Leilani (she/her)

The Constitution is not a legal document as much as it is a social contract. The insistence that it is entirely the former has damaged our acceptance of the latter.

Generation X Is in the Bullseye for Lead Exposure, Harms to Mental Health A UVA researcher says 151 million cases of diagnosable mental disorders “can be attributed to lead.”

“We estimate that at least 151 million cases of diagnosable mental disorder that the population would have experienced over the last 75 years could be attributable to lead."

We've had different levels of people being affected by lead exposure and other environmental issues during childhood. I think approximately half of us in this country have been exposed to notable amounts of lead. Now we have bolt-on effects thanks to Covid.

Our Home Depot was raided in Huntington Beach today. They kidnapped 4 people. It could’ve been much more if we didn’t have our community volunteers on the ground. ICE/CBP kidnapped our friends. Please join your local community watch group. This is how we resist ✊🏻

Sure. Or grill them harder. Question their competence. “You’re a US Senator. How can you not know about this? This is a big deal. So are you genuinely ignorant or are you lying about being ignorant? Which do you think is worse for your constituents and American democracy?”

If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows

Nah, we're BOTH going to be consultants! If I get to be in the writers' room, then my boy is going to be on story boards or set design. Everybody's leaving here with something.

If you are a writer and the company "reaches back" for you and you do not immediately grab the hand of the artist who was your road dog and pull them right up along with you--you are the shadiest of dicks.

What’s in Store-Bought Chicken Stock, and Why Are Brands so Secretive About It? A long, winding journey to find out why companies treat their chicken broth recipes like state secrets.

this is the eater article fwiw: www.eater.com/23552129/wha...

I know this is not new and is just how shit works now and has been for a while. It’s also like fun and vaguely engaging. But so much of the internet is now just “I stole a journalist’s work and am reading it to you and monetizing it for myself.” This has happened endlessly with our Flock reporting

allow me to take you on a journey where, once again, we learn we have no idea what’s in our food. at least we know corporations are pure of heart so I’m sure it’s fine🫶🏼🤡 TikTok video by kaelin

a type of content that makes me want to launch myself into space and is huge part of why everything is so bad: TikToker goes down a “rabbit hole,” makes 9-minute video. The “rabbit hole” was she found an Eater article. The Eater journalist did all the work: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTruBS8cp/

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Good lord. This article is excellent, deftly drawing together many criticisms of generalized LLM-AI, damning it all. This is the claxon warning with flashing red lights.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

I particularly like "take a moment, and realize the moment you took has already passed"

Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 1: The Business of Care Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape. The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.

16/ Woven throughout the series is our managing editor and reporter @gingerthompson.bsky.social's pursuit of one question: If Anthony Parker couldn’t get good care at Phoebe, then who could?

Read the rest of the story, starting here 👇

As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined The five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” pursues one question: Why are people in Albany so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?

15/ Today we’ve published a deeply reported 5-part series. It’s about Albany, Georgia.

It’s about getting sick in America.

And it’s about what happens when the most powerful institution in town is a hospital.

An absolutely brutal read. I got to go home without issue after my ablation but Dr. Parker did not. Support ProPublica's great work if you can.

i think need to forestall what i charitably call a misunderstanding. “I call bullshit. How do you know what to order if you don’t know what people are reading??”

*anonymized circ stats.* we don’t need to know WHO is requesting or borrowing a book to know THAT it’s getting requested & borrowed. 📚

comics is not ready for the conversation about the disparity re: creator compensation when it comes to the guys who get producer and "brain trust" status for adaptations and the favoritism involved

Disgusting. This shit must be stopped.

“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”

The Magical Animation of 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' The Christmas television special—the longest running in history—was groundbreaking in its use of stop-motion animation with puppets

This is a fun holiday read. Who made Rudolph happen? A Jewish copy writer; his Jewish composer brother-in-law; the BIL’s neighbor who happened to be Arthur Rankin; and a Japanese animator who had pioneered new stop motion techniques. Now that’s an American Christmas

I shouldn't be talking out of school, but if you ever find yourself in a similar case, you can still ask for a special character agreement post-hoc. Helps if your editor will back you.

Of course getting the agreement enforced is another kettle of fish but it's a start

Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video

Marvel could afford to just randomly send out a million dollar check to any one of the creators of multi-billion dollar franchises. And these artists deserve so much more than that.

don't worry, john roberts says this is a legitimate exercise of presidential power and if we did anything to curb it, we would be robbing the executive of the energy he needs to do his job

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public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚

in order to be like Tom Cotton, you have to pretend not to understand the concept of an ocean

hey Tom, how the fuck do you raise your arms above your head and signal to planes while treading water 3500 m deep, care to demo it for us pls

I'm so over pretending that people like Tom Cotton deserve anything except being shunned like they used to shun lepers in the 15th century