Me: I will use "radium water" as an analogy for how horrible AI's potential subtle long-term effects are, because the general public in 2026 can easily understand this analogy.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

Me: I will use "radium water" as an analogy for how horrible AI's potential subtle long-term effects are, because the general public in 2026 can easily understand this analogy.

The general public in 2026: https://futurism.com/future-society/alternative-health-influencer-drinking-radioactive-jug-revigator

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@glyph I want to stress this man is *not* the general public, he's a member of a small ideological minority… which… for… some… reason… has 100%, absolute control over the nation's science and health policy.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@glyph okay i guess that's not actually better

[glitzersachen@hachyderm.io]

@glyph

I have a much more immediate question:
And why are the pictures mirrored?

[josh0@babka.social]

@glyph holy hell. Reading about the effects of radium is one of the most horrific things I’ve ever experienced.

[maxxcan@mastodon.social]

@glyph The Natural Selection is working

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@mcc A "small ideological minority" whose approval rating never seems to dip below about 45% of the voting public, somehow.

[shinyobjects@union.place]

@glyph

Ah, yet another recommendation for the excellent book "The Poisoners Handbook" #Bookstodon

[sharkfie@infosec.exchange]

@glyph weren't people injecting bleach a few years ago? You need to raise the absurdity of your analogies

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@glyph 51% of the voting public voted to defer their choice to the 45% of the voting public who always vote republican who voted to defer their choice to 27% of the voting public who are ideologically extreme republicans who decided to defer their choice to one single man from the television who decided to defer all health and science policy to the 5% of the general, possibly-voting public who believe contrarian and semi-mystical things about nutrition and health

[secretasianman@types.pl]

@glyph and of course there's the antisemitism

[jameswidman@mastodon.social]

@glyph
> "It’s little wonder, then, why Byer’s body is interred in a lead-lined coffin."

...

> "[...] 500,000 Instagram followers [...]"

...

are we going to have to start carrying geiger counters or something in case we happen to encounter one of Roeske's followers?

(normally i'd expect the mass-production of irradiated products to be blocked by regulations, but then i remembered that RFK is still secretary of the HHS)

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@glyph

“Think of it as evolution in action”

Larry Niven, All the Myriad Ways

[rperezrosario@mastodon.social]

@glyph "Look at me, I'm jumping right out of the gene pool!"

[ahhhhhhhhhhh@mastodon.social]

@glyph look forward to seeing him without a jaw then I guess.

[remywhisker@mastodon.social]

@glyph Sadly not a new thing

https://youtu.be/C7TwBUxxIC0?is=DaE_RJs1N-q-bNtz

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@josh0 @glyph

yup

"The Radium Girls"

anyone else reading: don't search that phrase unless you want nightmares

[kentenmakto@mastodon.ie]

@glyph Waiting for the alt-healthers to declare dimethylmercury the cure for all ills.

[kaoudis@discuss.systems]

@glyph @ricci fucking speechless

[perrin42@mastodon.social]

@glyph

I really hope this trend takes hold among Republican adults.