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Banner image with screenshot of scientific article from nature Medicine, as well as two panels from the study method and results
⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.
09.02.2026 17:07 — 👍 311 🔁 141 💬 6 📌 31
Outstanding www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
10.02.2026 14:44 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
JFC, this is a disaster waiting to happen.
Gift link good for 7 days.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Capital is winning labor is losing. That's it -- the whole story. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
10.02.2026 06:11 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0NEW: One of Dubai’s Most Powerful Executives Discussed Sex, Business With Epstein
Among an elite network that corresponded with Epstein, few kept in communication with him as long as Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem. Here’s what the emails reveal
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www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Effective fertility policy: Remote work. If both parents work at home at least one day/week, they'll average 0.5 more children, pushing toward the “replacement” level of 2.1. A result of opportunity and availability, less time commuting=more time parenting. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...
10.02.2026 01:21 — 👍 27 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 2
“The Abu Omar case exemplifies how much the political elite have surrendered to the decisions of foreign powers: they’d do anything just by hearing the Saudi accent,” said Sami Atallah, founding director of Beirut-based The Policy Initiative think-tank."
10.02.2026 04:47 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Devastating floods have hit Portugal, Spain & Morocco in the past days, causing loss of life & billions of Euros in damages.
How does climate change impact the flood risks from rain, rivers & rising seas?
Watch my lecture Flooded Futures: What are We Planning For? 🌊
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtd8...
now that's the power of a union
09.02.2026 17:28 — 👍 4016 🔁 725 💬 32 📌 5
Here's biggest dirtbag so far. And it was all about avoiding taxes.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/n...
Mr Class...known sex pest Dave Portnoy...
defector.com/more-women-s...
Graph showing a steep decline in the number of people employed by newspapers since 1992
The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.
05.02.2026 11:03 — 👍 1220 🔁 410 💬 22 📌 37
X awards $1 million to creator with a history of racist, Hitler-supporting posts
www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
Scholarship from 2021: Deplatforming works.
"Our results show that this approach minimized the impact of influencers and their ideas as well as modulated the offensive discourse of their many supporters."
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
“The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found…” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
07.02.2026 17:09 — 👍 627 🔁 439 💬 16 📌 71
A new study in "Nature Medicine" estimates 2 million people are incorrectly told they have TB each year — and clinicians miss diagnosing TB in 1 million people. Why so many misdiagnoses? n.pr/4tmxwm2
06.02.2026 16:44 — 👍 84 🔁 29 💬 3 📌 7
A great takedown of "big wellness" through the prism of Attia and Epstein
"As a woman, I cannot imagine taking expert health advice from Attia seriously at this point, given the gross and dehumanizing way he talked about the female anatomy in his emails with Epstein."
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BREAKING: SF not a shithole after all www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
07.02.2026 16:17 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
"One of my growing concerns is that A.I. could inadvertently slow scientific progress....if my opinion becomes encoded into A.I. systems and persists indefinitely, will it hinder the evolution of new scientific ideas?"
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/s...
The irrationality of speculative objects: “Bitcoin just suffered its largest weekly decline in more than three years. But the worst part for some of crypto’s permabulls is that they aren’t sure what exactly caused the crash.”
07.02.2026 09:48 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Another crypto crash. Gift link:
www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
"Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’"
"Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain."
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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
WhatsApp forwards and chain mails of the past are now movies from Bollywood. PN Oak, that nut from yesteryear, sprouts up again.
#desisky
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
07.02.2026 13:08 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Like the pilots of Asiana Airlines 214....
whose inability to land a plane manually was exposed when the automated system at SFO was down for maintenance that day....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_...
Waymo's robots have been violating active LAPD police and even SWAT scenes as long as they have operated in LA. They lack anything approaching the situational awareness or street smarts expected of a competent adult. This was 2 years ago and they may have gotten worse:
bsky.app/profile/anic...
This is creepy when we recognise contemporary AI is all humans all the way down, just obfuscated behind the screen or dashboard. Based on stolen data, stolen labour, stolen humanity... AI is not currently emancipatory and just serves the privileged and deskills those who think this is automation.
07.02.2026 07:40 — 👍 148 🔁 64 💬 4 📌 3
