"But advocates for sex work decriminalization consider that her Nordic Model endangers people involved in the sex trade. 'It guarantees continued police raids at sex workers’ places of business, like the raid that killed Yang Song," said Zohran Mamdani, an assembly candidate."

Please stop confusing functioning for wellness. Just because you/other people are "showing up," completing tasks, pushing through, etc. doesn't mean you/they are well. It means overriding the body's required maintenance leading from tired to overwhelm to burnout to debilitation.

Today in The Advocate ❤️

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

pickles are great...until you're in one

"ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and 'consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.' Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study."

Toxicologist here 👋 this is a horrible idea

One of the funniest videos ever produced. Very little competition.

HPV

i wanted to see what other fans think but i didn’t expect the national institutes of health to agree with me

I am once again in awe at a 30-something guy friend of mine taking mushrooms and discovering the concept of empathy. “Everyone has a different view of things and different feelings”, yeah bro every woman I know grasped that at age 12. But good for you, buddy.

who up still committing to the bit

Baltimore's progressive mayor Brandon Scott took a public health approach to violence prevention, and the city is on track to have its smallest number of murders and shootings in 60 years. This is huge for Baltimore.

Delaware

my therapist said cutting people off isn’t healthy. She next.

This opens a huge loophole for even more money in politics- and gives donors tax breaks for supporting political candidates: I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/… via @NYTimes

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