis sanchez is still playing??" mindfuck

Studying humans by querying GenAI = Googling how many rocks to eat.