Turning a former slave plantation into the country’s largest maximum security prison [that produces goods for low cost] is so on the nose that you’d have to be a born and bred racist to continue arguing that the mass incarceration of Black and Brown people is anything but slavery by another name.

It’s a system of magic in which devotees are explicitly encouraged to evaluate themselves and others and to guide their life decisions based on meaningless chance correlations. It’s hard for me to see that as harmless tbh

reminder that all genders are eligible for the vaccine to age 45 in the US! you're eligible even if you've had HPV! the vaccine covers nine strains! insurance pays! the shots are pretty easy! NO CERVICAL CANCER!!

DLluckytran.bsky.socialJan 22, 2024 7:56pm

"No cervical cancer cases have been detected in women who have been fully vaccinated against HPV, Public Health Scotland has revealed." Vaccines work!

HPV vaccine stops women in Scotland from getting cervical cancer, study finds

No cervical cancer cases have been detected in women who have been fully vaccinated against the human papillomavirus.

making sure this piece of lore makes it over here: suggestions for how to pronounce hexadecimal strings, from Datamation magazine, 1968

Even without fit testing, N95s reduced exhaled viral load by 98% “…results suggest that N95 respirators could be the standard of care in nursing homes and healthcare settings when respiratory viral infections are prevalent in the community and healthcare-associated transmission risk is elevated.”

JVjvipondmd.bsky.socialJan 2, 2024 4:47pm

Important preprint here: Relative Efficacy of Masks and Respirators as Source Control for Viral Aerosol Shedding from People Infected with SARS-CoV-2: A Human Controlled Trial papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

UGguardian-world-rss.bsky.socialJan 8, 2024 2:12pm

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...

This is such a good piece by Alvin Tillery, especially in putting Gay's academic record in context. Two points. Black students at Harvard, including Gay, were told that hate speech was protected. No problem with white students flying confederate flags on campus. medium.com/@atillery2/p...

When I was growing up it was hard to convince older people you couldn't just show up and apply for a job anymore. They just couldn't wrap their heads around it. Now we tell younger people to "just Google it" without appreciating that all the search engines are broken.

Really nice story about getting some lost orcas out of a lake where they'd gotten stuck www.ktoo.org/2024/01/03/s...

Just go ahead and block Alpha News, everyone. Don’t engage. They’re very bad news