picture of journal article:: title: Noninferiority and Efficiency/Revenue Facilitation (NERF) Endpoints Shifting Grounds of Argument in Health AI Interventional Studies; abstract: This article investigates ethical hazards associated with argumentative shifts following the emergence of combined non-inferiority and effi-ciency/revenue facilitation (NERF) endpoints, with particular attention to research on artificial intel-ligence (AI) in health and medicine. The study pre-sented here adopts a Toulmin argumentative analysis approach to investigate the dominant persuasive log-ics of twenty-three health AI trials evaluating NERF endpoints. In so doing, the article demonstrates how the argumentative logics of NERF trial reports shifts away from health outcomes as the putative evidence base for adopting novel interventions toward an argu-mentative model that prioritizes economic benefits over patient benefits. Ultimately, the article argues that new logic of NERF endpoints is consistent with and risks accelerating the harms to patient care that arise from increased financialization of the healthcare sector. If the use of NERF endpoints and attendant logics continue to grow unchecked, they could result in significant harms to patient health and well-being.

🚨new pub - Noninferiority and Efficiency/Revenue Facilitation (NERF) Endpoints: @jadeshiva.bsky.social, @kimberharrison.bsky.social & I explore how NERF endpoints prioritize financial incentives over patient outcomes in health AI research & accelerate culture of financialized health. rdcu.be/eQzJe

Inevitability of hallucination ?

Help needed as injured animals arrive at Pasadena Humane Society due to wildfire As the deadly Eaton Fire continues burning in Los Angeles County, Pasadena Humane is seeking help as a large number of animals are being evacuated. Over 100 animals arrived at the organization on W…

“Shelter workers said critical supplies are needed due to the influx of animals including food, water bowls, extra large crates and blankets. Anyone able to donate these items can drop them off at the donation bin located at the shelter’s front parking lot.” ktla.com/news/local-n...

Prison Laborers Want a Seat at the Table, Even If They’re Shackled to the Chair Texans are organizing inside and outside of prisons to empower incarcerated workers, who labor in dangerous conditions without pay.

Best of 2024 from @michellepitcher.bsky.social: Texans are organizing inside and outside of prisons to empower incarcerated workers, who labor in dangerous conditions without pay.

Doing archival research and found this note from one cybernetician to a math professor and I have never felt so seen

Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, Agency This exhibition traces the historical roots of surveillance devices and methods, and the Cold War dynamics that shaped and spread them.

The exhibition “explores the precursors of current biometric surveillance in Cold War manuals for police, border guards and spies; in forensic portraiture; and in the little-known early history of computer facial recognition, revealing links between forensics, science, art, and popular culture.”

Book cover of “Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI” by Madhumita Murgia

Started reading Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia, and it’s *so* good!

My research delves into many of the topics discussed within the book, but it’s been quite insightful to get first-hand accounts of how AI is impacting people across the globe.

This looks amazing!

Republicans don't care if women die from abortion bans — but they don't want you to know about it Women will keep dying, but the GOP is working hard to destroy the evidence

Both Texas and Georgia are destroying evidence of all maternal mortality, blocking proof that women are dying from abortion bans.

This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.

www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.

@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...

I regret to inform you that even though the leopards will eat their faces, people will not actually realize that there were leopards or that they no longer have faces.

Collage of three images. The first reads: "Max Planck Institute for the history of Science. Career. We're hiring." The second image shows the glass façade of the institute at dawn. The third shows people reading in the institute's library.

Department "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life" is hiring a Postdoc!

🎓 Proposed projects should be related to the topic "From Trust in Science to Knowledge in Relation."

🗓️ Deadline: January 3, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4

#AcademicFreedom #STS #PoliticalEpistemology

A figure captioned "Map of Universities Teaching Chemistry in the UK". The map UK is in the top left corner and a cluster of dots is perhaps where India might be on a typical world map.

Please enjoy today's coding failure. #R

This is Mabel, and she hopes you get good scritches, treaties and a nap today

I miss my former colleague David Golumbia. From talks and chats, I knew this was gonna be a masterpiece. I’m so grateful we can continue to learn from him—buy this book!!

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie.

Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention

a tiny brown dachshund puppy with tan a snoot and eyebrows, and adorably wrinkly ankles sits on a black countertop. next to him is a chalk sign that reads, "My first visit at Vets 4 Paws in Irvine." the sign indicates the wide-eyed puppy's name is Otis, he is 2.2 kilograms, and he's 10 weeks old.

This is Otis. He just had his very first vet appointment. Even got to take a picture like it was his first day of school. 12/10 we're proud of you, Otis

Jennifer Nash - Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality

PSA, it smells NOTHING like butter tortillas >:(

This CNN interview with Clear CEO ask all the WRONG questions about current and developing biometric “identity verification”/surveillance tech… Surely we should be conncerned with more than just the airport lines getting longer, yes? @CNN Clear p.1

Pillars of creation by JWST but with googly eyes

New #JWST image just dropped 🔭🐡🧪

Had a book review editor tell me I should quit academia if I'm going to cheat by using AI to write my reviews (had never used chatgpt at this point). Now this journal wonders why it struggles to get reviewers 😵‍💫