@e-van-every
Writer, editor, educator, naturalist, knower of things. Wildlife interp, media, film, fandom, politics, noir, goth, fashion, cocktails, hockey, public health/COVID safety, anything else I find of interest. Animal photos sometimes. Caution: Swears. She/her.
"Babies with COVID-19 develop more serious disease than those with RSV, US data reveal."
• Hospitalised children under 2 with COVID-19 had higher severe illness risk than RSV
• Ventilators: 39% of COVID ICU babies vs 16% with RSV
• Deaths: 2.9% COVID vs 0.4% RSV among hospitalised infants
I will ALWAYS be thrilled to see/hear a peenting video! Thank you.
I do think “Graham Platner was a bartender who personally served some DC pundits and reporters and was known to them” is a pretty big part of the skeleton key to unlocking how he got so much cash and media attention so fast and why they’re so determined to stay all in on him now
The U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February. That's 5 of the last 9 months with overall job losses.
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
I would like to be present when government lawyers tell a 78-year-old judge “we can’t follow your order because the computer won’t let us.” That’s always fun.
I was at a party and we were wondering something, and a guy pulled out his phone and asked a chatbot which gave him an obviously and absurdly wrong answer. And I thought he'd be like "ah well that didn't work" but instead he just announced the incorrect answer to everyone as fact
I was literally just talking about exactly this. There is so much wiggle room in anthropic's "Bright Red Lines" that they're ultimately useless.
No FULLY autonomous weapons
No fully AUTONOMOUS weapons
No DOMESTIC mass surveillance
No domestic MASS surveillance
Like… come on, man. Be so serious rn
Telling courts that refunds would be "automatic" and "assured" was the government's way of avoiding emergency relief.
I love watching people use LLMs in public. They’ll reply to a breaking news article and say “@grok is this true?” Babe where do you think it’s about to pull its answer from
So a lot of the hype around LLMs and a lot of the userbase just fundamentally misunderstands what the technology is and what it’s capable of, instead treating it like a mythical supernatural or religious being. The industry openly encourages this delusion for profit
I don’t think LLMs would take off without this kind of userbase, because they’re the ones talking to ChatGPT and Grok all day every day because they think they’re reaching Jesus levels of insight. This is why the technology gets called a scam, because the industry is definitely scamming these people
This amount is double what anon MoC were saying 2 days ago. And Trump is escalating.
The American Astronomical Society has a page with more info and how you can submit comments to the FCC to stop this travesty. Hurry though; submissions end today.
aas.org/action-alert...
Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...
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On top of every other good point Kendra raises:
the Tams were supposed to be Chinese and they're played by white people
I didn't mind when I just thought they were Chinaboo white people but like basically every character or their actor from the narrative is dead or sour now except Inara & Kaylee
society has evolved so far past the need for Joss Whedon
Type of guy who cosplays his software having feelings in order to avoid feeling personally responsible for how it was used to murder children is an increasingly common kind of guy in the software industry
A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”
Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity
Whatever the free market can do to the fat body, it will soon do to yours. No one is thin enough and no one is safe. Eyes on the fat canary.
All I'm saying is Google had a vested interest in wrecking its magic search (people may have forgotten how insanely good it was, it was wizard level shit) because of how underwater they were on their AI investment and get you on to Gemini
My school district is being forced to lay off several educators and a librarian because of a $500,000 budget gap, or roughly the amount spent on the war while I was typing this post.
Once again reminding everyone that the majority of people stranded in the UAE are not influencers or expats or tourists, but South Asian (and SE Asian and African) workers whose passports are often controlled by their employers and whose govts have made no attempts to repatriate.
My very first was through an employer (which happened to be Wizards of the Coast). But it did set my username, which is the one on the personal email account I still have 30 yrs later--I decided I needed a non-work account, went with a small local ISP and never got rid of it.
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
your new DHS secretary, everyone:
Your reminder that Joss Whedon wasn’t allowed to be alone with 14 year old Michelle Trachtenberg.
Just if you’re getting excited about his career re-launch and don’t care about his revolting behaviour toward Charisma Carpenter.
Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #FilmNoir #AngelswithDirtyFaces 10 Near-Perfect Noir Movies That No One Remembers Today
Just read this: "I wish the Indy sequels were grounded and gritty like 'Raiders'."
"Raiders" ended with GHOSTS
