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Beyond mistakes or nonsense, deliberately bad information being injected into AI search summaries is leading people down potentially harmful paths. www.wired.com/story/google...
For those unaware, a quick primer on perhaps the most dangerous of the oligarchs.
Peter Thiel.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Kinda weird/terrible to think about how Mr. Rogers would be considered radical antifa by today's standards and he was a Republican pastor.
It. Doesn't. Actually. Understand. A. Single. Word. Of. What. It. Is. Fed.
It just chops up sentences and calculates how often words follow each other. That's it. Nothing more. It can't summarize material for you because it doesn't understand that material.
AI advocates: you really need to learn to stop coming off to subject matter experts in other fields as if you’re Kool-Aid manning into the room and going “you’re dumb not to use these tools for your trivially easy jobs”
you may think this is an unfair read on your intentions, but life is unfair.
The hero who disarmed one of the terrorists in Sydney turned out to be 43-year-old Ahmed al-Ahmed — a fruit shop owner and father of two.
He was shot twice and is currently in hospital. He is scheduled to undergo surgery.
He had no experience with weapons of any kind.
JetBlue Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with🇺🇸AirForce plane near Venezuela
Pilot calls incident ‘outrageous’ & says🇺🇸military plane didn’t have transponder turned on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Like its lawlessness, the USG’s determination to punch ourselves in the face is boundless
As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation predicts doctors, hospitals, and other providers will lose $32 Billion in revenue and $7.7 Billion in uncompensated care if subsidies are not extended
People who get priced out of their health insurance still get sick
Effects will be worst in GOP-leaning states
unemployment graph
We have not seen this level of unemployment since the end of the pandemic.
Trumponomics: putting Americans last
What happens when an anti-science advocate takes control of the country’s most important public health institution? We’re about to find out.
More here. Including specific action items we can take.
Whenever I discuss the MAHA movement or critique aspects of it, I inevitably receive comments like, “At least we’re finally talking about ways to improve health and reduce chronic disease.” But public health didn’t start with MAHA.
As part of our TPM series on the realities of mass deportation in New York, I spent a lot of time over these past few months in ICE court.
Here is what I saw.
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🚨 FDA FIRST 🚨
A historic moment in regenerative medicine: the FDA has approved the first cellular therapy for severe aplastic anemia — expanding life-saving options for patients without compatible donors.
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🌐 #INPST #DHPSP #CellTherapy
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WHO reaffirms no link between vaccines and autism
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A report published in a CDC journal reaffirms the effectiveness of COVID vaccines at preventing severe disease in children
Let it show, friends. But not at the office, please… wait till you get home. 😘 TGIF!
Image of Shax from Star Trek Lower Decks with the words "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"
We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
Well we have corollary:
For all the setbacks for the world’s women in 2025, the leaders and vanguards on the 2025 Forbes Power Women list stood as examples of resilience in turbulent times.
Well… which did you choose? I’m having tea. 🙃
Under my regime, the tech industry must have all new technologies approved by a citizen jury who assess 1) what problem the tech is attempting to address and 2) whether it actually addresses it
“The world’s 7 richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what 🌎 sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion.” www.mintpressnews.com/the-seven-ri...
How cool is this?!
Exquisite. 🩷
Drug runners are camouflaging their boats so they don’t get blown up.
You know, I'm 70 years old, and I've been thru hell, climbed close to heaven, and touched back down here on Earth, which had everything necessary for humans to thrive. Greed has destroyed much. Maybe it's too late to save it. But we need to try.
Trump administration unlawfully canceled FEMA disaster prevention program, judge rules - Reuters
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