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Today marks 15 days since Florida's legislature banned most adult trans care. People continue to be unable to obtain their medications. People are suffering and turning to alternate means.

Elon Musk's Neuralink received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its first-in-human clinical trial, a critical milestone for the brain-implant startup as it faces U.S. probes over its handling of animal experiments.

A furry fandom con in Florida just announced it would ban minors based on the governor’s ridiculous laws

Nah Fam That's Speech, Come On Now

In the last month, two different hospitals both managed to almost kill D by medication errors. At least, I'm insisting they were errors, though such as they were is, I gather, not what is usually considered a "medication error". She was not administered too much, she was not administered someone else's meds, she wasn't administered something other that what was prescribed.

Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.

If you're a corporate marketing officer concerned over what's happening with Target, let me make something abundantly clear: you will never appease anti-LGBTQ extremists.

Plus: What it means for Ukraine to finally receive F-16 fighter jets.

Hi hi hi!! Remember how we’re in the middle of the middle of the Torah now—Leviticus 19? The Holiness Code. The heart of the Torah. Literally getting to the core stuff, if you will. Aaand what’s one of the key messages Torah wants to make sure that we hear?

A Deeper Look At The Surgeon General’s Report On Kids & Social Media: It’s Not What You Heard by Mike Masnick

We had just recently written about the American Psychological Association’s very thorough and detailed report going through much of the research about the impact of social media on the mental health of kids. That report was careful, and nuanced, and basically said that there is little evidence that social media is inherently bad for kids. […]

A landmark Chicago court ruling threatens a century of expert ballistics testimony

They were taught that public schools are evil. Then a Virginia couple defied their families and enrolled their kids.

Maybe, no one?

I usually write a blog post on 20 June each year to celebrate the birthday of this blog. But today I want to celebrate #WP20 with you, the 20th birthday of our beloved open source software. No longer a teenager At 20 years old, WordPress is a grown up piece of software. It started quite small, weigh...

Succession, the popular HBO soap opera about a family of hideous media moguls, will come to a close this weekend. It’s a supremely glossy and expensively-made TV show about supremely glossy and expensively-made TV. The in-your-face self-referentiality distinguishes Succession from shows like The Sopranos and The Wire, earlier “prestige” classics that likewise reflected—and shaped—the zeitgeist. […]

GOP women freak out over losing reproductive rights, but embrace cruelty when it's someone else's rights at stake

Conservatives are making Pride merch 'toxic.' Their real goal is much worse. by Dean Obeidallah

Target announced earlier this week that the company was removing some LGBTQ-themed items from shelves and moving displays intended to honor Pride month to the back of the store in response to a public backlash from the right. But what happened at Target goes far beyond just some people calling for a boycott.