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Data and software professional, maker, writer, magician, musician. Proudly neurospicy. Not very active here - you’re more likely to find me on Mastodon (@tammymakesthings@mas.to) though I’m not very active there either.

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Spotted on a Facebook electronics group: “It is good to have a ground. It is usually bad to BE the ground.” 🤣 #SafetyFirst #OrAtLeastInTheTopThree

01.02.2025 17:50 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘It’s a death sentence’: US health insurance system is failing, say doctors | US healthcare | The Guardian Firms including United Healthcare have denied basic scans and taken months to reconsider, physicians say

I don’t think this is a surprise. The system isn’t working for providers, it isn’t working for patients, and insurance companies in the middle are making billions by manipulating both sides of the system.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/us-health-insurance-system-doctors

26.01.2025 23:09 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Image text: It’s important to be clear that TikTok could have stayed up through the in Joe Biden said he’d not enforce the law. They made a choice to shut down and display a pro Trump message. They weren’t forced to.

Image text: It’s important to be clear that TikTok could have stayed up through the in Joe Biden said he’d not enforce the law. They made a choice to shut down and display a pro Trump message. They weren’t forced to.

Worth thinking about: Whose interests are they serving by shutting down access sooner than needed? Who are they trying to put pressure on, and why?

Given the question of ownership of TikTok has both economic and (so they say) national security implications, you may not like the answers.

19.01.2025 15:33 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Fatalism about "law lol" is self-fulfilling.

The law and institutions generally are not self-implementing, but require people to take their constitutional, professional, and civic responsibilities seriously.

18.11.2024 04:53 — 👍 575    🔁 80    💬 11    📌 5

Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science!
🧬🔬🔭🧪🚀🤿🌎🌱👩🏻‍🔬

#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

11.02.2024 10:33 — 👍 41    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0
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A Missouri lawmaker tried to amend a proposed abortion ban to ensure a pregnant child under 12 could get abortions leading to this telling exchange with a current candidate for governor

10.02.2024 22:11 — 👍 756    🔁 163    💬 38    📌 32
Sam Altman tweet: “openai now generates about 100 billion words per day. all people on earth generate about 100 trillion words per day.”

Sam Altman tweet: “openai now generates about 100 billion words per day. all people on earth generate about 100 trillion words per day.”

honestly something beautiful about the fact that they’re measuring the performance of something that’s supposed to aspire to human intelligence by total words generated like yes you cracked it sam the more words the more information what a perfect metric

10.02.2024 01:16 — 👍 2017    🔁 280    💬 113    📌 83

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