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A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it.

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This sounds very sensible!

I love watching the corrupt Democratic Party establishment, along with their paymasters and enablers in the media, running around absolutely peeing their pants at the thought of Mamdani becoming Mayor of NYC. I cannot wait for him to win.

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

Science publishing is industry whose incentives are spectacularly misaligned, and AI is already being put to tremendous use exploiting them www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? The long read: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell

TIL that the behemoth that is the modern scientific publishing industry was created by Robert Maxwell (father of Ghislaine) www.theguardian.com/science/2017...

The corps like Publix that get mad about CIW & fair farm wages, it's not bc proper farm wages will put them out of business.

It's because they get upset when ANY workers get collective bargaining wins. It's just generic anti-labor politics- not an existential threat to their business.

Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

People are so ready to believe this shit that they're OK with pouring $160 billion into building a huge military operation that sweep migrants into internment camps, invades city parks bsky.app/profile/kenk..., and treats anyone who protests as an enemy adversary www.wired.com/story/dhs-te....

Also on crime: A National Institute of Justice funded study found undocumented immigrants were less than half as likely to be arrested as native-born U.S. citizens overall, as well as for violent crime: web.archive.org/web/20250128... (original article removed by current administration, of course).

YouTube video by More Perfect Union He Voted For Trump. It Cost Him His Job

So many believed the lie that immigrants will take their jobs & voted for 47 when really it's the GOP taking people's jobs & driving down wages to benefit huge, rent-seeking corporations. But why were you so ready to believe the lie? By @moreperfectunion.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlCj...

An American Catastrophe The secret history of the U.S. government’s family-separation policy

When the first family separations of migrants happened under Pres. 45, one of the talking points was that it was being done to stop people trafficking. In fact, as this Pulitzer Prize winning investigation shows, it was done out of pure cruelty as a “deterrent” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

“Any political system that prioritizes punishing those who protest genocide rather than stopping the killing has clearly exhausted itself.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Is that why the Apple campus is all curves?

Thank you so much for your kind words! ❤️ I’m very happy to hear my work has been helpful!

The ninth commandment would also like a word

Not that _that_ has stopped us before either!!

(Also obviously illegal under international law, not that it’s ever stopped the US / Israel before)

Catastrophic that after many months of funding and arming a genocide, the USA is now directly bombing Iran. All because 45 tore up the JCPOA agreement out of spite and hubris. The obstacle to peace in the Levant is the _actually_ nuclear-armed and genocidal Israeli state and its partner the USA.

Totally. I love his “three characteristics” definition of information for, the discussion, and how he ties it to culture. It has so many applications.

Yeah having not known about Edmondson's work (thanks again for that) it is very cool to see the connection verified in the data analysis!

(PDF) The study of information flow: A personal journey PDF | Information flow has been shown to be a key variable in system safety. Not only is information flow vital to the organization’s “nervous system,”... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

Also, this is another paper of Westrum's I like: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Sorry the missing link here is that we tested both the Project Aristotle and the Westrum survey instruments, and found that the first two constructs of Aristotle ("psychological safety" and "dependability") are effectively measuring the same thing as our Westrum instrument (dora.dev/research/201...)

(cc @nicolefv.bsky.social)

On another note, we looked at the impact of autonomy, trust, and voice on culture in the 2018 State of DevOps report and the findings echo what Edmondson finds (dora.dev/research/201... pp61-66)

(Also I expect keeping the scope narrow is important from a research methodology perspective — but that is in its own way a systemic factor that limits the ability to connect these issues)

Yeah I mean even as someone with a ton of privilege I am careful what I say publicly because I don’t want to lose my job since that is a very expensive decision in the US, particularly in the current climate.

Psychological safety is broadly defined as a climate in which people are comfortable expressing and being themselves. More specifically, when people have psychological safety at work, they feel comfortable sharing concerns and mistakes without fear of embarrassment or retribution. They are confident that they can speak up and won't be humiliated, ignored, or blamed. They know they can ask questions when they are unsure about something. They tend to trust and respect their colleagues. When a work environment has reasonably high psychological safety, good things happen: mistakes are reported quickly so that prompt corrective action can be taken; seamless coordination across groups or departments is enabled, and potentially game-changing ideas for innovation are shared. In short, psychological safety is a crucial source of value creation in organizations operating in a complex, changing environment.

She has a positive definition too which I think captures some of this

Psychological safety is not immunity from consequences, nor is it a state of high self-regard. In psychologically safe workplaces, people know they might fail, they might receive performance feedback that says they're not meeting expectations, and they might lose their jobs due to changes in the industry environment or even to a lack of competence in their role. These attributes of the modern workplace are unlikely to disappear anytime soon. But in a psychologically safe workplace, people are not hindered by interpersonal fear. They feel willing and able to take the inherent interpersonal risks of candor. They fear holding back their full participation more than they fear sharing a potentially sensitive, threatening, or wrong idea. The fearless organization is one in which interpersonal fear is minimized so that team and organizational performance can be maximized in a knowledge intensive world. It is not one devoid of anxiety about the future!

Reading @patigallardo.bsky.social's review of Team Topologies patricia.no/2025/05/24/t... and she mentions the original research on psychological safety was by amycedmondson.com/psychologica.... I'm now reading Edmondson's book The Fearless Organization. Newsflash from 2018