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Eric Schrimshaw

@ericschrimshaw.bsky.social
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Psychologist, dept Chair Population health sciences at UCF MED; research focused on LGBTQ+ health, mental health, and HIV prevention. 🏳️‍🌈

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The Trump administration is ending a key health insurance subsidy program that aimed to keep premiums for seniors' prescription drug plans in check. abcnews.com/Health/trump...
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Trump administration to end Medicare Part D subsidy program in 2027
The prescription drug benefit is used by millions of seniors.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"Although this is promising for life sciences applications, it also raises urgent biosafety and biosecurity questions. The ability to compose viral genomes using generative AI now exists; the governance to safely steer it does not.” www.cnn.com/2026/08/06/h...
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AI creates 16 new viruses from scratch, showing promise for drug resistance and drawing warnings about potential for misuse | CNN
Scientists used an artificial intelligence program to create new viral genomes that are different from any known natural viruses and that targeted specific hosts, according to a new study. The develop...
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JoeMyGod @joemygod.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Senate Confirms Todd Blanche As AG In 50-49 Vote - Joe.My.God.
The Washington Post reports: The Senate narrowly voted to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general early Saturday morning, cementing President Donald Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer as the head...
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 31/07/2026
China being assessed more positively than the U.S. is a relatively recent shift in most countries surveyed. These favorability reversals usually come down to two forces moving in opposite directions: China's reputation rising, America's falling.
Chart showing in many countries, the U.S.-China favorability gap has reversed in recent years. 
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 31/07/2026
We now have the technology to eliminate HIV and AIDS. But cuts to USAID mean it’s not gonna happen any time soon. My latest. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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HIV prevention drug could reduce number of cases globally but USAID cuts prevent access, say experts
Injectable PrEP drug holds promise but investment in HIV prevention has declined dramatically worldwide
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/07/2026
I saw this posted elsewhere, and hoped it was just an AI spoof, but sadly, it's a real CDC Webpage, and the information it contains is deeply dangerous and untrue.
CDC Webpage on "Vaccine Safety."

Autism and Vaccines
Questions and Concerns
Page 2 of 9 | All pages 
For Everyone
July 22, 2026
Key points
The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
White House Faces Stiff Pushback on Subjecting Grants to Political Review www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...
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White House Faces Stiff Pushback on Subjecting Grants to Political Review
Academics, city leaders and congressional lawmakers number among the thousands to urge the Trump administration to reconsider a plan to assert more control over grants.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/07/2026
Thousands of new private schools have opened recently, many without running background checks or receiving the kind of oversight public schools routinely get. We're still reporting. If you find something in your research, we want to hear about it.
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Help ProPublica Report on Education
ProPublica needs your help to track how the upheaval of public education is affecting schools and colleges in your community. Take a few minutes to join our source network and help guide our coverage.
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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Venezuela quake death toll passes 4,000 as scale of recovery effort looms large
Nearly 17,000 injured and thousands more are listed as missing amid calls by UN and president Delcy Rodríguez for financial help
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NPR @npr.org · 11/07/2026
The Trump administration finalized a rule Friday that changes how agencies enforce the Endangered Species Act. The administration narrowed the definition of "harm" under the landmark law. n.pr/4wWVo0H
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Trump administration rolls back a key protection for imperiled wildlife
The Trump administration finalized a rule Friday that changes how agencies enforce the Endangered Species Act. The administration narrowed the definition of "harm" under the landmark law.
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This story alludes to ASPR's role in the strategic national stockpile but doesn't mention its role in overseeing BARDA which funds a lot of key vaccine research.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11/07/2026
We are in the timeline where Taco Bell is leading the response to stop the diarrhea-causing parasite outbreak
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Taco Bell Locations Stop Serving Lettuce and Guacamole amid ‘Explosive’ Diarrhea Parasite Outbreak: Report
Some Taco Bell locations in the U.S. are reportedly not serving lettuce, pico de gallo, guacamole and cilantro onion items amid a cyclosporiasis outbreak that’s affected 2,000 people, with Michigan re...
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CNN @cnn.com · 11/07/2026
The 21st Century Road to Housing Act, a bipartisan bill that aims to tackle housing affordability, officially became law, despite a series of attempts by President Donald Trump to stall the legislation. cnn.it/4f964lc
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 11/07/2026
"The government's schools guidance constitutes a form of ‘Ambient Conversion Therapy’ by embedding systemic pressures that will undermine trans children's identities and wellbeing 24/7" - @natacha.bsky.social www.wearequeeraf.com/english-scho...
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English schools to segregate Trans+ kids from toilets – including those who've already transitioned – from September
New ‘Keeping Children Safe In Education 2026’ (KCISE) guidance sets out in detail the limits now placed on schools on supporting Trans+ children
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Experts set out recommendations for people with low but detectable HIV viral load (aka low level viraemia). Note: risk of sexual transmission below 200 copies - referred to as undetectable - is zero. Risk of sexual transmission below 1000 copies is ‘almost zero’.
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Experts publish recommendations on managing low-level but detectable HIV
An international panel of scientists reviewed the evidence to construct a framework of recommendations on the management of low-level but detectable HIV. The guidance, published in The Lancet HIV by D...
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Quiet little announcement on CDC website: American aid worker has tested positive for Bundibugyo Ebola. Wonder where they will take this person — presumably not Kenya. Germany again? Or will they actually bring them to the US? www.cdc.gov/media/releas...
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CDC Statement on Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda: 7/10/26
CDC Statement on Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda: 7/10/26
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Orlando Sentinel @orlandosentinel.com · 11/07/2026
A group of nine prominent Americans are given a series of worst-case scenarios for defending the midterm election.
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Commentary: The troubling takeaway when experts game out election threats
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CNN @cnn.com · 11/07/2026
A US citizen working for a humanitarian group in the Democratic Republic of Congo has tested positive for the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement. cnn.it/4bDBJdE
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Man fatally shot by federal officer in Houston was not ICE target, DHS says
The update comes as the family of the man killed in Tuesday's shooting, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and local officials are demanding an independent investigation.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/07/2026
Incredible news. Illinois Governor Pritzker has signed a law removing testosterone HRT from the PDMP program, a program other states can use to access people's prescription records across state lines. It will protect trans people in IL from places like TX. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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IL Gov. Pritzker Signs Law Protecting Trans Patients By Removing Testosterone from Govt. Monitoring Program
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) could be exploited to carry out anti-trans attacks. Illinois just made it harder to do.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
it’s like we created the absolute dumbest people in a lab and gifted them all microphones and cameras on their way out
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 05/07/2026
One of the reasons why the ongoing meltdown about Zohran asking people to set their A/C to 78 bothers me is that it seems to be a symptom of post-COVID unwillingness for individuals to do anything for the common good, and if we don’t have that we’re in a very bad place as a society.
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The Advocate @advocate.com · 05/07/2026
Over 130,000 people are currently deemed missing or have disappeared in Mexico.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/07/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Washington was beloved by many for giving away power he could have kept. Trump is reviled by many for snatching power he isn’t entitled to,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes. “One famously wouldn’t tell a lie. The other famously can’t stop telling lies.”
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Opinion | Founding Father vs. Foundering Toddler
No. 1 puts No. 45/47 to shame.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/07/2026
Details:
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Sloop Clearwater boat ejected from America250 parade after displaying banners supporting Indigenous rights, climate action
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater said its sailboat was ejected during the Sail4th 250 Parade of Ships.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/07/2026
Sarah Keys Evans, a Black veteran who played a key role in desegregating interstate travel, paved the way for Rosa Parks and the Freedom Riders. Now, her story is one of thousands about women and people of color to be removed since Trump’s return to office.
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The Army took down its page commemorating a civil rights icon
A piece honoring Black veteran Sarah Keys Evans has been axed to "align with current guidance."
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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 04/07/2026
America's 250th anniversary offers a moment to reckon with our history — & its contradictions — to determine our #democracy’s future. This #IndependenceDay, join us in using #LFJ's new resource page to imagine a more inclusive democracy for the next generation & beyond 📱: bit.ly/44aGh7s
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
NEW: Two-hundred-and-fifty years in, Justice Jackson is doing the work that is needed from our leaders. The United States needs leaders willing to speak forthrightly about our past and ambitiously about our future in order to make it through the treacherous present. This Fourth, at Law Dork:
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Two-hundred-and-fifty years in, Justice Jackson is doing the work that is needed from our leaders
The United States needs leaders willing to speak forthrightly about our past and ambitiously about our future in order to make it through the treacherous present.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 04/07/2026
Stylized portrait of Frederick Douglass with a quote:

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. 

WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION ADDRESS · CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. · AUGUST 3, 1857
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Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
If ending #HIV means relying on systems that keep people locked out of affordable care, then we need to rethink the strategy. writes advocate @shekinahrose.bsky.social in a First Person commentary for @posaware.bsky.social. . positivelyaware.com/drug-pricing-is-hiv-policy
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 04/07/2026
Happy Fourth, everyone. My latest piece is about how the current US administration is directly threatening babies’ safety. Them have been multiple botulism outbreaks in infants bc of contaminated baby formula since Trump and DOGE took a hatchet to the FDA. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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How baby formula recalls have mounted amid Trump staff cuts to the FDA
Experts say the Food and Drug Administration is not prepared for the health threat of bacterial contamination
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Read the first edition pamphlet of Frederick Douglass' famous 1852 “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?” speech. After he finished speaking there was “a universal burst of applause” and 700 copies of the pamphlet were subscribed to on the spot: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #July4th
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MJW @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I just went to Taco Bell. I got two chalupas and a small drink. It was $18. This it's what people mean when they talk about the economy feeling bad right now. Everything is expensive. Cheap things are no longer cheap. You can't leave your house without spending $50.
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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
NEW: Federal immigration officials have detained more than 10,000 people in the last 5 days, a major surge that has stemmed from a push at ICE to increase arrests. The WH has wanted more arrests. The expectation inside ICE is 2K arrests a day. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
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Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/06/2026
1. I have fully read and reported on the SCOTUS anti-trans BPJ ruling today. The decision is very bad, though not as bad as the worst case scenarios. It will still likely lead to mass discrimination in both red and blue states against trans people. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Supreme Court Rules Title IX Means "Biological Sex" In Devastating Anti-Trans Ruling
The ruling will likely give the Trump administration more ammunition to go after colleges and schools across the country.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Brilliant essay I’ve sent it to the students who just took my course in Geneva on global health policy—as it captures so much of what we focused on, which is the need for what Amitabha Sarkar calls “solidarity globalism” The racist, ineffective, anti-scientific, inequitable travel bans are vile
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Now think about what this means if all federal grant making is under political control as per new OMB rule. Crony capitalism at its worst: do you want these people fixing your bridges, making sure your water supply is safe? @donmoyn.bsky.social
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 27/06/2026
Draft conversion practices bill loopholes make it “instruction manual for abuse” 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/draft-conver...
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Draft conversion practices bill loopholes make it “instruction manual for abuse”
Eight years after a ban was pledged the draft Conversion Practices Bill is here – and its not without problems
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
One of the groups most likely to be made homeless is young trans people. In most cases this is because their parents are transphobic bigots.
independent.co.uk
‘My parents forced me out of home when they found out I was trans’
LGBTQ+ people between the ages of 18 to 25 are four times more likely to face homelessness
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27/06/2026
OMB has proposed a new rule change. And, as @jvl.bsky.social describes it, it's goal is to disappear people and ideas. lnk.thebulwark.com/4uWvDvW
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They Want to Disappear You
How OMB will politicize the federal grant system with this one weird trick.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 27/06/2026
www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n...
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5 million have dropped ACA insurance after Trump and the GOP let prices skyrocket
The number of people who signed up for a health plan and then didn't pay their premium fell much more sharply than it has in years past. Trump officials blame fraud. Health policy experts blame costs.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The CDC is raising its Ebola response to the highest level, agency officials said Friday, as the outbreak continues to spread uncontrolled across Congo and Uganda. thehill.com/policy/healt...
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CDC elevates Ebola response to highest level
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is raising its Ebola response to the highest level, agency officials said Friday, as the outbreak continues to spread uncontrolled across Congo …
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WHO @who.int · 27/06/2026
Drowning prevention starts with you. Here are some water safety rules. ⬇️
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Sarah Fitzpatrick @sfitz787.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
NEW STORY: Trump’s ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Payouts May Not Be Dead After All www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Trump’s ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Payouts May Not Be Dead After All
Despite insisting that a $1.776 billion fund has been scrapped, the administration is quietly assuring allies that plans remain on track.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The new right's plans to create a christian nationalist nation.
politico.com
‘This Is What We Want for America’
The New Right has a plan to build a Christian country. It's starting in rural Tennessee.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
OK. I am noticing a pattern... Today is the second "NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture" to be given by Gary Taubes on "Energy Balance or Fuel Partitioning? A History Lesson in the Science of Obesity Pathogenesis, and Its Implications." 1/11
A notice regarding the NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture by Gary Taubes on Energy Balance or Fuel Partitioning? A History Lesson in the Science of Obesity Pathogenesis, and Its Implications."
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold it to a data center developer for $10 million
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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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Pique Action @piqueaction.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Is America repeating authoritarian history? Harvard historian discusses how current attacks on American science map cleanly onto dangerous patterns of the past. We aren't just fighting for the planet; we're fighting for the truth. Watch the new episode! @fisherdanar.bsky.social
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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This is obviously a very important german court ruling. AI providers are liable for false information given by AI. But I'd like to draw your attention to the original cause of the court case. It's something I noticed often, and I feel it's very dangerous. 1/ www.wired.com/story/a-cour...
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A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews
The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Wow
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