As an Emergency Room doctor, just don't.

Just renewed my kids passports (US) and it took <3 weeks including X-mas and New Years holiday. 1) functional bureaucracy makes me feel patriotic 2) the amount of relief I feel from having a valid passport in hand for all members of my family is...a lot

It's probably nice for Target employees that they get to wear whatever red shirts they own as their work uniform. However, in Madison, WI that makes it pretty difficult to pick out employee vs random Badger fan.

It may not have happened before, but it's definitely precedented.

I tried to do this right before an overnight ER shift by staying up all night the night before to watch the whole season...Passed out after an episode and a half.

So if the new avengers is going to incorporate X-Men from 20th century fox, what is the total hours of media required to watch all prior instances of all the characters in doomsday? To make it achievable it can be limited to the current continuity.

I got both flu and COVID vaccinated this year, and while I've certainly been exposed to both multiple times and many colleagues have gotten it, I've been symptom free this year. Go science go.

The new gemini-infused Android Auto assistant is really hitting the nadir of the uncanny valley for tone. It has vocal inflections and syllabic emphasis, but they are all seemingly off by one.

When I see patients in the Emergency Department one of the first questions I ask them is if their blood is the right amount of thin. Then I point them to the open bowl of salicylates they can just grab handfuls of if they answer incorrectly.

Seth made a good resource, not calling it useful because I also agree that the test itself is not useful in changing anything about an emergency patients clinical trajectory.

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I had a waiting room full of flu yesterday and most wanted to get done so they could go to family and friends holiday parties, so... next week should be great.

I think it's some kind of dad victory that my 2 year old's Disney Princess of choice is the lofi girl on YT.

As faculty I honestly assumed you just wait for press to reach out to you. My naïveté to not realize you just ask to be quoted.

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Hey @jbcarmody.bsky.social, have you seen or published anything that shows that the change of Step 1 to pass/fail has or has not resulted in a change to in-service or equivalent scores?

Next Fiddler revival should just do the musical straight, but when the Cossacks do their rampage be wearing ICE masks.

This is fascinating, and if you find it interesting you should read about Project Plowshare as well. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Tangential to this, but most outside readers could be surprised how much a stable regulatory regime is baked into the assumptions of AI application academic literature. Certainly it is in health AI and it's rarely commented on directly.

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Appreciate they just did the reveal and then quickly moved to the "no one expects..." reference

This comes up a lot with my trainees, not that it's in my clinical portfolio but I train a population that tends to get pregnant later in life. And even these physicians take as dogma the 35 = AMA w/o realizing where the number is from. It ends up being a good opportunity to discuss biostatistics.

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When I asked my late elementary kid how they can discern "AI" from reality they responded that sometimes it's hard to tell the difference but usually AI is "too shiny," which is as good an explanation I've heard.

Thank you, MS Outlook CoPilot for offering to suggest pre-reading to make my upcoming meeting with "American Airlines Flt:XXX" more efficient.

Having recently moved to the Midwest it has been a delight to experience the intense dad-ness of neighborhood dads coming by to offer to snow-blow your driveway when they clock you only have shovels.

I'm not particularly a theater guy, but Tom Stoppard was my favorite playwright. It always amused me greatly that the best adaptation of his style was a direct-to-video Disney semi-sequel called Lion King 1.5.

NOAA cuts reduced weather balloon coverage which affects the accuracy of weather forecasts. This one for snow in Wisconsin. www.reddit.com/r/madisonwi/... #weather #NOAA #taxcutsforbillionaires

What's the German word for believing that finding the right paper e-tablet will solve your procrastination and organization issues, even though the other e-tablets haven't helped?

This is a good "avoiding your family for a few moments" blog

Pluribus either goes Mrs. Davis or Soylent Green as a reveal. Not really leaving itself space for other endings.

Just noticed the Google doodle today is actually an ad for Google ai mode. Another nail in the coffin for old Google. It's not like the doodles were sacrosanct or anything but I can't recall them ever being anything other than earnest little joy makers.

I was looking for something else and found this instead #successfulfailure

Co-chairing the ACM/IEEE SC Technical Program with Martin Schulz this year was a great experience. Record submissions, an incredible committee who went above and beyond, and so many unforgettable moments. Can't wait for #SC26! See you all in Chicago! #SC25 #HPC

Am I misremembering? Didn't you used to have the ability to search within a domain in Chrome by hitting tab to complete the URL making it a custom search? Now it just annoyingly activates the chrome AI mode I don't ever want to use.

Now expecting someone to try to mess with the ambient dictation software we use clinically by rapping their HPI

One of the best wellness things I've done recently is to get an entirely different phone for work. All email/teams/secure messages/sms etc.. on a physically distinct device I just leave in my kitchen when I'm at home. So I can check it whenever I want but don't have it with me all the time.

I'm somewhat worried that NASA is going to accelerate the timeline for Artemis II in a way that significantly delays Artemis III.

Is the new Stargate going to use the new macguyver too?

Thanks to the NASA JSC clerkship folks for letting Michael join for this experience during a stressful time for all those at JSC.

If you are ever looking for an alternative (i.e. correct) perspective I'm happy to be a speaker on how more labs don't tell you anything about health in already healthy people.

Just thinking about that Eli Manning SNL sketch where he was forced to read out poorly written texts. No reason.

What AI slop hellmouth birthed this one?

Kids these days will never understand that a song about finding out about being cheated on via public humiliation was used to sell raisins to children for a decade, and it included merch!

On a Cartesian coordinate system based on notable discovery and personal unpleasantness he has to take up an extreme corner. I've met several people who knew him and none of them had even a small bit of positive things to say about him as a person.

share.google/Cx9LQMsTaXbO... This is an interesting way to look at this.

I assume everyone is getting their sandwich case split jury puns ready.

Is the sandwich a-salt jury still trying to mustard consensus or did they lettuce know their verdict?