twitter this last week

Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"

You pull yourself up by your boostraps. Me? I DESERVE free money from the government, and so do my rich friends bsky.app/profile/cwar...

A healthcare system where we hope someone wants our autograph

No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should

Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Owned a home in the U.S. for 30 years": I try not to look down on others, but the people who swallowed the bait that he'd only deport 'bad hombres' and 'criminals' have a gullibility so intense that it warrants study by science, if only this country still did that.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Annette is just like me fr.

People really need to learn the value of saying “I was wrong”

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?

One of the producers on Guilty Gear Strive said it was basically impossible to source player feedback on balance changes online because nobody had original opinions and would just parrot what the most popular content creators said and so they had to rely on data and I think about that every day.

Whenever I say this, people get Really Mad, but it's true. Same of any other art, too. You have to read the book, watch the film, see the painting, listen to the song, whatever. I'm sorry, but watching a video about it on YouTube is not enough. You have not experience the art.

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

Holy shit! This is what I'm talkin' about. David Clayton is running for congress in North Carolina's District 5 against MAGA Republican Virginia Foxx — and this is how he introduced himself. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

Lets start the week with otters chasing a butterfly.

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

@patstaresat.bsky.social on ＡＩ doomerism

Malevola cosplay from Dispatch!

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

It was pretty much what we expected: the "confidential information" was Rockstar employees discussing salaries and union organization. Which are protected activities. It's gonna be funny as fuck if these dipshit executives have lit the fuse that straight up kills GTA 6.

The Trump administration inherited an economy that the Economist called "the envy of the world" in a cover story a week before the election and easily could've coasted on that success (again) but instead they set it on fire.

If you ask my family? Everything.

"Men are in trouble, is the solution making them a problem for women and children too"

It sure would be handy to have some way for the government to buy this surplus up, putting money in farmers pockets, minimally process it, pack it up in bags covered with Stars and Stripes, and use it to feed those most at risk of hunger at home and abroad, huh?

One more oil pastel painting for good measure: I always have to do a crystal island in a new medium, and this one, painted on a wood panel for maximum softness and painterliness, is one of my favourite islands from this year! Oil pastels have been so rewarding, and I hope you enjoyed this art tour!

Saying this but to a computer

yes bro! please bust out your grok let it analyze me and say forbidden words at me 😂😂😂

I know this isn't the point but chiropractor is still on the list of 'professional' degrees. playing doctor dress up counts as professional when a man does it apparently. chiropractors are scammers but this admin loves that I guess.

Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call. I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

And once you're on these people's radars, you don't leave it. Either they keep tabs on you, or their fans do it for them, and any chance they can use your name for content (money) they do it. Stand up for your employees.

Progress!

Meeeee!!!!!

Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer

working on the johto chart :)

Had some privileged friends who had fun at Wizarding World in Universal. Without trying to fight, I said I couldn't buy any of HP stuff given what we know about JK now. They tried to dismiss it like, "Well, it's not like we're agreeing with her." I said, "She says your money makes her think you do."

every social media company is bad but Meta really is uniquely evil

There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.

Lugia chewing undersea cables #art #pokemon #cyberattack

this is fucking insane

Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people

Unreal

Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all