DD Wallace, PhD, MSPH

Calling it predictive markets instead of gambling and having it available everywhere is irresponsible.
Also the use of a form of predictive markets was one of the signs leading up to the Great Depression!

Columbia President with NEW details:

5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant.

They said they were police looking for a missing kid.
Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid."

A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss.

They ignored him & took the student.

Great choice to watch regardless of genre! Then go onto Legend of Korra!
You can also just want anime movies rather than shows, if you prefer …just watch the Miyazaki catalog (especially his earlier works) on human-environment interactions.

I’m grateful for faculty with expertise and track record on prevention & response plans for targeted harassment. I’m most familiar with @rebekahtromble.bsky.social’s projects researchersupport.org & expertvoicestogether.org - I’m sure she can recommend others for everyone who needs help now

Brazil’s Supreme Court Convicts Four Men in Murder of Marielle Franco Two politicians and two former police officers were found guilty in the assassination of a rival, Marielle Franco, a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman who fought corruption and violence.

Four men, including two politicians, were found guilty on Wednesday in the assassination of Marielle Franco, a councilwoman in Rio de Janeiro who achieved global renown for fighting corruption and systemic racism and whose 2018 killing set off a lengthy quest for justice.

Complete necropolitics.

Who is more likely to use durable medical equipment? People who are older, disabled, people with chronic illnesses.

They are evil.

Lol, The cycle continues...

OpenAI: "we will save humanity" → humanity are lame robots

Facebook: "connecting people 🥰" → ... to radicalising AI slop!

Google: "don't be evil" → ok but what if evil was REALLY profitable tho

Anthropic: "we're the *safe* ones 🥺👉👈" → lmao sike

Black Disability Politics In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the pre

Anyway, read Black Disability Politics by @drsamischalk.bsky.social (it’s free!)

read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

I love this! Amazing lab with an amazing mentor!

UNC Power Brokers Roll Into Raleigh With Tuition Hikes And Speech Rules On The Line UNC System leaders will vote on tuition hikes and a new academic-freedom definition this week.

The UNC Board of Governors is trying to rewrite the definition of academic freedom, restricting what faculty can say & do in their classrooms & in public.

This is a broader effort to limit open inquiry & free debate in higher education.

We know what the aim is. We can’t let this happen.

Maybe I’m in the minority but I really dislike FaceTime (always have). If you want to have a call, and are no auditory issues, then just call me on the phone.

Ahh yes, the cyclical Tourette's Discourse.

Far too often, white folks use disability as a cover for their racism.

WHO KNEW that an #adoption agency would partner with ICE.

Adoptees, that’s who. Listen to adoptees.

Dozens exit faculty meeting, cite frustrations over tenure postponement - The Muhlenberg Weekly After an unusual start to the Feb. 13 faculty meeting, with the President’s remarks moved to the end of the agenda, roughly 30 minutes into the meeting, Associate Professor of Psychology Connie Wofle ...

The Board unexpectedly postponed the this year’s tenure decisions. “I was shocked and sick at heart to learn that four of my colleagues who did everything asked of them, and who should have been celebrating their achievement, are now in an indefinite limbo without any clear explanation as to why.”

Alysa Liu’s Olympic run came with terms. Her choreographer helps her express them Liu is the best U.S. hope for an Olympic medal in women's figure skating, which would be the country's first in the competition since 2006.

“When Liu, 20, decided to return to skating, she did so with conditions. She’d wear what she wants. Dance to the music she wants. Eat what she wants. Take breaks when she wants…. [Skating] would be the vehicle through which she displayed the real Alysa.”

she did it! her! way!!

lol if white students can bypass graduation requirements because of discomfort with Black and Latino topics, but Black and Latino students can't do the same with topics about white people, isn't that discrimination? 🤔

Living in the time of comic book villains.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

Amazing show!

Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life in prison for leading insurrection in South Korea Former South Korean president found guilty over failed martial law declaration in 2024 A South Korean court on Thursday sentenced the former president Yoon Suk Yeol to life imprisonment with labour over his failed martial law declaration in December 2024, finding him guilty of leading an insurrection and making him the first elected head of state in the country’s democratic era to receive the maximum custodial sentence. Under South Korean law, the charge of leading an insurrection carries three possible sentences: death, life imprisonment with labour, or life imprisonment without labour. Continue reading...

Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life in prison for leading insurrection in South Korea

The rise of the far right is not a problem unique to the US. Our elite impunity problem, however, seems to be on an order of magnitude worse than a lot of our peers.

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma

BREAKING: We reached a settlement that requires the Trump administration to permanently maintain medical research that had been erased on a government website.

The government doesn't get to censor science.

Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody’s Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place Hypocrisy much?

Lol

finance.yahoo.com/news/google-...

My students starting singing “We’re all in this together” when they realized Ramadan and Lent are at the same time this year.

🤣😩

Tyra was and continues to be a menace.

Ohhh I didn’t recognize him from Reba! Wow!

Risk of type 2 diabetes may be higher up to 3 years after COVID infection in unvaccinated, severely ill

Risk of type 2 diabetes may be higher up to 3 years after COVID infection in unvaccinated, severely ill
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/ris...

Protect Academic Freedom, Vote No to Revising The Code The UNC System Board of Governors will vote to amend the UNC System Code with new restrictions on academic freedom at its February 26 meeting. The Board of Governors plans to rewrite the very definiti...

URGENT PETITION: As students, parents, alumni, staff, faculty, and community members, we call on the UNC System Board of Governors to protect academic freedom as defined by the 1940 @aaup.org Statement.
BOG: Vote against revisions to Chapter VI of The Code.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...