Medicaid & Medicare budget cuts are the problem. Scammy Medicare DisAdvantage plans are the problem. Lagging vaccine uptake is the problem. (Heather Digby Parton was on the Majority Report this afternoon and kept mentioning carrot cake and that dipshit comment by Doctor Oz trying to shame people over eating carrot cake. And now I’m hell […]
Tag: misinformation
Avoid scams targeting people looking for remote work.
“Don’t pay for the promise of a job. Honest employers will never ask you to pay to get a job. Anyone who does is a scammer.”
Trying to fact check everything wrong put in and everything right left out by a chatbot probably isn’t all that efficient.
I keep hearing stories about people defending their use of chatbots by claiming they fact check them, but then it turns out they really hadn’t.
How do liberal pundits and Dem political operatives who advance right-wing framing stay in business?
How do audiences swallow this in a time of authoritarian outrages? Somebody must be paying them to keep it up because how much demand in the “free market” is there for right-wing content for the left? I know I’m not just paranoid, because it would not be the first or even the most stupid of […]
Don’t use pet medical products on humans.
If you have anyone in your life suggesting using pet covid tests, advise them that this is not wise as tests are generally designed differently for animals.
How is anyone safe without due process if I can’t even prove my identity on an credit card application?
I have excellent credit, applied for an Apple Card, was turned down repeatedly; the reason they gave: they couldn’t verify my identity. I have not been given a way to prove my identity.
The US needs migrant farm workers not because Americans are lazy, but because Americans are privileged.
I wish people (on the left) would stop saying that “immigrants do jobs Americans don’t want” because that just really plays into the right-wing frame of “lazy people don’t wanna work”.
I used to like the em dash, but I do not want to be mistaken for a chatbot.
I Can Spot AI Writing Instantly — Here’s How You Can Too Evan Edinger Jun 8, 2025 This gets at some of the things I find both annoying and a bit nauseating about synthetic text, that are phrasing techniques so obviously ripped off of very viral influencer writers on Medium, and then amped up.
The temporary disability issue nobody talks about when they talk about work requirements and means testing.
Temporary health conditions do not necessarily qualify as “disabled” under the Medicaid rules.
Vaccine uptake is down because vaccine disinformation is well-funded.
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
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.
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.
Boondoggle The Hot, New Plan to Bribe States Into Deregulating Artificial Intelligence AI infrastructure money in exchange for an AI Wild West. Pat Garofalo Jun 24, 2025 Wielding phony concerns about a “patchwork of state laws,” big tech interests and their allies in the federal government are attempting to eliminate in one swift stroke a host […]
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”.