Laura A. Sheets

Today in "DUH".

I don’t process acronyms well. I’m a pretty literal person, so that’s part of it. Also, a lot of meaning gets lost when things are abbreviated.

Prime example:
DEI. Instead of saying “DEI”, we should say the entire phrase, Divisity, Equity and Inclusion. Doing that…clarifies things.

You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case?

What makes it worse is that our tech overlords are now coming for the last vestiges of the good internet. The Internet Archive has been gutted. They are trying to dismantle Wikipedia. What was once a repository of knowledge has become a conduit of disinformation and distraction.

I can’t stress enough how much AI is ruining the internet. Pinterest is un-usable, Google image searches are overrun with misleading slop. It’s estimated that there are now more bots on the web than there are people. We have seen a wonderful thing destroyed in our lifetimes.

Times of crisis and change bring many challenges, and each of us has an opportunity to decide how our priorities, skills, and bandwidth guide us in acting. There are many activities out there, and this starter pack can connect you with them.

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Sec. 5. Initial Assessment and Strategy from the Make America Healthy Again Commission. (a) Make our Children Healthy Again Assessment. Within 100 days of the date of this order, the Commission shall submit to the President, through the Chair and the Executive Director, the Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment, which shall: (i) identify and describe childhood chronic disease in America compared to other countries; (ii) assess the threat that potential over-utilization of medication, certain food ingredients, certain chemicals, and certain other exposures pose to children with respect to chronic inflammation or other established mechanisms of disease, using rigorous and transparent data, including international comparisons; (iii) assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs; (iv) identify and report on best practices for preventing childhood health issues, including through proper nutrition and the promotion of healthy lifestyles;

Trump’s latest executive order (that was no doubt written by psychopath RFK Jr.) goes after antidepressants.

As someone whose life was saved by them, you will pry my prozac from my cold dead hands.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

BREAKING - Democrats CRUSHING special elections

Iowa state Senate - Democrat FLIPPED a Trump+21 seat by 4%

Minnesota state Senate - Democrat outperformed by +20 points

Westchester County NY Executive - Dem outperform +2

The anti-Trump anti-Musk backlash is RISING UP

Where in Toledo?

Part of the problem is that libraries are often understaffed and Collections don't often have time to sort through each individual title, relying on vendor lists or quick surface-level checks instead.

Where to Find All Those Deleted Government Websites In recent days—in response to directives from the Trump administration—thousands of federal agency web pages have been deleted or altered to remove research, reports, and references to everything from...

There are a number of efforts from scientists, researchers, journalists, and advocacy groups to compile and save information that has been removed from federal websites (or is at risk).

lifehacker.com/tech/find-de...

Opinion | Pfizer Stopped Us From Getting Ozempic Decades Ago (Gift Article) Researchers identified one key breakthrough for GLP-1 drugs in the 1980s, but Pfizer walked away.

It's not a miracle drug. It's the new Phen Phen.

Academics: do not quote your students' work, or their conversations with you, online. It's a disastrous breach of trust, to sneer at them on social media in this way. Why do people in our job do this? Why the need to parade our power & virtue by publicly condemning those we're supposed to educate?

Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.

Senate Democrats are considering voting NO or delaying every Trump nominee as retaliation for his overreach on ending USAID.

Smash the RT if you SUPPORT this plan. ZERO votes from Democrats!!

Trump just called for a *permanent* displacement of Gazans from their homeland.

If you’re on the left and you didn’t vote for Harris, I don’t wanna hear a DAMN thing about how someone needs to do something.

If you're not ok with sending a Nigerian prince your personal and private information, why would you be ok with a South African oligarch barging into government offices and stealing it?

There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.

Thank you, Canada!

Ronald Reagan: “Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies.

We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.”

FYI google have now stopped "-ai" working at the end of your search string.

So put this at the end (after a space) instead:

&udm=14

Fuck you #google.

#AI

Someone dressed as Hello Kitty in a pink princess dress wielding a sledgehammer standing over a laptop on the ground.

I want to stay informed but also every time I try to read the news

We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life

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