ornamentalseashell
@ornamentalseashell.bsky.social
axiom: just because we can manufacture it doesn't mean we can metabolize it
(@_eleanorina at the other site)
(@_eleanorina at the other site)
Pinned
the own goal of public health and medicine (sneering at the people they need to convince) is driving me squirrely -- how can folks not see that's the opposite of what needs to be done and is just worsening the problem
ah well 🐿️
ah well 🐿️
👀 from @Miles_Brundage
"Kalshi's Twitter account spreads a lot of misinformation, such as this"
"Kalshi's Twitter account spreads a lot of misinformation, such as this"
from Kalshi, on the other site
"JUST IN: ChatGPT will no longer provide health or legal advice"
_________
they saw the liability cliff .. but couldn't there be one for coding, too
"JUST IN: ChatGPT will no longer provide health or legal advice"
_________
they saw the liability cliff .. but couldn't there be one for coding, too
November 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
👀 from @Miles_Brundage
"Kalshi's Twitter account spreads a lot of misinformation, such as this"
"Kalshi's Twitter account spreads a lot of misinformation, such as this"
from Kalshi, on the other site
"JUST IN: ChatGPT will no longer provide health or legal advice"
_________
they saw the liability cliff .. but couldn't there be one for coding, too
"JUST IN: ChatGPT will no longer provide health or legal advice"
_________
they saw the liability cliff .. but couldn't there be one for coding, too
November 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
from Kalshi, on the other site
"JUST IN: ChatGPT will no longer provide health or legal advice"
_________
they saw the liability cliff .. but couldn't there be one for coding, too
"JUST IN: ChatGPT will no longer provide health or legal advice"
_________
they saw the liability cliff .. but couldn't there be one for coding, too
Dems are playing a game called "democracy" and MAGA is playing one called "power" and Dems keep realising that too late, if they do at all
November 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Dems are playing a game called "democracy" and MAGA is playing one called "power" and Dems keep realising that too late, if they do at all
October 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Reposted by ornamentalseashell
Massive fire breaks out at refinery in El Segundo
Massive fire breaks out at refinery in El Segundo
An explosion and fire rocked a refinery in El Segundo on Thursday night, causing massive balls of flames that could be seen for miles.
www.latimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Massive fire breaks out at refinery in El Segundo
thenk heavens
October 1, 2025 at 4:12 AM
thenk heavens
from the Tylenol social media account in 2017:
"We actually don't recommend using any of our products while pregnant. Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today."
"We actually don't recommend using any of our products while pregnant. Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today."
September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
from the Tylenol social media account in 2017:
"We actually don't recommend using any of our products while pregnant. Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today."
"We actually don't recommend using any of our products while pregnant. Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today."
thinking of Tylenol's PR firm rn
September 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
thinking of Tylenol's PR firm rn
will be an educational presidential announcement - we'll find out who gets sued in this scenario
September 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
will be an educational presidential announcement - we'll find out who gets sued in this scenario
Reposted by ornamentalseashell
‘I think Stein was right. All art emerges from conditions of intimacy and privacy and private jokes.’
Adam Thirlwell on Gertrude Stein: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Thirlwell on Gertrude Stein: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Thirlwell · Devotion to the Cut: Gertrude Stein makes it plain
We’re so used to voice as confession, as a form of radical honesty, that it can be hard to appreciate Gertrude Stein...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
‘I think Stein was right. All art emerges from conditions of intimacy and privacy and private jokes.’
Adam Thirlwell on Gertrude Stein: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Thirlwell on Gertrude Stein: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
"..and the bacon every morning"
September 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"..and the bacon every morning"
Reposted by ornamentalseashell
underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
September 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"To construct a model of political strategy based primarily on existing empirical patterns of belief and action is to express a fundamental skepticism toward the possibility that these might be changed."
“The vision of politics—technocratic experts pulling just the right levers to secure just enough votes—is not just sterile and unappealing. It also has real consequences of its own, contributing to the prevailing sense that strategists and politicians don’t really care about what they are saying.”
How to Lie with (Political) Statistics - Boston Review
Inside the data wars over Democratic strategy.
www.bostonreview.net
September 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"To construct a model of political strategy based primarily on existing empirical patterns of belief and action is to express a fundamental skepticism toward the possibility that these might be changed."
Reposted by ornamentalseashell
you guys are in groupchats?
September 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
you guys are in groupchats?
afaict, people concerned about the changing public health guidance haven't been updating their knowledge about why ppl are ignoring them nor about which arguments and perspectives from MAHA are gaining ground
September 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
afaict, people concerned about the changing public health guidance haven't been updating their knowledge about why ppl are ignoring them nor about which arguments and perspectives from MAHA are gaining ground
Reposted by ornamentalseashell
‘People from the Make America Great Again movement aren’t going to call reporting via the new tip lines “snitching”, or even “whistleblowing”, because these are liberals’ words.’
Sheila Fitzpatrick on the politics of denunciation: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Sheila Fitzpatrick on the politics of denunciation: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Sheila Fitzpatrick · Diary: Two Cultures of Denunciation
Among the difficulties of talking about denunciation is that there are so many words for it, along with sharply opposed...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
‘People from the Make America Great Again movement aren’t going to call reporting via the new tip lines “snitching”, or even “whistleblowing”, because these are liberals’ words.’
Sheila Fitzpatrick on the politics of denunciation: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Sheila Fitzpatrick on the politics of denunciation: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Reposted by ornamentalseashell
My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!
September 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!
what's a polite way of dealing with ppl wearing these,
like personal blocking spaces, ew but make it civilian
www.theverge.com/tech/779566/...
like personal blocking spaces, ew but make it civilian
www.theverge.com/tech/779566/...
I regret to inform you Meta’s new smart glasses are the best I’ve ever tried
I am agog, I am aghast, are smart glasses truly good at last?
www.theverge.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
what's a polite way of dealing with ppl wearing these,
like personal blocking spaces, ew but make it civilian
www.theverge.com/tech/779566/...
like personal blocking spaces, ew but make it civilian
www.theverge.com/tech/779566/...
"my efforts now are a placeholder for when we have autonomy.
There are hundreds of applications of polycropping | stacking enterprises and it’s about the only way to not be a bitch of the machine… which is the next thing coming to grain production. Contract growers just like pork"
- @ jasonmauck1
There are hundreds of applications of polycropping | stacking enterprises and it’s about the only way to not be a bitch of the machine… which is the next thing coming to grain production. Contract growers just like pork"
- @ jasonmauck1
September 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"my efforts now are a placeholder for when we have autonomy.
There are hundreds of applications of polycropping | stacking enterprises and it’s about the only way to not be a bitch of the machine… which is the next thing coming to grain production. Contract growers just like pork"
- @ jasonmauck1
There are hundreds of applications of polycropping | stacking enterprises and it’s about the only way to not be a bitch of the machine… which is the next thing coming to grain production. Contract growers just like pork"
- @ jasonmauck1
democrats trying to get power back by persistent verbal sniping
try instead the basics: food, energy, shelter, protection
credible plans for dealing with them
they're all a mess right now
eg what are dems going to do to rebuild shipbuilding capacity?
to rapidly develop drone capability?
try instead the basics: food, energy, shelter, protection
credible plans for dealing with them
they're all a mess right now
eg what are dems going to do to rebuild shipbuilding capacity?
to rapidly develop drone capability?
September 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
democrats trying to get power back by persistent verbal sniping
try instead the basics: food, energy, shelter, protection
credible plans for dealing with them
they're all a mess right now
eg what are dems going to do to rebuild shipbuilding capacity?
to rapidly develop drone capability?
try instead the basics: food, energy, shelter, protection
credible plans for dealing with them
they're all a mess right now
eg what are dems going to do to rebuild shipbuilding capacity?
to rapidly develop drone capability?
Art Berman:
"Blind spots from Chinese stockpiling & Russianflows leave traders flying blind, writes @ronbousso1
"I say the “oil glut” meme looks shaky when no one can even measure supply & demand with confidence"
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
"Blind spots from Chinese stockpiling & Russianflows leave traders flying blind, writes @ronbousso1
"I say the “oil glut” meme looks shaky when no one can even measure supply & demand with confidence"
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
www.reuters.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Art Berman:
"Blind spots from Chinese stockpiling & Russianflows leave traders flying blind, writes @ronbousso1
"I say the “oil glut” meme looks shaky when no one can even measure supply & demand with confidence"
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
"Blind spots from Chinese stockpiling & Russianflows leave traders flying blind, writes @ronbousso1
"I say the “oil glut” meme looks shaky when no one can even measure supply & demand with confidence"
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
"The Milk To @GuinnessIreland Ratio
1980: A farmer would need to produce 2 litres of milk to buy 1 pint of #Guinness
2025: A farmer needs to produce 15 litres of milk to buy 1 pint of Guinness at @NPAIE
A farmer today has to work 7.5 TIMES HARDER just to afford the same pint"
- @ ConceptDairy
1980: A farmer would need to produce 2 litres of milk to buy 1 pint of #Guinness
2025: A farmer needs to produce 15 litres of milk to buy 1 pint of Guinness at @NPAIE
A farmer today has to work 7.5 TIMES HARDER just to afford the same pint"
- @ ConceptDairy
September 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"The Milk To @GuinnessIreland Ratio
1980: A farmer would need to produce 2 litres of milk to buy 1 pint of #Guinness
2025: A farmer needs to produce 15 litres of milk to buy 1 pint of Guinness at @NPAIE
A farmer today has to work 7.5 TIMES HARDER just to afford the same pint"
- @ ConceptDairy
1980: A farmer would need to produce 2 litres of milk to buy 1 pint of #Guinness
2025: A farmer needs to produce 15 litres of milk to buy 1 pint of Guinness at @NPAIE
A farmer today has to work 7.5 TIMES HARDER just to afford the same pint"
- @ ConceptDairy