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Homeopathy is a scam that causes real harm. Not a single homeopathic "medicine" is FDA-approved. These expensive sugar pills have zero science behind them.

Homeopathy is dangerous pseudoscience. Avoid anyone promoting it.

Read more in this piece I wrote LONG ago:

news.immunologic.org/p/homeopathy...

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Our art group's doing it cos it's fun. Some will do it, some won't. Some will finish, some won't. No one cares. It's just for fun.

Digital ID cards – some of the issues… Since Keir Starmer announced the forthcoming introduction of mandatory ‘Digital ID’, the so-called ‘Brit Card’, there has been a lot of discussion and debate – some of…

I agree, but I also think this by @paulbernal.bsky.social is a very good piece on the challenges and problems.
paulbernal.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/d...
I was of the "it works for Europe so..." view, and hadn't clocked the differences.

Stop trolling, it's not funny. Hahahaha 😂🙃

#prank #invisiblewall #funny

After the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, Pope Leo retweeted this from Senator Chris Murphy:

“Your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers.”

Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen. Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again: When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?" If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing! But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else. It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes The tendency to ask AI bots to explain themselves reveals widespread misconceptions about how they work.

What chatbots are actually doing, and why you shouldn't be using them for anything much at all arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/w...

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act Comments

Meanwhile the petition to repeal the #onlinesafetyact is creeping up in numbers, now at 71,000

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

Repeal might be unrealistic, but rewrite severely is absolutely necessary. [1/several]

I second this. It's great!

What do they call a non meatbird?

I would suggest advising people to 'consult multiple chatbots' is not the way forward...

Hey, we have a drought on, you know. Leave that water where you find it.

Would you like to win a summery Cornish care package? My latest novel ("a captivating tale" - HEAT), Cornish tea, honey and Parmesan thins. Just repost this and I'll put you in the draw! Ends Sunday 22 June, then I'll draw the winner. (UK only, sorry!)
#Cornwall #books 💙📚

Rain Light All day the stars watch from long ago my mother said I am going now when you are alone you will be all right whether or not you know you will know look at the old house in the dawn rain all the flowers are forms of water the sun reminds them through a white cloud touches the patchwork spread on the hill the washed colors of the afterlife that lived there long before you were born see how they wake without a question even though the whole world is burning -W. S. Merwin

This poem breaks me open every time.

Absolutely loved this mini course to think critically about GenAI! Can only recommend it to anyone!

I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n

Bat detectors are great. There's a kit to build your own.

@ianbadcoe.itch.io

No, no the Brits should charge Americans for using English at all. Or maga could invent another language - they are not, after all, making any sense in this one

@ianbadcoe.itch.io

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"This is an act of war against the entire world"

Staggering analysis from Martin Wolf of @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/d96d...

Strange men on golf courses distributing tariffs is no basis for a system of government. Bring back the women lying in ponds.

This funny 'American Pie' parody bites hard — from a comedy show that went out a few days ago in the UK

"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
"And are you?"
"No. That's where it all falls down, of course." Hhgttg. Evergreen.

Screenshot: As I write my last foreign affairs commentary for the Observer, I look back over nearly 50 years and wonder, firstly, at the false narrative, not confined to Donald Trump, that American altruism is exploited by "freeloading" European Nato allies. What tosh! US troops and missiles are based here primarily to defend the US. Since 1945, Washington has viewed Europe as its first line of defence against Russia. Germany was the US's preferred cold war battlefield, Britain its airfield.

This 👇, btw, is an important point. The US Africa command in Stuttgart, to take one example, isn’t there to protect Germany.

But both can of course be true: Europe has been free-riding AND the US has a self-interest in being in Europe.

yes, I tend to check out a variety of places to see which is best for me. Blackwells used to be good too.

And their art stuff is good. Sad end.

I order books from them online as an alternative to amazon. They're very efficient.

Thanks, America. We'll bear it in mind