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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 18/09/2026

Here's an analogy I like: AI agents are conscious in the same way that this AI-generated cabbage man is real. Agents can, in certain specific conditions, do a compelling job of imitating the behavior of a person, in the same way that this video renders a compelling-looking cabbage man.

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 04/09/2026

Actually, because I'm still proud of in spite of the fact that it never got published, here's the letter to the editor I wrote. It's possible this was an inadvisably hostile framing for something you're hoping an outlet will actually publish, but I stand by everything I said in it.

The text of my letter to the editor to StatNews, outlining the factual issues and financial conflict of interest in their long covid article.

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 02/09/2026

At that point, I also wrote a contrasting example of how I thought things might go. Like, "here's what has happened" vs "here's what I thought would happen." I think this can be an effective way to essentially say "this can be a really simple, easy fix" without making someone defensive.

The section of my e-mail where I explain what I thought correcting the misinformation would look like

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 02/09/2026

Finally last week, they removed the misrepresented links entirely and placed a full correction note at the bottom of the piece 🎉🎉🎉. It is the second of two corrections on the piece, which I hope will give them pause when deciding whether to trust Philips to write for them in the future.

the correction note on the StatNews article

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 02/06/2026

He doesn't include a single personal account of getting permanently worse as a result of brain retraining, GET, or recommendations to exercise. People have **permanently lost their ability to walk** due to these recommendations but you'd never know that reading the article.

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 25/04/2026

In high school a friend suggested I hadn't written something myself because I used the phrase "the territory over which they held sway" or something similar. Unrelatedly here are some photos of the manual for one of my favorite games growing up.

A manual for StarCraft that looks very old and dog-eared from heavy use.

The first page of the backstory for the Protoss race in StarCraft, with the phrase "the galaxy over which they held sway" underlined in red.

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 10/11/2025

This is great, but don't forget to alt-text your images! You can tap the "Require alt text before posting" setting to have the app remind you.

A screenshot of the Accessibility Settings on Bluesky with the button “Require alt text before posting” turned on

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 09/11/2025

Every time I see something like this I'm going to think of this "Gerrymandering our history" quote now. It's such a perfect way to describe this bullshit.

Kimberlé Crenshaw quote posted by @zinneducationproject in Instagram: "You've heard about gerrymandering our vote, gerrymandering our districts. What I want to talk about is how they gerrymander our history — and how gerrymandering our history is what they are using to undermine our ability to link our present to the past."

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 16/10/2025

Every time Facebook shows me an ad for a Kickstarter project that is a random everyday product with AI shoved up its ass (latest: a robot golf caddy that gives you AI-generated golfing advice).

Michael from Office Space saying "That is the worst idea I've ever heard in my life, Tom."

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 13/10/2025

Love this energy, but don't forget to alt text to your images! You can check the "Require alt text before posting" checkbox under the Accessibility settings to make sure the app reminds you.

In a Steam discussion forum for Little Rocket Lab, user "Morior Invictus" comments: "Game reeks of DEI
Every critical character you meet in the tutorial is female. I about had enough when a girl in a hijab appeared at the uni.
Wouldn't be surprised if antifa turns up at some point."

Rave (a developer on the game) responds: "Hey Morior Invictus! Please go away, we don't want you playing our game. Thanks <3
#5"

another commenter, Akira, responds "Yeah, noticed that too.
Would have been better without a DEl consultant." and then in response to Rave's "go away" comment, says "Insulting the players is always a winning strategy". Rave responds to that comment, saying "If that's genuinely how you feel about the above interaction, then I would rather you refunded the game. We do not want people playing our game who think like this *at all*."

A "Not Recommended" Steam review of Little Rocket Lab by user Jacky which reads "bought after watching a streamer. Should have watched it closer. 100% DEl infected This game stinks like Sweet Baby Inc touched it. Too late for a refund. Lesson learned."

Rave responds: "Hey Jacky!
You sound like an absolutely horrible person, so we're glad you didn't enjoy the game. We wish you could refund it too.
Please never play our games again! Cheers"

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 06/10/2025

I always think of this quote (from They Knew by Sarah Kendzior) when people say this. "'nobody saw it coming' is an admission of whom the speaker considers to be nobody"

Text from "They Knew" by Sarah Kendzior:

As I wrote in Hiding in Plain Sight, the oft-recited claim that
"nobody saw it coming" is an admission of whom the speaker considers to be nobody. In the United States, "nobody" historically included women, immigrants, poor people, and anyone who is not white. People dismissed as nobody are those most likely to be affected by a terrible situation and therefore the most likely to warn about it in advance. "Somebody" is a similarly convoluted category. For centuries, to be somebody in the United States meant to be a wealthy white man or to be treated like one. This idea of "somebody" is baked into the founding of the country, in which only white male landowners were granted the right to vote. White, land-owning men who deviated from the establishment were often punished for their efforts: castigated as troublemakers or conspiracy theorists. The goal was to reduce them, at least in their ability to gain institutional support, to the status of "nobody."

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 18/09/2025

Establishment Dems, talking about their constituents, while thinking of themselves as the good guys.

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 13/08/2025

The one against Fast? Or was there one directly against Stripe? To be clear, wouldn't surprise me, but want to be sure I'm finding the right thing. Their contract language for the Atlas service in 2019 certainly didn't reflect well on them. Neither did their public opposition to SF Prop C in 2018.

Contract text: "Article VIII
Distributions

Article 8.1. Interest. No interest shall be paid to any Member on account of his interest in the capital of, or on account of his investment in, the Company."

The two instances of the word "his" are highlighted.

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 26/07/2025

Image with alt text. Content note for sexual abuse, sex trafficking.

@jkbjournalist post that reads "Victims testified under oath that Maxwell sexually abused them with Epstein. Victims testified under oath that she recruited them and schooled them on how to give sexualized massages to Epstein. Victims testified that she took their passports so that they became prisoners on the island.
Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking."

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