mcboingboing
@mcboingboing.bsky.social
Mid-Mod mom, editor, nit-picker, N95 wearer. #COVIDIsAirborne {she/her}
Free, universal healthcare is a vital part of infrastructure.
📍New Orleans
Free, universal healthcare is a vital part of infrastructure.
📍New Orleans
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/w...
How Long Do Leftovers Last? (Published 2024)
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/w...
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Festival International is a "gateway" to the rest of the world. Here's why organizers are working to keep it that way.
As costs rise to book global bands, Festival International creates 'market' for LA, Acadian musicians
Festival International is a "gateway" to the rest of the world. Here's why organizers are working to keep it that way.
bit.ly
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Festival International is a "gateway" to the rest of the world. Here's why organizers are working to keep it that way.
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Lets explain how escalating/manufacturing a military confrontation with Venezuela gives the administration a legal “hook” to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, one of the oldest national-security laws still on the books. This statute allows a president to detain, restrict, or deport non-citizens
November 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Lets explain how escalating/manufacturing a military confrontation with Venezuela gives the administration a legal “hook” to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, one of the oldest national-security laws still on the books. This statute allows a president to detain, restrict, or deport non-citizens
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Fishing nets don't discriminate; they trap everyone 🐟
🎨 Mercy For Animals
🎨 Mercy For Animals
November 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Fishing nets don't discriminate; they trap everyone 🐟
🎨 Mercy For Animals
🎨 Mercy For Animals
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By Zdenek Vrozina:
"A new preprint study shatters the idea that pediatric long COVID is just a mild or different version of the adult form.
It shows that children share the same core immune patterns - and, strikingly, some resemble those seen in chronic infections like HIV"
"A new preprint study shatters the idea that pediatric long COVID is just a mild or different version of the adult form.
It shows that children share the same core immune patterns - and, strikingly, some resemble those seen in chronic infections like HIV"
November 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
By Zdenek Vrozina:
"A new preprint study shatters the idea that pediatric long COVID is just a mild or different version of the adult form.
It shows that children share the same core immune patterns - and, strikingly, some resemble those seen in chronic infections like HIV"
"A new preprint study shatters the idea that pediatric long COVID is just a mild or different version of the adult form.
It shows that children share the same core immune patterns - and, strikingly, some resemble those seen in chronic infections like HIV"
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Study: Pediatric Long COVID Is Characterized by Myeloid CCR6 Suppression and Immune Dysregulation.
Published: August 22, 2025.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Published: August 22, 2025.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pediatric Long COVID Is Characterized by Myeloid CCR6 Suppression and Immune Dysregulation
The biological mechanisms underlying long COVID in the pediatric population are poorly understood. Our study aimed to characterize the immune pathophysiology of long COVID in children and young people...
www.biorxiv.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Study: Pediatric Long COVID Is Characterized by Myeloid CCR6 Suppression and Immune Dysregulation.
Published: August 22, 2025.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Published: August 22, 2025.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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As always, I recommend people be skeptical of influencer marketing like this. Don't let people leverage parasocial relationships, trust, and political identity to sell you things that ultimately aren't in your best interest. And question the integrity of those those who do.
November 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
As always, I recommend people be skeptical of influencer marketing like this. Don't let people leverage parasocial relationships, trust, and political identity to sell you things that ultimately aren't in your best interest. And question the integrity of those those who do.
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Those are made at the Rochester Tailored Clothing factory in Rochester, NY (formerly known as the Hickey Freeman factory before they offshored production). This is a unionized workforce with immigrants from around the world, some of whom have been with the factory for 50+ years.
November 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Those are made at the Rochester Tailored Clothing factory in Rochester, NY (formerly known as the Hickey Freeman factory before they offshored production). This is a unionized workforce with immigrants from around the world, some of whom have been with the factory for 50+ years.
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I'm also surprised that Roger went with a Hong Kong factory (I called the factory today to confirm). If MAGA is about making America great again through reindustrialization, why not use a US factory? Over at O'Connell's, you can find MiUSA tailoring for half of Roger's prices
November 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I'm also surprised that Roger went with a Hong Kong factory (I called the factory today to confirm). If MAGA is about making America great again through reindustrialization, why not use a US factory? Over at O'Connell's, you can find MiUSA tailoring for half of Roger's prices
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"Anthropic paid" are the two key words here
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"Anthropic paid" are the two key words here
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Because ICE can stop people based on looks.. #nolasky This is what I’m thinking.
For the question, where are you from?
Planet Earth
Western hemisphere
The America’s
-This Creole is going to waste their time
Fingers, knees and toes crossed I can change the timeline for a fellow human being
✊🏽🫶🏽
For the question, where are you from?
Planet Earth
Western hemisphere
The America’s
-This Creole is going to waste their time
Fingers, knees and toes crossed I can change the timeline for a fellow human being
✊🏽🫶🏽
November 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Because ICE can stop people based on looks.. #nolasky This is what I’m thinking.
For the question, where are you from?
Planet Earth
Western hemisphere
The America’s
-This Creole is going to waste their time
Fingers, knees and toes crossed I can change the timeline for a fellow human being
✊🏽🫶🏽
For the question, where are you from?
Planet Earth
Western hemisphere
The America’s
-This Creole is going to waste their time
Fingers, knees and toes crossed I can change the timeline for a fellow human being
✊🏽🫶🏽
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incredible quote lol
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
incredible quote lol
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i emptied my 401k yesterday so that i have enough liquid to continue to pay rent for the next like… year.
if i let all of my credit cards go into collections
if i let all of my credit cards go into collections
reminder: i am currently in crushing debt due to not being paid/employed for a year and a half (and losing all of my belongings in a flood my insurance refused to cover)
i am going to have to file bankruptcy AND empty my 401K to stay afloat if i don’t find work soon. anything at all helps
i am going to have to file bankruptcy AND empty my 401K to stay afloat if i don’t find work soon. anything at all helps
Vidal Dax
i am a succubus what feeds off the sadness of men
bento.me
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
i emptied my 401k yesterday so that i have enough liquid to continue to pay rent for the next like… year.
if i let all of my credit cards go into collections
if i let all of my credit cards go into collections
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A Cambridge-led study of 13.9 million children in England found COVID vaccines are the safest option. The very rare, short-term risk of heart inflammation from vaccination is far lower than the risks from infection, which can cause blood clots, heart issues and severe inflammation for up to a year.
New Data Shows COVID-19 Infection Much Worse For Children Than the Vaccine
"The risk following vaccination is substantially lower than the risk following infection".
www.zmescience.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A Cambridge-led study of 13.9 million children in England found COVID vaccines are the safest option. The very rare, short-term risk of heart inflammation from vaccination is far lower than the risks from infection, which can cause blood clots, heart issues and severe inflammation for up to a year.
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trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
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“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
www.cnn.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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I educated my mom about targeted ads today and it was like I'd just told her the true name of God.
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I educated my mom about targeted ads today and it was like I'd just told her the true name of God.
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"I cataloged hundreds of night raids by one of the four Zero Unit squads, which was known in Afghanistan as 02 unit, eventually identifying at least 452 civilians killed in its raids over four years."
The Night Raids
CIA-backed operations killed countless Afghan civilians, and the U.S. hasn't been held accountable. A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
"I cataloged hundreds of night raids by one of the four Zero Unit squads, which was known in Afghanistan as 02 unit, eventually identifying at least 452 civilians killed in its raids over four years."
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2022 ProPublica report on CIA-trained "Zero Units" in Afghanistan, a former member of which shot two National Guard troops in DC yesterday
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
2022 ProPublica report on CIA-trained "Zero Units" in Afghanistan, a former member of which shot two National Guard troops in DC yesterday
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated
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Scores of community members confronted federal goons and St. Paul police for hours Tuesday morning as federal agents arrested at least one person at a home in St. Paul's Payne-Phalen neighborhood. At least three protestors, one of whom was injured by law enforcement officers, were also detained.
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Scores of community members confronted federal goons and St. Paul police for hours Tuesday morning as federal agents arrested at least one person at a home in St. Paul's Payne-Phalen neighborhood. At least three protestors, one of whom was injured by law enforcement officers, were also detained.
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I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you.
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you.
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
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