This is such a dishonest reading of the text that I suspect you didn’t read it at all.
Nobody said that shark attacks don’t happen, just that they are rare and that sharks are incredibly ecologically important. “Sharks can, but almost certainly won’t hurt you” and “sharks are ecologically important” are only statements at odds with each other if your goal is to turn the entire planet into a daycare.
I broadly agree with your comment and wanted to add this since it’s a common misconception: Georgia is a purple state with a suppressed vote, not a red state. In addition to gerrymandering and frequent voter roll purges, people in urban areas commonly wait hours in line to vote in fewer polling stations than existed in previous years. And that’s not even taking into account things like criminalizing handing out water to people waiting to vote in line.
There are probably worse states to try to vote, but I wouldn’t think there are that many.
At one point during the interrogation, the investigators even threatened to have his pet Labrador Retriever, Margosha, euthanized as a stray, and brought the dog into the room so he could say goodbye. “OK? Your dog’s now gone, forget about it,” said an investigator.
He was so distraught that he even tried to hang himself with the drawstring from his shorts after being left alone in the interrogation room. Perez was arrested, handcuffed and transported to a mental hospital for 72-hour observation.
Perez’s father wasn’t dead — or even missing. Thomas Sr. was at Los Angeles International Airport waiting for a flight to see his daughter in Northern California. But police didn’t immediately tell Perez.
Fucking incredible that there are people that cry about others saying ACAB when shit like this happens.
This is from the account that spread the image originally: https://x.com/ai_for_success/status/1793987884032385097
Alternate Bluesky link with screencaps (must be logged in): https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3ktarh3vgde2b
Oops, if the archive link was there before I missed it. Thanks!
I can’t read it all because paywall, but is 119 a typo? The only portion I can see mentions 19 journals.
Apologies for being so sketchy on the details but I really can’t remember too many of the specifics. I’m fairly certain it wasn’t that his family name came first, because that’s fairly straightforward. I think the author might have been from an east or southeast Asian culture? I think that part of the essay might have been about how addressing him as Mr. Firstname is actually more formal than Mr. Lastname, even though Firstname is not his family name. I don’t want to keep guessing on more details about how the naming conventions were different because I’m probably going to get it wrong, I have fairly low confidence in what I remember from it.
Because I have been completely unable to find it again and this seems like a relevant place to ask: does anyone have a link to an article similar to this, that I believe might have been titled ‘My First Name is My Last Name’? This is made extra hard to look up because I’ve forgotten the specific culture and details it’s talking about, but it’s about the same basic issue with cultural conventions on names.
Especially in context, where it’s contrasting QA testers and ‘normal’ people.
It would probably take longer to prompt ChatGPT to write this than it would to just write it. It’s two short paragraphs.
I’m not trying to berate you for posting it, it’s just important to be highly skeptical of anything AI-related that isn’t just being used for amusement. Patient care is one of the deepest responsibilities that can be placed on someone, and anything that alters care coming directly from a doctor introduces a failure point.
The article does indeed have a lot of relevant information, like nearly half of participants not completing the study, and the score that most participants gave it barely squeaking into the positive category: PCPs and APPs, who make up 83 of the 162 participants, rated it a 13 on a scale of -100 to 100.
This is not a mountain of evidence. I’m not going to say it’s specifically been cherry picked, but it’s a small study with low completion rate and mediocre support for the product (which is what it is, don’t fool yourself).
Less than 20% of doctors using it doesn’t say anything about how those 20% of doctors used it. The fact 80% of doctors didn’t use it says a great deal about what the majority of doctors think about how appropriate it is to use for patient communication.
Reducing the doctor’s cognitive load is great, if it doesn’t result in some auto-generated nonsense that doesn’t actually address whatever the patient was concerned about. Pretending that this isn’t a possibility with wider usage is just dishonest, there are already plenty of doctors that clearly barely skim emails before responding.
Haha no worries!
For sure, and I don’t mean to downplay the challenges and personal toll physicians face. It just sucks for everyone other than the companies making a buck off it.
Notably absent from this study: patient satisfaction. It’s better than being ghosted I guess, if doctors actually pay attention to what they’re sending out instead of using it as a “make patient go away” button.
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It happening every 18 months doesn’t help if it’s not happening every 18 months over a zoo or other location that studying animals is easy. You can browse future solar eclipses here and see how many are over the arctic/antarcitc, open ocean, a tiny portion of the tip of a continent, etc.
It’s also something that lasts for only a few minutes when it does occur, so it’s going to take a many eclipses to collect large amounts of data.
Aww, it kind of makes a little heart in its coils.
Important to note: in the US people are not found “innocent,” they are found “not guilty.” It may seem pedantic but it’s important to remember that a lack of a conviction is not evidence that they didn’t commit a crime, only that a jury believed there was enough doubt in the evidence to decline to find them guilty.
This is especially relevant to rape cases, where evidence is difficult for outsiders to interpret and a trial result of “not guilty” doesn’t necessarily mean a rape didn’t happen or that the defendant didn’t commit it.
No, this isn’t like immunity that a mother’s breast milk can confer to an infant (which is provided through antibodies). What they found in the milk is live, active virus. Trying to get immunity from that would be like trying to get immunity to HIV by drinking the breast milk of someone who’s HIV+.