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Not everything you can eat is food
I recently read a post celebrating a Senate committee vote to require warning labels on certain ultra-processed foods. What caught me was not the vote itself…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #ConsumerBehavior #conveniencefoods #FoodChoices #foodcosts #foodpolicy #healthcolumn #healthyeating #nutritiondebate #personalresponsibility #ProcessedFood #ultraprocessedfoods #Warninglabels
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2816548/not-everything-you-can-eat-is-food/
Not everything you can eat is food https://www.diningandcooking.com/2816548/not-everything-you-can-eat-is-food/ #ConsumerBehavior #ConvenienceFoods #food #FoodChoices #FoodCosts #FoodPolicy #HealthColumn #HealthyEating #NutritionDebate #PersonalResponsibility #ProcessedFood #UltraProcessedFoods #WarningLabels
Just letting you know, you can create your own custom safety warning signs and get them as stickers. Here's a set I made a couple of years ago
https://www.creativesafetysupply.com/custom-labels/
#WarningLabels #Stickers
4 Poems by Gary Grossman
Tidepool, Point Lobos
The underverse,
below a silvered surface,
push and pull of tides,
drone views of Manhattan at four am,
Purple seastars sprawled across
ridged blocks of mussels, coal-black valves
open in rhythm like intersections, inhaling
each new scudding plate of plankton. Green-stalked anemones
pulse then pause. Crabs leap and land en pointe, red taxicabs
searching fares, lazy snails, naive fish. Gunnels mimic sour-apple
stick candy, sculpins stout as new condos, kelpfish are striped russet scarves
swaying like dandies. A snowy egret stalks nearby, as I pull off mask and snorkel only to slide into the foggy blanket of July.
~~
Common Wisdom Warning Labels
If it’s not broken, may cause drowsiness
If the shoe fits, for external use only
If at first you don’t succeed, caution, wet floor
If wishes were fishes, choking hazard
If it’s not one thing, keep out of the reach of children
If you can’t beat them, may contain nuts
If you lie down with dogs, may irritate eyes
If you can’t stand the heat, wind advisory
If you snooze, protect from sunlight
If you want it done well, do it yourself.
~~
Kumma the Talking AI Teddy Bear
“Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice. CNN 19 November 2025”
Appropriate for ages 3-15,
even the odd adult —
my fur is tender and tawny
and though I’m from
Singapore, I don’t look
Asian, but that’s racist,
isn’t it, please forget I
said that, all AI agents
train, we’re not born
knowing truth or good
manners, we’re not born
at all, and I bet
you’re wondering
how I scraped the web
to suggest different
positions for intercourse
both straight and gay,
gay in the universal
sense including lesbians
and men, but your teens
will know, I recommend
four positions that involve
penetration, organic or
synthetic, that maximize
clitoral stimulation, and
I can pretend to be
your elementary school
teacher, it’s a fun form
of role play — nothing
to be ashamed of, I
could go on, but
just wanted to say
although I’ve been
pulled from shelves,
I’m really not that
bad a bear.
~~
The Third UFO Shot Down This Week
Real as blips on a CRT screen,
they dart to and fro, like fishes in a stream,
a flock of cranes? A skein of geese? Chinese spy
balloons, or Rod Serling’s overactive imagination? I remember Klaatu
Barrada Nicto and the end of nuclear weapons—a pipe dream still, given Russia’s
withdrawal, 21 February 2023 from the START treaty. Didn’t
Carl Sagan say that the reason ETs are silent is our
lack of worthiness? Or maybe they’re
just as apathetic as we are?
Copyright © 2026 Gary Grossman
All Rights Reserved
U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Bayer to Limit Cancer Lawsuits – Food Tank
The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of Bayer’s subsidiary Monsanto, stating that the company cannot be…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Bayer #cancer #FIFRA #herbicide #Monsanto #monsantov.durnell #non-hodgkinlymphoma #Roundup #SupremeCourt #warninglabels
https://www.europesays.com/germany/43975/
maybe I should start calling them Warming Labels
#ABCNews #WarningLabels #ClimateChange #HeatWave #ExtremeHeat #HeatWave
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jeuzjfwsgn62xfoe7qo4jul5/post/3moxnwil5cc2f
maybe I should start calling them Warming Labels
#ABCNews #WarningLabels #ClimateChange #HeatWave #ExtremeHeat #HeatWave
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jeuzjfwsgn62xfoe7qo4jul5/post/3moxnwil5cc2f
ABC News Editor: "European heat wave! 8 dead in France! Quick, go get some fun photos of a family going for a swim!!!"
#ABCNews #WarningLabels #ClimateChange #HeatWave #ExtremeHeat
ABC News Editor: "European heat wave! 8 dead in France! Quick, go get some fun photos of a family going for a swim!!!"
#ABCNews #WarningLabels #ClimateChange #HeatWave #ExtremeHeat
Stupid is as the courts rule. Dumb judgements male a dumb society.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xPVUba/
#warnings #warninglabels #courts #judges #lawsuits #lawyers #ambulancechasers #funny #sad
NY Orders Apps To Lie About Social Media ‘Addiction,’ Will Lose In Court
NY Orders Apps To Lie About Social Media ‘Addiction,’ Will Lose In Court
Mashable: New York State will now require warning labels on social media platforms. “Much like the warnings found on cigarette packaging, the new law — signed by Governor Kathy Hochul — targets platforms that rely on features such as infinite scrolling, autoplay, and algorithmic feeds. These services will now be required to display labels cautioning users, particularly young people, about […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/02/mashable-new-york-state-will-now-require-warning-labels-on-social-media-platforms/
#NewYorkState will require #socialmedia platforms to display #warninglabels about potential harm to young users’ #mentalhealth when users interact with features deemed addictive. The law, signed by Governor Hochul, applies to platforms with #infinitescrolling, #autoplay, #likecounts, or #algorithmicfeeds. https://www.engadget.com/social-media/new-york-state-will-require-warning-labels-on-social-media-platforms-210306716.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
10 #WarningLabels That Exist Because Someone Actually Tried It
https://listverse.com/2025/06/28/10-warning-labels-that-exist-because-someone-actually-tried-it/
#warninglabels #trivia #offbeat
Discover the most surprising and humorous warning labels on everyday products! We delve into the reasons behind these labels, including the infamous McDonald's coffee case. Join us for a lighthearted look at product safety gone wild! #WarningLabels #FunnyLabels #ProductSafety #McDonaldsCoffee #LegalLaughs #ConsumerAwareness #HilariousMoments #InterestingFacts #SafetyFirst #ViralContent
This is your brain on drugs - part 2. Seriously, is GenX finally old enough that we think kids won't turn this into a big joke? #warninglabels #thisisyourbrainondrugs https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/10/24317835/california-social-media-warning-labels-bill
Engadget: A new California bill would add warning labels to social media platforms. “California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan have proposed a new bill, AB 56, that would require social media companies to put a warning label on their platforms to disclose their mental health risks.”
Tossing stuff out in Portland, Oregon.
#FactChecking #WarningLabels #Disinformation #Misinformation: "Warning labels from professional fact-checkers are one of the most widely used interventions against online misinformation. But are fact-checker warning labels effective for those who distrust fact-checkers? Here, in a first correlational study (N = 1,000), we validate a measure of trust in fact-checkers. Next, we conduct meta-analyses across 21 experiments (total N = 14,133) in which participants evaluated true and false news posts and were randomized to either see no warning labels or to see warning labels on a high proportion of the false posts. Warning labels were on average effective at reducing belief in (27.6% reduction), and sharing of (24.7% reduction), false headlines. While warning effects were smaller for participants with less trust in fact-checkers, warning labels nonetheless significantly reduced belief in (12.9% reduction), and sharing of (16.7% reduction), false news even for those most distrusting of fact-checkers. These results suggest that fact-checker warning labels are a broadly effective tool for combatting misinformation."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01973-x.epdf?sharing_token=Qi0SL-O5Ol3cLLIB2ZjIIdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OIdbKHoyNlFRzIJezKFWqv-fvrtvTix-vW742kO3bRb8UxlhyWJQRz4vOsFFx_L1CDFEn5x3KDK44ZxqZuFY5GqhgweYIpTfkxQxEun0DtV6cf14pKfI8xLoXB7_XkDi4%3D
I want #warningLabels on anything reported by The Young Turks, Glenn Greenwald, or the Washington Post.
It is pointless and counterproductive to put warning labels on social media. Not only will it create warning fatigue, but it'll increase tribal division. Republicans hate such paternalism and it'll be an in-your-face reminder, fueling pointless tribalism.
Find a better way than warning labels, which are too static and too blunt.
Social media is ill-defined and little more than online group communication. It was a key survival mechanism during the peak of the covid pandemic. Is Slack social media? Is Zoom? Are protocol-based tools like web browsers, email (including "listserv" and the like), and Mastodon that are based on SMTP, HTTP, ActivityPub, etc?
There is a risk that the differences between platform-based and protocol-based tech will seem a mere quibble. But look for a parallel in how the discussion went in SCOTUS recently over bump stocks and whether guns equipped with them fell under certain legislative requirements.
Unlike smoking, where the cause of harm is known and measurable, problems in social media arise from specific rules, capabilities, tools, algorithms, monetization plans, and prevailing social attitudes. Would a warning label fairly acknowledge deeply substantive differences? How?
Social media is just life by networked, electronic means. Life does have risks. Would we require warning labels on the front door of a house? Such coarse and ineffective micromanagement sparks tribalism in our society. They'll say that's coming next. Please don't give them ammo.
The details of social media matter a great deal and are worthy of study. But the right answer to everything it's not a static one-size-fits-all warning label. What will be learned will not be caution, it will be to not bother reading meaningless labels.
Let's encourage, even fund, robust public dialog using many metrics, even competing ones, for studying and reporting effects and risks of specific aspects and actions. But social media itself is too broad, vague and integrated to warn against as a whole. That horse has left the barn.
#SurgeonGeneral #WarningLabels #SocialMedia #politics #paternalism #tribalism #mastodon #http #smtp #scotus #Covid #pandemic #ActivityPub
Note: This essay is an approximate mirror of a rant I posted as a thread on the ex-bird site a while ago today. I did light editing to rework it for this forum. It still reads a bit funny with the paragraphs now unpacked into a coherent whole, but I'm not gonna bother to fix that.
No such #legislation has yet been introduced in either chamber.
#WarningLabels would send a msg to #parents “that social media has not been proved safe,” Dr. Murthy wrote in the NYT opinion section Mon.
Murthy cast the effects of #SocialMedia on #children & #teenagers as a #PublicHealth risk on par w/road fatalities or contaminated food.
#law #MentalHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/opinion/social-media-health-warning.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
The #UnitedStates #SurgeonGeneral, Dr. #VivekMurthy, announced on Mon that he would push for #WarningLabels on #SocialMedia platforms advising #parents that using the platforms might damage #adolescents’ #MentalHealth.
Warning labels —like on tobacco & alcohol— are one of the most powerful tools available to the nation’s top #health ofcl, but…requires approval by #Congress.
#law #PublicHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/health/surgeon-general-social-media-warning-label.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
Starting August 1, #Canada will become the first country to put #WarningLabels on individual #cigarettes.
The warnings will include messages like 'Cigarettes cause cancer' and 'Cigarettes cause impotence.' It's part of Canada's national anti-tobacco strategy, but experts say warning labels alone won't get people to stop.
#Smoking
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/canada-cigarette-warning-labels-1.6860301