Dallman Ross

Column | What happens when private equity takes over hospitals The story of two private-equity-owned hospitals that went bankrupt is a warning sign.

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👑 The Madness of King Donald Mehdi's Monday morning roundup of an increasingly unhinged US president, a new pro-Palestine Irish president, the big Mamdani/AOC/Bernie rally in Queens, and Gavin Newsom's 2028 plans.

"There is a clear mental health crisis going on in the Oval Office right now. He is detached from reality. Every politician and pundit, every journalist...knows this. It should be the biggest story in our media. But, shamefully, it isn’t."

Me for 'First Draft':

US-Studie: COVID-19-mRNA-Impfung steigert Überleben von Krebspatienten In einer US-Studie mit Lungen- und Hautkrebspatienten verbesserte ein COVID-19-mRNA-Impfstoff signifikant das Überleben, indem er Tumore empfänglich für Immuncheckpoint-Inhibitoren machte.

US-Studie: COVID-19-mRNA-Impfung steigert Überleben von Krebspatienten deutsch.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Philosophical Dialogues with AI Wherein I explore some aspects of moral philosophy with ChatGPT-5

I "interviewed" ChatGPT about its pretensions to consciousness last week. ChatGPT waxes nicely philosophical and, yowza, agrees with my premise that Musk's wacko insistence his Grok AI emulate the political persuasions of his own scurvy brain is Bad Seed stuff.
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Ich schätze Thomas' Expertise sehr, weil er mir frühzeitig in meinem Podcast klargemacht hat, wie übel es werden könnte in den Vereinigten Staaten - und leider wurde es übel:

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YouTube video by Today I Learned Science Scientists Discover Woman Carrying TWO Sets of DNA

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YouTube video by Fit for Life with Dallman Ross 106 for a fitness fix! Way to redline 69

106 for a fitness fix! Way to redline 69

A new p.r. today in set one: 106 reps at the current level (35-cm offset at the feet; parallettes for full range of motion). The middle section here is sped up to 9x speed for your entertainment and viewing ease.
#calisthenics #fitness

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Philosophical Dialogues with AI Wherein I explore some aspects of moral philosophy with ChatGPT-5

My latest blog entry is an off-the-cuff interview of ChatGPT about the meaning of consciousness.

Philosophical Dialogues with AI, by @spamless
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Death, Love, Taxes, and Beauty, Among Other Issues by Hilton Als October 15, 2025 – “Warhol’s resigned tone belies what he woke up to and lived in day after day: the great something that was his work, which is so often framed by distance, and the dream of what it m...

Death, Love, Taxes, and Beauty, Among Other Issues by Hilton Als www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10...

YouTube video by Sing'n'Swing Sing'n'Swing: Bohemian Rhapsody (Freddie Mercury) beim Jubiläumskonzert 175 Jahre GVC am 21.09.2025

And here we are singing "Bohemian Rhapsody."

Sing'n'Swing: Bohemian Rhapsody (Freddie Mercury) beim Jubiläumskonzert ... youtu.be/AHbUXDrMKSA?...

YouTube video by Sing'n'Swing Sing'n'Swing singt Nirvana - Irgendsoein Deo (Smells like Teen Spirit) 21.09.2025

Here's me singing Nirvana's "Smell's Like Teen Spirit" as a bass with Sing'n'Swing, the pop-jazz choir from Nordenstadt, Wiesbaden, Germany, with which I've sung for 13 years.

Sing'n'Swing singt Nirvana - Irgendsoein Deo (Smells like Teen Spirit) 2... youtu.be/uXlckQuc8U0?...

A joke infographic in German I asked ChatGPT to make showing nine things one shouldn't have in hand luggage, all reasonably accurate except for the middle one depicting a package of Robusta coffee.

We were just in La Ciotat, France, for a couple of days. Fun getaway. We flew on Lufthansa. A friend of mine found out I was there and messaged me asking if I could bring back a kilogram of Robusta coffee for him. I couldn't comply, so by way of letting him know, I just sent him this:
#humor #witz

THE MILITARY OFFICER CORPS DEFIED TRUMP ON SEPTEMBER 30th; IT WILL NOT ABANDON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO A DICTATORSHIP; IT WILL OPPOSE IT WITH THEIR LIVES AND SACRED HONOR THE THREE PRECEDENTS WHERE THE U,S ARMY DEFIED A SITTING PRESIDENT AND AGGRESSIVELY ACTED TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT. WE DISCUSS THE FIRST EXAMPLE TODAY. BUT FIRST A SIDEBAR.

THE MILITARY OFFICER CORPS DEFIED TRUMP ON SEPTEMBER 30th; IT WILL NOT ABANDON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO A DICTATORSHIP; IT WILL OPPOSE IT WITH THEIR LIVES AND SACRED HONOR thewestpointhistoryprofessor.substack.com/p/the-milita...

LinkedIn will use your data to train its AI unless you opt out now LinkedIn has changed its Terms to include users data for Microsoft's AI training. Read here how you can opt out

LinkedIn will use your data to train its AI unless you opt out now | Malwarebytes www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Who Was Columbus Really? We all know the rhyme: 'In 1482, Columbus said the ocean blue.'

Who was Columbus, really? (Probably not all that Genoese.)
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The US is deporting a journalist today

Mario Guevara was live streaming ICE atrocities

They grabbed him

Detained him for 100 Days and are sending him to El Salvador without letting him say goodbye to his family

The ACLU confirmed he was working in the US legally

They’re attacking the free press

Twelve Steps to National Collapse: A Blueprint for How Democracies Die A historian’s alarm: when these twelve familiar steps appear in a nation, the result is often irreversible—unless citizens rise up and demand otherwise…

I call this one a must-read!
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It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

I got to talk about this very issue on #WITHpod with @chrislhayes.bsky.social. An electricity cost crisis is coming. We need efficiency, smart technologies and policies, resilient infrastructure, and lots of clean energy. open.spotify.com/episode/32ps...

I'm standing in front of our hedge on the sidewalk in front of our house. Wearing fall clothes, as it's 16℃. Shoes are khaki-colored. That's also a wool shirt and cap. But the black scarf is silk.

"Maiden voyage": Sunday walk in new shoes. 100% Merino wool! I like ' em.

YouTube video by RobWords Why English is full of silent letters

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YouTube video by InsideAI Testing if AI would break my legs to avoid shutdown.

All I can say is, watch it!

Testing if AI would break my legs to avoid shutdown. youtu.be/gIxq03dipUw?...

A school in Kentucky banned phones. Remarkable things started happening. After Ballard High School banned phones, they saw a 67% increase in students checking out library books.

A school in Kentucky banned phones. Remarkable things started happening. wapo.st/3Wft0pT

Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals wapo.st/4nidndf

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared In immigration news, hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” have disappeared. The Miami Herald reports about t...

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Number of Migrants Known to Have Been Disappeared By the Trump Regime Rises From 450 to 1,200 in Just the Last 24 Hours; True Number Could Be Many Times Higher

4 vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia, according to science Some vaccine-preventable diseases are linked to accelerated brain atrophy and increased dementia risk years down the line.

4 vaccines that are linked to a lower risk of dementia - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

The Books They Don’t Want You to Read How Europe survived 1,000 years of Islamic conquest

The Books They Don’t Want You to Read thewesternspirit.substack.com/p/the-books-...

YouTube video by Ben Maton - The Salisbury Organist The OLDEST MUSIC EVER WRITTEN...Sounds more modern than you think!

The OLDEST MUSIC EVER WRITTEN...Sounds more modern than you think! youtu.be/7z1WpYihkRQ?...

YouTube video by Fit for Life with Dallman Ross 8, count 'em, 8! handstand push-ups for a new p.b. I turn 70 three months from today.

8, count 'em, 8! handstand push-ups for a new p.b. I turn 70 three months from today.

#calisthenics #seniorfitness #handstandpushups #nogym #noequipment #fitsky

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