Perfection

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die OpenAI accused of hiding full ChatGPT logs in murder-suicide case.

I do not believe in the death penalty for humans.

I do support the death penalty for corporations.

When they murder people, let's dissolve them. Break them up, destroy their technology, nationalize their assets.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die OpenAI accused of hiding full ChatGPT logs in murder-suicide case.

LLMs.

They promote suicide and murder, undermine a century of educational practice, drive deskilling, harm the environment, and benefit foreign adversaries spreading disinformation.

But the federal government wants to prohibit states from regulating them.

You'd think they were guns.

The ‘silent’ brain cells that shape our behaviour, memory and health Astrocytes make up one-quarter of the brain, but researchers are only now realizing their true value.

Long thought of as support cells, astrocytes are emerging as key players in health and disease

go.nature.com/4pEKHN3

Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2 “Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Myco...

Immunity debt's "...explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year...

A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems." 🛟😷medsky

This is very interesting (and yeah, I also had an initial “oh come on, that’s nuts” reaction to the first part of this article, but as I read on, I realized he was making some pretty compelling points)

ALLOWAY: “.. the danger is that a collateral crunch becomes a credit crunch and the entire AI-finance-economy flywheel comes to a screeching halt.”

@tracyalloway.bsky.social @weisenthal.bsky.social
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

just....enjoy this

When Broadway flops get a second life as student musicals Each year, many more Americans see live theater in local schools than on Broadway. So when a show has a short run in New York? It's not over.

Each year, many more Americans see live theater in local schools than on Broadway. So when a show has a short run in New York? It's not over. n.pr/4olRgmZ

📍 U.S. COVID-19 Wastewater Heat Map (Sept 29, 2025) Data from CDC wastewater surveillance shows transmission is either very high or very low in most states, with few in between. 🟥 Very High spread across much of the West, Midwest, and Northeast. 🟧 High in parts of the South and Midwest. 🟨 Some Low/Very Low areas, but limited. As the 11th national wave declines, “COVID is everywhere” — shifting north and east.

📊 U.S. COVID-19 Estimates – Sept 29, 2025 (PMC Model) Infections 1 in 66 people actively infectious (1.5%) 743,000 new daily infections 5.54M infections in the past week 185M infections so far in 2025 Avg: 4.68 infections per person Long COVID From daily infections: 37K–149K new cases From weekly infections: 277K–1.11M new cases Excess Deaths From daily infections: 210–350 From weekly infections: 1,600–2,600 ⚠️ Even after passing the national peak, infections, long COVID, and excess deaths remain high.

US Weekly COVID update: Sep 29, 2025

🔸1 in 66 Actively Infectious
🔸743,000 New Daily Infections
🔸5,540,000 Infections In The Past Week
🔸185,000,000 Infections in 2025
🔸277,000 to 1,110,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases
🔸1,600 to 2,600 Weekly Deaths

pmc19.com/data/

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

As others have already said, this essay by James Marriott is well worth taking the time to read. Now, back to my book if I can just prise my iPhone out of my hand for a few minutes… open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...

This was a fun one. Two starfleet captains needing out about D&D among other things. Give it a listen! #startrek #startreksnw #startrekpicard #dungeonsanddragons

So NB 1.8.1 (aka Nimbus as per @tryangregory.bsky.social )

Comes with an added nasty mutation.

Masks are variant independent😷

So exciting to see the new Handbook of Social Psychology in open-access format! Enjoy our chapter on emotion and all the other amazing chapters here: the-hsp.com @affectscience.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social

Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds As the press pushes "immunity debt" past the breaking point of believability, are parents ready to wake up to the illness crisis?

Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds

Harm has been documented to T cells, B cells, dendritic cells, NK cells, and the complement system, and studies consistently find immune dysregulation to be a key feature of Long COVID

www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep...

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

Please check out this powerful statement re: #NIH by @kerialthoff.bsky.social :

🎥: www.instagram.com/reel/DF3kmec...

Then go here to check out the impact for *your* state:

💰: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

& Contact your US Sen.s/Rep.!:

☎️ : www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

Drinking may have given me cancer. The alcohol industry has worked hard to downplay it. The science is clear that alcohol raises the risk of breast cancer, but boozemakers have downplayed the link.

www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

Trinket exhausted after Christmas morning.

European starlings are exceptional mimics, including human speech.

SOUND ON 🔊
@bbcspringwatch.bsky.social

Trinket says Hi! to all the new friends.

Jesse greeting new friends after a nap. Be well.

A guidebook for critical thought, required reading in our current time.

Flash greeting all of our friends. Enjoy the day!!

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay