Good. The wages are dogshit despite things getting more expensive.
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evilink.bsky.social
@evilink.bsky.social
Moved to East Asia in 2016.
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Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”
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The UK has announced a case of avian flu virus #H5N1 detected in a sheep (on a farm with infected birds). I think some of the significance of this (and the wider picture) is being missed in a lot of the reporting. So a short thread... 🧪 #IDsky www.gov.uk/government/n...
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This is an exceptional piece of writing by an anonymous barrister recently diagnosed with ADHD. www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/adh...
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I was recently leaked a document that was written by and for think tank and DNC affiliated policy wonks and circulated in private chats. It describes in unsparing terms the threat Curtis Yarvin, Neoreactionary tech founders, and Elon Musk pose to democracy. shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic...
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Yeah I turned mine off immediately.
Hey folks if you got the most recent iOS update, it’s real simple to turn off Apple Intelligence (which has been toggled on by default in hopes you’ll just go with it) Right there in settings you have “Apple Intelligence & Siri” with a toggle just for AI Flip that switch babyyyy
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Look. You need to be masking in public right now. I don't care why or when you stopped. But right before the cdc was taken offline, even they were encouraging it. Covid never left, bird flu's about to pop off and when it does we won't know. Also, discourage surveillance.
Indiana is the latest to double down on banning masks … still parsing through the bill to understand exactly what this means for those who mask for their health & the health of others. If you stopped masking, please start again. We must normalize them as a public health tool before it’s too late
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🍷 Tackling Alcohol Harms in the UK A national strategy is needed to address alcohol-related harms - now the leading preventable cause of cancer. A 42% rise (2019 - 2023) in alcohol-related deaths highlights failures in both treatment & prevention. 🔗 doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... #SciComm #Health 🧪
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BREAKING: Merrick Garland has released volume one of the Jack Smith report www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Dwindling population means not enough people to fill roles such as police and other emergency services. mainichi.jp/english/arti...
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Look, goddamnit, we’ve poured millions into this slop and YOU WILL FIND IT COOL. Otherwise we’re going to have some super awkward shareholder meetings.
New: Days after Meta had to kill its AI-generated profiles due to backlash, some Instagram users are now being shown AI-generated images of themselves that are being automatically created by Instagram and put in their feeds www.404media.co/instagram-be...
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From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan, what can two Sierra Leone developments a century apart tell us about urban elitism?
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Sanders pointed out a quiet, fundamental catch to Elon Musk’s argument: his business interests dramatically benefit from open access to inhumanely cheap labor.
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Thousands of miles from Washington, where the funeral of Jimmy Carter is set for next week, an Indian village named after the former US president fondly remembers his visit almost 50 years ago, paying tribute reut.rs/3WrWyS3
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While Americans might not mourn the loss of net neutrality, an appeals court’s ruling sets a troubling precedent for consumer protections in every industry.
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Officials are still trying to identify the person who placed bombs outside of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee offices in 2021. Now they have fresh details. via @carriejohnson.bsky.social
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As the US and China race to the Moon, these loopholes in space law could cause conflict
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In Arizona, private school parents can speak at public school board meetings and vote in board elections. But public school parents can’t freely attend a private school governing body’s meetings, even if the school is funded with taxpayer dollars. Read more: https://propub.li/4fFXYz4
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Texas’ maternal mortality review committee is forbidden by law from reviewing women’s deaths that are considered abortion-related. This could include some miscarriage care, officials told ProPublica.
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President Biden is expected to permanently ban new oil and gas drilling in large sections of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as well as other federal waters. The move relies on a 70-year-old law that could make it difficult for the Trump administration to reverse it.
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It's really important that we name the medical misogyny that Gisele Pelicot faced during her YEARS of hidden abuse/assault.
For more on Gisele Pelicot and the way medical misogyny contributed to her decade long nightmare - my article looks at why her doctors failed to listen and help her and why disabled people face higher risk of abuse: www.disabledginger.com/p/gisele-pel...
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🧵An example of the shenanigans and junk science accepted in medical journals. In September 2023, JAMA Pediatrics published a ludicrously bad paper (quasi-retracted after much effort) claiming long COVID is "strikingly rare" in kids, supposedly vs the WHO definition. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Thanks to the Republican Congress, and a tsunami of lies from Musk and others, the only US agency dedicated to tracking and exposing Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world ceases to exist www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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"I never thought they'd deport *my* indentured immigrant servants," sobs man who spent $44.2 billion electing the Deport All the Immigrants Party www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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It's cringe but my mantra is, "Anything for you, princess."
My one bit of solitude advice: Being alone is most miserable when you hate yourself. So learn to get along w you, & treat yourself the way you would a good friend. This includes stuff like buying small treats for self, talking about/to self in uplifting & encouraging ways, and cheering self on.
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Don't just stop using AI; start using the public domain! Here's a search engine for public domain works that are absolutely *free to use and remix*: picryl.com
Hey here's a New Year's resolution we can also stick to (for free!) this year: Stop using AI 😑
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Changes are coming to the cold and cough aisle of your local pharmacy: U.S. officials are moving to phase out the leading decongestant found in hundreds of over-the-counter medicines, concluding that it doesn’t actually relieve nasal congestion.
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Donald Trump’s top choice to be the chief law enforcement officer of the United States
THE GAETZ REPORT is out: “Trump's nominee to be attorney general was found by congressional ethics investigators to have paid numerous women — including a 17yo girl — for sex, purchased and used illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office…” www.cbsnews.com/news/matt-ga...