This is insane, tinpot authoritarian shit.

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My g'ma was a nurse

I adore nurses, but I also see some where it's just "the job" - they got their license "telling them what they wanted to hear" & then they stubbornly go off the deep end in their false beliefs, & their bit of med education is used as a claim to authority

Those 1s are dangerous

You have to admit, though, "we wanted to understand the plight of the downtrodden, so we asked two nepo babies and the child of a fraudster" is peak NYT Opinion.

Unlike Texas, VA maps approved by voters

Unlike Texas, VA maps temporary

Unlike Texas, VA maps only drawn in response to other states

Unlike Texas, VA maps not racial gerrymander

Hegseth says flu vaccine isn't required for military anymore

Put a bunch of people in close quarters and don't vaccinate them. JFC. Crack a book.

What a great find!

We had jars of ash in our basement for YEARS, and still have the papers from that time, too 🌋

One reason that we cannot have professional diplomats representing the interests of the United States is that it would disrupt a pattern of personal enrichment for the Presidents allies and families.

There was a significant point made about believing a woman with sickle cell- the EMTs that brought her in said she was uncooperative & drug seeking while she was yelling she had sickle cell - 1 doc listened, then they discussed how Black patients & Black Women are harmfully doubted & maligned in med

Kash Patel chugs beer and yells

I feel like this was pretty incriminating, but the bar is below the floor, and the press finds the Trump admin to be great copy and fun to hang with so...

Maybe we could just make it a policy to play the Astros every week.

My family lived in Tokyo for several years, and so ppl often ask me for advice on traveling to Japan, & as I say to my fellow Seattleites, when you scoff "I'm from Seattle, I'm used to rain"

No, I assure you, you do not know what it's like to have 2-7" of rain per day coming down on you sideways

So the media is a bunch of villainous Jews and Trump is Jesus. I fully expect the NYT to sanewash this antisemitic lunacy. So far, they’re ignoring it.

Just want to be clear that when RFK Jr. said in the hearing today that he is “overhauling” the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, it is because this administration wants to reduce the number of services that health insurance companies are required to cover.

Hogg paying himself thousands

Hogg paying himself thousands

David Hogg also gave himself a fat holiday bonus from his Leaders We Deserve PAC, skimming $22k off the top just for himself in December of 2024

Hogg also decided to take paychecks of $16k and $13k for himself in May and June of 2024

Not for flipping GOP held seats blue, but for primarying Dems🤔

The payroll from Hogg's grifting PAC "Leaders We Deserve"

Never forget that David Hogg pays himself over $10k a month from the PAC he created in order to primary Democrats

Hogg doesn't work to flip Republican seats, remember that

He's used the death of his classmates to enrich himself & he works to keep a Republican majority

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“Do I own three residences? Yeah, I do,” Sanders said. He explained that he lives in Burlington, Vermont, in a “middle-class neighborhood, nice house,” and owns another home in Washington, D.C., like most senators do. He also has a summer camp on Lake Champlain. “That’s it,” Sanders stated, noting that his homes are far from luxurious. “They’re middle-class houses.”

Saint Bernard jetting around on book tours is always applauded, too - I mean....come on, the three houses he owns are only *middle class* homes.

You can't criticize the biggest DSA guy for only owning several middle class homes; what are you, a disgusting Establishment Dem™️ or something...?

a group of people walking in a line with a woman standing on a pole Alt: cult

Whisper Prog Bro, Pod Bro buzzwords to some people and they will fall in line with anyone, no matter how awful they are.

"Stop talking negatively about Platner, he said 'M4All' and Bernie touched him with his holy oil"

Throw her in the bin.

Nine-Valent HPV Vaccination and Related Cancers This cohort study examines associations of the 9-valent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine with HPV-related cancers in males aged 9 to 26 years.

Boys should also get the HPV vaccine, not only to help eliminate cervical cancer through building herd immunity but also because in this latest study it cancer risk in men by about half (in 10 years of follow up; the reduction may be larger with longer follow up)

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The whole exercise felt ridiculous to Ben. He and his father — two people who had never been to medical school — were now arguing about cancer research. Meanwhile, his father was ignoring the advice of an actual expert. “What am I doing?” he thought. “This is why we have doctors, human doctors.” Then he remembered the disclaimers on many chatbots telling users to always double check the output. He pulled out his computer and, in a “righteous fury,” emailed two leading experts on Richter’s whose research was cited in the A.I.-generated report. “I apologize for the out-of-the-blue email,” he wrote. “But my father’s condition is worsening rapidly and I am at a loss as to how to respond to his interpretation of the A.I. summary of oncology research.” He attached the report to the email, which Dr. David Bond opened a few hours later from his office in Ohio. At first glance, it looked like a polished scientific report. But the closer Dr. Bond read, the more illogical it became. The report made authoritative claims and, as evidence, cited studies that he thought were “only peripherally related to the topic.” It referenced percentages that appeared to be completely made up. The summary of Dr. Bond’s research was completely unrecognizable to him. In a statement, a spokesman for Perplexity said the company remained steadfast in its “commitment to improving accuracy in the world’s best frontier A.I. models.” Dr. Bond and the other study author both wrote back within hours, encouraging Joe to listen to his oncologist. That night, Ben called his dad again and, dusting off his attorney skills, presented the facts: Three doctors all independently agreed that the Perplexity report misled him.

AI "summarizing" research and writing "reports" that have no basis in fact...

Though Dr. Marzbani didn’t know it, Joe was routinely asking questions about his cancer to several generative A.I. tools, which often struggle to give accurate medical advice. He told them to list the early signs of Richter’s, interpret his lab results and explain complicated research about the treatment his doctor recommended. He knew not to trust A.I. unilaterally. He often read the scientific papers the tools cited and — as best he could without medical training — tried to verify that they aligned with what the tools had said. He came away feeling so confident in his understanding of the science that declining treatment seemed to be the obvious choice. “The regular oncologist is a little annoyed with me,” Joe texted Ben around that time. “I questioned his initial diagnosis and was proven right,” he added, though that wasn’t the case. “BTW, say what one will about A.I., it is amazing how much one can learn with a week or two of the right A.I. programs.” By summer 2025, Joe had become much sicker. He had gained 80 pounds from steroids he was taking to manage his symptoms. Lymph nodes all over his body had swelled, including one on his neck that made it painful to move his head. His white blood cell count was 10 times higher than when Dr. Marzbani first started recommending treatment, a sign the cancer had rapidly spread. Joe’s window for treatment was quickly closing. The more frail Joe became, the less likely he was to tolerate the medications. Dr. Marzbani decided to confront him. “Why do you believe this?” he remembered asking Joe during one appointment. “Where’s this coming from?” Joe sent him a research report he generated with Perplexity.

Doing "research" with AI...

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He Warned About the Dangers of A.I. If Only His Father Had Listened. Ben Riley was already writing about the risks of chatbots when his dad started trusting A.I. over his doctor.

Ben, panicked, quickly clicked through more records. The oncologist had been recommending treatment for 10 months. His pleas seemed to grow more desperate by the page. But Joe was convinced the drugs would do more harm than good. “We discussed that treatment can slow down and possibly halt the progression of his C.L.L. which will give him more time to be with his family as he so desires,” another note read. “He answered that he doesn’t plan on starting treatment even if his disease continues to progress.” Ben knew better than to confront his dad, a retired neuroscientist who bristled at anyone questioning his intellectual judgment. He needed more information, a plan, to persuade Joe, who was — apparently — dying of cancer thousands of miles away in Seattle. He was anxiously monitoring his dad’s patient portal, trying to decide what to do, when a new message popped up. Joe had sent his oncologist research he had done with A.I., the apparent evidence for his decision to refuse the treatment. Jesus Christ, Ben thought. The morbid irony of the situation was not lost on him. A year earlier, he started a newsletter to help people make better decisions about when and how to use generative A.I. He wrote about how the tools had sent people into delusional spirals and helped a teenager end his life. Now, it appeared that A.I. had led his own father astray.

A heartbreaking story.

I love watching my large son Luke Raley run around on a baseball field Luke Raley’s run is an assault on both physics and visual aesthetics and I will defend it until the day I die

My favorite piece of writing on Luke Raley
by @katepreusser.bsky.social

She's been pictured lobbying by the press over the past year; she's not a random Trumper, she's trotted out here as a particular figurehead w a message to get across at this photo op.

But I wouldn't be surprised if she maybe has an LGBT grandchild or friend based on how she paused & dodged him here

Problem is, the Democratic field is crowded, so the vote is getting split. Meanwhile, two Republicans are leading.

Do the math. If we don’t get our shit together, we could end up with two Republicans and zero Democrats on the general ballot.

The bluest state in the country… goes red.

She's got no business being governor, but people are misled by her whiteboard soundbites on social media - mistakenly believing she actually *accomplished* anything. She did not!

She's the classic "doesn't get anything done, but they tell me what I want to hear" candidate.

Burns writing that with a straight face and thinking she's clearly putting people in their place with that reasoning is something else. 🫢

It's steeped-in-twitter brain, and she self righteously thinks she's above that... but twitter norms are clearly HER norms

I wish this were a bit. Science and antiscience are not the two sides of science. Much of the criticism you are receiving is because people were not born yesterday and they actually are familiar with disinformation campaigns and science denial

popular or unpopular has nothing to do with scientific integrity, and "engaging in dialogue" with the medical equivalent of flat earthers is actually harmful because it makes uninformed people think their arguments may be legitimate. this is why we now have measles outbreaks.