In recent days, AMA communications to the New York Times have requested a correction on their part to reflect the actual language the AMA used in response to their inquiry. Additionally, a letter to the editor has been submitted requesting a public correction—this was neither a policy change nor was it an endorsement of a position taken by another medical society. In addition, during Congressional testimony in mid-March, I had the opportunity to set the record straight stating to the Subcommittee on Health of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that there has been no change in AMA policy with respect to access to and provision of gender-affirming care. This will appear in the Congressional Record.

The American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people.

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Open licenses and publicly available:
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- Data (all): doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

Our most depressing result ...

We find, paradoxically, that there is a significant *negative* relationship between frequency of code contribution and an individual’s h-index

That is, for an individual scientist the more they contribute to software development the smaller their h-index

Code Contribution and Credit in Science Abstract. Software development has become essential to scientific research, but its relationship to traditional metrics of scholarly credit remains poorly understood. We develop a dataset of approxima...

'Code Contribution and Credit in Science' - new paper led by @evamaxfield.bsky.social w/ @isaacslaughter.bsky.social

1. We build a model that matches scientists (authors) with their GitHub accounts
2. We apply our model to ~140K paper-software repository pairs

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She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

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NYT push alert: "A person was shot dead today during a struggle with federal agents in Minneapolis, according to officials."

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

So so so neat!!! Nice work!

This is awesome!!

Curious if you tried making the features into slider bars so you can find the weirdest combination of inputs -> similar districts.

Ya, from my rereading of the CPSC warning + Seattle sites, I think these need to go to the hazardous waste sites instead of the transfer stations.

Do you know if the CPSC warning marks these batteries as "hazardous" because if so, it seems like the transfer stations want them to go directly to the "Hazardous Waste Facilities" instead of the transfer stations. I sort of assume so??

Open Source Power We have to talk about open source licensing.

Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.

I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.

But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.

give me an ounce of vitamin d after the long dark and all I want is to ride my bike

bikes rock

hello cis friends
this is what people mean by trans genocide

if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported

this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order

it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

Woooow fascinating. I didn't know about the p symbol meaning copyright claim at all. Will read that article tomorrow morning too!

None of the other streaming platforms that I checked have any bio or description for the band either.

I can't find any webpage about the band.

Can anyone find anything???

Screenshot of search results from Google for query '"Smooth Heisters" band'

Screenshot of search results from DuckDuckGo for query '"Smooth Heisters" band'

There is no bio or description for the band on Spotify. When you search Google/DuckDuckGo for this band, only track links (Apple, Spotify, SoundCloud, LastFM) come up

They only have a three track Christmas Jazz album, released 29 November 2024.

Only one of the songs has more than 1000 plays: "Embraced by White." This is the song that is featured by Spotify in their playlist.

Screenshot of Spotify mobile app with "Smooth Heisters" band page pulled up.

Does anyone want to go down a rabbit hole with me?

My girlfriend put on Spotify's "Cozy Christmas Jazz" playlist the other night and we are now trying to figure out if one of the songs/artists featured in this playlist is AI generated??

The band is "Smooth Heisters"...

What are you presenting??

Sara Nelson Warns She Can Kill Any Transit Project She Wants - The Urbanist # A budget amendment put forward by Council President Nelson asks for information on how and when the city creates priority space for buses, citing opposition to Route 40. At a meeting last week, Nels...

"Let’s be real — if a councilmember wants to kill a project, you can kill a project."
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