Maia Szalavitz

yeah, that's why I only use it to transcribe interviews I do myself so I know what was actually said and can check it. It often leaves out "not" so if you aren't careful, you'll quote someone saying opposite of what they meant. but better than just handwritten notes which was my earlier method.

A Pox on Fools by Thomas Levenson: 9798217155002 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books An urgent and profound history of vaccine skepticism, seeking to understand how our three most common fears about vaccines hardened into a lethal ideology—from a leading science writer Since the...

Self promotion alert!

My book A Pox on Fools, comes out on 5/26 (UK) & 6/9 (US).

It's a history of vax opposition, tracing RFK Jr.'s anti-vax grift back to once-somewhat plausible fears. Its goal: to help readers debunk his BS for any persuadables they know.

Preorders are a book's best friend!

why don't more buildings have entry weasels

Your LLM needs a grandmother A response to Acemoglu, Kong, and Ozdaglar

Human evolution built one candidate stabilizer against knowledge collapse. Guess who? hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/your-llm-n...

We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling for this "release the wieners!" timeline cleanse.

#DoomscrollingBreak

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

This is a nice contrast to all the awful behavior confirmed through the Epstein files. Proud of @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social & @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for picking up on the sexism & charlatanism right away.

How have crime rates in the United States changed over the last 50 years? Both violent and property crime are far below their 1990s peak, but some crimes see periodic rises.

Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape.

50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.

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Thank you, Chris Murphy! Keep shouting keep truth spreading keep fighting to stop the killing

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By Monica Trinidad:

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Thanks to everyone who helped my brief ode to the opposition to Trump 2 go micro-viral.

I added a note about how Minnesotans still need our support in a mutual aid pitch, a key aspect of the growing movement against this regime. Please give if you can: www.standwithminnesota.com

Florida Department of Health cuts millions of dollars in funds from HIV and AIDS drug program Starting Sunday, the state will cut its subsidies for the AIDS ​Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), and funds will only be available for people at or below 130% of the federal poverty level, a drop from 4...

They are literally killing people.

What the US did to people around the world in killing USAID, Florida is doing to Floridians.

This is abominable.

www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...

Glen Preece, The Black Cat Café, oil on birch panel, n.d.

#caturday

“if you won’t let us use your product to spy on Americans and kill without supervision we will single-handedly destroy your business by fiat” is the single most authoritarian anti-business action I can ever remember any administration taking

Here's one we baked already www.programmablemutter.com/p/who-loses-...

so, what happens to intersex people?

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

What stands out to me is treating productive capacity as a political variable(!)

Moving from 500 to 1,400 shovelers at $30/hr is a real foray into capacity expansion organized around a clear public standard, instead of letting the “how do we pay for it?” frame set the ceiling in advance.

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For a story: I'm looking to speak to people of all ages about how uncertainty around access to SNAP and high cost of food is impacting mental health and well-being, especially as new restrictions/work requirements have taken effect. rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com, Signal rstauff.20

consumer confidence?

.... when I made her leave Yale???? Perhaps someone needs suing here....

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a cat sitting in a loaf position on beige carpet near a wall outlet. a white phone charger is plugged into the wall, and the cord curves across the floor toward the cat, creating the illusion that the cat is plugged in and charging

Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'

Thanks to the OBBB, Amazon’s tax bill for 2025 is $1.2 billion, down from $9 billion the year before despite a 45% jump in profits.

Amplifying with alttext.

Via Jeff Stein, who broke this story:

The U.S. is set to spend about $10 trillion on the military over the next decade.

The Trump plan would raise that to roughly $15 trillion.

Expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing care was estimated at about $400 billion over the same period.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Beyond kafkaesque

Despite having a valid visa, this British woman was in ICE custody for six weeks and only released after signing a document that prevents her from visiting the US again for 10 years
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

copy them somewhere else though!!!

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I know it’s not Caturday but I was late with the evening treat and found this waiting for me.

Documents Show BC Knew Safe-Supply Diversion Was Negligible - Filter Even as British Columbia’s Ministry of Health was caving to right-wing panic over “diversion” of safe supply drugs, its public ...

“Even as British Columbia’s Ministry of Health was caving to right-wing panic over “diversion” of safe supply drugs, its public safety ministry internally acknowledged the negligible role of diverted opioids in the unregulated drug supply”

filtermag.org/bc-knew-safe...