Alliandre📚🐴🌻🇪🇺

Reading is a skill. AI is about deskilling. Writing is a skill. AI is about deskilling. And thinking is a skill. AI is STILL about deskilling. Good luck with that.

To the best of my knowledge, and I've been tested countless times, I've never had Covid I advocate for Long C-19 because when you've seen what it is capable of doing to previously well people, you pray you'll never see another patient like them again ... And then you do 😔☠️

William Shatner turned 95 yesterday. He celebrated by sitting on a beach in the dark, smoking a cigar, and posting about it to 5.1 million people. This is, when you think about it, the most William Shatner thing William Shatner has ever done. The man has been captain of a starship, has wrestled with Klingons and network executives (often indistinguishable), has rocketed into actual space at the age of 90 aboard a Blue Origin capsule and come back down weeping about the fragility of life. Now he is 95, on a beach somewhere warm, with a cigar, and he wants you to know two things: 1. Never waste a good cigar. 2. Never trust anyone who tells you to act your age. There is a whole philosophy packed into those two sentences. Not a complicated philosophy, not the kind that requires footnotes or a reading list, but a philosophy nonetheless. It belongs to a particular tradition, the tradition of people who have simply refused to be told what the appropriate next step is. Churchill had it. Keith Richards has it. Your grandmother who still drives at 87 and won’t discuss it has it. The photograph posted alongside the tweet shows him looking pleased with himself in a way that is entirely justified. The big gold “95” floats between the two images like a trophy he has just picked up for the event of still being here. He earned it. And the cigar. Now. You are probably not 95. You have almost certainly not been to space. But here is the thing about his two rules. They do not actually require any of that. They just require a decision. A decision to stop treating your remaining time as something to be managed carefully and apologized for. To stop shrinking yourself to fit other people’s idea of what sensible looks like at your particular age. The cigar is optional. The attitude is not. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@giveu2tictacs @22liv22 Want 😅

@22liv22 Perfect for a 5 year old. It has buttons

My neice called me and asked if i would buy her an apple watch for her birthday(i told her to think about what she wants and to let me know.) she turned five and this is what she finally thought of. I was a little bit shocked until i quickly realized she didn’t know what that meant. She had only heard her brothers talking about an Apple Watch. She just wants a watch shaped like an apple and i am determined to find her the cutest Apple Watch ever.

And here I was, at 5, wanting a pony. (Orologini belliFFimi, nei commenti!)

I don’t care. I don’t care. I don’t care. I don’t want to read your AI scraped slop. You can argue with me until the cows come home about its benefits and how it’s ’the future of writing’. I don’t care. Give me Bronte, Stoker, Tolkien, Shelley, Plath, and Wilde. Give me the thousands and thousands of fantastic contemporary authors there are out there today, writing across all fiction genres and non fiction. Give me flawed, but brilliant, passionate prose and poetry not your bland and soulless drivel. I don’t care.

“Sweden used to be held up as a model of 'let it rip'.” 😏 😷

In fact, scientific papers on the safe handling of the meningococcal bacteria (Neisseria meningitidis) in laboratories suggest that transmission MAINLY occurs by formation of aerosols generated in the nasopharynx.

O M G 😍❤

@RobertFreundLaw Why are people not checking the AI’s sources? It’s not real, nor sentient, and certainly not a super intelligence.

More lawyers in trouble for citing fake cases. This lawyer denied using AI and blamed mistakes in copying/pasting from Westlaw and a cracked laptop screen (really). Court says AI or not, doesn't matter. "A simple search of Westlaw and LexisNexis legal databases ... or the free Nebraska Appellate Courts Online Library" would have made clear that the cases did not exist. Supporting arguments with fake cases is "so wholly without merit as to be ridiculous" and rendered the appeal "entirely meritless." "AI ... must be used with caution and humility." Sanctions: -Appellate brief stricken -Appeal dismissed -Counsel referred for discipline

Part 3. The rare good news in all of this: bugs bounce back fast when you stop killing them. Four years after the EU banned those seed-coating pesticides, French researchers checked 57 bird species across 1,900 sites. Insect-eating birds were already recovering, up 2-3%. Small number, but the lead researcher said it matches what happened after DDT was banned decades ago. Full recovery took 10-25 years then. The clock just started. In areas where farmers planted wildflower strips along their fields, insect numbers came back by 30%. Where European countries rewilded degraded land, insect species variety jumped 20%. Butterfly and moth populations rose 40% in restored grasslands and meadows. These aren’t projections. This is measured data from programs already running. So the fixes work. The problem is scale. Now the other side. At the current rate of decline, roughly 2.5% of total insect mass disappearing per year, researchers writing for the UN warned that insects could functionally vanish within a century. A 2019 review in Biological Conservation estimated 40% of all insect species are headed toward extinction, with insects going extinct eight times faster than mammals, birds, or reptiles. A 2018 study in Science calculated that at 2 degrees Celsius of warming, 18% of insect species lose more than half their geographic range. At 3.2 degrees, that jumps to nearly half of all insect species. And these losses stack. When bugs disappear, the animals that eat them starve. Insect-eating birds in Europe dropped 13%. Bats lost up to 50% of their nightly food. Soil insects that break down dead plants and recycle nutrients fell 40% in affected areas, slowing the decomposition that keeps farmland fertile. The EU looked at the data and acted. Recovery started within four years. The U.S. still coats 150 million acres in the same chemicals the EU banned. Every planting season, the clock runs a little further in the wrong direction.

Part 2. So why are the bugs disappearing? Almost every corn seed planted in America comes pre-coated with a pesticide called a neonicotinoid. Think of it as nicotine for bugs. It gets baked into the seed, and as the plant grows, the poison spreads through the whole thing, stems, leaves, pollen, nectar, all of it. About half of soybean seeds get the same treatment. In total, these pesticides cover around 150 million acres of U.S. farmland every year. That’s roughly the size of Texas. Here’s the part that got me. The plant only absorbs about 2% of the pesticide on the seed. The other 98% washes off into the soil and water. A Penn State study found that 40% of farmers don’t even know their seeds are coated with it. The EU looked at the science, found “high acute risks” to bees, and banned three of the main ones from outdoor use in 2018. The U.S. still hasn’t. The neonicotinoid market hit $5.5 billion globally in 2023. Pesticides aren’t the only problem. Streetlights are killing bugs at a scale nobody expected. UK researchers compared moth caterpillars near lit and unlit roads and found 47% fewer caterpillars near the lights. One German estimate puts the toll at 100 billion insects killed by artificial light per summer. And the new LED streetlights cities are installing to save energy? Worse for insects than the old yellow ones. Then there’s the land itself. North America has lost 90% of its native grasslands. What replaced them is mostly single-crop farms stretching to the horizon, corn or soy with nothing else growing. For insects, that’s a desert with poison in it. The EU banned the pesticides. The U.S. still sprays them across an area the size of Texas every planting season.

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone. In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery. In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years. A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years. Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply. Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story. One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

All my early work when my literary agent and I were writing, editing, and formatting my proposal was done in Google Docs and presented to publishers via Pdf. Only after I signed my contract did they tell me to transfer EVERYTHING away from Google Docs and submit to them in Word for the rest of the book. So thats how I knew

2026: they WOKE UP and realized that OOOPS COVID IS BAD.

These are contrails. They are mostly composed of water vapor from combustion of jet fuel. There is no such thing as a chemtrail. Hydrophobia (a fear of water) is a symptom of rabies. These people are rabidly stupid.

@Misellla1 @heather_parisi @GMorenghi Mio figlio è del 2002 e ha fatto sia ACWY, sia B. Lombardia. Che stai a dì?

@heather_parisi @GMorenghi La copertura per la B è tutto fuorché alta. In Lombardia sono coperti i nati dal 2017 in poi.

Quando leggo l'allarmismo per la meningite degli ultimi giorni non posso non pensare a un déjà vu. Negli ultimi quattro anni, dal 2022 al 2026, la mortalità per meningite è aumentata negli Stati Uniti e in Europa nonostante l'elevatissima copertura vaccinale. I primi segnali di aumento dei casi risalgono chissà perché al 2022 (ma dai?). Ora, nel 2026 un focolaio nel Regno Unito. Sempre con copertura vaccinale altissima.  Come è possibile? Già nel 2024 diversi studi pubblicati su BMC e Jama riportavano la meningite come un effetto avverso da vaccino Covid. Lo dicono i dati, non io. Ma i professoroni e i media mainstream non ne parleranno mai. Perché indagare significherebbe scomodare qualcuno che non va toccato. A loro interessa solo una cosa: creare panico, promuovere la vaccinazione obbligatoria, introdurre il certificato digitale. Eccolo il déjà vu: lo stesso copione del 2020. Riscaldato, servito, impacchettato di nuovo.

@heather_parisi Cara collega, voglio rassicurarti. Nel caso della meningite tu e i tuoi amici novax potete tranquillamente non vaccinarvi ma sarete egualmente al sicuro. Manca l'organo bersaglio.

@ilnonequilibrio Tempismo perfetto 😅

The more I think about this the funnier it gets