WaPo and NYT posting each time a celebrity shows up on the red carpet to analyze what they’re wearing.
Truly the priority of our age.
You don't have to keep paying full price for a streaming service.
When you go to cancel, they'll usually make you a good offer to stick around for a few months.
And when you've been unsubbed for a while, they'll send you a deal to come back.
To journalists, it bears repeating:
Do not trust:
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr
- Marty Makary
- Mehmet Oz
- Vinay Prasad
- Jay Bhattacharya
*They lie.*
Do not take them at their word. They say one thing and do the exact opposite.
I will be on CTV Montreal News in 30 minutes (6:20PM ET ish) to discuss the impact of white/pink noise on sleep.
Turns out, it *may* do more harm than good. (More studies needed, etc.)
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
Fake and deepfaked doctors are all the rage online. It’s part of a bigger problem impacting Canadians who told the @cmadocs.bsky.social they encounter health misinformation at least occasionally. We ask @ualbertalaw.bsky.social @ualbertasph.bsky.social Professor @caulfieldtim.bsky.social about it.
I suspect these users wish they had picked a better movie than Hellboy: The Crooked Man.
(I haven't seen it, but with a 40% Tomatometer, I'm not hopeful. It grossed 2mil on a 20mil budget. Are they trying to recoup their costs??)
Judge OK’s the release by Canadian Internet provider Cogeco of the names of its 2,400 users who illegally downloaded Hellboy: The Crooked Man, exposing the users to potentially 1000s $ in penalties.
Taking to the high seas can have consequences.
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
"It’s easy to say don’t bring screens into the bedroom. Log off 1h before going to bed. Keep lights low. Most people with insomnia have done all of this already. A well-done study is how we saw clear cracks in the white noise hypothesis. Subsequent studies might show us a better solution."
"This study, while rigorous, is far from perfect. It recruited a small number of people who were all young and healthy, and they each got to experience a particular scenario once. It’s possible that the brain adapts to pink noise. This study did not check for this important possibility."
This one took me by surprise.
Continuous noise (white, pink) as a sleep aid is really popular. Many studies say it works--but they are really bad studies.
A new one, more rigorous, shows the opposite.
My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social.
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
I don't know enough to weigh in on this significant change, but I can say one thing:
Statin denialism will hit a record high. All of the usual suspects will be shouting their cholesterol denial high and wide. E.g. Aseem Malhotra.
People often speculate about what *they* would have done to oppose Nazi Germany.
The US killed a school of children. Hegseth is saying "no quarter" will be given (a war crime). Trump is threatening to destroy an entire country (93 million people live in Iran).
Speculation is no longer necessary.
www.tvo.org/article/how-...
"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning"
got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing
My article for @mcgilloss.bsky.social on AI-generated doctors--including AI-hallucinated scientific papers--has just been republished by TVO.
I'll be on their show, @bigiftruetvo.bsky.social, this Sunday to talk about it!
NIH appears to be shuttering the LinkedIn accounts for its institutes. This is the opposite of transparency in government. Remarkable.
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The highlight of the year so far.
HE PROTECC
Dogs know how to pick out the better humans.
Thrilled to share an update on my book!
I wrote about wellness culture, women's health, and the history & politics of both.
Have you wondered why the wellness industry is ♀️ dominated? Or why COVID seemed to push wellness culture to the far right?
I explore this and more - coming out early 2027.
If you ever sexted with AI, you may have been sexting with an underpaid person in Africa who was hired by a soulless firm to "train" an AI in sexting.
LOL, YUP! I read that telephone survey and I talked about it on the Glossy Beauty podcast.
It's not a study. It's a clinic who called their customers and asked, "Hey, that thing you paid for... are you happy with it?"
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
A class action lawsuit has already been announced, courtesy of journalist and author Julia Angwin.
I doubt anyone from the @mcgilloss.bsky.social had their identity stolen in this way, but if you have proof that we did, let me know.
prf-law.com/current-case...
The brazenness of it is what I find incredible. These companies have zero qualms about stealing everything they can as society crumbles.
I get that, in theory, it's nice that a successful writer's strengths are suggested to other users as worthy of integration into their texts. But without those writers' consent, this is gross. Stolen training data is one thing; propping up actual names in your proofreader feels even grosser to me.
At this point, the correct response from the end user should be "fuck Grammarly."
From the people whose identities were essentially stolen by the company, I wonder if a lawsuit will follow. This is disgusting.
If you saw the "Ben Shapiro Caterpillar Eyebrows" story....
It'll probably surprise few that HHS managed to slip a whole bunch of quackery & functional medicine junk into their nutrition competencies for medical trainees. This isn't competencies for physicians, its training for being a popular influencer in 2019.
