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I very definitely have episodic memory that precedes the age of 3. I know this bc of the different homes we lived in, which varied a lot during my first years. I have their layout and specific episodes in these places in memory

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

The Administration is degrading the country's scientific R&D capabilities, that have been built up over many decades. These capabilities can't just be switched back on later.

Gonna wallow for a second: I'll share more info tomorrow, but over the last couple weeks, we've finally put our NSF center on ice as we continue to just not get paid and run out of money. I'm just so sad and angry about it. No real "but" at the end of this

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Pteridology (FERNS) with Dr. Fay-Wei Li — alie ward Fronds. Forest dwellers. Spores. Houseplants. Queer icons. We’ve got ferns. The charming and hilarious professor and author of “Ferns: Lessons in Survival from Earth’s Most Adaptable Plants,” Dr. Fay-...

WE GOT FERNS, folks.

I hope you like ferns. If you don’t, just listen and you will like ferns. 🌿🌿🌿

Dr. Li is hilarious and charming and you will love him. And ferns.

In conclusion: ferns.

www.alieward.com/ologies/pter...

Here are the people who stood and smiled and laughed as Trump went off on his racist rant. Shame on them. And shame on every last person who has spent the last decade downplaying and normalizing his obvious, constant bigotry.

i think any ideology that frames asexuality and celibacy as inherently bad things is dangerous

My grandfather believed it strongly enough that he killed 3 of them in a WWII knife fight -- in a ditch

is bebe here

Released safely back into the wild after sleeping it off at animal control. Who among us

It’s still #GivingTuesday and we still have not reached the halfway mark in our campaign. (We'll have an update about where we are, I believe, sometime next week.) Every dollar helps amplify the voices of incarcerated writers.

We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.

• Hegseth detailed his involvement in the operation, saying he was watching the first strike live. He said he did not see survivors in the water and was not watching when the admiral in charge of the operation ordered a follow-up strike. But he added that the admiral, Frank Bradley, "made the correct decision" and had "complete authority" to order the second strike. • The president said he was not aware of the second strike at the time. He also said that the U.S. is "going to start doing those strikes on land" raising the prospect of deeper military involvement against alleged drug traffickers in South America.

Going with the “blaming the person following my orders” defense, I guess

www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

i dont use generative ai because i actually really like being able to think and reason and solve problems

As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely.

They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.

Only you have the power to kill it.

Hell, yes

The simple reality of gen-AI/LLMs is that this is all a lot of hand waving to attempt to get to AGI before the bubble pops. But the chasm between what these models churn out now and what a human-equivalent intelligence could create with skill is larger than the Pacific.

<---- So extremely very over 40 and I don't use filters for anything. Not even sure which one would enyouthen a person?

This in and of itself is astonishing and it's buried in Prasad's memo. (Taken from an EXTREMELY long thread - full memo from Dr Vinay Prasad, director of FDA's CBER, the division that regulates vaccines and other biological producs)

Screenshot of headline reading: Congressional committees to scrutinize U.S. killing of boat strike survivors. In a rare split with the Trump administration, GOP-led panels in the House and Senate say they want a full accounting in the September military attack.

Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.

The New York Times (edited headline subbed ) Without proof, vaccine denialists leading F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children's Deaths to Covid Vaccines The agency's top vaccine regulaith said hui deniew had found that the children were likely to have died "because of" the shots. But public health experts want to examine the data. are skeptical given his established anti-vaccine agenda.

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This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.

The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
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Seems like she should have followed her "gender stereotypes" to a different destination from a college classroom, where her 'God-given' "gifts and abilities" are clearly out of alignment.

if you are a news professional - msm, trade or indie- you have the power to fix this. and don’t let the fact that they paint all of us with a broad brushstroke stop you from rising above…

InFURiating that we all have to write/think/talk about vaccines this much, outside of celebrating new successes (HPV vax largely *eliminating* cervical cancer, my god), this shit was settled as one of the great scientific and public health triumphs EVER and now these dipshits are trying to ruin it

Graphic that reads: "The average hourly wage necessary to afford a one-bedroom apartment in the United States is $28.17. The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25." -- National Low Income Housing Coalition

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.

It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

List of headlines from media covering FDA, most emphasizing the claim that covid killed children

News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.

Schools invited to become ‘test beds’ for new EdTech Schools and colleges are being invited to become ‘test beds’ for evaluating new EdTech products, creating an evidence base for technologies that genuinely improve both teaching quality and pupil outco...

And the Dept for Ed is spending a million on AIed testbed pilots too, to help generate evidence to support its AI ambitions in the schooling sector. Schools are being funded to become satellite AIed testing labs. >>
educationbusinessuk.net/news/1106202...

A web page for the White House with the subbed “Media Offenders: Eric Garcia.”

Thanks for reading, Mr. President

It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality