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They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

AI is exhausting workers so much, researchers have dubbed the condition ‘AI brain fry’ | CNN Business Part of the pitch for using AI at work goes like this: It’s like having a team of people to delegate your grunt work to, freeing you up to think strategically and maybe, just maybe, take a long lunch ...

AI is exhausting workers so much, researchers have dubbed the condition ‘AI brain fry’ www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/b...

uhhhh @danielbiss.bsky.social what’s going on here?

Has anyone seen the latest post by Mamdani putting down Christians and Jewish people? Or how about Representative Omar? Yeah. Me either. Because they don't exist. But I'm sure everyone has seen the disgusting post by Tuberville. And the one by Andy Ogles?

#USDemocracy

I've been wearing shorts for a month.

19 states rely on our snowmelt for their drinking water.

We're currently at a 40-year low in snowpack.

Trump’s Humiliating War Miscalculation Exposed — The Daily Beast Trump was briefed several times on Iran’s intentions with the Strait of Hormuz, which has now become the country’s strongest leverage.

Trump was warned repeatedly that Iran would block the Strait of Hormuz if the US attacked.
He said Iran would fold before it came to that. 13 US troops dead. 1,300+ Iranians killed. Oil prices spiking. Now he’s asking other countries to bail him out.

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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Straight of Hormuz, with Buddha imposed, text: The realization that the lack of oil isn't causing your suffering, but the desire for oil itself, on your path to enlightenment.

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

A great joy of mine was how rare bald eagles were when I was a kid and how many there are around here now. We CAN come together to address our impacts on other beings and sometimes its is fast enough for recovery.

Cambridge hospital’s mask upgrade appears to eliminate Covid risk to staff Hospital infection study shows use of FFP3 respirators at Addenbrooke’s ‘may have cut ward-based infection to zero’

We have been living with unnecessary infections for years.

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Nanos survey says border crossing no longer ‘on the radar’ for many Canadians A new survey from Nanos Research for CTV News found 43 per cent of Canadians are less likely to travel to the United States in 2026, compared to the previous year.

This is a long-term behaviour shift. Billions of dollars siphoned right out of the US economy almost overnight, never to return.

I was talking to MSc students today about the smallpox samples in store in the US and Russia and what might happen if it escaped. They went very quiet when I pointed out that none of them had been vaccinated…

How smallpox claimed its final victim How did British medical worker Janet Parker become the world's last victim of smallpox?

Mind-bogglingly.

I found a harrowing article about the last known case of smallpox:

A black and white photo of a man suffering from smallpox. His face is riddled with pustules.

I posted a 1912 photo of a man with smallpox and someone asked if it was AI. That says something about the moment we’re living in: because of vaccination, we’re now so far removed from this virus that real images of it look fake. #medicalhistory #vaccines #vaccineswork #skystorians

They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage

At the beginning of the pandemic some disabled people felt hope.

We saw inclusion and accessibility improve overnight.

We saw accommodations put in place that we had spent years begging for.

We saw the world adapt.

That hope was ripped away during the rush back to normal.

It still hurts.

McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…

The Nordic heating experience of the previous oil crisis is the kind of sufficiency and demand-side climate action we need also in transport. See it as a system that should be based in utility, not waste. Affordability, not exclusion.

Meghan Markle Makes Surprise Appearance Visiting Patients at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles Meghan Markle made a surprise visit for patients at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles on Thursday, March 12. The Duchess of Sussex, 44, first stopped by the Creative Oasis area of the hospital where she...

Meghan Markle visited a children’s hospital and wore a mask!

I can’t explain how big a deal this is for vulnerable people who’ve spent the last 6 years begging people to mask up to protect us.

This is visible ally ship.

This is community care.

This is leading by example.

I cannot reiterate enough with the frequency and gravity it deserves that every reinfection increases the cumulative risk of Long COVlD.

Our PMC survey data (n>2,000) suggest it is rare to avoid LC after 5+ known infections. I'll talk more about that again Sunday night in Becky's Space.

Needed by so many people. Share widely

Several large, mature pine trees with thick, dark, textured bark dominate the foreground and middle ground. Their crowns extend upwards, allowing sunlight to filter through the branches. The forest is well-lit by late afternoon sunlight, which creates a warm, atmosphere. The forest floor is covered in dry, brown pine needles and scattered rocks.

The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don’t yet know. But what we see is the power of unity. What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together.
― Robin Wall Kimmerer,

#ForestFriday #ECK
#trees #scape
#photography

Privacy commissioner Patricia Kosseim says Ford's ambition to shield himself and cabinet from Freedom of Information, "is about hiding government-related business to evade public accountability."
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This would be a good day to remind people what happened in January:

A panel of judges sided with Global News and the Information and Privacy Commissioner and agreed Doug Ford was using his personal phone for government work - and that those records should be public. #OnPoli

Grammarly's appropriation of personae is the logical extension-ad-absurdum of appropriation of the material produced by those people (in their actual human form).

Well, I'm obviously thinking about the Grammarly debacle and
@juliaangwin.com's lawsuit and I always just come back to the this entire sector's utter ignorance of and disdain for all other forms of contribution, knowledge and expertise, and/or all of it being theirs for the taking.

It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke.

This is not a joke.

We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.

"I'm much happier with the nazis"

This right here. If LLMs are so useful, why do evangelists need a pat on the back, a thumbs up, *and* a gold star?

All these fuckers are the same: find a way to restrict and monetize what the universe gives us for free.

Manuscript submitted: Leo di caprio looking young and healthy in Titanic Manuscript accepted: Leo di caprio looking like he's at death's door in The Revenant

Just had a paper accepted after 4 rounds of revisions and *10* reviewers!