Katie MacBride @msmacb on bluesky
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health & medicine writer; words @nymag @slate @msnbc @thedailybeast @vice @longreads; past:staff @inversedotcom, @anxymag; threads: @katiemacb. Librarian always
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I wrote about how a $20,000 psychedelic medicine training that promised education & healing ended with warring lawsuits, a hospitalized trainee, & multiple allegations of sexual assaults. Unpaywalled link for accessibility in reply
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Psychedelic medicine is booming. Will it heal trauma, or create even more?
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This is straight out of Succession: Larry Ellison named a giant yacht "Izanami" after a Shinto deity, but quickly renamed it after it was pointed out that the name spelled "I'm a Nazi" backwards!!!
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They want an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act.
They are looking for a fight.
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"It's shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there's video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying." Warriors coach Steve Kerr was asked about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Here are his full comments:
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AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance and I. I do not believe the American people should be assassinated
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Hey so the penalty for making a pretend cop mad isn't death
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🦌 🦏 Tiny 13kg deer takes on 1.7-tonne rhino at Wroclaw Zoo A case of David vs Goliath at Wroclaw Zoo, as a tiny 13kg deer takes on a nearly two-tonne rhinoceros and appears to come out of the clash on top.
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Media: why are you invading Venezuela? It must be due to a complex confluence of geopolitical turmoil Trump: I'm doing it to steal their oil. I'm calling it Operation Oil Theft Media: we'll never know what goes on in the head of this wily genius
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Amazing community note
You could move to Aplington, Iowa and get a job at the post office making $25 an hour to start, meet a nice girl at the First Reformed Church and take her on a date to Stinky's Bar and Grill, and get married and raise up seven children in this house but you will not do it.
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one of many reasons the people of california merely tolerate newsom and applaud his occasional not-terrible moves, but would feed him to the wolves for a real progressive with a genuine moral compass
Gov. @GavinNewsom says he disagrees with Mayor @ZohranKMamdani about the need for a wealth tax on billionaires, which he is “adamantly against” - says Dems are a “big tent party” with both views. More on the CA proposal: https://t.co/D3SWI7SPJw
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big first day back at work vibes today
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Genuinely astonishing that anyone outside the lizaa/nuzzi/rfk jr mess is cringier than the three central players and voluntarily making that known to the world
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JFC grow up
I have to say, I got all the sweetness and dogs and good writing and Ryan Lizza got all the Olivia Nuzzi infidelity and adderall and ethical corruption 🤷🏼♂️
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honestly, I think we all wish it could be one editor's fault, but she has a strange hold on journalistic leadership. I don't know if anyone remembers the details of her firing from New York, but they tried to avoid it as long as possible and keep her affair quiet. even with the
This is right -- and I'd even go further and say Guiducci's hiring of Nuzzi (and what that does to the reputation of Vanity Fair, of Condé Nast, of journalism) is a much bigger scandal than Nuzzi's own alleged actions (as boundary-crossing as those have been). It's management
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what people don’t realize is that to write is to think. by outsourcing your writing you are outsourcing your thinking. you are paying for the degradation of your own mind. don’t use AI to “structure” your thoughts. structure them yourself. a shortcut to nowhere
I believe that in a decade or so basic writing skills will be considered an exceptional talent due to everyone depending on AI to write things for them. And you can join this future league of ‘writers’ by merely refraining to dumb down your brain by relying on AI for words.
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TRUMP they still have that Phantom of the Opera musical on Broadway MAMDANI it's an immersive theatrical experience now. it's called Masquerade TRUMP that Phantom's a jerk, isn't he
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Ahahhahahahaha my partner saw a clip of the mamdani/trump meet and assumed it was AI
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