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PhD, medical historian and public health researcher. Author of "In Search of Sexual Health: Diagnosing and Treating Syphilis in Hot Springs, 1890-1940."
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November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Scott: 🎶All I wanna do, is see you turn into, a giant woman -- a giant wooooman🎶
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For the first time all year, Democrats were riding high and the regime was on the ropes.
If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.
This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.
This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
For the first time all year, Democrats were riding high and the regime was on the ropes.
If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.
This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.
This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
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ChatGPT is pedagogically harmful.
Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least.
It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people.
And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.
Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least.
It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people.
And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.
this story is horrifying and universities NEED to accept that ChatGPT is actively harmful
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
ChatGPT is pedagogically harmful.
Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least.
It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people.
And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.
Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least.
It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people.
And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.
House would've solved this in 10 minutes tops. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
83-year-old man married 50 years nearly stumps doctors with surprise STI
Man said he was in a monogamous 50-year marriage, but doctors aren’t so sure now.
arstechnica.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
House would've solved this in 10 minutes tops. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
There are many reasons the Blue Jays lost, but to me the most memorable will be Vlad swinging for the fences on a 3-0 pitch trying to be Joe Carter.
November 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
There are many reasons the Blue Jays lost, but to me the most memorable will be Vlad swinging for the fences on a 3-0 pitch trying to be Joe Carter.
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Blackface that exists without any actual human behind the makeup is a special kind of dystopian phenomenon
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Blackface that exists without any actual human behind the makeup is a special kind of dystopian phenomenon
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The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
October 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.
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Also, a lot of the hypothetical use cases people bring up about LLMs and writing assume that creative writing can be compartmentalized into high-level conceptual tasks and more rote tasks that you can farm out without losing anything substantial. This is absolutely not how writing works.
October 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Also, a lot of the hypothetical use cases people bring up about LLMs and writing assume that creative writing can be compartmentalized into high-level conceptual tasks and more rote tasks that you can farm out without losing anything substantial. This is absolutely not how writing works.
Hey #comics fans, ever wondered why the #X-men were so insistent on creating a mutant language after founding Krakoa? Take a look at this brilliant new essay from @erikas.online: campanthropology.org
CaMP Anthropology
Communication, Media and Performance
campanthropology.org
September 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Hey #comics fans, ever wondered why the #X-men were so insistent on creating a mutant language after founding Krakoa? Take a look at this brilliant new essay from @erikas.online: campanthropology.org
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ICE has fired tear gas and pepper balls at protesters outside their Broadview facility. They are terrorizing immigrants across Chicagoland. The time to resist is now. It will only get harder as authoritarianism tightens its grip. Please pay attention to this struggle.
September 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
ICE has fired tear gas and pepper balls at protesters outside their Broadview facility. They are terrorizing immigrants across Chicagoland. The time to resist is now. It will only get harder as authoritarianism tightens its grip. Please pay attention to this struggle.
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Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.
September 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.
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My latest newsletter is all about how to be a resilient writer in the face of career setbacks, ego death and creeping fascism.
I offer 17 handy tips on how to hang onto yourself and keep going when the challenging times just don't seem to stop.
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
I offer 17 handy tips on how to hang onto yourself and keep going when the challenging times just don't seem to stop.
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
How To Be A Resilient Writer
First and floormoose,1 I have a book that comes out in two weeks. It’s called Lessons in Magic and Disaster and it’s about a witch named Jamie who decides to...
buttondown.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
My latest newsletter is all about how to be a resilient writer in the face of career setbacks, ego death and creeping fascism.
I offer 17 handy tips on how to hang onto yourself and keep going when the challenging times just don't seem to stop.
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
I offer 17 handy tips on how to hang onto yourself and keep going when the challenging times just don't seem to stop.
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
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Were I not already married (or way more polyamorous than I am), I would MARRY this author for saying the world's most sensible things about fertility policy. What if we focused on unsustainable consumption rather than population numbers? What if we talked about migration more? THANK YOU.
Beyond fertility figures: towards reproductive rights and choices - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
It is widely documented that population growth is closely related to overall economic growth. Given the close link between the two, the global decline in fertility rates has led to an increasing numbe...
www.nature.com
July 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Were I not already married (or way more polyamorous than I am), I would MARRY this author for saying the world's most sensible things about fertility policy. What if we focused on unsustainable consumption rather than population numbers? What if we talked about migration more? THANK YOU.
Home Run Derby now feels like a 1920s time-motion study. It's Taylorism: players forced to maximize efficiency so much they can barely breathe between swings. As a result they're totally alienated from the products of their labor -- can't even admire the homers they send sailing into the night sky.
July 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Home Run Derby now feels like a 1920s time-motion study. It's Taylorism: players forced to maximize efficiency so much they can barely breathe between swings. As a result they're totally alienated from the products of their labor -- can't even admire the homers they send sailing into the night sky.
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Target is doubling down on the dipshittery for some reason.
“Target Corp., facing financial headwinds and pushback over its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, has dismissed two executives who have backed DEI efforts, including a chief legal and compliance officer it hired nine months ago.”
Target Lets Go Pair of Executives Who Had Supported DEI Programs
Target Corp., facing financial headwinds and pushback over its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, has dismissed two executives who have backed DEI efforts, including a chief legal and compl...
news.bloomberglaw.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Target is doubling down on the dipshittery for some reason.
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Not only is it more energy efficient to simply not use AI, but it's also better to not use AI for literally every other reason, too! Critical thinking skills are down, reading and writing capabilities are down, AND the earth is on fire because you wanted a picture of yourself in studio ghibli style.
tired: people AI-generating rando images of themselves as anime
WIRED: AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, new analysis has found
WIRED: AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, new analysis has found
AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse
A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI.
www.wired.com
May 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Not only is it more energy efficient to simply not use AI, but it's also better to not use AI for literally every other reason, too! Critical thinking skills are down, reading and writing capabilities are down, AND the earth is on fire because you wanted a picture of yourself in studio ghibli style.
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It’s Framing Friday! Wherein I give the internet a little 101 lecture on “framing”—the kind of word people love to throw around in analyses of media, but that actually has an important and specific meaning in social science that you should know about! So have a thread 🧵1/
May 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It’s Framing Friday! Wherein I give the internet a little 101 lecture on “framing”—the kind of word people love to throw around in analyses of media, but that actually has an important and specific meaning in social science that you should know about! So have a thread 🧵1/
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Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your fav...
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May 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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One thing I'm deducing from the whole "eat like great-grandma did" discourse is that The Jungle fell off the high school syllabus at some point and we should put it back.
April 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
One thing I'm deducing from the whole "eat like great-grandma did" discourse is that The Jungle fell off the high school syllabus at some point and we should put it back.
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let us not lose sight of the fact that, having just become the first American president to lose a Canadian election, Donald Trump has a good chance on Saturday to become the first American president to lose an Australian election
this is a literal attack ad running in Australia right now lol
April 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
let us not lose sight of the fact that, having just become the first American president to lose a Canadian election, Donald Trump has a good chance on Saturday to become the first American president to lose an Australian election
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We live super close to a Target and it used to be our destination of choice for things like toilet paper and cleaning supplies, but there are other places.
there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...
Target gave $1M to Trump inauguration fund, a first for the company
President Donald Trump raised a record amount of cash for his inauguration, including donations from several companies with operations in Minnesota.
www.startribune.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
We live super close to a Target and it used to be our destination of choice for things like toilet paper and cleaning supplies, but there are other places.
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ultimately the question is not is Donald Trump popular but can you organize the anger against him in a way that matters
April 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
ultimately the question is not is Donald Trump popular but can you organize the anger against him in a way that matters
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ICE did this to US citizens:
“I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,” she said. “I have to feed my children. I’m going to need gas money. I need to be able to get around. Like, how do you just leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.”
“I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,” she said. “I have to feed my children. I’m going to need gas money. I need to be able to get around. Like, how do you just leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.”
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
ICE did this to US citizens:
“I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,” she said. “I have to feed my children. I’m going to need gas money. I need to be able to get around. Like, how do you just leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.”
“I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,” she said. “I have to feed my children. I’m going to need gas money. I need to be able to get around. Like, how do you just leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.”
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My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.”
⭐️ Please share ⭐️
⭐️ Please share ⭐️
Research to Advance Racial and Indigenous Health Equity
We seek to build an actionable body of evidence to construct fair systems that determine resource distribution and support health equity. Deadlines: Rapid Response brief proposal 5/28/25; New Research...
tinyurl.com
April 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.”
⭐️ Please share ⭐️
⭐️ Please share ⭐️