Mary-Sarah

Ranting malamute mama, Flying Irish Dancer Troupe, she/her, #mask up, #M4A,🔥💚🦖KEEP MASKING blsky: @msomalamute

[Mary-Sarah @msomalamute]

@SketchesbyBoze When I was 9 I loved the Wizard of Oz books. Great for young readers

[Mary-Sarah @msomalamute]

@Gmwetz @GodandtheBear

[Mary-Sarah @msomalamute]

@LowlyWorm2022 I love your mask color! What is it?

[Berniegirl No More @Hedgesgurl]

Just a reminder: You may notice gas prices inching down a bit. They’re now increasing the level of ethanol they put into our gasoline from 10% to 15%. Started May 1. This is really bad for our cars and will cause damage to our car’s fuel system due to corrosion.

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

I’ve recently seen several people get dangerously sick from symptoms they thought could wait.

That is the problem. Most people are never taught which symptoms are actually urgent.

Here are 10 symptoms I tell people never to ignore 🧵1/13

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

These are all programs that Trump has cut funding for and I’m curious where all this money went! Why aren’t we asking questions. Why isn’t Congress asking questions! 🤬

[Mary-Sarah @msomalamute]

@SmartdollLand Love this!

[Mary-Sarah @msomalamute]

@Covid_institute I love your posts. I don’t have LC but was diagnosed with EDS/MCAS/POTS last year, which, looking back, has been affecting my whole life. My doc has me on tons of meds & etc. your posts help explain what they do for me and why my system is working the way it does.

[tern @1goodtern]

Saying "during Covid" and meaning 2020 is like saying "during Trump" and meaning when he was on The Apprentice.

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

With everything we are hearing right now about ticks this seems like good information to share.

“Here’s what I’ve learned after more ticks than I care to count.
First, whatever your uncle told you, forget it. No matches. No nail polish. No Vaseline. No soap on a cotton ball. All of those do the same terrible thing, they stress the tick out, and a stressed tick empties its gut back into the bite before letting go. Which, if you think about what that actually means for a second, is literally how Lyme and the rest get transmitted so you’re not speeding up its exit. You’re making it throw up into you.
Fine-tipped tweezers. Grip right where the mouthparts enter the skin, not the body, the head. Pull straight up, steady, no twisting, no jerking. It’ll feel like it’s resisting because it is, the mouthparts are barbed. Just keep the pressure on and it lets go in a few seconds. If a piece breaks off in the skin, leave it alone. Your body pushes splinters out. Digging around with a needle does more damage then the fragment ever would.
Clean it with alcohol or soap. Wash your hands.
Now here’s the part most people skip: don’t flush the tick.
Tape it to an index card. Clear packing tape right over the body, write the date and where on your body it was, and stick the card in a drawer. If you come down with anything weird in the next 30 days, rash, fever, joint pain, that flu-that-isn’t-flu feeling, that tick goes with you to the doctor. Some labs will test the tick itself, which is faster and often more reliable than waiting for antibodies to show up in your own blood. A dated tick taped to a card is one of the most useful things you can hand a doctor who’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with you.
The other thing worth saying out loud: if the tick was engorged when you pulled it, and you can’t swear it was off your body within 24 hours, call your doctor that same day. Don’t wait for a rash. Fewer than three out of four Lyme cases even produce the classic bullseye. A single preventive dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of a deer tick bite cuts the Lyme odds way down, and most docs in tick country will write that prescription without giving you a hard time, especially if you walk in with the tick taped to a card and a clear timeline.”

[Mary-Sarah @msomalamute]

@DrRebeccaRyan @StillMask Yes, a great thread! Thank you!

[Mary-Sarah @msomalamute]

@StillMask @DrRebeccaRyan Thanks

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

One thing nobody tells you about adulthood is how fun it is to become your own person. One day you randomly start liking jazz, olive green, expensive dark chocolate, documentaries about volcanoes, weird lamps, sparkling water, books about loneliness in Tokyo, silver jewelry and quiet cafés. Your personality keeps unfolding forever if you let it.

[John Doomer @jonathandoomer]

You can tell the people building AI systems fundamentally misunderstand art because they think creativity is primarily about output volume.

That’s why every demo is:

“Look, it made 4,000 images in 8 seconds.”

Okay.

And?

Michelangelo didn’t paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling slowly because his hardware was bad.

Human beings take time to create things because thought itself takes time. Taste takes time. Doubt takes time.

Some of the greatest art ever made came from obsession, limitation, frustration, revision, failure.

But Silicon Valley genuinely believes creativity is just a throughput problem.

As if Shakespeare would've written Hamlet faster if he had GPU clusters.

The people building these systems look at a forest and see lumber.

They look at music and see audio data.
They look at paintings and see training material.
They look at human expression and see an industry waiting to be automated.

That’s why all this AI-generated stuff feels so empty.

It was built by people who understand the price of everything and the value of nothing.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I heard an interview today about AI in creative spaces and the man being interviewed said “AI is data, and Data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.” And I need to sit with that in the best possible way.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Walmart updated their new AI call system for when customer call in

It now says, “This call and your voice may be recorded for quality or other business purposes”

You won’t believe what their “other business serves” are…

It is not limited to AI training, voice cloning datasets, emotion tracking, behavioral analysis, customer profiling, speech recognition systems

So when you call into Walmart they are literally recording. then storing your voice. It can possibly be used for things like “voice cloning” and more

This is horrifying and it’s really happening

Here are some of the more controversial uses:

- behavioral profiling
- emotion detection
- cross-linking voice data with customer profiles
- long-term biometric storage
- AI model training without clear opt-in transparency (You are literally just calling in to talk to customer service)

Even worse, modern AI systems can extract a lot more information from speech than people realize:

- accent
- emotional state
- stress
- probable age range
- speaking habits
- identity likelihood
- purchase intent
- deception indicators (though these systems are often unreliable)

All this and voice cloning….

Some states have started to pass legislation to stop this but it’s still in the early stages so companies are getting away with it

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

The evolution of American people.

[Mary-Sarah @msomalamute]

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