Northeastern Blot

Northeastern Blot

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12 hours ago

Honestly a good review article requires far more independent analysis than summary of the literature as such. You’re still making an argument.

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6 days ago

When I go to the ED they do a pregnancy test on me.

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1 week ago

Congress built an elaborate system to check the President and SCOTUS shat on it.

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1 week ago

Thank the Supreme Court in INS v. Chadha

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3 weeks ago

““Freedom of the press” in bourgeois society means freedom for the rich systematically, unremittingly, daily, in millions of copies, to deceive, corrupt and fool the exploited and oppressed mass of the people, the poor.”

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3 weeks ago

“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake "public opinion" for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.”

-V.I. Lenin

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1 month ago
Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.” Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

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1 month ago

They should deny him supply. One of the oldest constitutional mechanisms against a tyrant.

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1 month ago

Americans slowly realizing that there’s a whole world of politics outside of the endless horse race is a wonderful thing.

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2 months ago

Red Star is also ML. There’s also a solid amount of dual card people with Communist Party USA but I’m not sure if they tend to also join a DSA caucus.

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2 months ago

The media largely being owned by their ultra wealthy friends probably has something to do with it.

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2 months ago

Do they have dues at least?

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2 months ago

We already have extensive antimicrobial stewardship programs. Heck even in hospitals there’s a lot of antibiotics you can’t use without infectious disease signing off.

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2 months ago

To some extent, this speaks to the need to create an ideological media universe to push our goals, the same way the right does.

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2 months ago

I think part of this is corporate control of media, but I also think public opinion is fickle in a way that can be a real challenge for continuous ideological processes.

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2 months ago

Everything is stupider than we want to believe. This would be a hit.

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3 months ago
"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill
Shang-Jin Wei & Yifan Zhou
WORKING PAPER 34524
DOI 10.3386/w34524
ISSUE DATE November 2025
Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders' superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills. The corporate access channel is reflected in stock trades that predict subsequent corporate news and greater returns on donor-owned or home-state firms. 令
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Figure 2: Estimated dynamic quasi-difference-in-differences coefficient, di, of equation(3), with vertical dashed lines representing 90 percent confidence intervals. The point estimate of the year in which the lawmaker became a congressional leader (Year 0) is normalized to zero. BHAR over the 250 days following each trade is the dependent variable and calculated using the Fama-French five-factor plus momentum as the benchmark model.

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts

www.nber.org/papers/w34524

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3 months ago

I can only really think of time pressure being relevant in a very small proportion of fields. Air traffic control, maybe pathology or radiology? Not relevant in most of medicine. Accommodations should be addressed with more care in those contexts. Otherwise, the time limit is meaningless.

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3 months ago

Which is interesting because most good medical schools will intentionally develop exams without time pressure, and to the extent there's time pressure on medical licensing exams it's *mostly* so you can get the test done in a single working day.

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3 months ago

Generally, if time is a significant factor on an exam, it's poorly designed! Maybe this isn't true for some standardized tests, but I would be surprised if the purpose wasn't almost always convenience of proctoring. (Maybe some exceptions are high acuity fields or language proficiency tests)

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3 months ago

The general membership seems more “ultraliberal” as it were than any of the major caucuses.

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3 months ago

That being said, the actual practice of the often poorly politically educated broad DSA membership often doesn’t really reflect the preferences of any of the caucuses, which are typically formed of people with more political education.

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3 months ago

What Is to Be Done and its concept that the working class can only achieve trade union consciousness without an organized and ideologically disciplined party is the foundation of the DSA left. DSA itself is an uneasy synthesis of these tendencies much like the prewar SDP or RSDLP.

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3 months ago

I think this is an inaccurate characterization of the political tradition of the left caucuses. They’re (mostly) rooted in a Leninist and/or early Kautskyite interpretation of party and class organizations which is neither the “shop floor” politics of the DSA right or ultraliberal progressivism.

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3 months ago

There are parallels to Hindenburg's camarilla here.

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3 months ago

And doctors routinely validate notes already. Standard practice in many settings is for a resident to write a note the attending signs off on. This would still save time.

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3 months ago

It is perfectly plausible that an LLM could summarize a conversation well enough within our risk tolerance, especially if it lets doctors see twice as many patients. We’re not there yet!

Diagnosis is another question entirely.

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3 months ago

This is not that demanding a task for an LLM, but getting it consistently right enough to be part of the medical record is a challenge.

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3 months ago

Medical notes are not written in a dictation format (except sometimes in surgery). You actually do need an LLM to translate a conversation into a SOAP note.

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3 months ago

That stuff I wouldn’t consider “AI” as such.

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