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Aster being maximum cat: on the highest point in the room, in a box, being judgmental.
This is a prime example of: -misleading headline -missing context (gives rate of false negatives but tools with high false negatives are used in medicine all the time, so that rate might not be significant) -use of "AI": conflating generative AI with the analytical AI that's widely used in medicine
2D animation is booming in theaters. In China, the film Nobody is outgrossing many of Hollywood's recent CG filmsāon a $10< million budget. It's only one example. As 2D films rise, Hollywood's decision to kill them off looks shortsighted. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-hand-d...
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
They made easily accessible engines of information that get the aesthetics right but the details wrong. This is exactly what climate denial and fossil fuel petroganda has been doing for decades
There is no longer a single gram of doubt that text, image and video generation is only truly "useful" when it's being used to serve authoritarian, fascist, white supremacist end goals Systems that already rely on deception and theft are the natural beneficiaries of this stuff!!!
this is not the first time Buck has fucked over a trans woman this dude is vile and I never again want to see anyone attribute his awfulness to his age or how long ago he transitioned
Wait, now that I think about it maybe Iāve seen this at some beaches in DE or MA? But Iāve been going to NYC beaches for so long now and like, I would never do this
That is WILD
I didnāt know people did this
A great thread of options for newsletters:
Big opening for, say, Brad Lander www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
I'm sorry, Nate Silver? We are listening to advice from somebody who couldn't even get to Nate Gold? And this guy is supposed to know who can win. Get real.
Honestly, the hour-long run and march of people shouting āFree DCā up 14th Street today is the energy I needed this morning. I love you, DC.
Heās super cute!
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
What kind of dog is he? His tail reminds me of a Samoyed
It astonishes me how parents are perfectly able to understand "the kid brought something home from school and now we're all sick" except for COVID for some reason
Happy Labor Day, comrades š«”
Hey everyone! last month my zine store was shut down. so i just made a new one! since my zines are heavily censored and removed i have decided to charge just a little more due to their rarity. New print run of puppy milk! get it while you can! princessaggy.bigcartel.com
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you canāt get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
Ian Fleming was a sexist, racist asshole, and the films are all violent colonial fantasies. It's unlikely that anything can change that, and the whole franchise really should have been retired a long time ago. 1
Nott sure waht habbind here
Ah I need to see this!!
(Since I know you enjoy the work of some my favorite historical romance writers who, like KJC, research the period they write very well, you might enjoy it)
I have the upcoming book for you (as the Regency is often included in the Georgian era)
Oh this is great
Did they get lessons on internalizing misogyny too?
My birthday is closer to that date so I will accept this decision as a gift to me (seriously take the time you need to do it justice!)
When we talk about AI and the future of work, I think a LOT about entry-level jobs and people new to the workforce.
This enormously pernicious and no one should still be on Substack - not just because of the Nazis, but for sheer practical business reasons.
Franca's been found but Fiasco (the grey one) is still at large, so if you're in Edmonton maybe you can share this / keep an eye out?
'The unexpected finding that vaccination-only participants showed superior cross-neutralization compared to individuals with hybrid immunity challenges conventional assumptions about hybrid immunity advantages'. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
The thing is, every time you defend Newsom as a great candidate and what āweā need, youāre telling trans people that youāre willing to throw them under the bus You can sit in my mentions and whine about how Iām criticizing Newsom too much and I will continue to highlight how your transphobia sucks
Like clearly this POV existsāunsurprising b/c trans rights are popular!!āyet thereās more acceptance of GOP framing, again
I honestly donāt know where this energy went, maybe the problem is only the congressional equality caucus had it?They had great signs about the GOP empowering predators
Just ONE DAY BEFORE THE ACCIDENT, Alana and I recorded a new episode arguing perhaps no American on Earth is more responsible for the deaths of 343 FDNY firefighters in the collapse of the WTC--and the deaths of many more in the clean-up--than Giuliani.
Itās hilarious, like of course Giuliani hires someone with loser creep vibes like this
This is specifically what Iām referring to: The Congressional Equality Caucus, a coalition of pro-LGBTQ House Democrats, dubbed it the āChild Predator Empowerment Act.ā www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
Dems *did* run with that message in Congress a few months ago and I donāt know why any of them outside of known bigots like Newsom would be diverting from it.
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This is HILARIOUS. Rudy āStolen Valorā Giuliani at it again
OH MY GOD YOU GUYS okay so per this news report the woman was literally just talking to cops who were already there about her DV incident when Rudy crashed his car on the other side of the street???? and he went with āI was attacked for being a Good Samaritanā thinking that would hold up?????!!
I fucking hate that they refer to him as Mayor, he hasnāt been mayor in decades, heās a creepy loser.
N95s are immune to any mutations in strains, regardless of vaccination, so there's that too
Do you think neighbor kids have to sign a legal waiver for any injuries they might get before they come inside?
CTA: Call Your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators Regardless of which party your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators belong to, please call them (actually call them on the phone if at all possible) and tell them: www.patreon.com/posts/137525...
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wow
Depending on your library you can access Consumer Reports online with other magazines, sometimes thru Libby
Popping in to say some newer machines apparently have microplastic filtering (since a lot of it in our water comes from washing synthetic clothing) so you may want to check that out
Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting
The CDC quietly did lots of work that keeps everyone safe. RFK ruining it is something that can negatively impact the health of millions of people. Itās both tragic and scary. www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Adjacent to this, more people need to know that artists, authors, zine makers, etc, are all paying for their tables (and stock, hotels, travel, food) to vend at conventions. They aren't staff, they aren't earning an hourly wage to be there, they're paying to be there.
This. Look. RFK doesn't believe any of this shit. He's using it as a way to get rid of "undesirable" under the pretense of "health." It's literally the Nazi playbook. What it is, is OUTRAGEOUS to anyone who hasn't dealt with this kind of nonsense before. But it's entirely predictable.
Anti-fascists around the UK have been altering the English flags painted on roundabouts across the country in recent weeks
It is absolutely OUTRAGEOUS that RFKJ, without any medical training or knowledge, has set up barriers that are now preventing (hopefully just delaying) Americans from accessing COVID-19 vaccinesā¦ even including infectious disease experts like Dr. Titanji. I will keep calling my representatives.
Not sure a policy that still allows rich Europeans to move there is the anti-gentrification masterstroke he thinks it is
Only 12 hours left for the Trans Lifeline fundraiser in my store! I'll be donating 100% of the profits of ALL Valiant Comic sales through midnight! A great time to check out Faith if you've been meaning to! You can also take 15% off all Valiant Comics with code LIFELINE. ko-fi.com/jodyhouser/l...
Ugh Iām so sorry this has been so difficult for you. And that framing is absurd, *every* disease and disorder is like this! Diagnoses go up when funding, discoveries, awareness do!
iām trying to read this new york magazine piece about arfid with an open mind but this is really frustrating framing. they only named the disorder in 2013! they only gave it an icd code in 2022! of course thereās an explosion in diagnoses when it literally couldnāt be diagnosed til now!
I know Iām relentlessly harping on this eugenics thing and Iām gonna take a break from it but Iām just so tired of watching ableds discover eugenics for the first time and drawing all the wrong conclusions when literally many of us disabled folks RIGHT HERE explaining it and have been for YEARS
The hearing in this bone chilling case re a scheme to mass illegally deport children is a study in how a careful judge must treat the US government now: As a presumed lawbreaker and loophole seeker.
It's a lie. Stipulating "explicit" carries the implication that he *does* have some other kind of informal, traditional or implied authority over elections, when he does not. Don't print lies in the newspaper.
This, this, THIS.
oh hell yeah
An increasing number of women are pulling on up to 40 kilograms of steel armour to take part in historic medieval combat.
Death by a thousand cuts. These censorious paypros and bills in committee will eat away at our ability to provide for ourselves. This is a sure outcome if we give up, but if we keep yelling we give ourselves another possibility
Omg yes, hi, hey, hello, itās me
yet another assault on tooth health from this administration
If you're in the states, the Better Business Bureau is your friend
Just a reminder that because of the pharmaceutical supplier system & low pharmacy reimbursement rates, corporate pharmacies like Walgreens (which owns Duane Reade) are often the only places ppl can get prescriptions for expensive or controlled medications filled.
I watched Katrina: Come Hell and High Water on Netflix. Fuck everyone for trying to rehabilitate anyone from the George W. Bush administration.
They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning
DON'T stop calling but DO stop listing what the payment is for, if that was a thing you're doing *wearily* don't ask don't tell is back, and it's for everything now
My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYTās Ivy League bias
I love your black dress and veil!
I got arrested yesterday! (real drop off from being a corporate law firm associate five months ago. or upgrade.) I was blocking vehicles leaving from ICEās Broadview, IL, staging ground and de facto detention center at 1930 Beach St. full statement (for now) below.
did you really think i had forgotten about caturday.
This is a distressing story, and reflects the danger of having heavily armed, improperly trained - and allegedly in this disturbing case, bigoted and harassing - Guard troops on city streets.
In Valenās name, I will hunt AI lobbyists for sport.
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romneyās presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
If yāall have anything to give, my friend @quiara.net is disabled, nonbinary, and living in the Deep South - trying to raise funds to get out and go live somewhere safe. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.
preventing the spread of disease within your own community, your own life, with your choices is antifascist action. how does covid spread in occupied zones when palestinians cannot leave? it comes TO them via colonizers; breaking chains of transmission in our globally interconnected world matters.
Do you have an opinion though? I think Iām going to go with āprobably notā
You are not necessarily going to have to specify what makes you high risk and therefore qualified for a Covid shot. You likely will only just have to click āyesā - and the truth is EVERYONE IS HIGH RISK Getting covid puts you at risk for disability and chronic illness.
I think @wolvendamien.bsky.social needs to elaborate on his thinking here
No, but Iām not big on elven mythologies ā¹ļø
The Daily Mail also wrote a critical piece about the right-wing secret group that radicalized Robin Westman, instead of just blaming everything on LGBT people, as some other newsrags rushed to do. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Noooo
Thatās gotta depend on the type of elf or origin, right?
Listen I think this (not about elves) every time I see a harpy-based comic, like what
Mittelschmerz is the fucking *worst*
CALL STRIPE CALL PAYPAL CALL MASTERCARD CALL VISA DO NOT. STOP. CALLING! #rocktheboat stop-paypros.neocities.org
Remember things like this when supposedly serious people suggest the best way to organize society is around someone like this making decisions for you.
More recent ink on photo explorations from the Starlight series. This set is inspired by Nzu rituals and Nigerian body painting practices Full set at patreon.com/odera
This song gets stuck in my head every time I read about gun violence in the US (which is... so damn often) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KtK...
It's my birthday next week! So Barnes & Noble put the special purple edition of Someone You Can Build A Nest In up for 25% off: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/someone-yo...
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