I haven't had a long enough breath to talk about how AI is ruining the open web. API after API I used to use is closing - literally because paying the $$$ required to feed these impersonation machines is prohibitive.
The real reason Vance thinks he knows more than the pope on Catholicism is the reason he thinks he knows more than everyone in everything: the malignant effects of Yale Law School
NEW: Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas after doctors delayed treatment.
The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to the deaths, but the doctors were given minimal punishment.
By Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser
These fuckin chuds
Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough
President Manbaby lashes out at the Pope by harming children.
“Silicon Valley would not exist without [taxpayer-] funded research.”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Kalanithi was training as a neurosurgeon, training in this very specialty but also taking as a given that such costs must be managed. It was a little bit of friction on his road to getting his diagnosis. And he died of metastatic lung cancer at age 37.
It was part of Paul Kalanithi's memoir 'when breath becomes air' -- he doesn't get an MRI because "unnecessary imaging had lately become national point of cost-saving emphasis." but why TF is it $1000+ to begin with. Do people think the price was set by God and could never be otherwise?
I've told that story a lot. I think about it every couple of months. Frankly it makes me almost as angry as any other political issue going on right now. In the US, in MRI is often not covered by insurance and costs $1000+. You certainly don't get one casually to "rule something out."
Living abroad is a real education in what medical care could be. I went to a neurologist here in Japan for migraine medicine. To "rule out other causes" they did an MRI on my brain. The scan was part of my appointment and the machine was in the clinic. The cost I paid for the MRI ... was $11.
President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak on Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ
A+ headline.
defector.com/president-ex...
I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.
oooh, I need to read this. I just put a hold on it at the library.
Word from a more fluent person is that metaphorical titles for non-fiction books aren't the convention in Japan. Instead they get straight to the point. Anyways, I still have so much to learn about this language beyond words and grammar ...
Now, you might say, "What about all the knowledge we'd lose if we push all the abusive geniuses out of academia?!"
But I'd counter and say, "Well, what about the knowledge we've already lost from the budding scholars whose careers they've derailed with their abuse?"
Vance converted to Catholicism to facilitate his moves in US politics. US politics constantly invokes the church(es) for political expediency. Now they’re annoyed when the church bites back.
A famous sociologist's book with an evocative, metaphorical title is translated rather bluntly to 集まる場所が必要だ (gathering places are necessary) in Japanese. How can you make sure your book is translated well? Who does translation work for mass market publishers? Anyone have the inside scoop?
women are suffering complications from miscarriages dues to Texas' extreme abortion restrictions: www.propublica.org/article/texa...
I’m watching the new essential film, Ghosts in the Machine, featuring many esteemed colleagues of mine, and noting how many of the great men scientists making claims about the ability for machines to mimic humanity also denied the humanity of women in myriad ways.
The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
This story isn’t getting enough attention, IMHO
For those who may not know: we’re talking about anthropology, sociology, psychology and STS (among others)
Rule by agnotology continues to ramp up
I am shocked to see this language from the NSF.
“The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”
Overview of changes in NSF funding proposed by the FY 2027 President's Budget Request. Most programs are significantly cut. OMB did not give numbers for STEM and NCSES, so the numbers appear to be increases (they are not).
Giving folks a sense of what the cuts to NSF funding in the 2027 President's Budget Request actually looks like. Note the significant cuts across domains--even to research security! STEM and NCSES aren't captured for prior years, so they appear to be cuts, even though they are not.
1. "Here's an extreme idea. We're platforming it, so that people can watch out."
2. "This idea is gaining traction. We're publishing an op-ed in favour, for balance."
3. "This idea is popular now. Why does the left refuse to consider it?"
Why do fascists hate sociology? Because it makes transparent everything fascists don't want you to know. A sociological imagination makes us harder to control. Long live the sociological imagination.
NYTimes Headline: The Women Who Believe That Women Should Lose the Right to Vote Subhead: Adherents to biblical patriarchy support household voting: One household, one vote--the husband's. They say the idea is catching on.
The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.
"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"
Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
😜😂😡
Or, to put it more bluntly: "Rich people could pay less in taxes if only women would do more unpaid labor at home."
