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Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.

No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

Poppy The Pygmy Hippo - Metro Richmond Zoo

If you need more cuteness in your life, the Richmond Zoo is hosting a livestream of their baby Pygmy Hippo, Poppy. The Poppy Cam will be up every day from 9 AM to 5 PM EST!

metrorichmondzoo.com/animals/popp...

Some of my favorite book things:

💕 Romance
💕 Fantasy
💕 Romantasy
💕 Mythology
💕 Dragons
💕 Fae
💕 Witchy themes
💕 Billionaire MC
💕 STEM MC
💕 Enemies to lovers
💕 Fake dating
💕 Ana Huang
💕 Rebecca Yarros
💕 Emily Henry
💕 Evie Marceau
💕 Sue Lynn Tan
💕 Throne of Glass

#promosky #booksky #romancebooks

Some things I love:

✨ Books
✨ Food & Cooking
✨ Music
✨ Cocktails
✨ Dogs
✨ Stardew Valley
✨ Baldur’s Gate 3, The Witcher, etc
✨ Board games
✨ K-pop & k-drama
✨ Anime
✨ Science
✨ Nails 💅
✨ Candles
✨ Cozy vibes

#promosky

So true.

Am I the weirdo that reads Christmas books AFTER Christmas?☺️

#booksky #romancebooks

Oooh I’m excited! I’ve only read Forged in Magic but I LOVED it!

The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon, The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith, Dating and Dragons by Kristy Boyce, Dragonfall by L.R. Lam

Today's Barnes and Noble run! (Dating and Dragon's is signed) #booksky

Costco Doubled Down On DEI As A Business Case: What We Can All Learn Costco is not here for the anti-DEI rhetoric, pushback or bullying. In a recent BOD meeting they double downed on DEI. Let's explore what they said & what we can learn.

Meanwhile Costco just Costco-ing Costco

Doubled Down On DEI As A Business Case: What We Can All Learn www.forbes.com/sites/dougme...

🚫 Corporate DEI Graveyard 2025

Companies ditching diversity:
• Meta
• Amazon
• McDonald’s
• Walmart
• Ford
• John Deere
• Starbucks
• Microsoft (partially)
• Salesforce

Inclusion’s last call: going, going, gone! 🎭

#DiversityExit #Dei #capitalismSUCKS

Maryland finds bird flu on Eastern Shore, marking first case since 2023 The Maryland Department of Agriculture detected bird flu at a commercial broiler in Caroline County.

Maryland finds bird flu on Eastern Shore, marking first case since 2023

A researcher standing near a car door, Sec. Buttigieg looking at the car, & Proj. Rajkumar standing next to him.

Secretary Buttigieg visited CMU today. I got to thank him for speaking at our White House ARPA-I Summit in 2023, but more importantly for all the work he’s led on climate & equity at DOT. A really phenomenal Secretary of Transportation.

Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral” Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”

NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit”

theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

On Meta @economist.com

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Time to delete all Meta soon

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if you enjoy the following let's be friends! 18+ plz 🏳️‍🌈💟

🖤 aesthetic bookshelves
📚 romantasy
🦇 acotar
🔮 witchy vibes
🌿 zelda
🫐 stardew valley
🍄 animal crossing
🍁 dreamlight valley
🌻 sims
🍂 palia
🌸 fortnite
🪴 tiny glade
🪻 infinity nikki
🌈 pretty pc’s
💗 cozy gaming spaces

Did a Best-Selling Romantasy Novelist Steal Another Writer’s Story? Tracy Wolff, the author of the “Crave” series, is being sued for copyright infringement. But romantasy’s reliance on standardized tropes makes proving plot theft tricky.

A well-known romantasy author is being sued for copyright infringement. But the genre’s reliance on tropes makes proving plot theft tricky. Romantasy novels “express the longing to be unique, but they pour that desire into imitative forms,” Katy Waldman writes.

The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions: 1. Insults about: Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality. Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits. 2. Highlighted section: The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

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@allthedramareads.bsky.social LOVE YOU #bookbesties

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