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Cheery Littlebottom

@cherrylittlebottom.bsky.social

Anaesthetist. TIVA leaning (Eleveld if available, Schnider if not). Here to learn, do please teach me. I read much more than I post.

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madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · last wk.

the transphobes: 'there's no good medical evidence for trans healthcare' sensible people: 'okay, you've dismissed a number of good studies but fine we'll do another' transphobes: 'and that made me really mad'

Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · last wk.

Anti-trans activists with links to the far right are trying to tell young trans people what to do with their own bodies. They want to shut down a clinical trial into healthcare for trans youth. We're fighting back 💥 goodlawproject.org/petition/tra...

image of a sign that says "protect trans youth" and the words "Anti-trans activists are challenging a puberty blocker trial - we’re stepping in"
Dr Steve Taylor@drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications This should also be banned Influence is being bought in Govt Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

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Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · 3mo ago

Our breakdown of Wes Streeting’s donors has been doing the rounds online for the last year. Now we’ve updated it – with another £55,000 from OPD Group.

Jones@theearlofpowys.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you return unwanted Reform local election leaflets to their party headquarters using their free post address, then it will cost the party £2.50 per envelope. Please don’t share this information; it could cost Nigel Farage a fortune.

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RM@dorsalstream.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
Dr Steve Taylor@drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Dr James Le Fanu was happy with £7500 in his day! His day as a Junior Doctor 1974 - the following year Junior Doctors were in industrial action with Government £7500 would be £72k now if kept with CPI inflation - no wonder he was happy Maybe he should get back on his sofa

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Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.

40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

cardcatalogforlife.substack.com

Dr Steve Taylor@drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 8mo ago

How many had a 28.9% pay rise! ANSWER - EVERYONE WHO DIDN’T HAVE SUCH A BIG CUT If you hadn’t had the cut your haven’t needed the rise! It really is that simple - shouldn’t be this hard Unless you’re a history graduate Wes Streeting or bad at maths The answer below

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jenna newman phd@jennanewman.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47 percent drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, and critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage. Eighty-three percent of heavy Al users couldn't recall key points from what they'd "written, compared to only 10 percent of those who composed unaided. Neutral reviewers described the Al-assisted writing as "soulless, empty, lacking individuality." Most alarmingly, after four months of reliance on Chat GPT, participants wrote worse once it was removed than those who had never used it at all. The study warns that when writing is delegated to Al, the way people learn fundamentally changes.”
David Hull 胡大衛@hushuo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too. "We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...