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There are so many people who've had a hand in this historic moment, but one person I'm so grateful for is @lindseyboylan.bsky.social. Your courage and your conviction opened a door for so many people and so many futures, and this is one amazing reality you had such a vital role in making possible.

Zohran Mamdani wins!

He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win.

Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.

$100 buys emergency groceries to feed a family of four for a month through the food shelf — they’re about halfway to their $16K match goal, so if you donate $50 now, you’re helping a whole family survive

"Wherever the death toll, it will be wrong. A study following Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017 found that excess deaths in the first few months following the storm was 70 times as much as the original official toll of 64 — still much more than officials' revision to 2,975 deaths later on."

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Just because the govt is shut down doesn't mean you can't call your reps.

I keep getting a life human at Gillibrand's NYC office and that worries me that people aren't calling and you know the Dem's don't do shit without sustained pressure.

Sunset in NYC on Saturday is at 6:00pm. This is the last time that the sun will set after 6:00pm in NYC until March 8th, 2026.

A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

Menswear guy has spies everywhere. Doesn’t matter if you’re showing collar gap in the Twin Cities, being rude to service workers in Charlotte, or wearing a raggedy white t-shirt to eat at an expensive place in Malibu, he *will* know about it and burn you if you force his hand.

Map of Big Cities Health Coalition Highlighting: Austin, TX Baltimore, MD Boston, MA Charlotte, NC Chicago, IL Cleveland, OH Columbus, OH Dallas, TX Denver, CO Detroit, MI El Paso, TX Fort Worth, TX Houston, TX Indianapolis, IN Kansas City, MO Las Vegas, NV Long Beach, CA Los Angeles, CA Louisville, KY Memphis, TN Milwaukee, WI Minneapolis, MN New York City, NY Oakland, CA Oklahoma City, OK Philadelphia, PA Phoenix, AZ Portland, OR San Antonio, TX San Diego, CA San Francisco, CA San Jose, CA Seattle, WA Tucson, AZ Washington, DC

The Big Cities Health Coalition, which serves over 60 million or 1 in 5 people in the US, has issued a statement condemning the federal government's moves to limit vaccine access and spread disinformation. The cities are working together to ensure people get vaccinated.

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

Fascism is here and many of the country's biggest politicians, corporations, news orgs, and institutions have embraced it. But it's still weak and people hate it. Our greatest strength is each other. Find your people in your local communities, stick up for everyone, and learn to say no.

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.

"It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual." Meta removed that language from its internal guidelines after I raised it.

AI experts worry financial incentives will blur the line between human relationships and bot engagement.
www.reuters.com/investigates...

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

YouTube video by John Green How to have hope that life can get better

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social has some good advice about how to have hope that life can get better: youtube.com/shorts/ZMGPq...

BREAKING: Israel Killed Al Jazeera Journalist Anas Al-Sharif Journalists in Gaza continue to be murdered in record numbers, while Western media outlets and reporters show little or no outrage.

Israel has killed 240+ journalists. People who'd cover a strike that killed their kids and go on to cover the next strike, in the pursuit of convincing the world to act, of the hope of tomorrow being different.

How many more murders will it take for the mainstream media's cowardly fever to break?

A yellow background and a meter indicating moderate wastewater levels of SARS-CoV-2. The text reads: After a slow start, the U.S.’s summer COVID-19 wave is now clearly taking off, with cases increasing nationwide according to all metrics. While the South and West Coast continue to report the highest disease levels, increases are happening across the country. Wastewater data from the CDC, WastewaterSCAN, and Biobot Analytics report SARS-CoV-2 levels going up in all regions. The CDC reported a jump of 35% in its national wastewater viral activity level between July 19 and July 26, the biggest change in this metric since last winter (though note, these are preliminary data). Showing a similar national trend, the CDC’s disease forecasting center estimates that COVID-19 cases are “growing or likely growing” in 40 states as of July 29. Cases are not declining in any states, per the center. And it’s important to remember that, since the most recent available data are from late July, disease levels are likely higher now. Some commentators continue to note that this summer’s COVID-19 levels are lower than last year’s. But it’s difficult to predict what will happen over the next few weeks, especially as surveillance for variants continues to be minimal."

A yellow background and a meter indicating moderate wastewater levels of SARS-CoV-2. The text reads: After a slow start, the U.S.’s summer COVID-19 wave is now clearly taking off, with cases increasing nationwide according to all metrics. While the South and West Coast continue to report the highest disease levels, increases are happening across the country. Wastewater data from the CDC, WastewaterSCAN, and Biobot Analytics report SARS-CoV-2 levels going up in all regions. The CDC reported a jump of 35% in its national wastewater viral activity level between July 19 and July 26, the biggest change in this metric since last winter (though note, these are preliminary data). Showing a similar national trend, the CDC’s disease forecasting center estimates that COVID-19 cases are “growing or likely growing” in 40 states as of July 29. Cases are not declining in any states, per the center. And it’s important to remember that, since the most recent available data are from late July, disease levels are likely higher now. Some commentators continue to note that this summer’s COVID-19 levels are lower than last year’s. But it’s difficult to predict what will happen over the next few weeks, especially as surveillance for variants continues to be minimal."

A yellow background and a meter indicating moderate wastewater levels of SARS-CoV-2. Map of the U.S. by state, with states color-coded according to their recent COVID-19 trends. 28 states are colored in dark red for "growing" and 13 are in bright orange for "likely growing." 8 are in gray for "not changing" and two are in yellow for "not estimated." The map is titled, "COVID-19 trends by state, July 29." Data are sourced from the CDC's Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics.

After a slow start, the U.S.’s summer COVID-19 wave is now clearly taking off, with cases increasing nationwide according to all metrics.

Read this week's full COVID-19 trends report from @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social: bit.ly/4lj3sCC

Talking to an AI fan at a party recently I was like “it lies, it uses stolen goods, it’s an energy disaster, it’s bad for humanity” and he kept being like “that may be true BUT if i give ChatGPT a photo of my smoke detector then ChatGPT can find me the user manual for my smoke detector”

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Screenshot of an email from SageOpenAccess that reads "Neurodiversity is seeking research in your field of study. The journal is indexed across major databases and offers specialized author support. Review our submission guidelines to ensure your paper is formatted correctly." A button that reads "Submit your paper" and then a call to action reading "Did you get a chance to read these?"

What the helly is this, I have not been in academia in a dozen years but this month I have gotten so many emails from academic journals on a weekly or near daily basis?? I always find myself irritated when a company/website rediscovers their unsubscribed email addresses 😒

Sending this to everyone who tells me “students are going to use it no matter what.”

Screenshot of a customer support conversation showing an AI initially claiming 'Yes, we have that feature' when asked about an AI plugin for querying customer conversations. The AI bot provides a detailed response about their 'AI Data Hub' feature. However, a human agent named Pedro then corrects this, saying 'Please disregard the AI's answer. At the moment, we don't have said feature. It is in our roadmap, but we don't have an ETA for it just yet.' The image illustrates the contrast between AI overconfidence and human accuracy in customer support.

Here's a perfect example of why I won't outsource customer support to AI:

I ask: "Do you have this feature?"

<AI confidently responds: "Yes, we have that feature!">

<Human agent comes on: "Sorry, disregard that AI answer. That's wrong. We don't have that feature.">

Like watching someone dunk Prometheus's flame in a lake.

Kills me how RFK keeps touting these wins over artificial colors in ice cream or whatever and the companies are just like “ok” because they had to solve for that years ago to sell into the EU