Think I found my resolution for 2026

It can only only be "gender-affirming care" if it comes from the non-white cis region of gender. Otherwise, it's just a sparkling cosmetic.

I’m not sure about “joys”, but this is so true. (Some are better at admitting wrong than others.)

Umm…talk to us about how “US style insurance” is going these days 🙄

“linear television”? Is that a thing? I feel like I have never heard that phrase before.

Endorse 👍🏼

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I clicked through to the original source, which contained this absolute bonkers claim. My man, I've got some NEWS for you about how STEM students tend do on the verbal section of the SAT.

I hope the grandparents of everyone not vaccinating their children rise up out of their graves and come smack their descendants for this unbelievable stupidity.

ChatGPT repeatedly encouraged a mentally ill man’s extreme paranoia and delusions of violence, and then he murdered his mother and killed himself. What has to happen for these chatbots to be regulated?

unstoppable force (US/UK boomer need for care labour) vs immovable object (the global g20 rage against immigrant labour)

Conservatives are like “I’m not gonna trust some public school teacher to influence my kid” but are also like “I think it’s fine if my kid spends hours interacting with Elon’s MechaHitler machine on X.”

Let’s swap out the fragile, slowly maturing frontal cortexes of society’s teens and replace them with a soulless, sycophantic pattern recognizing machine designed by hubristic, Ayn Rand obsessed simpletons with no historical sensibility, & whose main motivation is profit maximization. This is fine.

TLDR: not good

If LLMs were a medication, they would never get approved by FDA. If they were a clinician, they would (rightly) get sued for malpractice.

Incredible line re LLMs: “an incredibl[y] dumb but fast research assistant who slips in lies”

Journals: Please don't submit papers in the last second before the new year we can't find reviewers Me: submitting a paper

This message brought to you by so much time fighting with stupid formatting garbage in Word and Powerpoint in files exported from Google 🤬🤬🤬

I think Google Docs and Slides must do an intentionally terrible job exporting into Microsoft formats in order to punish you for leaving.

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Nepo baby says what?

I was roommates with an English major who ended up being a physician. For a med school recommendation for one of my UNC journalism students I asked him the impact of his English major. “It taught me to listen & to empathize with patients & to understand their needs, including emotional ones.”

His head when the music starts 😆

I am convinced that one reason why NPR’s Books We Love has been so successful is that while it allows you to filter in a bunch of ways, it also emulates elements of browsing. In its regular cover mode, it’s not a list, it’s an array, and when you refresh the page, it shuffles. (1/)

“I think you’re in my seat”

slogan could be: “Young 2026: because Suicide-chatbots are bad“

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One wonders why even Border Patrol is needed in Charlotte? Which is really far from any border?

Handing all that info to ChatGPT/OpenAI? HARD PASS.

Apparently it's only "identity politics" when women object to being oppressed because they are women. When men oppress women because they are women it's just a day ending in "y."

I don’t think he understands what Medicare Advantage is.

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I hate open enrollment and I only have like 3 options!

Yes, except Google Calendar.

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

Live look at NIH SROs today….

🙋‍♂️ patiently waiting in line (I cannot even imagine the lifting involved in catching up…)

Siri, help me learn about confounding:

Physicians should actually learn a little something about health insurance works while in medical school.

Which is so crazy-making since it was really very explicitly clear what would be in store with Trump 2.0. There were literally hundreds of pages describing it.

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

I am not a religion prof but I might need this maybe?

Meritocracy!

The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.