Dr. Tanya Samman

Hot take: The doctor shouldn't be the one asking if it's ok if she uses AI to take patient notes. The power differential + patient anxiety + short appointment times means the patient feels pressure to say yes. It should be a question asked during check-in. (I wish it wasn't used at all, but...)

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Imagine a world where it is illegal to treat someone like a throwaway product or good. Imagine if that was treated similar to murder, all around the world. Imagine if CEOs could be imprisoned for such maltreatment of their workers.

An El Niño is brewing And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight.

One thing that may dramatically shake up our political life on this planet is the advent of a strong new El Niño. (Also our, you know, life life)

billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...

The owners/editors of the NYT did everything they possibly could to kneecap Mamdani and they FAILED.

They will fail to sink AOC as well. But don't stop yelling at them when they try.

No.

It is better to trust your eyes and ears, not only because official sources are often dishonest but because they are your eyes and ears, and the conspirators want to devalue that, to flatten individual perception into something formless and malleable. This was the goal of twentieth-century fascism, and it is easier to attain in the twenty-first, through algorithms and artificial intelligence and whatever else they offer as a replacement for conscience and consciousness.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social wrote this paragraph in her book "They Knew" in December of '21. Her prescience is one of the many reasons I always read her books.

everyday heroes

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

Seems like so long ago…when this discussion was “innocent.”

She was denied a legal abortion and sent to prison over an illegal one. Now she tells her story A young woman in Zambia was sent to a maximum-security prison after she was denied a legal abortion and ended her pregnancy on her own.

Violet Zulu of Zambia was sentenced to 7 years in prison for abortion with no legal help. Zulu was freed last month after international rights groups helped her file an appeal. But she represents many women in Africa who take desperate decisions when facing barriers to legal abortion services.

"you're bringing up old shit" yeah because I want the younger gens to be aware of how blatant the colonizing was and just why figures like Epstein made it to where they got.

This is so invisible. So important

I don’t know how many times people have to say this, but if you really are and feel like a writer, you *need* to write. It’s the best part of your job, it’s the part that you find satisfying, it’s why you chose to do what you do. Writers are not trying to escape the writing part!

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

morpheus is fighting neo dot gif

all hail the queen of shade

Something about LLM hype culture renders a man immune to the experience of embarrassment. If I couldn’t tell the difference between PhD-level scholarship and grammatical gibberish I simply would not announce that to a global audience.

can people see how colonial this shit is bc whew buddy

THIS!

Most of Ioannidis's published research findings are false…

Thanks Dr. Ioannidis: You’ve done enough. You can shut up now.

Doctors bear the burden as ‘medical freedom’ fuels worst US measles outbreak in 30 years About a dozen times each day, medical staff at Parkside Pediatrics in Spartanburg, South Carolina, head to the clinic’s parking lot, reaching inside cars and minivans to check children and their paren...

The cost of "medical freedom"

950 cases of measles have been reported in SC so far. The love of medical freedom will keep families shackled to medical bills. Children will bear the burden of risk of developing encephalitis & other long term effects of measles infections.
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The sad part is that many of these mass killers were never truly held accountable because they hid behind power. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld could go on fishing and golfing after the illegal war in Iraq (2003). They couldn't even be shamed into admitting any wrongdoing.

Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.

It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.

Vought is a mass murderer.

Dinosaur Valley SP TX represents a big chunk of public land in a large area of mostly private land, but to sacrifice it to a data center is tragic.
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A Hymn to Life by Gisèle Pelicot review – a unique memoir by a figure of astonishing power Pelicot’s riveting account of her ordeal refuses to conform to any agenda but her own

A woman of such strength: Gisèle Pelicot www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Israel's "Yellow Line" Is a Death Trap for Palestinians. We Drove Into It. The ever-changing "Yellow Line" is a slow-moving takeover of Gaza's territory.

"[L]ethal boundary."

"The Yellow Line kept changing, and all their winter essentials were still inside the schools-turned-shelters, now falling within the Yellow Line. They had gone to bring blankets and jackets."

"They were killed."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military #EthnicCleansing

If I'm ever elected US president, one of my first orders will be transferring responsibility of tracking Santa on Christmas Eve from NORAD to NASA's earth science division. There's no reason to antagonize such a long-standing ally of humanity

Good grief. Everyone knows they were just friends.

KPMG partner fined for using artificial intelligence to cheat in AI training test Firm says person fined A$10,000 is one of over two dozen staff in Australia caught using AI in exams since July

KPMG partner fined for using artificial intelligence to cheat in AI training test www.theguardian.com/business/202...