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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 13h

My 2yo just informed me that her favorite food is gummy bears wrapped in salami. Then she held eye contact while wrapping a gummy bear in salami and eating it.

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Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 13h

I think they might have aired together? Vague memories.

Ironically I stopped by my friend's apartment when they were airing and watched them before watching literally any of the other episodes.

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Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 13h

Hope it goes as well as possible! 🤞

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 19h

Drake paying his lawyers for his losing lawsuit:

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20h

US beef prices have now reached a record high.

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Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 13h

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 22h

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

www.cbc.ca

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 22h

the number of times I've seen Canadians give land acknowledgements at tech conferences and then immediately launch into discussions about "Canadian digital sovereignty" that completely excludes any concept of Indigenous rights or even us as Peoples at all. It's absurd, I can't wrap my head around it

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 22h

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

www.cbc.ca

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Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 13h

Just blocked an AI booster guy for asserting that "humans are bad at math" just like GenAI.

No! We literally invented it. Math is a human construct and a human discipline. We made math. We are math. Any machines we made to assist with math were designed and programmed by us.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 15h

Just saw someone sincerely say that "everyone uses AI" in research, and that is just not a true statement.

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · May 17

About 30% of researchers have used AI to write or edit their paper, and a majority who have done so did not disclose it.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A chart showing percentage of ppl who use AI to edit, translate, make summaries, and write first draft

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Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 14h

My mother taught my 10yo to knit this summer and she has managed to knit a dishcloth and is starting on a scarf. (I taught her the purl stitch and how to cast on.) My 10yo has now taught my 13yo the knit stitch and he is practicing. Here's hoping I get two knitters knitting out of this.

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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 16h

Sad news about Diane Keaton. So many good movies. Personally, I will always be grateful for her role in The Family Stone, the only major film I've seen to show a flat mastectomy closure in a thoughtful and accurate way. It is a brief scene, but it matters.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 19h

Inflatable frog suit that reads "this machine kills fascists."

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Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 18h

Goodbye, Diane Keaton

The First Wives Club - You Don't Own Me

YouTube video by WatchWithMati

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 18h

Long Covid and IACC advocacy cannot be condoning a regime that’s undertaking this project. There is no version that ends well for us.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 19h

The promotion of pseudoscience about a supposed “cause” or “cure” of autism and the destruction of special education (and all of public education, really) are part of the same project. It is a fascist attempt to expel certain people from the body politic, based in eugenics.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 20h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks! That's worth knowing!

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Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 21h

My phone is on its last legs (some apps refusing to work on it anymore).

I usually buy refurbished Android phones, but considering a refurbished iPhone this time. I am trying to deGoogle, but obviously apple isn't much better?

Is it better enough to deal with the inconvenience of switching?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 1d

Have you filled a city kermit for this protest?

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

Traveling halfway across the world & packing into a room for a conference panel on the theme of resisting eugenics.

But not wearing a respirator during a surge in the ongoing pandemic.

What a fun way to show how the research & scholars you’re there to ostensibly listen to mean jack shit to you.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

I like how it looks like a bunch of happy cartoon animals have chased the goons up a tree

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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Hazie @hazie.bsky.social · 1d

“If we assume, conservatively, that it takes 12 to 15 years to develop acceptable therapeutics for Long COVID, and then another 18 years for them to reach clinical practice, people my age — and yours — will have passed before they get help. We need to accelerate this.”

The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 1d

A group of 53 people with #LongCOVID joined a clinical trial for Vyvgart. For many of them, the treatment changed everything.

Then, without warning, Argenx canceled the trial.

Most of them have now relapsed.

They're calling on the NIH and HHS to study the drug: bit.ly/48l1Qp5

A photo Nicole Barrick, a woman in a pink KN95 mask, receives an infusion of Vyvgart. The text reads, "The Sick Times. Vyvgart brought us back to life, but the Long COVID trial was canceled. We are calling on the NIH and HHS to study the drug. By Clare Banaszewski, Nicole Barrick, Mike Bilik, Addie Davis, Mia Delli Gatti, Ellie Hayes, Roman White."

"For those living with Long COVID, every ounce of hope is hard-won. This isn’t just about physical symptoms. It’s about the emotional toll of being given hope — and then having it taken away." - Vyvgart clinical trial participants
Clare Banaszewski, Nicole Barrick, Mike Bilik, Addie Davis, Mia Delli Gatti, Ellie Hayes, Roman White

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Anna Carey @annacarey.ca · 1d

Authoritarianism is a high-control philosophy that requires absolute authority to determine social norms. If we can show up to serious moments in frog costumes, it's a blatant refusal to recognize that authority even in the face of weapons of war. Creative shit matters.

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 1d

Do you all think it’s inhumane to leave people rotting in bed (literally, not metaphorically)? Im talking about people who cannot tolerate light and sound, and maybe even touch. People who can’t drink or chew on their own. For decades.

If so then you should look up Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.

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