can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I think protein supplementation might become even more important with glipination, ideally in an easy to consume form because otherwise the risk of not consuming enough may increase fast. Hopefully an area that will get some research attention

Discussing this article for our QI didactic on Monday. So good. journal.chestnet.org/action/showP...

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Berlin’s monthly ticket to take you bike with you on public transport is 17 Euros. And bike+public transport is a superpower

The Turing test misunderstands human nature and overvalues human judgement. We are not difficult to trick, we are built to assume consciousness: we are animist at heart and it is very cool. We should just be very careful when building tools that leverage this otherwise sweet weakness of us

Did the Polizei write this?

Fuckin yikes, man

Growing up I thought evil in fantasy was exaggerated and metaphorical, that in real life I would have had to read between the lines to find my moral compass. Well if I haven’t just watch an Uruk Hai Press Conference

The incredible circular logic of -why are you so upset about *insert international illegal thing US administration is doing*? -because if there are no rules there are no rules, it could happen to anyone anywhere. Why not us? -don’t be ridiculous, that’s illegal

The left is/fights for the underrepresented. When the mainstream joins it’ll always be too late and after too much suffering. How to let go of some grudges while remaining vigilant, keep fighting and still celebrate is a challenge, this is what the Kleins get right. But man they misread reality atm

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Some people here love to dismiss ‘sportsball’ but S. African teams being banned from international competition was an important factor in ending Apartheid because it made their crimes real for non-political folk.

The flaw behind every health quackery is eugenic thinking. A gross misunderstanding of how evolution and biology function, that leads to fantasies of a glorious natural past. Just need to remove the new things/somepeople from the mix and we will be strong again. It’s bound to be stupid or violent

Have dialysis nephrologists nothing better to do these days than annoying OP?!

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Francesca Albanese cannot open a bank account. Sally Rooney risks prison for terrorism. Little coward men writing little coward editorials

Big discussion in the Endo and Nephro Team today,so here as well: recurring hypovolemic hyponatriemia (<120), no SIADH. Do you consider stopping the SGLT2? It clearly depends on the situation, but is it on your list of suspects, like in general?Or is it the last thing you would do? #nephSky #medSky

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Wealth and power are fake social structures and no one is more invested in maintaining them than people that were randomly elevated to fame, power and wealth. Rich and influential mediocre men are always the backbone of these movements, reasons may vary

I will never forgive the people playing semantic word games to try and deny or excuse this

Someone should keep track of who is writing in support of genocide. But answer them is useless, there are no morals, no other aims other than workshopping propaganda: they just try everything and see what sticks. We should post the starving children and how to help them

Opinions and takes must also always be put into context. Peer review has its problems? Sure. At a time when everything Academia is under attack, that is what you want to talk about? Nate is, at best, a tool

I feel you, LLM

Hey #NephSky does anyone have a particularly good game plan for an attempt at discontinuing RRT in the ICU when the clinical signals are mixed? Any strong opinions?

T3f Even without definite answers, HiLo revealed something big 👉Despite KDIGO’s <5.5 mg/dL target, >50% of US HD patients had phosphate >5.5 by 2021 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.... Nephrologists seem to be voting – one (non-)prescription at a time What do you make of this quiet shift? 🧐#NephJC

I don't think Ian is saying the Democratic Party needs a white paper on how dudes can get their Ds wet, but it is objectively a bad situation that teenage boys googling "how to get girls to like me" are three clicks away from the Turner Diaries

the entire media environment, including the legacy papers and much of cable news, functions as a large scale libs of tiktok

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”

Every quarter -let’s go through your meds to see if the plan is still reasonable -*Pat. explains every pill -and Sevelamer? *pause -oh yes, 2 for every meal. But it makes stomachache -if you have to say, how often do you have to leave it out because of GI Symptoms? -if I am honest…I am not taking it

These pieces also convey a hope that the market is going to regulate itself. No need for politics or regulation, the game is almost over. And I don’t know how profitability/usefulness can be used as a metric when Tesla and BTC are there to prove that you need none and can still ruin everyone’s life

“.. traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter ..” @niemanreports.org #Hellsite niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

Moved by Islamophobia the German government is cracking down on the most bland manifestations of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, reason being the fight against antisemitism. How they still allow Musk to enter Germany and do business is beyond me. If anything just to save face

I know I go on and on about this but it’s just so alarming to see people I’d previously describe as liberal increasingly open to nativism, Islamophobia, and above all else scientific racism. the vector is Twitter. that’s where it’s all coming from. it’s poisoning an entire generation

Insane and irresponsible article. Still, it illuminates how wrong the current Democratic strategy is. “Let them have a taste of their own medicine” never works in politics. voters do not repent and no one has ever won by waiting on the riverside

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

My two cents. The pandemic forced a lot of people, especially privileged ones, to show their true colours. The conspiracy theories are a way to try and square their self image with what their thoughts and actions during the pandemic say about them

Italy, ca. 2002. Coming back from a demo for peace, as a child. Uncle asked if Bin Laden already personally thanked us and if he had sent his regards. The brainwash and Islamophobia was through the roof in all western countries. Didn’t get a lot better, but those were crazy times

lol this is freakin perfect Share among your gym bros

“as you stand in interminable queues at an airport, or stare at the bumper of the car ahead […], remember that all of this could be better. A night-train renaissance could get you to your holiday destination more comfortably and more sustainably.” @jonworth.eu 👏🏼 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

a lot of the people who will chastise you for criticizing Dems instead of focusing on Trump are surprisingly willing to criticize protestors instead of focusing on Trump

“People on Bluesky are the crazy ones”

Thank God somebody brought this up. I read references to it in a very stupid pseudoscientific piece in the New Yorker last month, and the retconning of the lax Swedish lockdown strategy makes my blood boil. It's not that long ago: they had so many excess deaths that they changed policies, months in!

its so funny that there is a perennial problem with LLMs and other machine learning projects regurgitating the racism reflected in their training materials and in society at large but Elon Musk is so bad at everything he cannot get his racism computer to say racism right