Hundreds quarantined as South Carolina measles outbreak accelerates A state epidemiologist said the spike in cases came in the wake of Thanksgiving travel and a lack of vaccinations. At least 16 cases were traced to a church.

Of 111 measles cases, 105 were in unvaccinated people. 6 were in partially vaccinated people.

Get vaccinated! Especially your kids!

This advice is, literally,

DRINK BLEACH

So.
Damn.
Corrupt!!

Get it to check stitch counts so that the errors are reduced

Looks like something from JoAnn’s or Michaels (Lion Brand or Loops & Threads)

one of my law professors was a volunteer EMT and he used to refer to motorcycle riders who didn’t wear helmets as organ donors

They don’t do school closing announcements on the news? Twin Cities tradition is to turn on WCCO and listen to them rattle off all the closures and delays. Radio or TV, they do it on both (& I bet now there’s an app as well)

Justice Kavanaugh didn't take into account that someone's wedding ring might be destroyed by ICE during a "brief" (FIVE hours!!!) stop.

So much about this makes me livid, but where the f--- are the "sanctity of marriage" folks right now?

Oh, yeah, they're cheering on Trump and his rampaging thugs.

"Both sides do it!" as a standard media defense for Republican vulgarity. Gods. The GOP has been on this downward spiral since the "You Lie!" moment. /headdesk

Just a reminder that actual, accused criminals generally need to be arraigned in 24-48 hours.

It’s less realistic than the spherical cow or the frictionless surface (wet leaves are a damn good approximation of a frictionless surface). I’m still convinced that freshwater economics is Calvinist theology in disguise (and I was required to take theology in undergrad so I know it when I see it)

US seized oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says | CNN Politics President Donald Trump on Wednesday confirmed that the US has taken control of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

So now we are pirates?!

you should probably also know that while he is doing this, a whole lot of state and local government and university and college syou know are spending spending hundreds of thousands of man hours to meet the 24 April 2026 ADA compliance deadlines

we had measles under control thanks to vaccinations, but the anti-vax industry took over the politics of our nation's health and we're reverting back to third-world conditions.

They have managed to turn a significant number of IP attorneys against AI as well (although the techbros don’t pay any attention to copyright and trademark attorneys because that’s girly stuff)

Same. Reposting my latest obsession. 👇

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*

Jumped-up autocorrect is how I like to refer to it (I’ve also heard mansplaining as a service). My one sentence summary is that we have taught the computers how to steal and how to lie.

There’s this idea that I’ve been pondering for a bit that’s probably yet another Everyone Will Yell At Me thing, but… I don’t think that pointing out that AI is full of inaccuracies is an effective tactic at getting people not to use it. It’s based on cultural context that not everyone shares…

THIS

5) AI, which is good at bullshit, may thrive because we have made a society run on bullshit. But in the end I cannot believe we will all become nothing but consumers. People MAKE. An not in the Randian "makers and takers" sense, in the yearning, stretching toward the infinite sense.

1) I was having drinks with @gregrucka.com who is in LA for VERY SECRET REASONS and we were discussing this post, because he had just finished A Thing and I am in the middle of A Thing and write all day, literally 9 to 5, and we were talking baout how THAT felt ...

It is all too predictable that, once it's all eventually, unavoidably true, we'll get endless analysis abt how Trump's handlers "hid" his condition from the public.

Only the press is choosing to be blinkered, not anyone paying attention (I shouldn't need to point out whose job paying attention is).

The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language | Quanta Magazine Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to LL...

Language and thought not being the same thing (as anyone into the visual arts or raised in a religious tradition with lots of icons used in prayer and worship could tell you) www.quantamagazine.org/the-polyglot...

Approve of the parish priest, not the archbishop of Boston, I mean.

Pope Leo would approve in my arrogant and lapsed opinion

The Trump administration has declared war on Christmas.

Parent of a toddler here.

He is not doing strategy with this rally stuff.

He is agitated and engaging in self-soothing behavior

Why it's almost like they know they're committing murder and war crimes...

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