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It's ME(Jaime)

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Scientific Director, #MEAction Stanford Med Université de Montréal TIME100 Health 2024 #ME, #EDS, #POTS, #LongCOVID Views my own exceedhergrasp1 on Twitter

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · Mar 30

Hello, new followers! Past time I did an intro thread. 👋

I'm Jaime Seltzer, Scientific Director at #MEAction, a nonprofit for people with infection-associated chronic illnesses like #MECFS & #LongCOVID. I maintain research affiliations w/Stanford U & Université de Montréal. 🧵

It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 2h

I also said this exactly six hours ago wth 😂

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 9h

Some folks can't see the fascism, and so they have false optimism that causes them not to act against it.

Other folks see the fascism, and they feel so hopeless that they don't act against it.

What we need is a combination of the ability to see things honestly as well as to be empowered.

It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 2h

ty!

It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 2h

I remember this-- and it's a great story!

Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 3h

Comrades, I’m inclined to tell you a story from my organizing days. In 2018, I was one of hundred of union organizers who had the privilege to assist with a nine-day, statewide, unauthorized teachers’ strike to save their schools from a critical staffing shortage. Buckle up, it’s a good one. 1/x

It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 2h

This is it.

Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 3h

What I know from my experience in WV is this: when the masses figure it out that we have one common enemy, and decide to work together against that enemy, their political differences dissolve pretty quick. And whether the official leadership likes it or not, when the workers get going, they’re going

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 3h

Comrades, I’m inclined to tell you a story from my organizing days. In 2018, I was one of hundred of union organizers who had the privilege to assist with a nine-day, statewide, unauthorized teachers’ strike to save their schools from a critical staffing shortage. Buckle up, it’s a good one. 1/x

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 3h

There is a tremendous amount of class consciousness in the hills and hollers of West Virginia. Every person you’ll meet there has a story of a father, brother, uncle, or cousin—or their own story—of being out on strike for months from the mines. The deprivation in those counties is real.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

The more we use this technology, the more we necessarily turn over not only our data and our privacy but the basic things we need to survive. Meanwhile, reality is totally reshaped by LLMs as increasingly authoritarian media is pumped out as training data. Nothing could be more useful to them.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine for a moment a world so dependent on data centers that every aspect of municipal infrastructure must be reshaped. Not around human need, but maintaining GPU farms that use exponentially more power and water with each build. Models are only growing, and our resources are only diminishing.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

It should strike people that the stock market isn’t crashing despite the shutdown. Like sub-prime mortgages, it has yet again totally detached itself from economic reality while they speculate on how many workers they can fire to replace with AI. It is helping a failing economic strategy save face.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 4h

Onion always wins most half-assed alt text

why are y'all like this, the headlines are the joke and would have taken one extra minute

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 4h

Somebody who thinks an ai summary is the same as reading a document would go to a restaurant and eat the menu

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5h

AI “summaries” are not summaries but slop

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 6h

Judge Sara Ellis' opinion in IL v. Trump is an absolute banger:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

The Court therefore must make a credibility assessment as to which version of the facts
should be believed. While the Court does not doubt that there have been acts of vandalism, civil
disobedience, and even assaults on federal agents, the Court cannot conclude that Defendants’
declarations are reliable. Two of Defendants’ declarations refer to arrests made on September 27,
2025 of individuals who were carrying weapons and assaulting federal agents. See Doc. 62-2 at
19; Doc. 62-4 at 5. But neither declaration discloses that federal grand juries have refused to
return an indictment against at least three of those individuals, which equates to a finding of a
lack of probable cause that any crime occurred. See United States v. Ray Collins and Jocelyne
Robledo, 25-cr-608, Doc. 26 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 7, 2025); United States v. Paul Ivery, 25-cr-609
(N.D. Ill.). In addition to demonstrating a potential lack of candor by these affiants, it also calls
into question their ability to accurately assess the facts. Similar declarations were provided by
these same individuals in Chicago Headline Club et. al. v. Noem, 25-cv-12173, Doc. 35-1, Doc.
35-9 (N.D. Ill.), a case which challenged the Constitutionality of ICE’s response to protestors at
the Broadview ICE Processing Center. In issuing its TRO against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem,
the court in that case found that the plaintiffs would likely be able to show that ICE’s actions
have violated protestors’ First Amendment right to be free from retaliation while engaged in
newsgathering, religious exercise, and protest, and Fourth Amendment rights to be free from
excessive force. Id. at Doc. 43. Although this Court was not asked to make any such finding, it
does note a troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of
appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning,

It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 4h

YOU ARE <3

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

we have an inexpensive thing in our house right now that makes other little useful things and yet everyone’s boss isn’t demanding everyone get 3D printers - curious!!

Laruna Softpaw @larunasoftpaw.bsky.social · 7h

Speaking of, why didn't 3D printers get this much attention? It's something that's actually really cool that has practical applications. Is it because they're too cool and useful? Is it because it's harder to scam people with them?

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chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · 8h

this is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

sorry, i’m not a very good dancer, but i AM enthusiastic and also trying my best.

It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 8h

😭

It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 8h

yes, that is what I was getting at 💯

It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 8h

Absolutely, but tbqh if they were prosecuted for their actions the way any citizen would be for doing what they did, it would be plenty, because they've done plenty

It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 9h

Unfortunately, an understanding of consequence is all that prevents some adults from terrible actions

They've been sure to hire people so uneducated that they don't have the first clue what they'll face in the courts

It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 9h

saw that too. Maybe I should feel grateful for their incompetence, but I don't

the underlying reason is that they're cosplayers thinking they get to play a real-life shooting game

they have no training, no moral center, and no background enabling them to understand the consequences they'll face