hildegard von bitchin

stand up, policy/social work, complaining, 🚲. Recovering Alaskan. YIMBY. dead moms club. she/her

[Malika 🧬 @malikules]

atheism leaving my body with every new Pope tweet

[orange™ @HorangelDavid]

Tu eres católico porque crees en Dios

Yo soy católico porque voy a participar en las cruzadas sagradas lideradas por el Papa León XIV contra las tiranías blasfemas tecnocraticas para acabar con la IA

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

Most important quote about politics in the last 15 years

[Jonathan Martin @jmart]

NEWS: "I've written 983 pages" - Robert Caro on his final LBJ book

Via @cspan

https://t.co/ypwwZ0IhNs

[hildegard von bitchin @Maria_JGBS]

@_cingraham My mom died of cholangiocarcinoma. So happy for you your story was different

[Danny Polishchuk @Dannyjokes]

Hey did you accidentally bomb Iraq instead of Iran???

ChatGPT: You’re absolutely right good catch!

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

Could you imagine if there were journalists whose beat was covering magicians, but they think magic is real, so they're always breathlessly reporting on the lady they saw cut in half.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded 4.8 million articles from JSTOR. We don't know why - it may have been to make them freely available online (if so, he never did, as he was caught). He made no money from this, and there is no suggestion he intended to.

He was indicted on 13 felony counts, facing a maximum of 95 years in prison and $3 million in fines. Two years after his arrest, awaiting trial, he hung himself.

In 2019 & 2021, Ben Mann downloaded at least 5 million books from pirate libraries. He did so while working at OpenAI and Anthropic; the books were downloaded for the purposes of training AI models at those companies, two of the most successful commercial companies in recent history.

He has never faced criminal charges, and, as a co-founder of Anthropic, must now be extremely wealthy (it is known that many of his co-founders are billionaires).

[Artie Vierkant @avierkant]

A stat so damning for the entire concept of work requirements I’ve probably dropped it 15 times on @DeathPanel_ since 2024

https://t.co/Dmw5XeEV59

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[Brad Lander @bradlander]

Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

[B. @verygoodchat]

This interview!! 🔥

“I think most people who are alive today will face the reality that COVID is a contributing factor to their death. Do people know this?… I’ve never seen such a wide disconnect between what the public thinks and what science says.”

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

putting a cheap air filter in a classroom leads to roughly the same increase in student test outcomes as the best charter schools in the country ($18k/y)

[Jon Douglas @atranscendedman]

Study in the US during the Omicron wave followed 248 metformin users over 6 months.

Starting metformin within a week of COVID reduced the risk of Long COVID or death by 53%.

Safe and inexpensive with results aligning with earlier data.

https://t.co/7G11wrH6wn

[Siqi Chen @blader]

this christmas, i am humbly asking for your help to support dr. hankinson's research.

if not with $, i would be just as grateful for a repost or a like on this thread.

100% of your donation goes directly to funding the research efforts of Hankinson Lab: https://t.co/z8DcECGXGS

[Drew @drewocarr]

wondering if anyone on twitter have been in this part of sf before

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

The world’s richest man took $190 million away from kids with cancer.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Eliminating Daylight Savings Time is a terrible idea. I ran the numbers, and it would cost the average American 40 minutes of waking daylight per year in the summer.

[hildegard von bitchin @Maria_JGBS]

Obviously both Little Womens (1994/2019) are near-perfect (Emma Watson not withstanding), but I just found out Henry David Thoreau attended the real-life Meg’s wedding and i think it’s a shame he didn’t make a cameo