Ellie meeting the giraffe. Absolutely gorgeous sleeve done by ester tarabal over the past two days. I couldn’t be more delighted with it!!! #TLOU #TheLastOfUs #TheLastOfUsTattoo #NaughtyDog #EllieWilliams #giraffe #tattoo

I worry about these students, going on to be HCWs. They are so smart, smarter than me. And yet they don’t see the risks. I get a lot more emails telling me they have Covid and can’t come to class. I do see a few more students wearing masks. 12

the guy who just mansplained The Handmaid’s Tale to the author of The Handmaid’s Tale

First up at #LeadDevBerlin we have Irina Stanescu talking us through how to lead in these current times of scarcity “Less staff, more work, everything will be great” gets a good chuckle from the audience

Like the 20th century, which delivered much of the world from the grips of colonial rule, the 21st promises to end imperial domination for good. Indeed, it must — there is no other way to pull the planet back from climate collapse or nuclear war. But that outcome depends on our

Nothing drains a high performer faster than realizing their reward for excellence is cleaning up someone else’s incompetence.

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Cakelin This would be why 100% COVID people exist. I can't believe it's 2025 and people are still choosing brain damage over simple COVID mitigations.

I always laugh when everyone is like, “Has anyone else noticed people have changed? Like, people aren’t behaving normally, they can’t remember anything, their personalities are changing, & they simply aren’t working right…what is that?” Oh my sweet summer children…

The biggest trick they successfully pulled was convincing people that because the initial infection was sometimes mild they wouldn't get serious long term health problems from it.

Elon Musk is currently tweeting up a storm about trans people while his daughter is looking gorgeous on the cover of Teen Vogue explaining why gender-affirming healthcare is life-saving for trans youth teenvogue.com/story/vivian-j…

Every creative genius — from Da Vinci to Einstein — had one daily habit in common. And almost no one does it today. Here’s why it matters more than ever 👇

TL;DR: Creative genius isn’t about forcing brilliance. It’s about making space for it to find you. Schedule some unstructured thought time. Your brain will thank you for it.

PPS. Here's another stat for you. How many people have waited 12 hours from the moment they are *classified as needing admission to hospital* to *when they are admitted*:

Once again, if your LLM system combines access to private data, exposure to malicious instructions and the ability to exfiltrate information (through tool use or through rendering links and images) you have a nasty security hole

This is ableism at its most ugly. This is a person who’s embraced eugenics whole heartedly and yet somehow manages to convince themselves they’re noble and “strong”. He firmly believes he’s better than someone like me, despite having lost his moral compass ages ago

Read more about US citizens getting arrested and even deported by ICE in my latest New York Magazine story: nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Men are still responding with shock and disbelief when I say I was first sexually harassed by a grown man when I was 12. Don’t take my word for it: ask any woman in your life how old they were the first time they got unwanted sexual attention from a grown man. Report back.

If you catch Covid this summer, you will be more vulnerable to other infections this winter. That's how it works.

“You don’t need a respirator for pollen, take antihistamines” “No point masking for smoke unless you’re wearing it 24/7” “They don’t work for Covid unless fit tested” We’ve failed at harm reduction. Even if something isn’t 100%, if you reduce risk & harm, that’s worth it!