Devin. No, the Other One

The thing that's so difficult in fighting pseudoscience is that its followers fundamentally don't believe in expertise.

Exceptional people? Sure. The naturally gifted? of course.

But I've talked to people face-to-face who simply don't believe people can get better at things.

This is so fucking racist and transmisogynist it’s making my head spin. Have you ever noticed that when certain people plainly state facts they’re qualified to express it’s weaponizing their identity for some reason

I especially assume you just like witch hunting if, in the time since I first posted this, your demand drifted to "itch needs to fire this specific black trans woman" and then you dropped your Crowdfund My Important Journalism link right after

Trump wants to be like Kennedy and I want that for him too in one very specific sense.

Trail Blazers sold to group that will keep team in Portland, reports say Tom Dundon, owner of the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes, is leading the ownership group. Sportico reports that Marz Zahr of Blue Owl Capital and Sheel Tyle of Portland-based Collective Global are also involved.

Tom Dundon, owner of the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes, is reportedly leading the ownership group that will keep the team in Portland.

LAPD Eyes ‘GeoSpy’, an AI Tool That Can Geolocate Photos in Seconds Emails obtained by 404 Media show the LAPD was interested in GeoSpy, an AI tool that can quickly figure out where a photo was taken.

New from 404 Media: the LAPD has shown interest in GeoSpy, a powerful AI tool that can geolocate photos in seconds, per emails we obtained. GeoSpy’s founder recently made a video demoing GeoSpy in relation to “illegal immigrants” and sanctuary cities, including LA

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I'm ready for the next World Cup⚽️

サッカー大好きですっ☆特に関節技が得意ですっ☆

I filled this out, and hopefully other writer-folk will, too.

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Portland City Councilors begin to raise concerns about Mayor Wilson’s homelessness plan Since Mayor Keith Wilson entered office in January with an ambitious plan to address the city’s homelessness crisis, Portland city councilors have generally allowed Wilson to begin rolling out his str...

Councilors accused Mayor Wilson of spinning stories for good press while neglecting gaps in his ambitious plan.

“Your plan… sometimes there’s some good storytelling, but there also has to be some tough truths at the end of that,” said Councilor Zimmerman.

This is the mark of a healthy society, when your server at Buffalo Wild Wings is deputized into the gender police and can force a teen to expose themselves to prove they belong in a bathroom, at Buffalo Wild Wings

remember to call Stripe at 1+ 888-926-2289, and say youre from "California" when prompted. try to get clarification on where Stripe stands on LGBTQ content on online storefronts

twice today, when pressured, Stripe operators have said, plainly, that i cannot use stripe for the purchase of LGBTQ content. not just adult content, but explicitly LGBTQ.

So good to see Arkane's workers push for this!

Also a great example of one of the core benefits of unionization, which is just "creating a structure for discussion and systems to make collective decisions." Always much harder to get action at scale like this if there isn't already organization.

'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel Arkane Studios' STJV section in France has published an open letter in support of the Palestinian-led BDS movement.

'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel

Update your WinRAR install - update it YESTERDAY

I tried to read this post and the page hung up immediately. I looked at my browser tabs and it was tying up 1.6gb of memory trying to get the ads to load.

bragging about being a giant pussy is integral to the conservative mindset

An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me

Just some depression thoughts:

I dated someone who, at some point in our relationship, started shaming me for being messy (and used words like gross, etc.)

Keeping things tidy has always been a hard thing for me; I think a lot of people with depression understand the cycle of looking at your-

VISA CAN'T HANG UP ON YOU UNTIL YOU STOP TALKING. YAPPERS, THIS IS YOUR TIME TO SHINE.

Talk in circles! Loop back to the same points! Take a minute to "remember" a word! Your goal isn't to change their minds, it's to keep talking for as long as possible to waste their money and clog call centers.

IDF kills Hamas terror cell leader posing as ‘Al Jazeera’ journalist nationalpost.com/news/world/isr…

The absolute depravity of this from a Canadian national newspaper.

I am basically speechless with rage.

Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”

5 things to know as Newsom and Trump go back to court over the National Guard in LA Gov. Gavin Newsom alleges the Trump administration broke a 19th Century law when it sent troops to L.A. with military security perimeters and alleged apprehensions of civilian protestors.

CA Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta say yes. Trump’s DOJ says no. The three-day trial to answer this question is scheduled to commence today at 10 a.m. with implications for the country as Trump continues to signal a desire to deploy troops to patrol domestic city streets.

He's a sundowning fascist ape, of course, but this has been the actual default policy of leaders in both parties - and in all big cities - pretty much forever.

Cops in L.A. just attacked journalists two days ago! "The answer is to fund the police."

Okay, and who is going to guarantee the security of this new Palestinian state if it isn't allowed a military? Will Australia be part of a UN peacekeeping force in the West Bank? Is the IDF keen for it?

What happens when Netanyahu decides to "mow the lawn" again, Operation Cast Lead II?

This seems to be a self-soothing pattern with our various institutions: media, politicians, etc. We’re always APPROACHING a crisis or IN DANGER OF some horrific thing but we miraculously never get there, despite exactly nothing being done to help.

Eg “Gaza is ON THE BRINK OF starvation,” forever.

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

Anas al-Sharif: Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital Al Jazeera had condemned a "campaign of incitement" by the IDF against its reporters, but the military claims one of the journalists was part of Hamas.

An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...