Kim Bellard

Kim Bellard

@kimbbellard.bsky.social

Just a curious guy. I write a little, usually on Medium. Health care, tech, the future - those kinds of things.

402 Followers 99 Following 1,401 Posts Joined Nov 2024
19 hours ago

@cdelawalla.bsky.social

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Exclusive | Trump Administration Set to Receive $10 Billion Fee for Brokering TikTok Deal Investors in the social-media platform’s U.S. business agreed to give the government several multibillion-dollar payments, sources said.

That. Is. Outrageous. 😠

www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

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1 day ago

Huh.

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2 days ago

@boltyboy.bsky.social - isn't this what you have been advocating for years? 😏

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Trump is counting on his ‘favorite Mormon’ to deliver health care wins Chris Klomp, a political unknown a year ago, is now steering the $2.6 trillion health department. Several controversial appointees have since left.

I have to admit: I'd never heard of him. 😲

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The Electric Grid Needs Huge Upgrades. No One Knows Who Will Pay for Them. Utilities around the U.S. are set to spend tens of billions of dollars on high-voltage lines, largely to meet demand from data centers.

I think I know who is going to pay for it. 🙄

www.wsj.com/business/ene...

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The R's like to brag about how they've made the U.S. "energy independent," but we still import a couple hundred million barrels of oil annually, and are immediately hit with higher gas prices when imports are threatened. I guess they don't really understand what "independent" means. 🙄

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While We Were Bombing When it comes to the fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon, I’m on Team Claude. If asked to trust Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei or…

Anthropic may have lost the battle with the Pentagon, but it's hard to imagine how the war over military use of AI could be "won". 😲

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Cover story from The Lancet, one of the world's most prestigious and high-impact general medical journals, that says "The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.

The Lancet spells out the case against RFK Jr so clearly.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... (1/4🧵)

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While We Were Bombing When it comes to the fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon, I’m on Team Claude. If asked to trust Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei or…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei drew some good red lines in his fight with the Pentagon over the military use of AI, but, unfortunately, I think we're way over those lines already.
@erikbryn.bsky.social @yuriquintana.com

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The Unaddressed Problem With the Pentagon’s AI Dispute Who will take responsibility for the technology?

A conflict like the one currently escalating between Anthropic and the Pentagon was inevitable—and more are likely to come, @matteowong.bsky.social argues:

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While We Were Bombing When it comes to the fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon, I’m on Team Claude. If asked to trust Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei or…

If I have to choose between @anthropic.com 's Dario Amodei or the Pentagon's Pete Hegseth, it'd be Dr. Amodei, but I have to admit: the future of war, including #AI, is here, and we are not ready.

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6 days ago

👏

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Cryptic Emails and No Strings Attached. How MacKenzie Scott Gives Away Billions. The injections of cash, which arrive without warning, have led to bolstered finances, scholarships, jobs—and sometimes even more money.

🙏

www.wsj.com/finance/cryp...

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I think that bridge has long been crossed, don't you? 😒

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Eh?

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It's just mind-boggling to me that we've known for some time that GOS is vulnerable and there is no current alternative, yet have continued to pretend we are not at risk.

Actually, I guess that is typical for our society.

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@doctorow.pluralistic.net

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Of course not...

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1 week ago

It's a "wow," isn't it? You've been saying some of it for years.

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Where Are We Going to Put All That? Right now, the world is talking about the U.S. attacks on Iran, while the tech world is closely following the Pentagon-Anthropic-OpenAI…

We're fortunate that we can read historical documents from hundreds or thousands of years ago that were stored on paper or clay. Our descendants may not be so lucky with our digital records, unless we start thinking more about long term storage of them.

kimbellard.medium.com/where-are-we...

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A hallmark of autocracies. 😡

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This is always worth being reminded of, and the implications for health insurance premiums are poorly understood by most people (and politicians).

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Where Are We Going to Put All That? Right now, the world is talking about the U.S. attacks on Iran, while the tech world is closely following the Pentagon-Anthropic-OpenAI…

I don't know why I'm so interested in the future of data storage, but I am. 😲

kimbellard.medium.com/where-are-we...

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