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[SallyM]

Healthcare PSAs and BSAs

As i have said before, if it has an effect, it has side-effects. The human body is far too complicated and enmeshed to ever think that we can isolate 1 system and treat it alone. Doesn’t mean neds are too dangeroys, just that the risks and benefits need to be assessed fully for any of them. And expect new SEs to pop up once they are in wide usage.

[MerelyGifted]

The Pets Thread

Last year we discovered a morning dove nest in my neighbor’s boat house, because he was the best neighbor ever he let us put up a tarp underneath and put off launching his boat until they left the nest. [1000011195] [1000011194] I’ve talked about him before, we knew each other for 50 years, he passed away this January. This afternoon his wife told me to go look in their shrub next to their porch. Another baby morning dove. My friend is still around. [PXL_20250607_191712351]

[SallyM]

Found Randomly on the 'Net

“Oh, Zeusdammit!” cried Iris. “I’ve looked everywhere for the blasted thing! Where is it?!” “Whatcha missing, luv?” queried Hermes, leaning in as he was passing her open door. “Oh, another bloody rainbow’s gone missing, that’s all!” Hermes entered her brightly-colored abode, looking around for any sign of the offending atmospheric phenomenon. “That’s the fifth one this year, isn’t it?” he gently asked, as he leaned a shield toward him to look behind it, then began inspecting a bookcase, loo…

[MerelyGifted]

So kind of you, SallyM! Many thanks!

[SallyM]

You can call me AI

Why do people keep going insisting on cramming AI into everything when it’s barely even functional? Do they just think there magically won’t be consequences from replacing actual thinking humans with the digital equivalent of a dimwitted parrot on LSD? Sure, with Trump that damage is probably the goal, but this shit is everywhere now and nobody involved seems to even acknowledge that AI in its current state is garbage.

[SallyM]

The Law Doesn't Always Suck

This country has done a lot of bad things over the years. But it has also done a lot of really good things, and one of the best things this country has done in my lifetime is the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. I’m happy the Court decided against weakening it. Conservatives have been predicting the end times as a result of the ADA since it was first proposed, and none of their fears have come true. The same will happen here. Other schools in other parts of the country have adapte…

[SallyM]

ICE capades - tales of the detained

“He”. Unclear referent. Trump doesn’t care who runs what or how, just so long as everyone cheers him and salutes him and praises him and calls him the bestest and powerfullest boy ever. He has no idea how anything is run, and no interest in it. He’s interested in people asking him what he thinks about everything, and pretending that everything he says is profound and thoughtful. He wants to live his life like that dream you have where you don’t know how, but you can just play the guitar better …

[SallyM]

The thread that glows in the dark

Sure. It’s important to have enough fibre in your diet. It should be relatively harmless, too - as long as you ingest it instead of breathing it in.

[SallyM]

Economics - science, theories, programs, and policies

I’m glad I have someone in my family who is a CS major specializing in automation, machine learning, and AI to lean on. That’s how I know that those systems don’t have to fake it. They typically have internal measures of statistical confidence. It’s arguably fraud for Google to present the summaries as fact when they have confidence factors that can be published for each “search.”

[SallyM]

Economics - science, theories, programs, and policies

The entire crypto cycle has been a speed-run of declaring that we don’t need banks, banking regulations or consumer protections, then demonstrating why we need every single one of those things in quick succession.

[SallyM]

Fall of the Fourth Estate: A Critique of Mass Media

Musk really loves the number 42 from Hitchhiker’s Guide, always with a zero after it for some reason. He also often references the number 69, the year The Cloud Minders episode of Star Trek was first aired. And of course many of his fans celebrate 1488 when the Europeans first reached South Africa.

[FGD135]

Transphobic events

Without reading the article (no subscription + don’t want to), I’m assuming “radicalized” means “still fighting for what’s right instead of pulling up the ladder, either out of general decency or the knowledge that once other marginalized groups begin having their rights stripped away, gays aren’t far down the list.” They simply cannot fathom the idea that, once they’ve very reluctantly begun to treat a vulnerable group as fellow human beings, that group doesn’t fall at their feet in fawning gr…

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

I don’t want what I grew up with, I want a world in which all the people have guaranteed human rights and human dignity is respected by all. I feel naive even saying this, may be some pie in the sky shit, but it’s what I wish for.

[Nightflyer]

SCOTUS Happenings

Seriously, though, it absolutely is. I think it’s the way most of us understand history - as something to be viewed “objectively” and outside of ourselves, rather than as ourselves being products of that history, of the world we live in being the result of historical processes that shape the world we’re in now. History is often taught as something that happened to “others” who are not us, hence it has nothing really to do with us, other than for us to marvel at it, or shake our heads about… “th…

[mindysan33]

[Millie_Fink]

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

There are always exceptions to the rule, such as teff for Ethiopians and millet for the Senegalese (and probably other millet eating countries, though I am only familiar with Senegal). I thought elote was a method of preparation, but this isn’t my area of expertise— I just monetized corn for program funding, so am ignorant of specific uses. Of course there are specific corns that are sacred for native Americans. But most people would be hard pressed to explain the difference between hard red wi…

[MagicFox]

[SallyM]

Possibly untrue science news

Docosc, I love you, but I gotta correct you: chocolate is the single most powerful development in human history. Or maybe bicycles? Carry on!

[SallyM]

You can call me AI

Replacing middle managers? Well if your job is doing what David Graeber called bullshit jobs, writing reports that nobody actually reads, well AI should replace that job. It’s perfectly suited to writing reports that nobody should ever read.

[SallyM]

The problems of the Democratic party

Addiction is weird. It’s kind of hard to fully understand exactly how it all works. I’m a recovering alcohol and opiate addict. But gambling just never flipped any of the same switches for me. I’ve played slots a few times, and I just don’t get the attraction. It’s completely random and literally rigged to favor the casino, so while you might win big in the short term, in the long term, the house always wins. Always. And the game itself I don’t find interesting at all. It’s about as fun as flipp…