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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

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Just finished reading The Change by Kirsten Miller, after @tressiemcphd.bsky.social recommended it a while back, and whew, it's too real with all this Epstein stuff coming out

BREAKING: Supreme Court REJECTS challenge to marriage equality. IMAGE: Pride flag waving in front of Supreme Court building.

🎉GREAT NEWS🎉
The Supreme Court just REJECTED a challenge to the landmark decision in #Obergefell that legalized same-sex marriage across the U.S., meaning marriage equality will continue to be the law of the land! #LoveIsLove

That’s before I reckon with the ethics of using a thing for ghost efficiency that is pretty societally devastating.

And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.

I wonder how many airlines have offered to pay air traffic controller's salaries during the shutdown, which has to be cheaper than canceling flights or refunding tickets.

Live reports from CBP staging area at Coast Guard Island Yesterday, the Coast Guard confirmed an “operation” was underway and said guards' facilities in Alameda would provide support. Live reports from the scene.

Yesterday, the Coast Guard confirmed to The Oaklandside that an “operation” was underway and that the guards' facilities in Alameda would be providing support. Live reports from the scene.

What We Can Do About ICE ICE is in the Bay Area. And yes, we can all do something about it.

While this federal administration has been busy empowering ICE to become, essentially, an extrajudicial militia allowed to disappear people from our streets, the Bay has been organizing. We will not be beaten down.

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

"Mainstream media has become so terrified of appearing biased that they’ve abandoned their basic responsibility to clearly communicate truth to the public. They’d rather hide behind the false comfort of 'some say' and 'experts disagree' than plainly state obvious facts."

It me

Proud to see my representative, @replsimon.bsky.social, among the members who signed

"The website features photos of beautiful women-laughing-alone-with-hormbles-chormbles like they’re totally unbothered by the eldritch curse written on their snack" 😂 www.eater.com/24408067/hor...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

‘Shake it off’: Taylor Swift’s changing voice shows how our accents evolve An analysis of Swift’s interviews suggests her speech pattern has changed over her career.

“We cannot typically follow someone around with a microphone,” says audiologist Matthew Winn.

Enter Tay Tay.

@mohanabasu.bsky.social reports on the linguistics of #TaylorSwift for @nature.com 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

California is putting a stop to secret police. We’re making them take off the damn ski masks.

"theirs is the stale orthodoxy of those blinkered devotees of human aristocracy, who reject the faith of the founders — and the work of those who made it real — to worship at the altar of hierarchy and repression."

California, Oregon, and Washington to launch new West Coast Health Alliance to uphold scientific integrity in public health as Trump destroys CDC’s credibility | Governor of California

"Through this partnership, California, Oregon, and Washington will start coordinating health guidelines by aligning immunization recommendations informed by respected national medical organizations — regardless of shifting federal actions."

"magical hallway conversations"

The Political Economy of "AI" Before straying to the theory dark side, I spent some time in college as an Economics major; I’ve always been strangely charmed by a silly joke I first heard back then.

“The current political economy of AI rests on positing future value returns that will only be possible after a technological breakthrough of such unprecedented extent it would entail a transformation of society so radical as to undermine the very conditions of capitalist profit.” - Samuel Chambers

Tokyo -- guilty as charged 😄

I lived in Silicon Valley for a decade and in Tokyo for half of one. I want Tokyo!

Crowds stream along a street at night

Over 2.5 million Israelis joined today’s anti-Netanyahu protests, organisers estimate. 300,000 are now in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. (Haaretz)

I do miss Japan sometimes. Please enjoy this footage of Japanese police doing a Bear drill. I swear future archaeologists will struggle to explain our era

Water Heater Upgrade Program — CleanPowerSF End your toxic relationship with that old gas water heater. Move on with an electric heat pump water heater.

Forget about AI, where San Francisco is really innovating is heat pump deployment!
☑️ $50/mo bill credit for 2-3 years for replacing gas water heater with heat pump
☑️ free HPWHs for disadvantaged communities
☑️ expanding all-electric requirements to major remodels

www.cleanpowersf.org/waterheater

Ten authors by whom I've read more than five books:

Anne McCaffrey
Robin Hobb
Katherine Kerr
Susan Cooper
Elizabeth Haydon
Martha Wells
Natasha Pulley
Ursula K. Leguin
Madeleine L'Engle
Naomi Novik

E-bike are so great on so many levels