Cool, useful, project.
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Cool, useful, project.
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We don’t give people an option about seat belts any more because the evidence is so overwhelming, and the public good so apparent, that the state feels there’s no need to justify it.
Somehow, despite equal or more evidence and public good for vaccines, we rely instead on personal choice. Why?
I think this is critical - I agree with you; vaccinating kids *shouldn’t* be a choice for parents, any more than feeding them or using car seats or any other fundamental safety thing. But because it *is* left to parents as an option, the very presence of a choice makes people believe it’s debatable.
I am going to do something truly dreadful to the next person who uses “utilize” when “use” would work just as well (which is always, to be clear.)
Update: Having finally gotten inside, I see why people aren’t coming out. I would like to die in this library: 50% built-in bookshelves, 50% beautiful stained glass, giant overstuffed leather couches? Yes please.
New Orleans gets a pass because that’s a whole major regional thing - and there are many reasons I avoid western PA. 🤣
I’m at an estate sale where people keep going in but no one is coming out. I’m seriously starting to worry the house is eating people.
….well, now I know I must be pronouncing all of those incorrectly! 🤣
In Charlottesville, there’s a road that drives me nuts because it’s obviously “ree-oh” - spelled Rio and over/along the river - and all the locals say “rye-oh”.
In the DMV, it’s the entire damn town of McLean.
Analysing #Darwin specimens without opening 200-year-old jars
#scienceSky #evoSky
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We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.
THE single most “we only do twitter and don’t understand bluesky” behavior, STILL, is people not posting the link to the actual news story in the first post in a thread. There is no algorithm here! Posts are not demonetized or restricted or downvoted or whatever because they have links!
Hey, so, we have some news about something that won't be happening in 2032.
The “come and take it” banner/meme, but instead of the Texan cannon under the star, it’s a Dunkin iced coffee
I think the snarky bsky haters may be getting to you. 🤣
I also dreamt I was taking notes on my shoe(?!) because I didn’t have any paper.
Presentation nightmares, public health style: I dreamt I had measles.
One of the wildest things about the AI movement is that people suddenly consider it not just acceptable but good to say, in front of the internet, their own bosses, and everybody: “I have stopped doing the majority of the job you hired and are paying me to do.”
Ex-Navy newspaper layout guy and ex-Navy construction worker and sometime farmer
This president can declassify things just by thinking about it, remember? /sarcasm
Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(
Given that the Supreme Court has weighed in on vaccine policy several times (Jacobson vs Massachusetts, 1905: states can compel vaccination; Biden vs Missouri, 2022, Healthcare Facilities can require vaccination unless religious or medical exemption), this seems like a losing argument...
This is PERFECT.
I *know* I’m not the only person who’s seen this - Kurt’s family apparently sued over it. There’s no way it’s unintentional, right?
Image of a page from the Vonnegut book “Breakfast of Champions”. It reads: “I am programmed at fifty to perform childishly-to insult "The Star-Spangled Banner," to scrawl pictures of a Nazi flag and an asshole and a lot of other things with a felt-tipped pen. To give an idea of the maturity of my illustrations for this book, here is my picture of an ass-hole:” Beneath the text is a hand-drawn asterisk that looks suspiciously like the Claude logo
Everything else aside, I have one recurring problem with Claude, and it relates to having read a LOT - possibly an unhealthy amount - of Kurt Vonnegut.
I can tell you, but I almost feel bad doing so because that way lies deeeeeeeemons. 🤣
Yeah, exactly. I don’t laugh at that old joke about people in tech’s only “smart home” device being a printer (and being suspicious even of it), I *am* that joke.
I WISH.
Someone added me to a blocklist for “saying hateful things about people who use smart glasses” because I don’t want said glasses in or near my house, and maaaaaan, is that entitled attitude *exactly* why I don’t.
