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Good morning from war ravaged Portland everyone!

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Vaccine ‘skeptics’ among new advisers joining CDC committee Some have little to no documented experience with vaccines while others have undermined their safety

The meeting of CDC vaccine advisers is getting underway soon. Meet the new members, some of whom have said we need to stop giving Covid vaccines and reexamine the childhood immunization schedule.

“As Christians, we should not fear death,” one new adviser said.
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More Americans Going Hungry, Worst Still to Come Food banks around the country are reporting an uptick in visits. Grocery store chains are reporting an uptick in profit.

"Nearly two-thirds of survey participants said the high price of food was the main culprit of food insecurity in the country; more than half blamed high inflation in general. Half also said they had delayed paying rent, utility bills, and medical expenses just so they could afford to buy food."

The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation The Wall Street Journal’s fuckup while covering Charlie Kirk’s killing needs more than an editor’s note.

🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ Trans people are "a vulnerable minority group that has been widely demonized. Any good journalistic practice would involve nailing down accuracy to avoid making things worse."
– @lopatto.bsky.social

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Anti-vaxxers have long weaponized VAERS, which, as this article notes, is just a repository of *unverified* reports. An adverse reaction found in VAERS is not necessarily indicative of anything, but anti-vaxxers prey on low health and information literacy to sow doubt.

Will Your Insurance Company Cover Your COVID Booster? Unlike Massachusetts and Connecticut, New York has not mandated that insurers cover the updated vaccine.

Unlike Massachusetts and Connecticut, New York has not mandated that insurers cover the updated vaccine.

@erinmdurkin.bsky.social tries to track down some answers

Florida Reporter Suspended After Texting MAGA Congressman to Ask If He Still Supports Campus Carry After Kirk Shooting A reporter with a popular Florida political website was suspended after angering a Republican congressman with a question he texted in the wake of Charlie Kirk being shot.

You’re just not allowed to do journalism if it displeases MAGA

Just so we're clear, Ezra Klein believes that practicing politics the right way is saying things like "gay people should be stoned to death" just so we're clear. Ezra Klein thinks we need more of that.

Fired for acknowledging that trans people exist.

yes we should think before we speak but even if we were all being as genteel as a family of church mice rn THIS would still be the line getting peddled on national tv

highly recommend doing this right now

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement  - The Authors Guild Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...

I’m seeing a lot of inaccurate info about the Anthropic settlement being passed around as fact, so here’s a good basic explainer from the Author’s Guild that I highly recommend reading so you understand it better if you’re potentially part of the class: authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

my favorite thing about going to the doctor is when they spend 5 seconds with you and shrug and then you get to spend a month playing "do I owe a million dollars" roulette every time you get mail

seeking: a good thing. just any one (1) good thing. please.

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

The statement on Giuliani, which for some reason frames his car accident as something that happened shortly after he "was flagged down by a woman who was the victim of a domestic violence incident," "immediately rendered assistance," got back on the road, and sometime later was rear-ended.

Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.

Agree w this thread 100% And well-intentioned calls for progressives to empathize or offer advice and support to these guys miss this key point. They aren't looking for advice on finding a connection, getting women to like them. They're looking for someone to hand them sex mommy...

Trump's mental health plan: Defund, incarcerate, disappear His speeches on homelessness drip with fear and disgust. His policies are worse.

New: @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and I took a deep dive into how Trump (and RFK Jr) is undermining mental health research at @motherjones.com–which could lead to fewer breakthroughs in early intervention strategies. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Al is unmasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it? A new twist in the debate over surveillance tech raises tough questions for policymakers. Illustration by Jade Cuevas/POLITICO (source images via AP) By ALFRED NG 08/29/2025 02:00 PM EDT f An activist has started using artificial intelligence to identify Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents beneath their masks — a use of the technology sparking new political concerns over Al-powered surveillance. Nominiol CLinnor o Nothorlandc_hocod

Now they care about data privacy

‘Sliding into an abyss’: experts warn over rising use of AI for mental health support Therapists say they are seeing negative impacts of people increasingly turning to AI chatbots for help

“Vulnerable people turning to AI chatbots instead of professional therapists for mental health support could be ‘sliding into a dangerous abyss’, psychotherapists have warned.”

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton We Have AI Now

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Digital illustration done in a rough comic ink style. A possum mother trundled along with four possum babies on her back. Each possum is speaking a string of connected speech balloons reading ‘maybe it will happen today’.

Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.

The CDC is falling deeper into crisis. What it means for the nation’s health. Months of upheaval at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have undercut the agency’s work, employees said, and put the future of vaccines into doubt.

NEW: The CDC has been in crisis for months. After the firing of its director, resignations of senior leaders, staff + experts are bracing for what could be death knell for public health credibility. Me + @laurenweberhp.bsky.social + @davidovalle.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight.

In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well.

Here are from two of the resignations:

A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death.

Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes Three sources described how AI is writing alerts for Citizen and broadcasting them without prior human review. In one case AI mistranslated “motor vehicle accident” to “murder vehicle accident.”

Citizen is AI generating crime alerts that are wrong. one of the worst applications of AI I've seen yet www.404media.co/citizen-is-u...

"people who are still concerned about covid are so unreasonable, they just want us all to go into lockdown again!"

literally nobody is asking for that. what people are asking for is stuff like universal masking in healthcare settings and investment in indoor air filtration/clean air infrastructure