Melissa Dowell

Must read: xAI is poisoning Mississippi, captured via thermal imaging.

The candy heir vs. chocolate skimpflation The grandson of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups creator has launched a campaign against The Hershey Company, which owns the Reese's brand. He wants them to stop skimping on ingredients.

The grandson of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups creator has launched a campaign against The Hershey Company, which owns the Reese's brand. He wants them to stop skimping on ingredients.

If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

"Stripping anonymity from the internet would constitute one of the most sweeping rollbacks of civil rights in recent history. It would allow for unprecedented levels of mass surveillance and censorship, endangering the most marginalized members of society."

For most of my childhood my mom was a researcher at Entertainment Weekly and worked in their massive library of other magazines reporters were constantly referencing. We lose so much when reporters, or anyone else, can't access that history.

I’m debating if I should ask to up my meds because I feel less productive waiting on the machine changes than if I was pushing the pixels myself.

How are adhd people handling AI coding/designing?

My company asked me to try creating a few new workflows in Figma Make, but every time it takes more than a couple seconds to update, my brain immediately goes elsewhere because I can’t focus in like I usually do.

What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

5. The opinion also invokes mandatory reporting requirements, meaning therapists could be legally obligated to report colleagues and potentially the parents of transgender children as well.

Texas AG Paxton Declares Therapists Affirming Trans Youth To Be Illegal And Child Abuse The declaration echoes his 2022 efforts to target parents of trans youth with child abuse, and may force conversion therapy on trans youth in the state.

1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration:

Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure.

Its a horrifying escalation.

Novartis settles 18-month-old lawsuit from estate of Baltimore woman whose cells were extracted 75 years ago The family of a Baltimore woman whose cells were extracted for medical research without her consent 75 years ago has settled a lawsuit with Novartis, with terms of the agreement confidential, accor | ...

Major update to the story of #HenriettaLacks and the first immortal human cell line, HeLa cells!

Novartis and the Lacks' estate have reached a settlement.

www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/novar...

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AI update: replication crisis — Jessica Kant Regardless of who actually prints a story, it is the merger of social media and machine learning which increasingly drives narratives in the immediate wake of a major event. The next time a catastroph...

Reposting this because, hilariously, someone running an AI news aggregator just plagiarized the hell out of it and got shared 3x as much as the original post. So you know, here's the actual piece. Where I talk about LLMs making copies of copies of copies of copies and how that drives disinformation.

It is only Tuesday and the number of times I wrote out messages and forgot to hit send is up to 3

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Story by @josephcox.bsky.social www.404media.co/this-app-war...

Disinformation in the era of generative AI — Jessica Kant In the past two years, large language models have replaced traditional information search and delivery systems in increasingly jarring ways. As they become more integrated into our everday lives, it w...

"Rumor mills are rarely dissuaded by correction, and in the era of generative AI, truth is determined by who gets there first." jessk.org/blog/ai-and-...

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I used to have one of these pins on my bag & everyone loved them. Need to find it & put it on the new one.

Food poverty drops in Q4 as DA expands rice program, other interventions - Official Portal of the Department of Agriculture Food poverty in the Philippines fell sharply in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to...Read More

Food poverty in the Philippines dropped from 49% to 30% in Q4 2025, the steepest quarterly fall on record. The shift reflects expanded subsidised rice sales and infrastructure spending, with about five million families no longer identifying as food-poor. buff.ly/Uh6ixO6
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It was always going to be that one

I thought you meant for sale at the supermarket and was wondering which one in NYC would also sell furs

Laser Joan and the Rayguns A 24 pg one shot adventure comic about an all-female rock band collecting the three stories that originally ran in DARK HORSE PRESENTS.

Huh. SHHHHH don't tell the rest of the team, but I just added 3 slots for a developmental editing session (comics or prose) with me. I almost never take on new clients these days, but for this...

There’s been a man playing a keytar all over town for the past 4 days and I’m now convinced it is viral marketing for this.

Also, do not stop calling your lawmakers to protect #Section230. Call them everyday, because many LGBTQ+ youths need the internet to survive this cruel world that views their existence as undesirable. Repealing it is part of Project 2025.

U.S. House/Senate number: (202) 224-3121

A couple in furs

Pretty much

My partner wears so much body glitter for his shifts at the bourbon st bars it’s like dating a showgirl.

It is one day post Mardi Gras and I can confirm that every towel in my house is covered in glitter

GEO Group also provides guards for ICE flights and buses between ICE flights and detention centers.

If and when we get to the justice and accountability stage, don't forget the contractors.

pretty stunning chart

I had the honor of editing this one, and it's a sharp, clear portrait of how a major liberal university capitulated to the regime, what that means for trans folks otg and how people are organizing against it.