“Each year between January and April, a blob of cold water rises from the depths of the Gulf of Panama to the surface, playing an essential role in supporting marine life in the region. But this year, it never arrived.”
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“Each year between January and April, a blob of cold water rises from the depths of the Gulf of Panama to the surface, playing an essential role in supporting marine life in the region. But this year, it never arrived.”
Need a Teams filter that makes me look like I’m sitting up when in reality I’m reclined at 45 degrees. Not laziness, but pain and fatigue management.
Not following GPC signals? State AGs are coming for you. cppa.ca.gov/announcement...
Bring it on. I am so dismayed about how few sites follow privacy laws - even ones that have been in place for 5 years. No easy way to report to CPPA. Sites dismiss inquiries. Huge retailers and small sites alike.
As an independent contractor who is currently negotiating a new contract with a customer, and finds their insurance requirements shocking (7 types, obscenely high limits), this does not bode well for my cost reduction.
Fascinated that - Watching The Good Place seems to make me sharper, more intellectually incisive and quick - Watching Bridgerton seems to make me duller, slower, and a little stuporific What shows make you smarter? Need new material.
The timing of this new Banksy is impeccable given the way SCOTUS ruled today.
A privacy policy at the point of very sensitive login data collection would be helpful. It’s unnerving to enter login/password info without knowing who controls it and who has access to what’s behind the login.
BREAKING: A Utah federal judge just approved the proposed stipulated order. That is, the government has now officially ordered Aylo to scan all uploaded files for CSAM & NCII. That means Aylo is an agent of the government under the 4th Amendment. Criminal defense attorneys, start your engines.
CVS AI is making phone calls to me about my health, or health plan, or something that I won’t be responding to. I am the grumpy grandparent who is pissed off that technology is moving to fast, except my only ask is “for the love of god respect my privacy.”
This thread is delicious
SCOTUS chief Roberts halts Rebecca Kelly Slaughter's reinstatement to FTC www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
Just found batteries that expired in 2005. I think I have a problem.
I’m going to fix the timeline by posting more pictures of fat pumpkins
I can tell you, looking at the proposed plans, as someone who uses the exchange, this is going to be a cliff for many. They will forgo health insurance because they will not be able to afford it. Period.
In just a few days, you can see SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES on various large screens around the world. I’d recommend it, if only for the greatness. And the loudness. Plus Junior Mints.
“‘This isn’t one political party or the other. It’s a culmination of everyone working together to silence these women and protect Jeffrey Epstein and his cabal,’” [Marjorie Taylor] Greene said at the news conference.”
RIP Mark Volman, founding member of The Turtles and one half of Flo & Eddie (pictured here - Mark is on the left, Howard Kaylan on the right). I was fortunate enough to do some of my very first live performances as an opening act for Flo & Eddie in 1983 at the Bottom Line in NYC.
LabCorp now requiring arbitration, and giving up right to jury trial/court, without an ability to opt out. And it's buried among 3 legalistic documents that they want one-click approval to. It is very tiring to be someone who cares about doing the right thing, doing it well, and doing it for all.
This is good
Social media is such emotional and mental whiplash. 1st post —> snort/chortle over hilarious political snark 2nd post —> face falls reading about 15 dead from Ebola
I’m giggling at “Clodflare.” 😬
Each of these shows is amazing and I’m devastated by their cancellation. Seems the least the platform could do is make them know to a potential audience.
There’s this weird phenomenon where I don’t know about an amazing show until after it’s been canceled for low viewership. Are platforms that bad at identifying content I’ll love? Examples - KAOS - The Residence Also, Wheel of Time canceled after low views on S3, and I didn’t know S3 was released.
Much devastation and suffering. *Thousands* of villages.
We must expect more strategic thinking of one another in our global fight for democracy, as exemplified here for our American friends in their new civil war.
it would be nice if, in this limited respect, power-political necessity and republican virtues align. Because the rules are shredded, the norms are gone, and our institutions are subverted. We are in a power-political struggle between fascist authoritarianism and pluralist democracy. Period. /end
We haven't lost yet. But we are losing. And no one — and I mean *no one* — has figured this out. So we've got politicians who think the only way to expand the coalition is to triangulate; we've got ones who think what matters more is having the courage of your convictions.
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“Texas Democrats lost. But they drew attention to Republicans’ efforts to put their thumb on the scale, and demonstrated a valuable tactic for galvanizing their beleaguered party. They lost, but they lost loudly. Losing loudly has been a crucial feature of successful political movements.” Gift:
Bless you for talking sense
Right now, your ability to get access to a COVID vaccine this fall is in jeopardy, whether or not you fit the new, restricted eligiblity criteria. Please send a letter to your member of Congress here. And spread the word. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...
No no no no. As a former social worker, I can't properly express how much I hate this. Even beyond the "automating inequality" of it all, writing case notes is an important way to reflect on a session/meeting with a client and helps you make better decisions in how you work with them in the future.
As a visitor to the UK many years ago, it took me a think to figure out what this sign meant.
Everyone in public health, healthcare and biomedical research has been screaming this for months. It’s time for RFK Jr to go. Everyone, please, please get on the phone to your members of Congress. Call them every day. This man is that dangerous.
From the resigning director: “This is a five-alarm fire. If people don’t act now, ideology will fully consume science.” It’s up to us.
I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals .... they are so placid and self-contained,
Has anyone ever heard Al Yankovich do a perfect parody song without changing a single word? youtu.be/Z2qAnm9xJNo?...
Whenever I wonder if I was ever loved, I look at baby pics and all doubt is removed. Only a kid who was profoundly adored could grin like this. #Loveyoumomanddad
I’m dog sitting for 36 hours starting tomorrow, and the most upsetting thing is that it’s not starting NOW. I am scheduled to pick up the pup at 930 am tomorrow, and that’s a lifetime away. I need this dog. And I need to see how my own bully-slash-coward cat handles the challenge.
Fork me. As an ethicist who studied (as we all do) meta ethics, and who worked AT Meta on tech ethics, my worlds are all kinds of confused. Also, fuck Meta.
Just saw a reference to Woot.com and that’s a whole part of the early internet I had forgotten. It still exists!
Best guess: his corporate overlords are looking for new government contracts with their crappy AI, robotics, etc. He’s doing this to gain their support for is 2028 bid.
If you are building a product with a feature that had previously been scrapped because of "ethical concerns" and the company has suddenly decided to just shrug and do it anyway, you are building the Torment Nexus and you should fucking stop.
If you teach in Canvas, by default, your counterparties to this user agreement are not just Instructure, but OpenAi, it's lead VC funder, Dragoneer Investment, & KKR, one of the five biggest private equity firms in the world.
It's a rare feat to make something terrifying and sad somehow also really beautiful to read, and I think @roycerk2.bsky.social managed it here in his latest for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/algal-b...
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
On this day in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act, officially creating the National Park Service to protect and preserve America’s natural wonders and historic treasures “for the enjoyment of this and future generations.”
America doesn’t do group projects well.
Your occasional reminder -- as arrivals on student visas decrease 28% -- that tuition from foreign students counts as an export, which means that every rejected student visa is going to contribute to the US trade deficit. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This leads nowhere good www.nbcnewyork.com/news/nationa...
I used to measure my life in coffee spoons and book marginalia. Now I measure it in 2FA tokens.
This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
This theme of finding new places is going to be big. I already work so hard to cultivate a little niche of the social media verse that brings me joy. Knowing that it can, and probably will, be taken away, is a face punch. So many wonderful and smart people I want to keep hearing from, and no way.
Hey, fellow independent consultants. Have any of you been asked to accept payment for your services through Corpay, and if so, how did it go? #consulting #corpay
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The logistics of health care can be frustrating. If you have a bureaucratic horror story or need help with a tough question, reach out to Health Care Helpline from NPR and KFF Health News.
Was worried about that, but thought there might be diff rules for some accounts (eg, biz). But mostly it’s just a mental map. LMK if you want a support. I know some groups that have self hosted on MatterMost. But in a giant irony, I opted out because the group admins wanted a copy of my passport.
I’ve found a service, TelePaws, that does virtual consults and prescriptions. They just need you to hold up your little bug to verify he exists. I’ve had good experiences! Maybe they can cover you.
Ah, welcome back 1997. I keep imagining a Google doc where all the nice/smart/funny people are invited to comment. Google has taken over this space in my brain.
I want to start forming a contingency plan for where people go when this happens. Like, where do I find my family after an emergency (gathering point), but for great people on socials.
Hey - we covered this in Trust & Safety Tycoon! Would you make a different decision? Play here: trustandsafety.fun
A friend who is now at Microsoft Ads ran a check to see if any of my old documents were still there, and came across an Online Add Strategy I wrote in 2008. I must have been a babe in the woods. Would love to see it again.
UK government asks everybody to stop using VPNs. "everybody who's out there thinking of using VPNs...verifying your age keeps a child safe...So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age." - UK government
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May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
A tale as old as time, TBH, and infinitely more frustrating for its utter predictability. A lot of my work is trying to support execs to bring some rigor of thought/purpose to the standard run-in-20-directions-at-once, change-minds-frequently, and be-surprised-at-perpetual-failure way of working.
you know him
You won today.
Did you get it? We need to know.
I can’t get over this. Google has 6M paying customers after more than a decade growing their business. Most of the subscriptions are corporate. This investor is counting on over 250x the paying customer base or Google. Good luck seeing those returns in your lifetime. 😬
OMG. Someone teach this guy about assumptions. “The investor argues that the math for investing at the $500B valuation is straightforward: Hypothetically, if ChatGPT hits 2B users & monetizes at $5 per user per month-"half the rate of things like Google or Facebook"-that's $120B in annual revenue.”
The simplest, cheapest thing Apple could do to add value is add a little “make a sound” feature so that I can find my freaking remote for the 10th time before noon.
Only one! But I’m about to onboard a new client and will have to use a MSFT login for them, so it sounds like I have some fun to look forward to. 😬 Today I clicked YES to install Authenticator. The system went into a self-referential doom spiral, crashed, and the auth failed. Alas.
In which the Microsoft Authenticator app asks me to get the Microsoft Authenticator app. After asking me mockingly for the 9000th time whether I want to stay signed in. After the 3rd 2FA cycle. Microsoft saps my energy so hard.
Yep yep yep
All that in 4 whole days. People are now flocking.
Another day, another enraging, condescending, utterly unhelpful encounter with the US medical system
Following along …
CDC just changed its Covid transmission ratings again - so that what was once higher now looks lower. Again. For like the 4th time I can remember.
I know a doctor who used to review claims and coverage for an insurer. They told him he’d have to deny more claims or he’d be fired. So he quit.
US spy chief Gabbard says UK agreed to drop 'backdoor' mandate for Apple reut.rs/47BAhHz
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
Miranda Dietz: Work requirements for Medicaid don’t help people find or keep jobs—in fact, the opposite is true. Stable health insurance gives people the security they need to stay employed and imposing requirements ends up being counterproductive. fresnoland.org/2025/08/14/m...
We're having a significant leptospirosis outbreak among sea lions along the California coast with significant mortality from kidney failure in the mammals Make sure your pet dogs who love the beach are vaccinated and don't get too close Remember: leptospirosis is the most common zoonosis of humans
For years, the FDA quietly allowed substandard foreign manufacturers to ship drugs to the U.S. from factories the agency had officially banned. We compiled a list of the drugs and their makers 👇
This whale is not dead; he is only dispirited; out of sorts, perhaps
Fantastic review of #SexxAndImmunity! @soniasharma.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Guernica, by Picasso. On war.
Reupping this powerful audio summary of Timothy Snyder’s 20 lessons from On Tyranny, read by John Lithgow. It’s inspiring and terrifying at once, and a great way to ground yourself in what matters and know what’s coming. Please take a few minutes. You won’t regret it.
This slays me
“I’m just gonna throw together a bunch of things I want to rail against and say they’re causally related and hope everyone has pandemic brain rot and doesn’t notice” is a real vibe.
Was he read his rights? Told why he was being arrested?
I cannot stop laughing at this. If you’ve been through a PhD program, this is the whole psychology. It’s really just an exercise in how much abuse you can take from professors and how much you can berate yourself into productivity without crossing the line into collapse. 😂
… to fixate on micro levels of inclusion and get Ds to spend their time defending “weird” things like the rights of tiny minority groups. He’s not gonna fall prey to that. And I think his podcast may have been a way to highlight this fake “common ground” with the far right on such issues.
Nailed it. And I suspect that all of his current political positions (trans, unhoused, etc.) are carefully crafted to avoid making him a hot button issue to the Rs. One of the great successes of the Rs was …
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
Humiliating For us and for him