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13 Feb 2016
Scientist friends: Read this. All of this. Multiple times. Every day.
@marklargent #AAASmtg #WarOnScience
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Does it disproportionally hurt any companies or organizations or countries to watch the Spanish language coverage of World Cup matches rather than paying extra for English commentary?
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Literally everyone deserves to go out for dinner, buy coffees, wear quality clothing and have fun experiences whilst also being able to afford rent, groceries, bills & have a little left over for savings no matter what job they do. Why is that so absurd to some people?
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Why is no one discussing the part where Brunson got half of his team’s points…
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Jun 14
Still offering NBA refs free LASIK...
Jun 14
"Brunson down…No doubt Wemby takes away his space on a closeout…Should be a flagrant"
Jalen Brunson & Knicks upset at the no-call
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😷 BREAKING🚨
Canada launches a new National Advisory Committee on Preventive Health Services.
It will be chaired by Dr. David Keegan, a leading advocate for masks in healthcare and on airplanes who filed human rights litigation on both fronts.
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Jun 10
saving 20% of my income so that in 30 years i can afford 11 months of assisted living. the math is airtight
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Jun 10
we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen
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Jun 10
I’m so excited. My secret (not so secret) observational experiment is about to begin.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for wastewater surveillance.
FIFA World cup.
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This whole "activist research" humanities debate is so confusing to me. Imagine you said that to someone in bio trying to cure cancer. If you are doing research that does not benefit the lives of others, and you think this kind of research beneath you, you reek of privilege.
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… how long do you wait in the room before you wonder if the doctor forgot about you?
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The local impacts of industrial plants, mining, data centers, etc. have always been a problem.
What is different now?
Are data centers now harming different demographics of folks with more power? Are they an easy target for our projected, collective frustration?
Jun 8
An article on data centers making people sick with symptoms such as headaches, insomnia, nausea, and anxiety.
Folks report noise levels approaching 100dB, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The rural data centers powered by natural gas are the worst, with a jet-engine sound.
techradar.com/pro/dizziness-…
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every single day just feels like this image now
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I’ve always wanted to know how construction projects, nearby transportation systems, and now data centers impact scientific research on live animal models.
This is a different way to ask a similar question:
Jun 8
I drove to 648 Grassmere Park to see it for myself.
I had no idea what was about to be built 50 yards from the @nashvillezoo.
A data center. Right against the treeline where the animals my kids grew up visiting are kept.
I’m not anti-technology…
The phone you’re reading this on is tied to one of these somewhere. We all live in this now.
But here’s the thing nobody’s telling you: a low hum doesn’t stop at a wall. It goes right through it. And the zoo’s own CEO says it’d sit 50 yards from animals they’ve spent decades trying to protect and breed.
No study. No rules. No vote. Just a rushed permit.
You don’t have to hate the future to say: not like this.
The petition’s in my bio. Takes 10 seconds.
Right now, 10 seconds is the whole fight. 🐆
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Jun 7
The defamation suit against John Oliver centered on a 2024 segment about Iowa's privatized Medicaid program. The specific claim: that Oliver had "feigned outrage" at an Iowa healthcare manager for "ratings and profits."
What the healthcare manager actually said, in his own testimony at an actual hearing, about a patient with cerebral palsy who could not clean himself: "People have bowel movements every day where they don't completely clean themselves, and we don't fuss too much. People are allowed to be dirty. I would allow him to be dirty for a couple of days."
Oliver said he thought it had to be taken out of context. His team obtained the full hearing transcript to verify. It was not taken out of context. He then said what he thought about it, in the terms he chose, on television.
Judge Abrams dismissed the suit. In her opinion she wrote that "the trauma and loss of human dignity that befalls a man with cerebral palsy who has trouble cleaning himself and is left for days in his own fecal matter is the same, regardless of whether or not he wears a diaper" - disposing of the plaintiff's technical distinction between the two patients in the segment.
The plaintiff argued Oliver feigned outrage. The judge found the outrage was about a documented, verified, on-the-record statement by the plaintiff himself.
This is what accountability journalism looks like when it works. The segment was accurate. The response was proportional. The lawsuit was a SLAPP - Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, designed to make speaking up expensive enough that people stop doing it. The court said no. Oliver's record remains perfect. The patient's dignity remains the point.
The 'Last Week Tonight' host extended his unbroken streak of judicial victories.
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‘There's no event in our history books that combines the current global population with the impending fertilizer shortage and the strength of the El Nino that's coming. We are about to witness an unprecedented event that will push crops around the globe to their limit.’
I really don't think enough people fully comprehend the worlds that are about to collide here.
You already have people in geopolitical circles warning about the threat of famine based on surging prices / availability of fertilizer components, and you also have long-term weather modeling all converging on a worst case scenario for a building El Nino event, which will peak near the end of the year. These are two slow moving but entirely predictable disasters that when coupled together will each make the other orders of magnitude worse. (This will take months to fully unfold, but at this point, the die is cast.)
There's no event in our history books that combines the current global population with the impending fertilizer shortage and the strength of the El Nino that's coming. We are about to witness an unprecedented event that will push crops around the globe to their limit.
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A reminder that pasteurization is the process that gently heats milk for….checks notes…15 seconds to…checks notes again…kill pathogens while retaining nutritional value and flavor.
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Whats so offensive to me about that Wired piece is that every single time there is a complex condition in medicine, and biomed cant immediately measure it, patients are told its psycosomatic. Esp if youre a woman. All in your head. You just have to want to get better
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“That nobody [who @sama actually listens to] thought about even a year ago.”
Jun 5
Sam Altman reveals a legal problem with ChatGPT that nobody thought about even a year ago
"People talk about the most personal things in their lives to ChatGPT. Young people especially use it as a therapist, a life coach"
"If you talk to a therapist or a lawyer or a doctor about those problems, there's legal privilege for it. We haven't figured that out yet for when you talk to ChatGPT"
"If you go talk to ChatGPT about your most sensitive stuff and then there's a lawsuit, we could be required to produce that. I think that's very screwed up"
"We should have the same concept of privacy for your conversations with AI that we do with a therapist or a doctor"
"No one had to think about that even a year ago. Now I think it's this huge issue"
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Jun 5
“All of the best-informed people are profoundly depressed these days” is exactly as ill an omen as you think it is.
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