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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

WE DON’T NEED A FUCKING TREATMENT WE HAVE A VACCINE THAT IS 97% EFFECTIVE AND COULD ERADICATE THE DISEASE IF WE DIDN’T HAVE ANTIVAX GRIFTERS LEADING US 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

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With Measles Roaring Back, the Search for a Treatment is On

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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

My own intelligence, refined over 20+ years of inquiry and work, has served me so well this week.

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 11/06/2026

Don't let AI think and struggle for you. Don't let it replace the human relationships that make life worthwhile. Choose a different future. www.davidmoscrop.com/p/what-ai-ca...

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What AI Can't Do And What It Shouldn't Do

We're losing our capacity to think and connect. We can choose a different future.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11/06/2026

Broken record here, but so many of these uses start with “how can we get people to use a chatbot” rather than “how do we solve a problem” or “how do we fill a need.” The “problem” according to the companies is that people aren’t using chatbots enough.

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DoorDash's new AI chatbot lets you order with prompts and photos | TechCrunch

The new chatbot, called Ask DoorDash, allows users to search the app for what they're looking for in their own words instead of having to scroll through restaurants and stores to build a cart.

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Katy @katydiddance.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Spending a fortune in Our Money. Don't let a single one of these people tell you we cannot afford all the nice things we deserve from our tax dollars.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/06/2026

In the pre-surveillance capitalism era, you just did not have to worry about if playing a Pokémon game on your GameBoy was actually supporting the development of deadly military tech psychologically, I don’t think it’s good you now absolutely do have to worry about this with most any tech device.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/06/2026

It’s not really surprising that people are becoming more distrustful and cynical about tech (and everything else) when there’s a constant drumbeat of stories, like this, about a seemingly innocuous game/tool/website harvesting data that is then used for murderous purposes:

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Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained The Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones

Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

have to wonder what the initial dozen specialists found that necessitated bringing in ten more tbh

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

BREAKING: Canada launches a new National Advisory Committee on Preventive Health Services. It will be chaired by Dr. David Keegan, a leading advocate for masks in healthcare & on planes who filed human rights litigation on both fronts. 💪😷 www.newswire.ca/news-release... @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social

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New National Advisory Committee to support preventive health care in Canada

/CNW/ - The Government of Canada is reinforcing its leadership in preventive health care by advancing national guidelines grounded in the highest standards of...

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

If houses had been set on fire *by* ethnic minority people, I suspect the BBC would have somehow rediscovered the active voice

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

"Over the last month...I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts." 😲🧵 h/t @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social

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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I just warned some residents about Frontiers and MDPI. Some more info for them…

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Matt Kirkcaldie @matttkk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Bizarre developments at @frontiersin.bsky.social, somehow worse than any imaginable outcome of acquisition by @springernature.com. Ironically the Frontiers account's pinned post is "Behind every article is an author, reviewer, and editor who chose to uphold the highest of standards."

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

AI is destroying academic integrity. The purpose of a system is what it does.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This is awful, and I am saving the phrase "forced automation" for future use.

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The richest people in the world are actively dismantling every foundational pillar that allowed them to become so vastly wealthy in the first place, and all of us, and our children, and all their children after, will suffer because of it.

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Don Yee @mosquitolab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A very scary and infuriating look at the future of scienctific review. Props to @michael-okun.bsky.social

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Sanctions Kill 🇵🇸 @sanctionskill.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This new systematic risk to science and our lives is immense

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Haley Vecchiarelli @haleyv.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I remember meeting with Frontiers after doing a Guest Editor spot and providing feedback that I really hated the (at the time, less) automated system—precisely because of the issues around assigning reviewers and that moving toward a more automated system (what they were pushing) is a mistake.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This thread about an AI tool making it impossible for a journal editor to do their job is wild Also an example of why our book, Why We Fear AI, argues that AI must be understood as an anti-intellectual force in the reconfiguration of the relation of capital & state to knowledge work

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I emailed and met with the editorial office to ask for the AI assistant to be turned off. I was told this is not possible. Instead, I was treated to some vague promises of potential future improvements and a dose of gaslighting.

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts.

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

When Frontiers started automating the editorial process, I stayed. I reasoned that as long as the automation could be turned off, human editors can still ensure rigorous, high-quality peer review. This now became impossible - the system has been entirely hijacked by algorithms.

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10/06/2026

Twitter/X is an enormous national security threat on a global scale, and a lot more nations need to grow a spine and start blocking it (and taking other active, aggressive measures).

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

“We can’t have people who went thorough male puberty playing women‘s sports!“ “Then get them on blockers so they don’t go through it.“ “We can’t do that because they might regret it.” “Then let them have the resources to make an informed decision.” “We can’t have that in libraries because it’s

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/06/2026

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We need to do so much better than this. www.canada.ca/content/dam/...

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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Read without paywall - "Ottawa announces new panel on preventive care and cancer screening guidelines": @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social archive.is/1Q5Yz

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This is a welcome sign of progress!

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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Actually, minutes after taking this photo, I started feeling incredibly unwell. I updated the triage nurse, and then slumped on a chair. I was brought inside. Got worse, felt just it did last year when I had early sepsis. Thought I was going to pass out, despite being as reclined as I could.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

In which the Chair of Canada's new National Advisory Panel on *Preventive* Health Services walks-the-talk in his airborne infection-preventing N95 🤩

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Amanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

When your bud isn’t feeling good and it seems sepsis-y, you show up to make sure they get those good antibiotics. Follow along for some important awareness of this condition as it can go south quickly:

Picture of two people (woman with black curly hair and man with grey hair and orange shirt) in a hospital hallway wearing respirator masks and glasses, smiling

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Isobel_Starling @isobelstarling.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The Authors Guild are in partnership with an AI Licensing company. They're trying to funnel members to this company in the guise of 'earning more' from their books. But even if an author is paid for a 3 year licence, their books are in the meat grinder for good. There's no way to extract titles.

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Created by Humans Partners with The Authors Guild

We're excited to partner with The Authors Guild to help authors control and monetize their content.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10/06/2026

If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...

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Taking action against AI harms - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 10/06/2026

Please, I beg you, stop asking generative AI your legal questions. The anti-Black planet destroying theft machine that only tells you what you want to hear is not a good source for ANYTHING when your home or freedom is on the line.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Financial institutions are giving SpaceX shares special expedited treatment to burrow onto indexes that millions of index fund holders will then robotically purchase to induce demand. It's an innovative version of a pump-and-dump scheme. Eleanor Davis-Diver reports. prospect.org/2026/06/10/e...

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Elon Musk Is About to Make Saving for Retirement Even Harder - The American Prospect

The upcoming SpaceX IPO will make investing in index funds for retirement worse, while Musk and friends rake in millions.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

They pushed a novel viral disease onto kids saying it’s good for them, and today on the radio they are discussing the governments plan to withdraw support for kids with autism and other special needs. It’s almost like we want to mess up their brains and then not pay for it…

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Here are the Chicks performing “Not Ready to Make Nice” on Kimmel last night on the 23rd anniversary of them being right about the Iraq War and getting actually canceled for it: youtu.be/Gc84Qk7f-pg

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The Chicks - Not Ready to Make Nice

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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This is unhinged. - Halifax already counts bikes! They have many permanent counters, and the data is public. - I could find you a hundred roads within walking distance of my home that have less than 50 cars per hour. Is anyone questioning whether they should exist?

According to Gautreau, counts during peak cycling months can reach roughly 50 cyclists per rush hour, while winter numbers can drop substantially, particularly in poor weather.

The amateur data-collection effort comes amid continuing debate over cycling infrastructure in the municipality.

Gautreau is among residents who question whether some investments in bike lanes reflect actual usage levels. He argues municipalities could gather more accurate information by using cameras to record and review cyclist traffic at multiple locations throughout the year.

“If HRM really wanted accurate counts of where and when these bicycles are showing up, all they would have to do is use a couple of cameras and make the counts,” he said.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/06/2026

don’t think i have ever seen a politician as feckless and cowardly as starmer

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

So they’ll ban the pogrom instigating, csam social media site right? The one the trilionaire uses to spread white supremacy across the globe? They care so much for the children right? Dunno think the children would be safer if The Nazi App wasnt legal and part of government comms

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