Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
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Doing policy right for an entire country even in one domain is really hard.
Ben Casselman@bencasselman.bsky.social · 2d agoWarsh isn't the first Fed chair to learn the hard way how closely markets parse his words. The question now is how he responds. Smart piece from @colbylsmith.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
I'm just gonna say: it somewhat baffles me that people who are understandably skeptical of opaque LLMs as legitimate sources of information will suddenly go full on "the computer KNOWS" when they are using opaque tools to "detect" AI. The computer does not know.
Susanna Kearsley@susannakearsley.bsky.social · 2d ago❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”
How could the expiration of enhanced ACA Marketplace subsidies affect families? LDI's Betsy Salazar & colleagues conducted a simulation, and found that premiums could rise to 15% of total income for some middle-income families. Salazar discusses this finding in a new Q&A: https://bit.ly/4bHPd8z
Why Some Family Health Insurance Is Now Pricier
LDI/CHOP experts estimated the potential effect of the expiration of enhanced ACA Marketplace subsidies on family premiums across income levels.
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Parallels to medical malpractice are strong here: pick one conceptualization. If LLM is an algorithm, then the corporation is responsible. If the algorithm is an “intelligence,” “a colleague,” a licensed “practitioner,” or has a corporate title, then an employee of these corporations hacked rivals.
Kris Shrishak@krisshrishak.bsky.social · 6d agoThere is always a human responsible Principle '"The algorithm did it" is not an acceptable excuse if algorithmic systems make mistakes or have undesired consequences, including from machine-learning processes' Claims www.bbc.com/news/article... www.bbc.com/news/article... #AI @abeba.blacksky.app
Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.
Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 6d agoICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
Yep, elements of all of those are visible in the data. US median wealth dipping much more deeply during the GFC was in part because the median American has much higher exposure to equities than the median European.
My quote of the day I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific journal, from taking care of a patient. Because of this, I rarely get bored. Anthony Fauci
The Effects of Mandatory Profit-Sharing on Workers and Firms: Evidence from France QJE Elio Nimier-David , David Sraer , David Thesmar academic.oup.com/qje/article/...
The Effects of Mandatory Profit-Sharing on Workers and Firms: Evidence from France
Abstract. Since 1967, all French firms with more than 100 employees have been required to share a fraction of their excess profits with their employees. Th
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This is very, very interesting.
Matthew Moore@matthewrmoore.bsky.social · last wk.The cost of losing local journalism is more than just a metaphorical one. A group of finance professors found that fewer local reporters are leading to higher municipal borrowing costs for local governments. Thanks to @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social for chatting - www.kuaf.com/show/ozarks-...
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"[O]ur new golden age... is going to be a golden age of taking money away from scientists and universities and giving it to companies like Scale AI." www.publicnotice.co/p/michael-kr...
The "new science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift
Trump wants to run scientific research like his family business.
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You might think your smoke detector's false positives are annoying, but let me tell ya...
The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.Would you wear a smart ring that proves you’re not a cheater?
Germany alone is now close to 10.000 deaths as a result of heat / lack of airconditioning this year.
DIE ZEIT@zeit.de · 7d agoBundesweit sind in diesem jahr 9.800 Menschen wegen hoher Temperaturen gestorben. Das übersteigt die Zahl jedes Gesamtjahrs seit 2016.
I'm weirdly happy People decided to publish this article. this lady got very close to the peak and decided to turn back because she wasn't totally confident in her technical ability. That's praiseworthy wisdom, and a good example for others. share.google/d8Xi4aZ8aKkW...
Hiker Forced to Make Impossible Decision Just 405 Feet from Grand Teton’s Summit. Now She’s Issuing a Warning to Fellow Climbers (Exclusive)
After stopping just 405 feet below Grand Teton’s summit, a 25-year-old climber whose emotional TikTok struck a chord with millions tells PEOPLE why she chose safety over the summit and why she’d make ...
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Turns out, octopus ribosomes are distinct from every other animal scientists looked out, even squid!
NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.
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Hoping to see some of you at the NBER Summer Institute Gender in the Economy meeting tomorrow. I'll be presenting "The Consequences of Faculty Misconduct" (coauthored with Katie Leu) at 1pm ET. www.nber.org/conferences/...
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Wow! These articles convinced me, and I will use this knowledge to debunk anyone who claims otherwise. If the patient is experiencing it as an emergency it is one. I have noted incredibly long wait times in the ER for psychiatric patients in particular.
people with colds & ankle sprains "who don't need to be there" are not why ERs are busy or you wait time is long and they do need to be there
On "unnecessary" ED visits: background reading
Here are a bunch of very informative pieces on why trying to blame excessive costs or busy-ness on low acuity patients in the ED is, at be...
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ETX Gov@etxgov.myatproto.social · last wk.You've got a captive audience on a plane, and you know they can't open the doors and yeet you out. What subject are you gonna do a 30 minute sermon on?
3. In repressive regimes, the task of dissent is to puncture the sense of inevitability. Modi’s been in power 12 years and very rarely so much as recognized an oppositional campaign. Now that he’s caved (bye, education minister), the entire possibilities landscape has changed and Modi knows it.
2. The internet still has power as a tool - not necessarily as an “equalizer” but to document injustice and call people to action. The police crackdowns, the involuntary hospitalization of a hunger striker, the vibey protests themselves were all documented and posted and strengthened numbers.
1. Revelry and satire are a CRITICAL component of building power. We think political movements must be serious, weighty, earnest. But in Delhi, as elsewhere, protests have become vibey social hotspots. Lots of food (mobile Sikh and Muslim kitchens!), festival-like energy. Brutal memes on signs.
🧵🧵There are a bunch of lessons from India’s Cockroach Janata protest movement, which in a matter of weeks brought an increasingly authoritarian prime minister to heel and achieved real gains from a govt that’s been largely immune to forces of accountability. Here are a few off the top of my head🧵
When the AHRQ cancellations started, no one was giving the public a clear picture of what was being lost. My team built one. This is research that makes care safer and more affordable. Americans deserve to know what's happening to it. Researchinterrupted.academyhealth.org
Research Interrupted: Canceled AHRQ Grants | AcademyHealth
When health care research stops, the answers stop with it. Explore AcademyHealth's interactive tracker on canceled AHRQ research grants and lost funding.
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Not surprisingly, this document is all about funding industry. There is no discussion at all about ensuring transparency and accountability in these relationships, or managing conflicts-of-interest (even as it mentions the "gold standard" EO). The lesson seems to be industry good, academia bad.
Seems he grabbed the wrong end of this particular stick. The fact that industry funding is huge does not mean that federal funding should add to it. Shouldn't it be evidence that the govt should fund what industry *won't*, to expand the possibility of discovery and innovation? Or fund across fields?
Despite what he says, this is a remarkably narrow scope. Obviously, no social scientists. But what about basic researchers? Evolutionary biologists? Theoretical physicists? Psychologists? Science philanthropies? Pharmaceutical companies? (Wow, I never thought I would be lobbying for pharma).
Yes, they focus on AI, but there is no respect for basic research, which has historically driven innovation in the US. Basic research is inefficient, creative, serendipitous. Industry won't fund it. Here, they are imagining innovation as purely market-oriented, not necessarily novel.