A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.
ICE agents briefly detained a pregnant woman at an Eagle River women’s prison last month. The agency’s own guidelines advise that pregnant women shouldn’t be confined in immigration detention except in narrow circumstances. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂
A strange part of trying to teach data viz right now is writing alt text for the slides for the graph where the activity is writing the alt text (or interpreting).
And part of it is wanting more discussion so that more people can hear more perspectives on interpretation, and not pre-empting that.
However, because he was detained in South Texas, he was released without any cash or ID at a bus station in San Marcos. The family and I were trying to figure out where he was and how to send him money or buy his bus ticket. I also looked up that a Greyhound trip would be 3 days and 4 transfers.
Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.
This is a damning data point as we try to estimate if Warsh would withstand political pressure from Trump.
Key Points Question Does acetaminophen use during pregnancy increase children's risk of neurodevelopmental disorders? Findings In this population-based study, models without sibling controls identified marginally increased risks of autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) associated with acetaminophen use during pregnancy. However, analyses of matched full sibling pairs found no evidence of increased risk of autism (hazard ratio, 0.98), ADHD (hazard ratio, 0.98), or intellectual disability (hazard ratio, 1.01) associated with acetaminophen use. Meaning Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children's risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analyses. This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to confounding. Abstract Importance Several studies suggest that acetaminophen (paracetamol) use during pregnancy may increase risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children. If true, this would have substantial implications for management of pain and fever during pregnancy. Objective To examine the associations of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children's risk of autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and intellectual disability.
![Design, Setting, and Participants
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis included a population-based sample of 2,480,797 children born in 1995 to 2019 in Sweden, with follow-up through December 31, 2021.
exposure
Use of acetaminophen during pregnancy prospectively recorded from antenatal and prescription records.
Main Outcomes and Measures
Autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability based on International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision and International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision codes in health registers.
Results
In total, 185909 children (7.49%) were exposed to acetaminophen during pregnancy. Crude absolute risks at 10 years of age for those not exposed vs those exposed to acetaminophen were 1.33% vs 1.53% for autism, 2.46% vs 2.87% for ADHD, and 0.70% vs 0.82% for intellectual disability. In models without sibling control, ever-use vs no use of acetaminophen during pregnancy was associated with marginally increased risk of autism (hazard ratio [HR], 1.05 [95% Cl, 1.02-1.08]; risk difference [RD] at 10 years of age, 0.09% [95% Cl,
-0.01% to 0.20%l), ADHD (HR, 1.07 [95% Cl, 1.05-1.10];
RD, 0.21% [95% Cl, 0.08%-0.34%]), and intellectual disability (HR, 1.05 [95% CI, 1.00-1.10]; RD, 0.04% [95% CI, -0.04% to 0.12%]).
To address unobserved confounding, matched full sibling pairs were also analyzed. Sibling control analyses found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with autism (HR, 0.98 |95% CI, 0.93-1.04]; RD, 0.02% [95% Cl, -0.14% to 0.18%]), ADHD (HR, 0.98 [95% Cl, 0.94-1.02]; RD, - 0.02% [95% CI, -0.21% to 0.15%]), or intellectual disability (HR, 1.01 [95% CI, 0.92-1.10]; RD, 0% [95% Cl, -0.10% to 0.13%1).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:llgfbjvsqkaicezsf7mzjxr3/bafkreidpp7gvwqlhnazmufyjfkzy3dxc36ehu3ttlhlp5bvue5cjhaqugm)
Design, Setting, and Participants This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis included a population-based sample of 2,480,797 children born in 1995 to 2019 in Sweden, with follow-up through December 31, 2021. exposure Use of acetaminophen during pregnancy prospectively recorded from antenatal and prescription records. Main Outcomes and Measures Autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability based on International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision and International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision codes in health registers. Results In total, 185909 children (7.49%) were exposed to acetaminophen during pregnancy. Crude absolute risks at 10 years of age for those not exposed vs those exposed to acetaminophen were 1.33% vs 1.53% for autism, 2.46% vs 2.87% for ADHD, and 0.70% vs 0.82% for intellectual disability. In models without sibling control, ever-use vs no use of acetaminophen during pregnancy was associated with marginally increased risk of autism (hazard ratio [HR], 1.05 [95% Cl, 1.02-1.08]; risk difference [RD] at 10 years of age, 0.09% [95% Cl, -0.01% to 0.20%l), ADHD (HR, 1.07 [95% Cl, 1.05-1.10]; RD, 0.21% [95% Cl, 0.08%-0.34%]), and intellectual disability (HR, 1.05 [95% CI, 1.00-1.10]; RD, 0.04% [95% CI, -0.04% to 0.12%]). To address unobserved confounding, matched full sibling pairs were also analyzed. Sibling control analyses found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with autism (HR, 0.98 |95% CI, 0.93-1.04]; RD, 0.02% [95% Cl, -0.14% to 0.18%]), ADHD (HR, 0.98 [95% Cl, 0.94-1.02]; RD, - 0.02% [95% CI, -0.21% to 0.15%]), or intellectual disability (HR, 1.01 [95% CI, 0.92-1.10]; RD, 0% [95% Cl, -0.10% to 0.13%1).
In short, acetaminophen exposure during pregnancy is not linked to the risk of developing autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability.
The study has been published in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
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so i went back and suggested edits to this scope that added our nuance back in and this morning i thionk the person again used AI to rewrite the edits in a way that glosses right over meaning to achieve tone and i'm losing it
George Washington, the effing Founding Father mandated vaccination of the Continental Army in *1777*.
finding out an airbnb host was using a chatbot to talk to me -- not just the intro/outro messages but everything -- would light me UP dude www.404media.co/airbnb-hosts...
Hey, it's not like the flu killed nearly 50,000 American soliders during World War 1 or anything
www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article...
In #Fairbanks #Alaska I traditionally think of 4/21 as the start of a four month period for getting summer projects done. The time speeds by, and by 8/21 you need to start preparing for a possible early winter. This year, the 4/21 start date is a bit premature! Lows near 0F forecast for tonight
Secretary Hegseth's tweet: "The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately."
George Washington: we need a healthy fighting force, so let’s protect our people and mandate smallpox inoculation.
Secretary Hegseth: healthy forces are overrated. Let’s not protect our military from influenza.
I’ve lost track of how many times something just like this has happened. The rules seem to be that you can say Congress certified the election, but not that Joe Biden won it
Map centered on Alaska showing site-specific high temperatures (ºF) on Monday, April 20, 2026. Plotted temperature range from -6F at Deadhorse to 55F at Klwock, AK and Stewart, BC.
High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Monday. Continued unusually sharp south-to-north temperature variation. Deadhorse high temp -6F (-21.1C) is the lowest so late in the season (obs since 1969). Meanwhile, daily record high of 53F (11.7C) at Cold Bay (obs since 1943). #akwx #weather
"Users can choose between light, medium, and heavy sabotage modes depending on how closely their boss is observing the process, and the agent rewrites the material into generic, non-actionable language that would produce a less useful AI stand-in."
Heavy sabotage mode, let's go
Springtime in Alaska!
My deck was mostly clear over the weekend.
Freedom is when you can infect others with the flu, but fuck you if you have a skin condition that is incompatible with close shaving.
Rep. Stapp makes a dumbass special order on "On the topic of it feels a little weird to talk about each other in the third person, but I'm going to do it too."
And then he gets up and says,
"That was it basically, thanks."
(RIGHT AFTER JOHNSON WAS SAYING IT'S NOT THE GOP WASTING EVERYONE'S TIME)
And McCabe's "Resource development over EVERYTHING" amendment, which seeks to ban any $ going to ANY group perceived as anti-resource development, passes 21-19.
Majority Reps. Kopp and Frier -- the two most oily of the House Majority -- defect from the majority to help it pass.
#akleg
Rep. Saddler says, "everyone knows why this is in there," but then doesn't say.
(Frankly, it's about squashing local governments from raising alarm about the AKLNG project fucking them all over.)
Republicans: Everything MUST be done to maximize resource development in Alaska! Even if it's at the expense of other fundamental rights! It's in the Constitution!
Well, how about taxes on oil companies?
Republicans: NOT LIKE THAT!!!
HB 133 would require the state to start actually paying its contractors on time, requiring it to pay contractors within 30 days.
Ofc, Republicans have a problem with it because it'd require the state to hire more people to process said payments on time.
There's an objection to even taking it up.
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
251 years ago this morning just before dawn, 19yo William Diamond beat the assembly on his drum to call the Lexington Company of Militia out to the town green to form up as a British column had been sighted
Diamond would fight through the whole war & have a family
I’m his g-g-g-g-grandson
Chatted with circadian rhythm expert Michael Antle about Alberta's move to permanent DST
He says he was the UCP's first call during their consultation process- but that they ultimately ignored the evidence that says permanent standard time is best for our bodies
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In #mathstoday we are using special right triangles to help find exact values for sin 15 and cos 15 without a calculator #geometry #iteachmath
