i wish brain fitness routines were as admired and aspired to as body fitness routines

I’m astounded by the compassion people show on this platform. It means so much.

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🚨 ACTION ITEMS to stop the FDA from limiting Covid vaccine access:

1. Submit a public comment to the FDA https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FDA-2025-N-1146-0001

2. Contact your elected officials
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i drew today, in spite of it all

Under its new leadership — who spread misinformation throughout the pandemic — the FDA announced it will limit all Covid vaccines to adults over 65 and those with certain medical conditions.

Covid continues to spread and cause harm. This an anti-science move that will kill more Americans.

Having reassured everyone that he's not taking our vaccines away, RFK Jr. is taking my vaccine away.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/trump-officials-set-new-requirements-covid-vaccines-healthy-121990192

we have the technology to save lives and make the planet healthy and robust but i guess like five guys competing over who can make the ugliest planet-sized yacht is more important

we could have a world with less suffering, more joy, and more leisure but every day a few assholes choose dominance, insecurity, and violence and fuck it up for the rest of us

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/fda-sets-new-covid-booster-guidelines-requiring-trials-approvals-healthy-adults-2025-05-20/

“‘Satya, how about you show how Microsoft is killing Palestinians,’ Lopez yelled. ‘How about you show how Israeli war crimes are powered by Azure?’”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/19/microsoft-ceo-speech-palestinian-protest

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The reason we do clinical trials, and the reason we statistically aggregate clinical trials using sophisticated evidence synthesis methods is because it's really really easy to trick oneself into believing a plausible medical hypothesis

These are hard questions to answer even when you use the right tools and everyone involved is acting in good faith

Allowing research done with a turnkey research fraud machine is a bad idea that will be exploited by the worst people

LLM produces bad pizza topping suggestions: funny

LLM produces bad "vibe coding" results: possibly ouch, but probably reversible

LLM produces unreliable medical evidence synthesis: there is literally no way to even know, let alone correct this, this was supposed to be the method for correcting medical bias itself and it's really REALLY fucking bad if you don't know if a systematic review was run slightly differently 1000 times and then cherry-picked

https://blog.bgcarlisle.com/2025/05/16/a-plausible-scalable-and-slightly-wrong-black-box-why-large-language-models-are-a-fascist-technology-that-cannot-be-redeemed/

i just want to draw why do i have to have a job

I would do a lot of thinking about how much of your life is under corporate control, and do everything you can to reduce that dependency.

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

I definitely remember this 35-year-old actual cover of Time Magazine. This is exactly what Trump and his fellow white nationalists and anti-Black, anti-Brown racists are reacting to, and with unmitigated cruelty and zeal. #racism

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@mainframed767 the same seven guys move laterally from grift to grift like migrating birds

i'm gonna say this in no uncertain terms: if you use generative AI, you're a pathetic loser.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html

why can't you learn that language? because it's not like memorizing equations

if you're with a person at the store and they're trying on sunglasses, you're gonna get so much encoding help for "sunglasses." the store, the goofiness of trying them on, surrounding verbs, a person pointing at the object or following their line of sight

like...language doesn't work devoid of context, sorry