Notices by Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (dgoldsmith@mastodon.social)

This is a fascinating discussion about something I think a lot about: how do you organize a global society of billions of humans, every single one of whom has well-documented cognitive flaws, and make it work? Our societies are still mostly organized around 18th-19th century philosophies of humans as perfectly rational actors. With current science, can't we do better?

If you don't like listening to podcasts, there's a transcript.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze4qqf6fgxz33ct52wlnl/post/3mbp5zgqeec2g

@dansup It can be very useful when used by a knowledgeable engineer with a good understanding of its weak points and limitations, and an eagle eye for its frequent mistakes. Sadly, that's a tiny fraction of how it's being used.

@dansup Do you have a new target ETA for release to the iOS App Store?

@Gargron https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/05/ios-26-1-makes-alarms-use-a-slider-heres-how-to-get-stop-button-back/

Cis allies, now is your time to stand up. Read this article about Chase Strangio’s call to action.
https://masto.ai/@transworld/115333267097777212

@Gargron As long as the deity takes good care of it and cuddles it appropriately.

OK, I'm 45 minutes in, and while the pace is a little slow for my tastes, if you are completely new to transphobic pseudoscience and the attacks on the trans community, this appears to cover the whole thing. It's slow going for me because I know everything in this already, and it is painful watching people who think their gut feelings and middle-school understanding of biology makes them experts on how trans adults and children should receive medical care, and what rights they should have.

This looks like an extremely thorough examination and debunking of the massive pseudoscience network behind the attacks against gender-affirming care. Unfortunately, it's 5 hours long. It's hard for me to recommend it personally yet since I don't have 5 hours to watch it. Maybe I will have time, or maybe someone trustworthy will make a summary (or watch the whole thing and recommend it).
https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/115022546999074004

Notable from this post: if you have medical providers who are dismissive of COVID or Long COVID, this video is for them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPUTTjjdT4A
https://chaos.social/@antiaall3s/114750628482750123

Here’s a direct link to the article:
https://www.thedissident.news/anatomy-of-a-hit-piece-deconstructing-the-new-york-times-attack-on-transgender-rights-in-u-s-v-skrmetti/

The NY Times is either incapable of basic journalistic fact-checking, or actively malevolent. I’m starting to think it’s the latter. They’re no better than Murdoch’s propaganda outlets.
https://rss-parrot.net/u/bsky.app.profile.esqueer.net/status/1750369979999491499

@erininthemorning.com @evanurquhart.bsky.social @katelynburns.com
I wanted to draw your attention to this poll I conducted on Mastodon on the off chance you're interested in conducting your own (actual) research. This poll means nothing, but these results were worse than I expected.
https://mastodon.social/@dgoldsmith/114617085912370518

Stories like this show there’s a deeper underlying problem: lawmakers treat science and scientists as just another constituency to be bargained and compromised with. They seem to have no understanding that science represents reality, which cannot be bargained or compromised with. As the biosphere our lives depend on reels from the effects of the climate crisis, they keep on playing political games.
https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/114619201931806480

Definitely worth reading whether you’re on the spectrum or not.
https://observer.co.uk/news/first-person/article/laurie-penny-autism

OMG, this week's New Yorker cover…
If you don't get the reference, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3edi2Wkr5YI

PSA: if you get a phishing email and you don't know the right place to send it for the organization the phisher is pretending to be, just forward it as an attachment to reportphishing@apwg.org (the Anti-Phishing Working Group). It will make its way into the block lists for most browsers.

From another network (non-public account so I can't link to it):
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution.

Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adq5720

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@inthehands @dansup She got love-bombed by TERF activists in the UK and went down the rabbit hole with them. The UK as a whole is very transphobic these days, and how that happened could fill a book (and has, I believe).

The best time to boycott Tesla was when it became obvious he was a shitty excuse for a human being who badly mistreated his employees and tolerated blatant racism at his manufacturing plants. That was years ago. The second best time is now.

@dansup I’m so sorry.