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A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
https://www.propublica.org/article/covid-pregnancy-risk-autism-study-cdc?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Science #Research #Health #COVID #Vaccines #Women #Autism

Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy

A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.

ProPublica

Stop pretending #language is intelligence.

Don’t confuse plausible text generation with real #understanding.

Fluent answers feel smart, even if—especially when—they aren’t.

Knowing what #AI can do is cool, understanding what it simply can’t is smart.

LLMs give off a vibe of brilliance with words.

They read, remix, and generate text.

But their power is linguistic, not cognitive.

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Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion Sandy Hook judgment

ABC News

What you are seeing is #DARVO, every day, all day, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/08/24/flip-it-reverse-it/

#sensemaking

Flip It & Reverse It

DARVO is a trick some people use when they’ve done something wrong and don’t want to take blame. It stands for: Deny: First, they say they didn’t do it. Attack: Then, they try to …

Inani Ludibrio
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump's pause on grants and loans which has had widespread impact on government spending.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pause-federal-grants-aid-f9948b9996c0ca971f0065fac85737ce
Judge blocks Trump freeze on federal grants and loans until Monday

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a push from President Donald Trump to pause federal funding while his administration conducts an across-the-board ideological review to uproot progressive initiatives. The order Tuesday capped the most chaotic day for the U.S. government since Trump returned to office, with uncertainty over a crucial financial lifeline causing panic and confusion among states, schools and organizations that rely on trillions of dollars from Washington. U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan blocked the funding freeze only minutes before it was scheduled to take effect. The administrative stay, prompted by a lawsuit brought by nonprofit groups that receive federal money, lasts until Monday afternoon.

AP News
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Crockett Johnson 1945

"He can talk!"

#comics
#comicstrip
#CrockettJohnson
#Barnaby

If you ask whether or not
I liked lockdown
my honest response
is that a lockdown
is not a dinner party or vacation
its point is not to be
liked or enjoyed
but to save lives,
so, no, I did not like lockdown
it was a real sacrifice
but one I was willing to make
to help protect you.