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Kicking off 2026 in style — I just got my author copies of my book! After years of hard work, it surreal and exhilarating to hold my book! Thank you so much to @rblaifeder.bsky.social and @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org for making this a reality!

Pre-order available: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

When I've talked to deepfake victims, both public figures and everyday people, I've heard horror stories about police laughing them out the door, girls getting expelled for reporting their classmates, and lawyers advising them that suing would just make it worse. This is abuse culture in action.

It’s no guarantee but the first thing you should do if you see an outrageous story that’s just an image or screenshot or video with no link to a reputable source is to check the replies and see if someone is saying “that’s an AI fake.” And then don’t spread it either way because it’s not sourced.

crayon napkin drawing of USS MOTHER Fucker (enterprise d) BoLDLy Fucking your Shit up

idk where i found this or what the context is but i like it

Flip both houses of Congress so we can defund ICE please.

LA Times: Elon Musk company bot apologizes

Newsweek: Elon Musk's Grok Apologizes

International Business Times: Grok Issues Apologies

The Hill: Musk's AI chatbot Grok apologizes

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes."

This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.

Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

Who loses when scientific research is locked behind paywalls? Announcing our expanded policy for open access to scientific research, after a decade of experiences and learnings.

If RFKJ truly wanted gold standard science and innovation, he would use the power of the govt to end the pay-to-play scientific publishing.

Go ahead Bobby. We dare you.

#aaronsw

CDC defends measles response as outbreaks continue to balloon across US There have been more than 1,900 cases across the country so far in 2025 - reaching a 25-year high

"Secretary Kennedy has been very clear that vaccination is the most effective way to prevent measles. Any attempts to spin this are baseless”.

I’m so damned tired of this nonsense statement re. RFK Jr.

For 20 years he has been systematically undermining vaccines. He continues to lie about them.

We still have a limited inventory of *most* sizes of these. Some sizes just have 1 left, so if you wanna get one, do it soon!

Squidfacts.net

Strawberry rose filled with water

"Cynthia" harvest strawberries in Oxnard CA. "This day it was very difficult to do my job because of the rain. The rows we need to walk through in the strawberry field were full of water. This makes it very difficult to work as it is extremely slippery." #WeFeedYou

If anyone works at CDC and wants to talk about the CDC now promoting the idea that vaccines might cause autism, my signal is emgarcia.85. I will protect your identity.

@edmarkey.bsky.social if you really want to support trans people, start by withdrawing support for dangerous censorship Bills like the Kids Online Safety Act.

KOSA is a Trojan Horse- promising ‘safety' when it will actually harm LGTBQ kids by blocking life-saving resources online.

I didn’t think I’d get in an accident after a health-related appt 😞

Thankfully, the person behind me, her passenger, and their car were okay 🙏

I was lucky that they were so understanding, with it being cold and raining… 🥺

The Political is Personal Alice Wong writes about her work as a disabled activist during the pandemic, and what’s fueling her activism and decision to vote.

'The abundant wisdom of disabled people gives me the power to continue. I write my truths as an act of love and resistance in the face of overwhelming bleakness because I know this is not a singular act. I dream with wild abandon imagining a better world for all of us.'

I am disappointed but not surprised. We are working to bring services to the community so that you are informed about your data. We appreciate all the support people have given and we are learning from the criticism.

🙌🙌🙌

Why We’re Running a Series About Access Access is still treated as if it’s a privilege, a burden, or a form of special treatment.

To add to the pile of Alice Wong's work (that we should continue reading for years and years to come), here's an archival link to an digital Bitch Media Access Issue that Alice co-edited back in 2021 (apologies for access issues on this archival link) web.archive.org/web/20211104...

psst reminder to book your appointments for flu and covid shots if you haven't already. just do it right now it takes two seconds ok xoxo

There must be a special place in hell for people who, with intent, dump vulnerable, poor people in deprived areas, actively preside over the further deterioration of those areas, and then blame the vulnerable, poor people they dumped there for the consequences.

Public Health Researchers Frame U.S. Deportations in the U.S. As National Health Crisis - Profolus Public health experts warn that intensive immigration enforcement in the United States has become a social determinant of health.

Public health experts warn that intensive immigration enforcement has become a structural determinant of wellbeing because of its influence on physical, psychological, and social indicators across communities.

Not only is this a callback to the Nazis but its cruelty for the sake of cruelty, they aren’t making money from this, it’s simply to punish asylum seekers, taking every last thing from them. I hope Labour as a party burns to the ground never to recover due to their xenophobia and transphobia.

Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.

Kids rely on adults for safety, but when adults & governments are intentionally spreading anti-vax misinformation, or actively reducing access to essential vaccines, who is to protect kids and safeguard their rights?

@statnews.com with @stefanswartpet.bsky.social

www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...

Today, we formally launch “The Diagnosis,” in partnership with Courier.

This digital series is in keeping with my core promise to all of you —> focus on truth and issues that matter to all of us and our health.

Episode 1: The Threats to SNAP

Please tune in!

@couriernewsroom.bsky.social

The trend of unproven peptides is spreading through influencers and RFK Jr. allies More Americans are turning to peptides for muscle building, skin rejuvenation, and to try and live longer even though the substances aren’t FDA approved.

The problematic peptide craze

apnews.com/article/pept...

A multimodal whole-slide foundation model for pathology - Nature Medicine Pretrained using 335,645 whole-slide images, a foundation model is developed to provide representations for slide- and patient-level tasks. It is capable of performing clinical tasks and generating reports even in data-scarce scenarios, such as rare cancer diagnosis and survival prediction, without requiring further fine-tuning.

TITAN: A groundbreaking AI model excels in pathology, generating accurate reports and retrieving rare diseases without fine-tuning or clinical labels.

by Ding T, Wagner SJ (...) Mahmood F et 26 al. in Nat Med #MedSky

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We’ve secured a decisive victory over the Trump Admin protecting over $200 million in academic recovery funding for afterschool learning, mental health services, and more.

This is a huge win for CA schools relying on this funding to support struggling students following the pandemic.

Sadly, the most obvious "tell" that these deportation videos are AI generated slop is that the ICE agents show their faces.

The Trump-MAHA-Stanford nexus of US health policy | CNN Politics In early 2022, Stanford medical student Santiago Sanchez set out to organize a campus debate with Jay Bhattacharya — a professor at the university whose outspoken denunciations of pandemic lockdowns m...

I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...

Okay, we've now shown that brain training bullshit definitely doesn't work, so can we please now put that research money and effort into studying some actual medical interventions?