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[Sally_Mahoney]

Low-volume alcohol consumption has no impact on longevity

“Groundbreaking New Study Shows [substance] Isn’t That Bad For You If You Don’t [ingest] Too Much Of It”

[gero]

Meta fired all the support staff and now influencers have no-one to turn to

“Are you recasting your very sense of personal identity in the terms that marketers use to hock commodities? Well, you should be, because this is the only form of existence that matters in the all-encompassing capitalist dystopia we now live in.”

[DukeTrout]

This Is Fine

I’ve been threatened with a gun by multiple different people throughout my life. If we are going back a ways I have also had people in my family commit suicide by gun. For me the gaslighting and denial is part that angers me the most. I know people who’ve wrecked their life with drugs and some who overdosed but nobody denies that drugs and drug addictions are killing people at least. People don’t gift bags of heroin to depressed people and tell them this is for their protection. Politicians don…

A poigniant metaphor for the inherent harm of firearm culture and how it is a house of lies.

[gero]

Substack CEO grilled by Nilay Patel on the topic of explicitly racist content

For me, a good framing of this same idea came from my anthropology friends. Communities have always had rules. Since we were sitting around fires in caves, we had social rules. Don’t be a dick, or you get kicked out of the cave. Or exiled from the village. Or whatever. Rules for social behaviour are how we got here. It’s why we’re here flying in airplanes and spaceships and nothing else is. Because we build communities and those communities have rules to ensure they function well. This tech br…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Republicans, realizing Anheuser-Busch is a significant donor, are quietly reversing their position on Bud Light

So they realized the thing they’re doing is stupid and bad and they never should have done it to begin with. If only they could see that’s true about every single other decision they’ve made as well.

[milliefink]

Texas man shoots two women who got into his car by mistake

Guns kill. Guns are for idiots and weak little pieces of shit. Guns are for losers. gun culture is shit. I’d rather be friends with some one who sucks cock in suburban bushes for meth money than a gun owner. Gun people they… they should be ashamed and horrified to talk about their sick sick fucking stupid ugly fucked up little problems and their shitty inelegant unaesthetic tools. People get shamed more for the games they play than their irresponsible gun attitudes. If you think a gun is making…

[chgoliz]

Neurodiversity Think Different

I’ve been pondering this all day, and how to put my response. I have some gut feelings, but they’re hard to put into words. First: there does seem to be an element of heritability (with autism at least), so it’s not inconceivable that families would have traditions of coping skills. Whether those traditions are effective is another question. On the one hand, they may have evolved over many years to address evident difficulties, and to have winnowed out the best ways to deal with things. On th…

[Sally_Mahoney]

AutoGPT will take over your tasks and then your livelihood

Good point. Give a CEO a fish, and he’ll eat for a day; teach a CEO to fish, and he’ll destroy the environment.

[milliefink]

Fuck Today, Continued

The way this situation is described is disturbing. Starting with Oakland and leaning into narratives about lack of community support for the police sounds like victim blaming: “Communities that are especially impacted by gun violence believe that the police are ineffective or indifferent, and as a result, they’re less willing to cooperate and provide information the police need to have successful investigations,” says Cook, who has several research articles on the topic coming out. “It is un…

[HMSGoose]

Rather than regulate guns, Texas seeks to teach battlefield trauma care beginning in the third grade

Even if we were to set aside the basic obscenity of the proposal, it isn’t very likely to be successful. Among adults who have had stop the bleed trainings, correct application of different types of tourniquets (beyond the CAT ones used in the original training) is pretty low, in lab settings. Effectiveness of the American College of Surgeons Bleeding Control Basic Training Among Laypeople Applying Different Tourniquet Types - PMC The existing trainings use guides like inches and finger widths,…

[Sally_Mahoney]

AI translation puts asylum seekers in jeopardy

And this is how “AI” destroys society - not by becoming a tyrant super-intelligence, but by humans adopting stupid tools they know don’t work, but pretending they do, causing an increase in the stupidity of human-run systems (or, worse, handing over those systems to unintelligent computer systems entirely).

[Bunbain]

You can call me AI

Time to start Yet Another Hypertext Online Organizer. It would have to be manually curated from what scraps remain of “content” that are not in walled gardens; just the “good stuff” created by humans who had something intelligent or creative to say to the world. Maybe we could even distribute some server tools to make it easy for people to put up sites on their internet-connected computers. Oh wait, that sounds too much like a publicly minded academic exercise that doesn’t lend itse…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Louisiana man shoots 14-year-old neighbor in head after she strays into his yard playing hide-and-seek with other kids

Jesus said to him “Put your sword back into its place, for all who take the sword will die by the sword.” He replied to Jesus, “What about responsible sword owners? If good guys put our swords back then only bad guys will have swords.” And verily, Jesus did slap his own forehead.

[VeronicaConnor]

Anderson Cooper defends CNN's Donald Trump "town hall" and it ain't good

“Do you think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make that person go away?” What an idiotic justification. Exposing a room already bathed in klieg lights to sunlight offers no value in terms of disinfection. CNN did no-one a service by giving a platform to a known liar and fascist.

[TornPaperNapkin]

Democrat wins Jacksonville, Florida mayor race in "major upset"

Democrat Donna Deegan decidedly defeats defiant dumb dude Daniel Davis despite district’s DeSantis dominance!

Boinger’s brilliant banter brightens bbs.

[milliefink]

Bada bing bada boom!

[Sally_Mahoney]

Target to remove LGBTQ-themed merchandise from stores to appease conservatives

Weird how the “for the safety of staff” bullshit is because of threats by the fucking fascists in the first place. Most people here on the threads are white, and straight. You probably have no real idea how tiring this all is to queer people. How draining. How desperate it makes us feel, constantly. Every day, another “request” for us to be hidden, another threat, another assualt, another rule, another lie, another law, another murder, EVERY FUCKING DAY. Then there’s a little glimmer as some…

[Sally_Mahoney]

State lawmakers want children to work in bars on school nights to fill "labor shortage" caused by people refusing to work for a pittance

They are the party of child workers because they refuse to be the party of fair wages for hard working adults. They are the party of children birthing children because they refuse to be the party of a woman’s right to healthcare choices, including abortion. They are the party of children being slaughtered in their schools because they refuse to be the party of sensible laws that reduce gun violence. They are the party of death and destruction because they refuse to be the party of science, of…

[MerelyGifted]

The Ongoing Gallery of Trump-Inspired Assholes (Part 3)

[tchecepshed]

[Sally_Mahoney]

Ron DeSantis supports pastor who says gay people should be "put to death"

There are no moderate Republicans. There are no centrist positions. We have a right wing which openly embraces fascism, terrorism and genocide and then everybody else. EVERY Republican endorses this garbage or at best is too chickenshit to oppose and call out those who do.