@karamcnair
You are very small & slow & I am training my cats to eat you; Tina Belcher, but without the kind loving parents. “I’m ok!” Never gives up her dead. Pushing around the weathervane Jesus. My cats have zero chill. “IT WAS BEANS!” “Is it about my cube?”
"Let it rip" is not an effective public health / infectious disease strategy. My thoughts below.
Does getting sick boost the immune system? www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/vid...
Violence is defined by the World Health Organization in the WRVH as “the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation”.
Forced exposure to SARS-CoV-2 is violence.
If you’re speaking out against war but not wearing a mask in public, you’re missing the point.
A picture of two young looking cats with tabby and white markings, one wears a collar with a bell. The caption reads "The CMA is expected to call for easier access to cheaper medicines online"
I think you've stumbled on to a feline conspiracy here, those two "children" also apparently work for the Competition and Markets Authority
omg, yes. haven't we already been through this? literally?
A colleague that gets it!
Excellent video explaining the abc’s of early childhood infections, and why getting a stack load of them, with maximum exposure methods is not good, and can be mitigated using simple measures.
Thank you!
“Instead of producing what looks like a generic critique from a nameless LLM,” Wired reported last week, Expert Review “lists a number of real academics and authors available to weigh in on your text. To be clear: Those people have nothing to do with this process.”🤬
The immune system is not a muscle.
It is a cleansing fire.
It causes collateral damage.
It has a limited supply of fuel.
It can get out of control.
Don’t burn your whole house down every time by catching every disease without caution.
So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity
this effectively eliminates the purported rehabilitative function of incarceration. its human caging
I'm aware @officialgrammarly.bsky.social has said people can opt out of this, THAT IS ALSO ENRAGING. LLMs have already coopted and stole and plundered creative people's work, now we also have to contact YOU after you steal our identities? Fuck all the way off with that! It's MORE THEFT YOU CLOWNS
Jimmy Pattison better head into drydock, stat.
three unknown orcas were spotted in vancouver harbor the past week. mysterious, unidentifiable, possessed of advanced cognitive and navigation skills, no doubt seeking yachts
Grammarly declined my request to interview CEO Shishir Mehrotra today. But it told me that in response to criticisms, it will allow experts to opt out of the feature by emailing expertoptout@superhuman.com.
I've decided that instead of wasting my own time to see if Grammarly has stolen my name and writing for use their business, I'd just email them to opt out and make them waste some time cleaning up their own goddamn mess.
www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
An excellent piece, and a good reminder of something my coworkers and I were talking about the other day: many of the things we're talking about are crimes if a person or company does them, actual named crimes, and laundering that criminality through AI shouldn't change that.
My letter to 3 BC NDP Ministers (Energy & Climate Solutions; Environment & Parks; Water, Land & Resource Stewardship) regarding FortisBC's wastewater discharge into Átl’ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound.
#woodfibrelng #squamish #bcpoli
bcgreencaucus.ca/mla-valeriot...
What she said and also the whole thread.
Alex, I’ll take: “Drinks that I will never consume, for $500”. 🤮
Fucking pricks.
Great news. The UK Government has issued new guidance on ventilation in schools, including specifications on air cleaners.
We’re getting there.
go.corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/XLsgtXn
#CleanAir #IndoorAirQuality #Schools #PublicHealth #AirFiltration
Curious raccoons enjoy solving puzzles even without food reward, UBC study finds
There's also the fact that Rowling has been fairly explicit that the money she earns through Harry Potter she's putting into anti-trans lobbying efforts.
There's a difference, IMHO, between an artist with a shitty private life, and an artist using their money to fund regressive social change.
This. My university keeps wanting me to make a “syllabot,” an LLM-based chatbot my students can query about the syllabus. And all I can think about is all the resources being consumed so no one has to use Ctrl+F.
Facts ⬇️
It is THE fundamental problem. To survive and prosper we must make billionaires history. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we need massive taxes on the ultra-rich. As in the 1940s. People get confused about this. The main purpose of such taxes is *not* to raise revenue. The point is to stop the few dominating the many. It's an essential democratic measure.
reminded of my most dad coded political opinion which is that we need a universal Naps and Lil Snacks For All program
when I was a kid I thought executives at these big companies didn't seem smart then I got to college and saw the challenges of coordinating technical teams I thought maybe I'd underestimated them then worked at EA off and on a few years met some executives and quit because I was right the first time