I have never taken offence to being called patient in a healthcare setting. I don’t know where the aversion to the word comes from. I do take offence to being called a client.

Iva Cheung@ivacheung.com · 8h ago

Although I understand why there's a desire to drift away from using the term "patient" to refer to a person with lived experience, but just replacing it with "person" often does not work because it's not specific enough and can even dilute meaning.

A'ight. Let's see what the fuss is about.

cashier: can i take your order? me: [spent the entire time in line rehearsing for this moment] yes, one pleaseburger cheese :)

Although I understand why there's a desire to drift away from using the term "patient" to refer to a person with lived experience, but just replacing it with "person" often does not work because it's not specific enough and can even dilute meaning.

i guess trump found his new press secretary

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 12h ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department says it will give US visas to defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family.

Let me be clear: BC did not veer sharply right in this election. Doerkson carefully campaigned as a moderate, which was crucial to his success. Even so, the BC Conservatives still lost votes in absolute terms compared with 2024! NDP stayed home in droves. That's the story here.

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You've been doing pods again, haven't you?

YouTube video by Julie Nolke

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Another impossible beauty standard for women

“customers are increasingly handing over their log-ins as personal AI assistants grow more popular” FFS.

The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h ago

Bank of America says Muse can have bofa.

Statement from the NDP caucus today New interim leader to be chosen this week - any bets? Given how little the party seemed to learn from the 2024 election, I am curious to see how its next leadership race goes #bcpoli

@karenyin.bsky.social Happy birthday!!! 🥳

This, taken together with the alarming rise of eugenics and the fashion for designer babies, and overall fetishization of "high IQs" in SV, make it really impossible to argue that AI is in fact not a technology of and for eugenicists

The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17h ago

ai is great for *your* kids, though.

You can create a more "rewarding reviewer experience" by fucking paying reviewers.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20h ago

'Announcing the move...Springer Nature said the project would explore how AI could help create a more “rewarding reviewer experience”, streamlining analysis of large volumes of text and figures, freeing up researchers’ time to allow them to focus their expertise where it is most needed.'

Peer review is for humans. Because my peers are human. What's being proposed is robot review. It is fundamentally different than peer review. Part of the goal here is to stem the tide of AI-slop submissions... so basically robots reviewing robots. It's basically an arms race between LLMs.

Robot Wars: Robot on Fire!

Alt: Robot Wars: Robot on Fire!

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20h ago

'Announcing the move...Springer Nature said the project would explore how AI could help create a more “rewarding reviewer experience”, streamlining analysis of large volumes of text and figures, freeing up researchers’ time to allow them to focus their expertise where it is most needed.'

MondoAB@mondoab.bsky.social · 18h ago

Troubling. “Are there differences?” Ford asked. “Sure, there is. But I can tell you one thing: we agree on 99 percent of the stuff.” For Ford, it was an unintentionally insightful observation: the political distance between the two men is much smaller than it appears. thewalrus.ca/doug-ford-ma...

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Am I doing this correctly????

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2d ago

Name two characters you think are the same person.

Yes, yes, the renewed accusations that the president is a serial rapist and was an active participant in Epstein's pedophilia and sex trafficking would seem alarming, but it doesn't involve the Cheesecake Factory so ...

I will be okay. Not because everything is fine, but because I am surprisingly difficult to destroy.

Seriously seriously seriously dislike how pro-AI weirdos use disability as a cudgel. More people need to read Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d ago

ah, there is the accusation of me being "ableist" and a "childless cat lady" From extremely online arseholes who imagine that: 1. Im not cognitively disabled myself, 2. I am unable to think critically about access technologies, I too love to be rabidly sexist in my defense of billionaires.

perfect, no notes

"Overall, the 48 per cent voter turnout for Saturday’s vote was about 10 per cent less than in the 2024 election." Not the only reason, but one of the reasons the right-wing won in British Columbia.

The Election Decided by People Who Stayed Home | The Tyee

NDP votes fell by almost 30 per cent from 2024, but Conservatives lost votes too.

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Not only can you be a flu watcher, you can do it for everyone in your household. I’ve signed up.

Iva Cheung@ivacheung.com · 2d ago

You can help Canadian public health officials track respiratory infection rates by signing up to be a #FluWatcher! You get an email once a week asking if you've had any symptoms like fever or cough. It takes 30 seconds, and the info you give is so valuable: cnphi.canada.ca/fluWatcher/r...

Yeah, don't let that "Antrhopic founders giving most of their money away" BS fool you: By @alexjn.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Anthropic's founders pledged to donate most of their stock. Their IPO tells another story.

The AI giant's new filing calls the promise a "revocable," non-binding "expression" that depends on market conditions.

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Outrage culture is killing you Social media is poisoning your abiltiy to behave rationally You are making yourself a willing part of the 2 minutes of hate every day You need to ACTIVELY DISENGAGE You're not gonna defeat fascism generating posts on a any platform designed to churn hateful slop

Hrm. Because BriefCatch bought WordRake, I think all the guest articles I wrote for WordRake are now gone? Maybe I'll have to repost them on my personal blog?

Oh, man, he's so close to getting it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

One concrete lesson from Serbia that is applicable to America is - young people, fucking vote!!!! You must be sick of seeing your country run like this - fucking vote!!! If you don’t it will be more of this billionaire Epstein kushner shit, no progress, no justice. Just Fucking Vote. Please.

🤔"A convicted murderer who argued in an Australian court that disallowing him access to the yeast-based spread Vegemite was a violation of his human rights has lost a legal battle seeking permission to consume the delicacy from prison." globalnews.ca/news/1212135...

Australian judge denies murderer’s bid to lift prison ban on Vegemite - National | Globalnews.ca

Andre McKechnie who is serving a life sentence for murder in the southern Australian state of Victoria, took his battle for the spread to the Supreme Court last year.

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