Photo of a dumpster parked in a parking spot marked "Teacher of the Year".
Oh nice, a reserved parking spot for the Teacher of the Year.
And the teacher of the year is ... trash.
What a lovely message you're sending, local public school.
There's been speculation on the mechanism behind the effect, but last I heard, it was only speculation, untested.
To your point, that was as far as the study went: First order effects. If we make sure to schedule interns so they don't get back to back sleepless shifts, etc., does patient care improve? And it got worse, instead.
Strangely, it turns out that overworking medical interns DOES produce better outcomes. It's been studied. And the study results were very disappointing: Hospitals that treated their interns more humanely somehow had worse patient outcomes.
If you want justice and growth, mind economics. It's too powerful to abandon to the greedy and the psychopathic.
It's said, "Viking symbolism is too awesome to abandon to the Nazis. They aren't allowed to own it. We should use it too." That's how I feel about economics.
Less relevant to today, but deeply relevant to interests of mine, and maybe yours, too:
Europe, in part, stayed in the dark ages because the cost of spreading knowledge was too high. Because only parchment was good enough, and they turned their noses up at cheap paper and papyrus.
That's a great photo for the article.
Today, President Yoon was sentenced to life in prison for the crime of insurrection.
President Yoon is promptly impeached.
Within hours, citizens have taken to the streets, and help parliament members to force their way back into the parliament building to hold a vote, invalidating the martial law.
2024: President Yoon declares martial law, claiming his opposition party is attempting "anti-state" activities. He ousts parliament.
A life spent in service.
Wishing Larry well on this anniversary.
But the idea is a network, not a linear chain. And through raw ADHD optimism, enthusiasm, and energy, the speaker is hoping they can spit it at you so fast that it reassembles itself in its original form in your own brain.
To get out of the mouth, ideas have to be serialized: introduced one part at a time, in a chain. Because that's how time works: It's one thing after another. And language bows to time.
It's an exercise in seeing how through the sheer glory of ADHD, a complete thought is trying to force itself out into the world through a mouth.
The thought exists as A connected to B and C and D all at the same time, but to say it, you have to introduce A and then start with either B or C or D first, and go back and introduce the other pieces and hope that it will get stuck in the listener's buffer so they see everything connected at once.
Writing the transcript, I got more and more aware that this was a mind map trying to escape out of a mouth, a sprawling connected thing trying to get ordered into serialized language.
Trying to decide where the sentence breaks, and even the paragraph breaks went in the above quote, was ... interesting.
Quote from Red, from the Overly Sarcastic Productions team. Actual words in her own voice in the clip up top.
'Separated by like centuries or even millennia, but you see them from the top down, and you’re like, “I can draw something here. I can draw a connection from point A to point B and make that into a story where there was no story before.”'
"And the more of it you understand, the more kinds of stories you start to see, the more threads you begin to see connecting things that were not actually connected."
"Storytelling is an interesting overlay onto the events of history, because again, history is not itself a story, but stories arise from it."
"The sum of its parts is less than the whole that you get by understanding the sum of its parts, because you start interpolating. You start seeing patters, and echoes, and, you know, poetry, and things that were previously just things happening."
History is not a story, but...
Red shares a downright Pratchettarian view of history, and imposing narrative structure onto "things that were just things happening."
Summarized from:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt07...
After filtering out literally billions of signals that looked like interference from earth, ~100 "signals of interest" remain.
Over 27 years, ~2 million people loaned their computer's processing power to analyze a collection of signals recorded at the Aricebo radio observatory.
Here's your good news for the day:
SETI@Home finished.
I mean, I feel sorry for _just_ _venting_ _on_ _social_ _media_ when every platform is already a cesspit of negativity.
I just feel like I need to reach out to my European friends and express how sorry I am that my president is a @#$%ing lunatic.