The Alien Enemies Act was part of the package of the Alien and Sedition Acts that risked choking off American liberty before the constitutional order had fully taken hold. It was last used to justify the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
I cannot over-emphasize the colossal loser energy of taking a platform where once the biggest stars in the history of popular culture voluntarily posted original content every day because they enjoyed it into a pyramid scheme where the worst dipshits on earth pay to be fake friends with each other.
If you love fantasy books, you’ll definitely want to read this article. “A woman with dwarfism, Judy-Lynn del Rey was best known for founding Del Rey Books, a science fiction and fantasy imprint that turned fantasy in particular into a major publishing category.” #BookSky
Think of your favorite fantasy or science fiction novel. You’ll know the author and title, of course. But can you think of its editor or publisher?
A lot of people have asked me about the specificity and sensitivity of the current COVID-19 rapid tests, and the data was a little gappy. This study answers some questions. TLDR: specificity is great (99.6%)! sensitivity is complicated (34.5% overall). symptoms + pos test is most certain. 🧪
The decline in RDT sensitivity throughout the pandemic can primarily be attributed to the reduced prevalence of symptomatic infections among vaccinated individuals and individuals infected with Omicro...
A Brief History of Students Today Aren’t Prepared for College 🧵
1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia 2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff www.404media.co/the-editors-...
WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.
🚨🌀 To keep up with info about Hurricane Milton, please pin my two feeds: —The HURRICANE MILTON feed is crowdsourced information from all of Bluesky. It's noisy but human. bsky.app/profile/josh...bsky.app/profile/did:...
A lot of it is being driven by some incredible work by violence interruptor programs: www.violenceinterrupters.org/violence-int...
We told those motherfuckers it wouldn’t but it’s not like they’ve ever let evidence stop them before
