Blood-thinning drug Eliquis likely safer for patients with deep blood clots, study suggests
A trial directly comparing two commonly used blood-thinning drugs found that one carries a lower risk of dangerous bleeding in patients with clots in veins deep in the body, researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/eliquis-blood-thinning-drugs-stroke-venous-thrombosis-9.7127496?cmp=rss
#Trump #EPA Moves to Weaken Limits on a #Cancer Causing #Gas
The gas, #EthyleneOxide, plays a crucial role in sterilizing medical devices. But long-term exposure is linked to several types of cancer & other ailments.
#law #EnvironmentalLaw #regulations #health #PublicHealth #safety
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/climate/epa-ethylene-oxide-cancer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
"They’re telling us there’s no registration" - Tracking Aid Narratives online
🔹 This briefing by #InsecurityInsight analyses #socialmedia activity from JAN-28 - FEB-28 in #syria - they analysed 1,731 posts related to the #aid sector, reaching an estimated 31 mln users and generating 16,551 comments
🔹 Understanding how aid actors are portrayed online is increasingly critical -
media narratives can influence operational access and staff #safety
📰 PDF 👇🏽
https://insecurityinsight.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/3TRACK1.pdf
Today in “some decision makers and designers must be jailed”, can you guess what is a button and what is an indicator here?
I already find cars to be an absurd requirements for our society, but designing “die and retry” interfaces in one ton of metal and plastic thrown at high speeds it plain criminal.
#90s vibes for a (sorry, probably #AI) video that quite effectively highlights some absurd changes that slowly took place in everyone’s lives.
Is the king really so naked?
#nostalgia #thinking #society #community #communication #BanSocialMedia #safety #kids #friends #music #privacy
From Public Health Watch: More than 26,000 #workers — an average of seven per day — suffered workplace amputations from 2015 through 2024. Texas led the nation in worker amputations by a wide margin, with more than 3,900 reported in the 10-year period. https://www.texasobserver.org/workplace-amputations-on-the-rise/
Ireland started a Pause Before You Post Awareness Campaign: sharing photos and videos of children online can lead to unintended oversharing of personal data, which, in the wrong hands, can have serious consequences. Wise initiative!
#socialmedia #video #photography #privacy #children #child #kids #safety #ireland
…documents recently viewed by The Atlantic show that behind the scenes, the company now known as #Meta was divided on whether protecting #kids should take precedence over user #growth & #engagement. For years, the company only incrementally rolled out restrictive #safety features, even as its own staff detailed the #risks its platforms posed to #children.
#SocialMedia #law #regulation #moderation #CorporateResponsibility #tech #accountability #MentalHealth
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/meta-child-safety-documents-instagram/686163/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxWSCYdKv4tQkSIEfVn-0u8k
Firefox's AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem
"Mozilla recently released AI controls for Firefox. On the surface, this sounds like a win for user choice in an era of AI-everything.
If we dig deeper, you can start to see that the kill switch isn’t the whole story. This feature acts like an accountability sink…"
#mozilla #firefox #tech #technology #info #BigTech #browser #internet #safety #security #InfoSec #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Fuck_AI
Instagram will now notify parents if their teenagers search for suicide or self-harm content on the platform, as part of Meta's expanded teen supervision tools. The feature is designed to help parents intervene when young users seek harmful content online. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v7z5eyewko #Media #SocialMedia #Safety
NPR: What to know about the risks of carbon monoxide poisoning after college student's death
Health Feb 25, 2026 5:06 PM EST
A Rhode Island college football player died from carbon monoxide poisoning after he tried to charge his phone in his car during a massive snow storm in a power outage.
Tesla has to pay historic $243 million judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says
A federal judge has rejected Tesla’s bid to overturn a $243 million jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash in Florida, dealing a significant blow to the automaker’s legal strategy as it faces a growing wave of lawsuits tied to its driver-assistance technology.
#tesla #adas #autopilot #safety #automotive #auto #cars #transportation #legal
“Meta ‘AI safety’ head loses control of AI as it ignores her commands”
by Skwawkbox with The Canary
“Facebook owner Meta’s head of ‘AI safety’ lost control of an AI that then deleted hundreds of her emails without her permission – despite explicitly telling it beforehand not to do anything without confirming with her first and trying to order it to stop. In the end, she was only able to bring the mass deletion to a halt by sprinting to physically unplug the machine”
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/02/25/meta-ai-safety-head/
#Press #SocialMedia #Meta #AI #OpenClaw #Safety #Facebook #BoycottMeta #BoycottFacebook
Updated #Introduction, part 2.
I am a fan of most #sports, especially #Mets #baseball and #Isles #hockey.
Other interests include #walking, especially #nature walks, #parks, #photography, #museums, #cooking, #transportation and #pedestrian #safety, and #HistoricPreservation.
I am not here for dating or sex. You will be muted or blocked.
How safe are autonomous vehicles, really?
In Bloomberg, I got into the weeds with David Kidd of the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety.
His conclusion: “It’s still too early to say with any kind of confidence that they are safer than human drivers overall.”
#autonomousvehicles #cars #safety #waymo
OpenAI employees pushed for the company to inform Canadian police about a user they thought would engage in real-world violence months before the person did just that, killing eight people in a horrific attack in Tumbler Ridge.
The company only reached out to police after the shooting had occurred.
#socialmedia on trial: #tech giants face lawsuits over #addiction, #safety, and mental #health.
A set of bellwether cases alleging that social media #platforms harmed teens’ safety and mental health is going to trial this year, putting executives like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the stand to answer questions about what they’ve done or not done to protect kids.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/880850/social-media-lawsuits-meta-facebook-instagram-tiktok
#fuckgafam
NEW: For years, the #FDA website warned of products and remedies claiming to treat #autism that were being marketed deceptively and can be harmful.
Just a few:
•hyperbaric oxygen therapies
•chlorine dioxide
•raw camel milk.
Now, under RFK Jr, that advisory is gone.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-fda-removes-autism-treatments-warning
🚀 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘂𝘀𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵: 𝘚𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘴
We often talk about hallucinations, overconfidence, and unreliable outputs in AI — but what if these behaviors aren’t mysterious quirks at all?
In my latest piece, I connect decades of psychological research to what we’re seeing in modern LLMs and autonomous agents. From perceived authority to cognitive overload dynamics, this is about 𝘄𝗵𝘆 current systems behave the way they do and 𝗵𝗼𝘄 that influences human judgement, trust, and decision-making.
🔗 Read more: https://cirriustech.co.uk/blog/synthetic-authority-and-cognitive-overload-in-large-language-models/
Key themes explored:
• How fluency becomes a proxy for competence
• Why overload produces confident but unreliable responses
• The psychological mechanics behind hallucination and affirmation
• What “synthetic authority” means for safe AI design
If you’re interested in responsible AI, system design, and the human side of automation, this one dives deeper than most.
Let’s rethink uncertainty, authority, and where true competence comes from. 💡
#AI #LLM #CognitiveScience #ResponsibleAI #SystemsDesign #Safety #HumanFactors
Discord mandates global age checks: face scan or ID required for full access, else “teen‑by‑default” restrictions. 🔐
Non‑verified users lose adult servers and features, despite past vendor ID data breaches. 🌐
Raises privacy concerns amid a shift toward gated internet access. 🧩
🔗 https://www.theverge.com/policy/876131/discord-age-verification-mandates-web-future
#TechNews #Privacy #SocialMedia #Discord #AI #Safety #Surveillance #DataProtection #OnlineSafety #Regulation #DigitalRights #Security #Internet #UserRights #BigTech
They are just gonna learn how to use @tails_live / @tails / #Tails and espechally @torproject / #TorBrowser and continue on...
Remember: "#AgeVerification", like any "#KYC" is #cyberfascist and needs to be opposed as a matter of principle!
Espechally #Online which is for many the only #SafeSpace they have for #expression, #help, #education and #communication!
#SocialMediaBans will only be used as a gateway to prevent people from organizing and is the #gerontocracy's attempt at consolidating #power
It's like banning #minors from buying #newspapers!
#SaveYouAClick: Assume that they are, and #DeleteTikTok ASAP.
> TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It’s Providing User Data to ICE https://futurism.com/future-society/tiktok-ice-cbp
Spain plans to ban social media for under-16s, with tougher age checks and penalties for platforms that boost illegal content via algorithms. 🇪🇸
The move, pitched as protecting kids from a “digital Wild West,” raises questions about enforcement, teen rights, and platform accountability across Europe ⚖️
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2nddvmryo
#TechNews #Spain #SocialMedia #Safety #Children #Teens #AI #Algorithms #Privacy #Regulation #EU #TikTok #Instagram #Grok #X #OnlineSafety #Policy #AgeVerification #Europe
Oh, I don't know...
Maybe because you run social media platforms to piece of shit!
Zuckerberg on why Meta should do less safety research: 'Apple doesn't study any of this' - 9to5Mac
#Zuckerberg #Meta #Safety #Apple #Research #SocialMedia #Tech
