Portman Doe

I’ve read the books and watched the series. Gets better as it goes along! The first episode had too much exposition.

"The only ones who need to be worried right now is the Iranians who think they're gonna live"

-Pete Hegseth, Very Normal Guy

Guardian headline: “Bob Carr, ‘a masterpiece’ and a hornet queer fantasy”

And this, kids, is why we need Oxford commas…

Slow Horses season five: there’s comedy but also real spycraft – according to espionage expert Honey traps are laid, cyber attacks are enacted and it seems MI5 have to rely upon Slough House to bail them out once again.

That’s why Slow Horses works. The humor pulls you in, but the tradecraft feels believable. Intelligence work is often messy, bureaucratic, and human, and the show actually leans into that reality. #SlowHorses #SpyCraft #Espionage #MI5 #intelligence
theconversation.com/slow-horses-...

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

Ok so from reading more I may be the eighth case.

Knitters can’t say soaking because of Mormon university student discourse.

Was not ready for People to post this.

The fact that People magazine is posting this is absolutely incredible. Holy shit, John. Not sure you have People Magazine but it’s maybe on par with Women’s Day in terms of content and placement at the grocery store till?

lol I don’t think they let you if you’re the subject.

Also, I hope I’m the seventh person with this because absolutely going to tell people (with no context) that I’m one in a billion.

Well, I have been digging through some medical journals and it’s possible I am the 7th recorded case of this. I can definitely see why my specialist was excited.

Spontaneous hemophilia?! I assume that her case will be fictionalized on Grey’s Anatomy!

I was just saying to my wife that next appt I should request that my doctor include a footnote in his study that I am 1)very funny and 2) fantastically nonchalant about receiving injections into my eyeball.

Anyway, I’m really frustrated trying to get others to take on some of this work. because making institutional change is not easy.

It’s been very hard to find others who understand these technologies and industry practices enough to understand the issues and so I feel really alone trying to get others to help, even though they support this and are willing to sign on to things as long as they don’t have to do the labour of it

With so much confidential research data, it’s shocking to me that we are welcoming this tech and trusting companies who continually have massive breaches involves scraping content. Why do we not have software for our data that is, in effect, “air gapped” apart from any AI code. Not just toggled off.

There’s a massive push from higher up to have more GenAI and so many faculty don’t understand technical language or the difference in technologies or how how the rush to market is yielding massive security issues. We don’t have the institutional practices in place to address the issues.

Doing the work of trying to make institutional change regarding having genAI in the back-end of so many of our digital services and trying to halt using digital service providers who don’t have privacy built in from the bottom up, is incredibly hard work. Even after a major breach.

These conditions definitely explain, too, why I’m by far the youngest patient in the waiting room. Some of the boomers were actually talking loudly amongst themselves about how old everyone is except for me (but they just said “except for” and then all turned to stare at me)

I’m getting the same treatment as before with no changes so that was the right path. Thank goodness! And, honestly, I’m relieved to know this is the underlying cause of my vision loss over the past 7-8 years. Also, I kind of enjoy being an eye freak. lol

He’s only seen this once when training-I’m guessing they had all the students take a look at the rare condition while they actually had a patient with it. I’m his first patient with it and it couldn’t be diagnosed (for me) until my last scans while in flare.

Is a rare complication from one of the rare conditions.

Luckily, it’s highly, highly likely we can treat as we’ve been doing and stabilize things. I’ll even get more vision back after this flare calms the fuck down.

And, yes, my doctor, who is great, was practically giddy telling me my diagnosis.

Well, went to my eye specialist and found out I have two extremely rare autoimmune diseases (presumably) local to my eye. The rarity of course means that it’s been hard to actually do studies and there are lots on unknowns about what brings on these conditions. Also the thing we’ve been treating…

Allow, TBF, my joke was not that funny.

I have. I am saying you’re the first to crave them!

Well, sometimes you know you’re the first person on the planet to do something. (Thumbprint cookies!!!)

Sigh

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

A student submitted an assignment several days after it was due. Has told me to “feel free to deduct points as you see fit.”

Um… how about I follow the syllabus and also.. WTAF?

Also fibremaxx at your own risk and in your own bathroom.