Seán Bartz - DNP (Old)

@excitedstate.bsky.social

US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.

US choropleth map showing percentage change in MMR or overall vaccination rates since before the pandemic, by county. Decreases are shown in pink, increases in green.

this whole discourse about academics causing right-wing attacks on academia reminds me of the Turkish phrase "isn't the thief guilty at all?" (hırsızın hiç mi suçu yok?), what you say to those who tell you that you should have locked your door, should have had an alarm, etc.

Been testing this 'sign-language-to-text' (SL2T) for almost a year & it's so awesome to see this out! Looked at this almost a decade ago & knew we'd get the tech & ML models there eventually (but super challenging). Talking w/ some Deaf folks, an equivalent of 'voice-to-text' was huge for them

Putting sign language AI into users’ hands

Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.

deepmind.google