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Keep this in mind as we start seeing more and more large scale outages from AWS, Cloudflare, Github, etc. These are the companies hoping to increasingly automate their systems with AI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation
Paradox of automation
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The paradox of automation says that the more efficient the automated system, the more crucial the human contribution of the operators. Humans are less involved, but their involvement becomes more critical. Lisanne Bainbridge, a cognitive psychologist, identified these issues notably in her widely cited paper "Ironies of Automation."[49] If an automated system has an error, it will multiply that error until it is fixed or shut down. This is where human operators come in.[50] A fatal example of this was Air France Flight 447, where a failure of automation put the pilots into a manual situation they were not prepared for.[51]

Masks, sound, speech, and accessibility, a thread! 🧵 I'm a professor. I teach in a mask. I do math with researchers and students with hearing and auditory processing disabilities. This is a thread on my solution for lip reading and audio quality all in one.

A woman in a clear front Omnimask respirator with 3M pancake filters attached on the sides and a speech diaphragm in the chin hole for vocal clarity.  She is wearing a black cap and there is a bookcase behind her.

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

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Yes. I have been practicing law for 40 years. I had the best Con Law teachers at UVA law school. But I can find no evidence of any unifying theory describing how this Court has ruled except to say that they have decided to discard the Constitution and anoint Trump dictator.

So we're not going to vaccinate kids this year. Ofc we're not going to mask or put HEPA filters in classrooms. In a class of 33, every kid will get COViD at least once. Every case results in cognitive impairment. At least 3 kids will develop Long Covid. (1:11 is current thinking)

The teacher will have Covid at least once, with some degree of cognitive impairment and a higher risk of Long Covid and/or death. COVID killed more than 47K Americans last year. Some 4 million of us have been disabled by Long Covid. This is insanity. Madness.

#MedSky #Covid The neat split between “people with long COVID” and “everyone else” never did line up with clinical realities. Truly never-infected people are now rare. We’re walking around with more inflammation, and with immune systems that don’t work quite as well as they did in the beforetime

Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2

“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Myco...

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From CDC: How to get a 2025 Covid shot. "Physical inactivity" for the win! (Although I am plenty old enough to qualify, anyway.) Question for #medsky, including pharmacists: how long will my younger relatives have to sit quietly, to qualify for a shot?

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Hang onto this image of CDC's full list of underlying conditions tied to severe risk of COVID. If you're an adult aged 18-64, RFK Jr. is now making you show some proof of one of these underlying conditions in order to get a COVID vaccine.

#MedSky "Studies in mice suggest that gene-editing technology, which has shown promise in treating diseases of the blood, liver and eyes, could also treat devastating brain disorders. The targets of the treatment are mutations that can cause neurological conditions such as Huntington’s disease."

Brain editing now ‘closer to reality’: the gene-altering tools tackling deadly disorders

Stunning results in mice herald gene-editing advances for neurological diseases.

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