The Fox Witch

While other people in the thread probably correctly note that this is due to delays in training data, the very fact that the bot seems to express strong certainty rather than, "This was not true as of the most recent data I have been trained on" is telling of Pak's claim re: RW misinfo.

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

“Why have countries that have moved an ever-growing share of social interactions into a frictionless online space, where political claims are validated or invalidated by popularity alone, seen a commensurate rise in extreme political factions driven by emotional catharsis and decoupled from reality”

"Yeah, it's me. I need you to list all the ways a pelican's mouth is an unsafe sleep environment for a baby... ... ... Well, I didn't INVENT the internet, Celeste! I just work in it!"

Don't you dare put that baby in pelican mouth.

Breaking character: This is a good thread. One my fixations is that Dems blow money on ads rather than building political infrastructure. My theory is they do this because the data tells them too just like the data told Robert McNamara to destroy Ford by cutting R&D to the bone.

In The Running Man, Arnold is told to gun down people peacefully protesting for food. He refuses, is taken captive, and is sent to prison and framed for the deaths of the protesters via deepfake video.

I still don't know why we need a new one.

It’s a death cult by way of an immortality fetish.

The Farwell case was part of a larger transformation in the American legal code to facilitate corporate growth at the expense of those it affected. It’s not just labor law either. Citizens sued textile mills for damming rivers that ended eon-old fish runs people upstream relied upon.

This Day in Labor History: October 30, 1837. Nicholas Farwell, a train engineer toiling for the Boston and Worcester Rail Road Corporation fell off a train while at work and had his hand crushed by the train. Farwell sued the company for damages. Judge said, nope! Nothing for the injured workers!

I’ve thought about Craig’s “1970s bled into the 1980s” point before. Posted this on the bad place a long time ago

I'm building my own world🍂

A midwest vast, and vaster.

QRP with your world

A good review from @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social on #NoKings media coverage with a sliver of good news: Local news gets the story right.

fyi, the SNAP eliminations are a Project 2025 mandate.

SNAP recipients didn’t lose benefits during prior such shutdowns.

Pay attention.

Genius

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Canvassers for Elon Musk’s America PAC Were Fired and Stranded in Michigan After Speaking Out A dozen Black canvassers were tricked, threatened, and driven in seatless U-Haul vans. They were fired after WIRED reported on their plight—some without full pay or a way back home.

It was only my second story freelancing for WIRED at the time, but the rest was history. We ended up getting these door knockers paid after they were all denied pay and then fired. www.wired.com/story/canvas...

Calvin and Hobbes comic panel 1 description: Calvin's father walks up to Calvin, sitting down next to a record player Calvin's father: PLAYING A RECORD? I'LL SHOW YOU SOMETHING INTERESTING. panel 2 description: Calvin's father squats down and points at two points on the record Calvin's father: COMPARE A POINT ON THE LABEL WITH A POINT ON THE RECORD'S OUTER EDGE. THEY BOTH MAKE A COMPLETE CIRCLE IN THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME, RIGHT? Calvin: YEAH... panel 3 description: close-up of Calvin's father Calvin's father: BUT THE POINT ON THE RECORD'S EDGE HAS TO MAKE A BIGGER CIRCLE IN THE SAME TIME, SO IT GOES FASTER. SEE, TWO POINTS ON ONE DISK MOVE AT TWO SPEEDS, EYEN THOUGH THEY BOTH MAKE THE SAME REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE! panel 4 description: Calvin lies awake in bed with eyes wide-open in existential dread (no text)

this is one of the all time best C&H comics but it's been turned into a meme format and the meme completely misses the mark of the comic

At the same time, Byrd's presence in the Democratic caucus came with political costs.

For decades, the GOP pointed to his past ties with the Klan to insist that Democrats were The Real Racists and their embrace of civil rights was insincere. Even after he died, they were still at it.

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"[Not using the funding already allocated to keep SNAP going] is a decision the president is making--on his own--to allow people to go hungry."

this is also why primaries are increasingly important in states you do dominate! when "whatever asshole you throw on the ballot on your party line" is the one that gets elected, you better be sure that asshole is going to do a good job and toe the line on important stuff

increasingly the answer to "what kind of candidate can you run to win in a state dominated by the other party" is "there isn't one"

it's not a satisfying answer or a healthy one, but that doesn't mean it's wrong

I did not expect this post to resonate with so many people, but it makes sense considering how many people have been laid off or are going through layoffs rn. Gen X and Millennials were also taught to prioritize work and our careers, only to see homes become too expensive to buy and wages stagnate.

A reminder: if you see someone shoplifting food, water, baby formula, diapers, tampons, etc. etc.

NO YOU FUCKING DIDN’T.

this is an incredible read and the unsurprising takeaway is that these people are exactly as broken and awful as you think they are from the outside

two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works ALT: two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works

I cannot believe there are still people in my mentions arguing that boycotting an election because the candidates aren’t addressing your issue is a way to get them to pay attention.

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

“We should have banned government use of face recognition when we had the chance because it is dangerous, invasive, and an inherent threat to civil liberties,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @404Media.co. www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp...

A witness in our case had ICE reject all her documents after using facial rec on her.

For her, tho, it seemed like nothing could make them accept that she has a right to be here.

Either way, a gov policy of not trusting gov-issued docs is going to violate lots of people's rights.

I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...