There’s no mystery here. Vaccine uptake declined after the start of the pandemic because anti-vax disinformation went mainstream and financial interests against public health protections minimized the threat of covid
The uncanny valley of the AI workplace apocalypse.
To some extent automation always seems to be a bait and switch.
CDC ACIP is a nightmare scenario.
I tuned into the CDC ACIP meeting to hear some woman reading some anti-vax screed rattling on about RSV vaccines a script that sounded like it was written by a chatbot.
Anyone who publishes online, with even a modest audience, is constantly hit with a barrage of “feedback”.
Feedback could be good, but is often bad, and not just bad, but weird bad.
AI Toys. What circle of Hell is this?
I’m sure the toys will come with their own cell data connections to upload the data directly without needing wifi or permission, sort of like the livongo blood pressure devices.
Medical disinformation is to blame for waning vaccine sales and insufficient opposition to the anti-vaxxers in the Trump regime.
The demand for vaccines is down because there have been no real campaigns to get people vaccinated, and yet there have been huge and well funded disinformation campaigns scaring people about vaccines so that they are not making clear-headed risk benefit decisions.
We need public information campaigns on scams.
There’s a public library making video content on this, but we need more. There should be robust funding of libraries to be able to do this, and also just public figures being sent out to warn people about how scams are perpetrated.
“Get over it” typically means “Shut up and go away because I don’t care.”
Mitch Mcconnell literally said people would “get over” losing Medicaid. I don’t think that’s true.
The opposition leverages various things to neutralize effective activism.
These operations sometimes target people who are experts, or people who might be important in some way, because they carry clout. And then they treat them as if they’re very important.
Isn’t posing as a therapist against the law already?
If it’s not, it should be illegal for a company to deploy chatbots that pretend to be licensed therapists.
Say no to the Big Boondoggle Bill privatizing public lands to put corporate welfare pollution in our communities.
They’re trying to ram through “energy dominance” via data center power plants because they know nobody wants our community wrecked, and people are standing up and saying NO.
Peter Thiel is the baddie and Palantir is a company named for an evil surveillance tool.
These tech tycoons seem to have some kind of religion where up is down and nothing makes sense.
Deregulation of AI is part of an overall ideological agenda to deregulate everything.
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We do need a shadow cabinet, but a private medical society is unlikely to overthrow the current regime.
Don’t wait for some elite doctors and scientists to save science for the people from “behind the scenes”.
I’m not comparing Donald Trump to Idi Amin, I’m comparing the opposition.
Zohran Mamdani’s family knows something about authoritarianism.
Good guys could easily take advantage of the fact Peter Thiel named his company after the bad guy weapon.
The Letterhack provides Democrats with some needed remedial tips.
People need to crowd out the pro-industry political consultants.
Dem politicians are listening to political consultants when they should be listening to their constituents, and we need to tip that math in the other direction.
The grotesque vision of accusation in a mirror propaganda.
This is not an unusual cognitive warfare tactic unfortunately.
The Abundance agenda is totally gaslit.
The Abundance Agenda really represents a bunch of people who want to hold their world together with the cheeks of their asses.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll serves the interests of private industry profits over that of the American people.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll needs to be investigated. He made public comments that his first interest was using Army procurement to satisfy the needs of vendor profitability