Derrick Cogburn

Microsoft says AI system better than doctors at diagnosing complex health conditions Firm says results of research create ‘path to medical superintelligence’ but plays down job implications

I have three questions.

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Senate tries to overcome vote-a-rama, infighting to pass megabill - Reuters “”Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame!," Musk posted on X.”

Opinion | Justices need to own the consequences of their injunction ruling The court has significantly weakened district courts’ ability to halt illegal presidential actions.

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Sen. Alex Padilla: "If this is how this DHS responds to a senator with a question, I can only imagine what they're doing to farmers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country. We will hold this administration accountable."

One Century, One Road: Route 66, ‘The Main Street of America,’ turns 100 One Century, One Road Route 66, ‘The Main Street of America,’ turns 100 By Jonathan Bullington and E. Jason Wambsgans   It was created to connect us, a fused chain of existing road…

The Chicago Tribune is embarking on a road trip to revisit Route 66 ahead of the 100-year anniversary of the iconic roadway, which spanned eight states and three time zones, stretching from downtown Chicago to the Pacific Ocean.

Trump’s Vicious Attack on the American Mind He wants America to be ignorant because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny

This is a powerful piece by Robert Reich open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

This was my immediate concern when I first heard about the plane.

Ditto

Here is an example of explainable machine learning models (decision tress, random forests and regression) using the #tidymodels #Rstats framework in an important problem: predicting cat adoption:

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LWS May 2025 - GAAD event | London Web Standards Our May event is talking place Tuesday 13 May at Greenwich University with a special Accessibility event to coincide with Global Accessibility Awareness Day happen on 15 May.

Accessibility week is incoming! On Tuesday I'm speaking at London Web Standards alongside @craigabbott.co.uk and Matthew Atkinson. Grab a ticket👇

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This cover art is really epic

Roaringly Acknowledge Organizations with ROR IDs in DESCRIPTION A few years ago, the R community started using ORCID (“Open Researcher and Contributor ID”) to persistently and uniquely identify individual authors of packages in DESCRIPTION. The idea is the followi...

Roaringly Acknowledge Organizations with ROR IDs in DESCRIPTION ropensci.org/blog/2025/05...

Opinion | With Leo, there’s no going back from Francis Pope Leo XIV shares his predecessor’s commitment to social justice.

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Researchers ran an unauthorized AI experiment on Redditors A group of researchers ran an unauthorized AI experiment on Reddit members of the r/changemyview subreddit and a lot of people are upset.

Researchers run an experiment with AI bots in the r/changemyview subreddit, and Redditors are not happy-rightly so, IMO; astonishing that this study got ethics approval at all. (It got approval from the relevant university but was not authorized by Reddit mods or admins.) bgr.com/tech/researc...

No kings, queens, monarchs, and nobles in this country…

Congresswomen Crocket’s analysis of the top five problems of this first 100 days.

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll try it tomorrow. I love how they keep adding new features. The mind map and discovery features were already good upgrades!

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Well done all!

One if by land, two if by …

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

Progress.

Whistleblower Testifies that Meta Undermined US Security According to testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams has alleged that the company undermined U.S....

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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

Indeed; this is an important question. I look forward to reading the post.

Why Cory Booker’s Speech Matters Booker didn’t “accomplish” anything. He was a voice of one crying in the wilderness. And that’s how you build a dissident movement: with simple acts of witness.

"The catch is that in order to get attention, you have to be terrible. You have to lie or embrace evil. In the attention economy there is enormous demand for civic blasphemy. What’s hard is getting attention for messages about truth, or virtue, or love."

Houston upsets Duke!

Let’s go Coogs!