@kfunk937
My thing, cradle to grave, is mostly healthcare. Later, disaster litigation tourism. Housing 1st; medical attendance; and fed. (<--Lower-case.) Raised by pirates. Bad pacifist. Birthday present: Steal This Book, Abby Hoffman
My mentions have folks calling Talarico a "fascist" and assuring me that black Texans would never ever vote for anyone who uses Christian language.
For the good of democracy, I'm begging some of you to take a long break from social media. It's not helping you and you're definitely not helping us.
RFK Jr is trying to push "functional medicine" quackery into medical school, using nutrition as a trojan horse.
He's the anti-Flexner.
There are other types of AI by the way, ones that fall under what would traditionally be the machine learning category, that don’t take massive data centers to run and that serve useful functions for data analysis.
Deterministic systems, for example.
bsky.app/profile/zebr... tapping my sign
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The other half of the cases it put them *in* the hospital www.psypost.org/his-psychosi...
Reading through @carlbergstrom.com’s Bullshit Machines. In LLM space, “go to the ED” and “don’t go to the ED” are actually pretty close, and both LOOK LIKE a valid answer. The goal of the bot isn’t to be right, just to convince you that it is. Whether you live or die is irrelevant.
Elon Musk to avoid deposition about DOGE, dismantling US foreign aid agency reut.rs/4rcz13U
Amid the turmoil, Sam Beyda, a 24-year-old who has never previously worked in public health, has assumed a prominent role at the agency, according to current and former officials. While at the CDC, O'Neill was often absent, those officials said, and he deputized Beyda to run much of the agency's day-to-day operations for him, people familiar with the matter said. Beyda, a 2023 graduate of Columbia University, is based in Washington, D.C., but frequently travels to the CDC's Atlanta headquarters. An internal document in November listed Beyda as leading five of 16 new strategic initiatives, including updating the CDC's agencywide response to outbreaks and crises, downsizing animal research and enhancing surveillance of novel pathogens. Some longtime CDC staffers have credited Beyda with being a quick study and making an effort to ask questions and learn on the ioh Ona coninr novear And ofniol enid Pando
But others say Beyda isn't qualified for a senior role that is often filled by someone with a master's in public health or years of experience in the federal government. Beyda executed January's widespread grant cuts to state and local health departments that the CDC then quickly rescinded, people familiar with the matter said. The administration moved forward about two weeks later with roughly $600 million in grant cuts to four states led by Democrats, a move now held up in court. Beyda was also deeply involved in a chaotic wave of firings at the CDC during the October government shutdown, according to people familiar with the matter, which saw more than a thousand employees laid off only for hundreds to later be reinstated. Beyda is one of at least a dozen political appointees at the agency, representing a larger number than in previous administrations, according to two current employees. The new political appointees wield significant power over the CDC's
Letting a 24 year old lead hundreds of millions of grants cuts at CDC…
That feeling when you owe 53,173,939 refunds, with interest ...
The litigation over who has lawful control of the USIP building plays on, with the Trump administration maintaining control for now. But I'm proud @rcfp.org and I were able to obtain this footage and shed important light on DOGE's intentions when they entered the USIP building nearly one year ago.
My favorite thread on this app. #ScienceSky 🧪
As I get older I'm coming to increasingly radical views like "you have to do things to get good at them" and "you have to think about problems to solve them"
Absolutely disgraceful for the White House to combine videos of Call of Duty Clips with Iran Strike Footage
“Camp East Montana will remain open.”
Big news.
Employees at Camp East Montana are being told that the massive detention Center in El Paso is not closing, internal messages obtained by the El Paso Times show.
My story:
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
⚡️White House responds to reports that Russia is helping Iran target US forces in the Middle East.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a Fox News interview on March 6 that “whether or not this happened, frankly, it does not really matter,” dismissing the concerns.
The first Black woman in space carried more than experiments aboard the shuttle.
Mae Jemison’s journey from Chicago science museums to Space Shuttle Endeavour showed generations of girls what was possible.
History remembers the woman who reached for the stars.
#SheShed #V4V #WomensHistoryMonth
I didn't have plans for today. I did not realize that I would be attending a church service, a concert, and a political rally today. That's pretty good for someone who overslept.
Al Sharpton is looking sharp. I need to follow his diet.
This is objectively stupid if you've ever worked with students. It's totally outcome-based with no understanding of process, and no understanding of individual differences. Nobody who understands how research or teaching works would think this is informative.
Trump is now talking about attacking Cuba. Shame on Golden, Landsman, Cuellar, and Vargas for voting against the War Powers Resolution.
This is a fascinating article, and also a fine essay in American history.
Trump's $10B suit against his own DOJ "raises the prospect of collusive litigation tactics," tax experts tell a judge, adding that it's "uncertain" if DOJ will "zealously defend the public." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I mostly just don't notice
but am just like, higha
I"m really terribad at that
I got slightly better, later
Any wait to read this book by my brilliant friend @weissmann.substack.com!
