Mastodawn

"We've invented a machine that just makes up answers based on shit that it saw on the internet that it doesn't understand, like your drunk uncle. We're also destroying the world to make it happen."

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Brad Mitchell 1d ago

March 24, 2026- “A growing body of evidence suggests that long COVID (or post-COVID syndrome), a condition affecting more than 10% of people after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, may be driven by the immune system turning against the body. Now, new research coordinated by UMC Utrecht and Amsterdam UMC provides some of the strongest functional evidence yet that autoantibodies (antibodies that mistakenly target the body's own tissues) could play a causal role.” “What is really striking," say both co-leads of the study, "is that three independent research groups have recently reported similar findings, adding confidence to the emerging autoimmune signature of long COVID." -https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-autoantibodies-implicated-drivers-covid.html

Autoantibodies implicated as drivers of long COVID in new study

A growing body of evidence suggests that long COVID (or post-COVID syndrome), a condition affecting more than 10% of people after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, may be driven by the immune system turning against the body. Now, new research coordinated by UMC Utrecht and Amsterdam UMC provides some of the strongest functional evidence yet that autoantibodies (antibodies that mistakenly target the body's own tissues) could play a causal role. The work appears in Cell Reports Medicine.

Medical Xpress

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alex

Apr 5, 2025

mulder and scully: well, the case is closed once again with no evidence. we didn't know what happened, and we probably never will. but we had a fun adventure, and at the end of the day that's what being an FBI agent is all about.
their boss: what the F

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Shaira Leiza 3d ago

Up to 60% of health care workers may have #LongCOVID 4 years after infection | CIDRAP
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/60-health-care-workers-may-have-long-covid-4-years-after-infection

Up to 60% of health care workers may have long COVID 4 years after infection

CIDRAP

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⁂ L. Rhodes 3d ago

"The tension between craft and efficiency doesn't disappear if you remove capitalism from the picture. LLM coding assistants produce faster results whether anyone is being paid or not, and any community, however it's organized, will eventually have to reckon with what to do with that speed difference."

That tension might remain in non-capitalist societies, but I'm skeptical that a non-capitalist society would ever create something like the multi-purpose LLMs that are causing these disruptions. The sheer amount if capital outlay required to build a monstrosity like OpenAI is so enormous that even our extensive capitalist system has required massive deformation to keep it operative.

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josh's harp 4d ago

It really bums me out that I keep seeing blog posts from technical people like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical implications of LLMs, I'm interested in evaluating whether they can be useful for my work."

Like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical concerns of breaking into my neighbours' houses, I'm interested in evaluating whether this can be useful for acquiring other people's valuables."

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HeavenlyPossum 4d ago

A firm in Ohio denied a woman her request to work from home during a high-risk pregnancy and, as a result, she gave birth prematurely and her baby died.

Capitalists hate work-from-home, even though study after study has shown that workers are just, if not more so, productive at home than in an office.

This is because work-from-home threatens something worth more to the capital class than productivity and even an individual firm’s profits.

Work-from-home threatens the capitalist ur-myth that economic activity *must* take place in centralized locations under the supervision and surveillance of managers, bosses, and capitalist owners.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-firm-must-pay-225-million-mom-whose-baby-died-was-denied-work-hom-rcna264321

Ohio firm must pay $22.5 million to mom whose baby died after she was denied work-from-home

An Ohio-based company that initially balked at granting a mom's request to work from home during a high-risk pregnancy has been found liable for the newborn's death and ordered on Wednesday to pay $22.5 million in damages

NBC News

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Parsingphase Feb 15

GenAI's real alignment problem: We don't need its solutions and we can't handle its intrinsic problems

https://parsingphase.dev/tech/LLMs/theAlignmentProblem.html

A work in 4000 words of progress. Turns out there's no concise way to catalog this mess.

GenAI has an Alignment Problem - we don’t need its solutions and we can’t handle its intrinsic problems

GenAI has an Alignment Problem

parsingphase.dev

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Glyph 5d ago

while I have a level of sympathy for the california/colorado style of age-verification law, and I think many reactions against it are overheated, at the end of the day we still have to oppose stuff like this because society's ideas of what ought to be age-gated are just wrong on the merits. the goal is to ban access to perfectly normal healthy things like queer communities and still allow kids access to fucked-up dangerous adults-only stuff like catholicism and the president of the united states

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@drj @pozorvlak OpenAI bought Astral (uv)

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GOAT	Tim Duncan
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