ornamentalseashell
axiom: just because we can manufacture it doesn't mean we can metabolize it
(@_eleanorina at the other site)
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- Reposted by ornamentalseashellalso notable here that Hasan is a native-born US citizen.
- “The reason they’re doing [this] is to try to create an environment of fear, to try to get people like myself... to shut the fuck up,” Piker said on a stream recounting the details of the incident. www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike...
- this kind of work has travelled alongside the stunning rise in chronic health condns where the US is at the leading edge, having 10-15 years lower DFLE than in Europe insiders have trouble seeing that it is no longer hitting like learned incantantions from med scholars (Guyatt, pivotal in EBM
- "Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus" - @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
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- Reposted by ornamentalseashellNEW: CBP tells @wired.com that it plans to expand its face recognition system at the US border to photograph every person exiting the US by vehicle, potentially aiding Trump admin self-deportation efforts. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cbp-fa...
- "I used to have this mental illness where I thought logical arguments would change someone’s mind" -- @ CallMeOutta
- Reposted by ornamentalseashellWhen your statistical model "fits the data well" ...
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- 😂😂 "every time someone mentions your water bottle (or) eating some random food is going to kill you etc "remember women spend their lives slathering themselves in random chemicals and dyed etc and still live longer than men by several years" -- duderichy
- jfc
- the meltdown over Casey Means as surgeon general isn't really about her qualifications it's about this: www.caseymeans.com/learn/newsle...
- from @wsj.com 'Danish lawmaker Rasmus Jarlov said that, as a first step, the American consulate in Nuuk, opened in 2020, must be closed down. “I cannot imagine that the Americans would allow foreign agents in the U.S. if they had an openly declared agenda of undermining the United States"
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- c a l v i n b a l l
- ok lmsee if i can find something to watch where people still have functioning facial expressions
- Reposted by ornamentalseashellOur latest investigation, with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reveals the real identity of the man behind Mr Deepfake, the notorious site where non-consensual deepfake pornography is published www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...
- the author of the China-Pakistan Acis, Asia's New Geopolitics
- srsly, even the defence editor of the Economist is saying 'Wait for evidence"
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- Reposted by ornamentalseashellGermany's central medical library, ZBMed, is building an alternative to PubMed. It will be open source, based on MeSH & associated data standards, built to be sustainable in case PubMed becomes unreliable - with APIs & MeSH maintenance. Open meeting called! 1/2 www.heise.de/news/Wegen-T... #MedLibs
- Reposted by ornamentalseashellThe thing the Internet did was allow us to scale up the size of the informal “magic circles” where humans have always gathered to participate in collaborative make-believe (because that’s what we do, as magical apes), and then put them in our pockets so everywhere is now inside of a magic circle
- "The India-Pakistan information environment descending directly into the most wildly false and unsourced claims is disappointing, but expected." -- @ osinttechnical
- Reposted by ornamentalseashellthe state of Twitter: you can reply to any image of a woman with a request to Grok to undress her to her underwear and it will comply and post the reply in thread: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...
- missing data in China, Rebecca Feng and Jason Douglas of WSJ (screenshot is about difference in claimed 2020 births - 12.1 million vs number of mandatory tuberculosis vaccines administered - 5.4 million. tuberculosis & other vaccine data release was then discontinued) www.wsj.com/world/china/...
- "📈 Pharmaceutical imports led the surge, soaring to a record high in March as US companies rushed to stock up before tariffs hit. Imports of medicines, vaccines, and blood-related products saw the biggest increases, highlighting companies' urgency to secure supplies." -- @ M_McDonough
- that was quick! repeated the vote, Merz is Chancellor now
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- appreciate what this article is trying to do, why it is trying to do it, but it misses the core problem - loss of trust stats, info, rsch doesn't matter when people don't trust the source decline in trust was pre-pandemic, COVID just incr'd it, added new aspects to it, isn't the whole of it
- Under RFK Jr., ‘Make America Healthy Again’ means junk science like ‘survival of the fittest.’ Read more from @laurenleffer.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
- "Friedrich Merz gets another chance to become Germany's next chancellor. Parliament announced a second vote just hours after Merz failed to win the chancellorship in the first round. His coalition partner Social Democrat Lars Klingbeil expects he'll win this time" per DW Politics
- Reposted by ornamentalseashellCalled it: "Texas bill would monitor wastewater for the abortion medication mifepristone" www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2... Wrote about wastewater as surveillance here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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- Reposted by ornamentalseashell🇪🇺 Updated: European #PublicHealth Starter Pack: 🆕 Network of Medical Residents in Public Health @euronetmrph.bsky.social 🆕 European Patients Forum @eupatientsforum.bsky.social 🆕 Cancer Patients Europe @cancerpatientseu.bsky.social go.bsky.app/K2JB6CNat://did:plc:nnyqaearuxzfxq5kgtxcirl3/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l2mbgtswk32p
- Reposted by ornamentalseashellThere is a specific kind of nerd freaking out these days (logistics) and I desperately wish our policymakers were paying more attention to them
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- arms racing "the [CTO] of 3DTech, says that the Chinese dominate the fibre market, and that Russian and Ukrainian buyers have bumped into one another in Chinese factories ... Pre-paid orders have sometimes been gazumped by Russian buyers" - Shashank Joshi, defence ed The Economist
- def not Eat-Lancet approved (pic is of a pizza with ham, salami, pepperoni, Italian dressing & a ton of cream cheese. crust is mozzarella & cream cheese with pork panko (crushed pork rinds) and an egg)
- dems are never going to win again are they
- "Germany in turmoil as Merz loses vote to be chancellor. What next? "The loss is not fatal ― another vote is likely to take place within days" www.politico.eu/article/merz...
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- FdI-ECR, Meloni's, Fratelli d'Italia +European Conservatives & Reformists, (she was elected their president in 2020) PD-S&D, Partito Democratico/Socialisti & Democratici FI-EPP, Forza Italia in EU Ppl's Pty populist: M5S, Movimento 5 Stelle (⭐️) Lega-PfE, Lega(League) in Patriots for Europe
- "Each co-owner, including Casas and Morate and their neighbors, gets a discount on their utility bill in exchange for the power they put into the electricity network, but the panels themselves don’t directly supply their apartments with energy"
- ICYMI from the weekend: @lauramillan.bsky.social and I looked at why most of Spain's rooftop solar owners weren't shielded from the effects of the blackout - and why most Europeans have panels that don't work when the power is off. Gift link:
- whoa, wasn't expecting that "Despite the coalition agreement signed yesterday, Friedrich Merz failed to be elected as Germany’s new Chancellor in today’s parliamentary vote – he received 310 votes, falling short of the required 316. The parliamentary session has been suspended" - @ visionergeo
- it's an AI hallucination but where's the lie 😘 (for screen readers, pic is a picture of text saying: "THE BEST CARBOHYDRATES ARE MEAT, DAIRY, AND EGGS"
- This is your weekly reminder that AI does not understand its output, does not "search" for answers, and, because it produces content based on probabilities, generates incorrect info. Despite what the tech bros say, the human brain is a wonderful thing. Use it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
- Reposted by ornamentalseashellThere is something sublime about inventing a system that is functionally designed to extrude synthetic information slop, and then thinking if you make such a system 'more powerful' that it would do something other than get better at extruding synthetic information slop
- This is your weekly reminder that AI does not understand its output, does not "search" for answers, and, because it produces content based on probabilities, generates incorrect info. Despite what the tech bros say, the human brain is a wonderful thing. Use it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
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- Reposted by ornamentalseashell@propublica.org wins the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its amazing coverage of the consequences of abortion bans, showcasing the women who died. It’s the second year in a row in which ProPublica has won the Pulitzer Gold Medal! 🎉
- tfw someone tells you about the shape of the global pharmaceutical supply chain
- Reposted by ornamentalseashellthe document saying that I'm old enough is, itself, too old for you? wouldn't you think that makes it even better evidence of my age
- Pete Muntean: "NEW FAA STATEMENT ON NEWARK confirms that "some" air traffic controllers are now out on 45-day trauma leave "to recover from the stress of multiple recent outages." No near-term resolution in sight. "We cannot quickly replace them due to this highly specialized profession..."
- Reposted by ornamentalseashellnot a big Prize Guy but proud to have played a role on the @washingtonpost.com team that was named a Pulitzer finalist in National Reporting today for our coverage of Hurricane Helene, including the social media-fueled storm of lies that followed in its wake www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024...
- "NEW REPORTING: Air traffic controllers at a facility responsible for Newark flights lost RADIO AND RADAR for an undisclosed time last Monday, causing *at least 5* ATCs to take trauma leave, a source familiar tells me. It's the most clarity yet into 8 days of FAA delays at EWR" - @ petemuntean 🔗⬇️
- Reposted by ornamentalseashell#WATCH: Renewal Development “rescues” existing homes from bulldozers and relocates them to where they are needed. “My goal is to shift the demolition-first paradigm. Renewal is a campaign disguised as a company.” ⛴🏡
- Reposted by ornamentalseashellgot a push alert about the NYTimes’ Pulitzer wins while reading this: www.splinter.com/plagiarizing...
- Reposted by ornamentalseashellI’m now reading Reid Hoffman’s book, “blitzscaling.” My general impression is that Silicon Valley’s obsession with “get big fast,” prioritizing fakeable growth metrics over actual product quality, is a big part of what has ruined tech. I suspect I will not like this book.
- Reposted by ornamentalseashellYou forgot to mention she resigned in protest in January after you killed her cartoon about your plutocrat owner.
- The Pulitzer Prize for illustrated reporting and commentary goes to @anntelnaes.bsky.social, for various works that appeared in The Washington Post. This is her third Pulitzer recognition.
- "Want to read the article first?" pop-up was a noble ambition but completely kneecapped by link deboosting and screenshot culture LMAO" -- @ deepfates
- nice
- NEW: GlobalX, the company doing many deportation flights for ICE, has been hacked. Hackers claim to have stolen flight manifest information and flight details, and have also defaced the website www.404media.co/globalx-airl...
- smiling bc might be able to get some Taurus now
- Reposted by ornamentalseashellfeels like the Army SSI monograph I read years ago in which the cause of moral corruption was system assigning more work than people could do, people lying about doing it, and system pretending to believe them
