@ellemichelem.bsky.social
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Holiday gathering reminder 🎁
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
Study Examines Performance of Serial COVID Testing - News Center
Testing performance of rapid antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2 improved for both asymptomatic and symptomatic patients after testing multiple times in 48-hour intervals, according to findings published in ...
news.feinberg.northwestern.edu
December 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Holiday gathering reminder 🎁
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
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Breaking: New bipartisan bill would make 2026 the year online protest organizing dies.
Dems and R’s alike have just indicated they plan to end the first amendment of the Internet next year. Our statement: fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12...
Dems and R’s alike have just indicated they plan to end the first amendment of the Internet next year. Our statement: fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12...
Statement: With 230 repeal bill, Dems target 2026 as year online protest organizing and reproductive healthcare info dies
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has just reintroduced a bill in the Senate and the House to sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, aka the Internet’s First Amendment, by the end of 2026...
fightforthefuture.org
December 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Breaking: New bipartisan bill would make 2026 the year online protest organizing dies.
Dems and R’s alike have just indicated they plan to end the first amendment of the Internet next year. Our statement: fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12...
Dems and R’s alike have just indicated they plan to end the first amendment of the Internet next year. Our statement: fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12...
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The death cult running America cares about the lives of trans as much as it cares about the lives of the rest of us -- not at all.
I’m at HHS headquarters where RFK Jr. is announcing new restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors by spouting pseudoscience and political misinformation that goes against every major medical association.
December 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The death cult running America cares about the lives of trans as much as it cares about the lives of the rest of us -- not at all.
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When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
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Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?
December 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?
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just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"
December 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"
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Ditto community management - think of it as cultivating positive engagement, behavior, and culture… which reduces the need for moderation and reduces racism, harassment, etc.
I did a whole decade of research on this. People still think online groups spontaneously engage 🙄
I did a whole decade of research on this. People still think online groups spontaneously engage 🙄
We had a goodish internet..
But forums were racist, the platforms you miss often stole willfully from the marginalized :
Forums require moderation that folks didn’t think was work , so moderators and their institutional knowledge never got systemetized
But forums were racist, the platforms you miss often stole willfully from the marginalized :
Forums require moderation that folks didn’t think was work , so moderators and their institutional knowledge never got systemetized
December 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Ditto community management - think of it as cultivating positive engagement, behavior, and culture… which reduces the need for moderation and reduces racism, harassment, etc.
I did a whole decade of research on this. People still think online groups spontaneously engage 🙄
I did a whole decade of research on this. People still think online groups spontaneously engage 🙄
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In a dangerous departure from democratic norms, the Trump administration escalated its effort to punish Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) by turning its review of the senator’s critiques against the president into an official Command Investigation under military law.
Trump Admin Intensifies Military Probe Against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, Launches Command Investigation
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In a dangerous departure from democratic norms, the Trump administration escalated its effort to punish Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) by turning its review of the senator’s critiques against the president into an official Command Investigation under military law.
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BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
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I watch this every few weeks to remind myself of how little we actually know about the planet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDoV...
Dinosaurs Were Weirder Than We Thought
YouTube video by Cleo Abram
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I watch this every few weeks to remind myself of how little we actually know about the planet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDoV...
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I have been seeing a lot of live theater lately, my partner loves it and lives in nyc
and yes I know I’m a lucky bastard, that’s a given
but I tell you what: it’s a terrific remedy for being sick to your soul about all the slop out there
good, bad, meh: it cannot be sloppified. it has the juice
and yes I know I’m a lucky bastard, that’s a given
but I tell you what: it’s a terrific remedy for being sick to your soul about all the slop out there
good, bad, meh: it cannot be sloppified. it has the juice
December 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I have been seeing a lot of live theater lately, my partner loves it and lives in nyc
and yes I know I’m a lucky bastard, that’s a given
but I tell you what: it’s a terrific remedy for being sick to your soul about all the slop out there
good, bad, meh: it cannot be sloppified. it has the juice
and yes I know I’m a lucky bastard, that’s a given
but I tell you what: it’s a terrific remedy for being sick to your soul about all the slop out there
good, bad, meh: it cannot be sloppified. it has the juice
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Every few years there's a bunch of "pivot to video" discourse about how creatives should all start making videos instead of doing text-based work. And every few years we discover again that the supposed "popularity" of video is based on fake audience numbers created by the video platforms.
December 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Every few years there's a bunch of "pivot to video" discourse about how creatives should all start making videos instead of doing text-based work. And every few years we discover again that the supposed "popularity" of video is based on fake audience numbers created by the video platforms.
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"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
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Ok I will pay for the newsletter of the person who reads the NYT every day and writes a run down of what’s wrong with its coverage because too many well-intentioned people still trust it
I would pay $15/month for this
I would pay $15/month for this
December 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Ok I will pay for the newsletter of the person who reads the NYT every day and writes a run down of what’s wrong with its coverage because too many well-intentioned people still trust it
I would pay $15/month for this
I would pay $15/month for this
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I wrote about the multiple tragedies of the last few days, Hanukkah, Trump and how the forces of light and dark are trapped in a battle for our souls.
Flaming out
Trump may beckon darkness, but he can never extinguish the light.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I wrote about the multiple tragedies of the last few days, Hanukkah, Trump and how the forces of light and dark are trapped in a battle for our souls.
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Imagine if journalists were allowed to speak of "unexpectedly turbulent rainstorms" as the kind of predictable development in a world where energy intensive bubbles drive economic growth?
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/core...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/core...
December 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Imagine if journalists were allowed to speak of "unexpectedly turbulent rainstorms" as the kind of predictable development in a world where energy intensive bubbles drive economic growth?
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/core...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/core...
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Here's today's evidence that Trump is trying to destroy the economy for everyone who isn't rich enough to have daddy pay for Penn.
GOP Forcing Eight Million Student Loan Borrowers Into Repayment - The American Prospect
The most affordable of all the federal repayment programs is ending sooner than planned after Trump conspired with red-state attorneys general to kill it.
prospect.org
December 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Here's today's evidence that Trump is trying to destroy the economy for everyone who isn't rich enough to have daddy pay for Penn.
Who could have predicted?
New UK MI6 chief: Tech bosses are becoming as powerful as nations. Tech creates “peril” as weapons, drones and robots inflicted devastation on the battlefield, and some algorithms could “become as powerful as states”.
www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...
www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...
New MI6 chief: Tech bosses are becoming as powerful as nations
Blaise Metreweli, in her first public speech as head of the intelligence agency, says the world is being remade by technology that was once the stuff of fiction
www.thetimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Who could have predicted?
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Scoop: Musk diving into 2026 midterms for the GOP
Investing in the Vance dictatorship that was the plan all along
archive.ph/xRnfz
Investing in the Vance dictatorship that was the plan all along
archive.ph/xRnfz
December 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Scoop: Musk diving into 2026 midterms for the GOP
Investing in the Vance dictatorship that was the plan all along
archive.ph/xRnfz
Investing in the Vance dictatorship that was the plan all along
archive.ph/xRnfz
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
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'Please do not believe Trump': Students in 'chaos' as president spreads false shooter info
www.rawstory.com/trump-riskin...
www.rawstory.com/trump-riskin...
'Please do not believe Trump': Students in 'chaos' as president spreads false shooter info
Donald Trump on Saturday was forced to issue a correction for his own public statement after the president falsely reported information about an active shooter, but the damage may have already been do...
www.rawstory.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
'Please do not believe Trump': Students in 'chaos' as president spreads false shooter info
www.rawstory.com/trump-riskin...
www.rawstory.com/trump-riskin...
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To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
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Tried this and the podcast seemed to refer to the story below, but the AI "podcaster" announced they would be discussing "whether or not people with intellectual disabilities should be executed" without mentioning any context until later and it was awful. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
December 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Tried this and the podcast seemed to refer to the story below, but the AI "podcaster" announced they would be discussing "whether or not people with intellectual disabilities should be executed" without mentioning any context until later and it was awful. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...