Interesting potted history of medicine in video games #HistSTM #HistMed #HistTech

‘Nurse, the joypad!’: the eight greatest medical video games

For anyone needing a break from binging The Pitt, you can always put in your own shifts as a hospital manager, surgeon, paramedic and of course as a demonic morgue assistant

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1. A ballot initiative that would ban trans youth from bathrooms and sports in Maine is likely to appear on the ballot in November. It is bankrolled by Richard Uihlein, an anti-trans billionaire. It comes after Gov. Mills rejected Trump's anti-trans demands. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Billionaire-Funded Anti-Trans Bathroom/Sports Ban Ballot Initiative Moves Forward In Maine

The ballot initiative is bankrolled by billionaire anti-trans donor, Richard Uihlein, and represents a new line of attack against transgender people in blue states.

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When I served as a staff writer @miamiherald.com (‘93-‘97) our photojournalists + reporters talked reverently of photojourno #CarolGuzy, who’d departed The Herald in the late ‘80s for the #WaPost. Fast forward: #Guzy is still a force of visual accountability. See her recent pic, via ZUMA Press👇🏾🥺

“AI risks entrenching racism and sexism in Australia, the human rights commissioner has warned, amid internal Labor debate about how to respond to the emerging technology.”

Use of AI could worsen racism and sexism in Australia, human rights commissioner warns

Labor divided on how to respond to the emerging technology as media and arts groups fear ‘rampant theft’ of intellectual property

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i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?

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How many people and children forced to starve in Israeli concentration camps did Israel execute today? Lowest guess I'll allow is 45 of which 27 children, because that's the lowest that figure has been for the past few weeks.

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.

please please please write to your MPs about this i am so serious please

Katy Montgomerie 🦗@katymontgomerie.com · last yr.

There's a bill passing through parliament at the moment called the Data Bill An added amendment would completely remove trans people's right to privacy, and could even revert legal documents We have to apply a lot of pressure on this one too MPs. More info here: www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/c...

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We did it before, we’re doing it now, and we’ll do it again. Big thanks to @beaudonelly.bsky.social @conplnk.bsky.social @koltai.bsky.social @charleymaher.bsky.social @merelzoet.bsky.social @galen.reich.me.uk

Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · last yr.

Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...

You should. I’ve been directly impacted by their arrogance and made software . The deference to them is part of the problem , computer technology is now civic infrastructure . Infrastructure is political . Race is infrastructure of the US Racial experts should have always been involves

Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · last yr.

I would never presume to lecture a computer scientist on how to teach their material, as I am unqualified. This computer scientist should not pontificate about teaching subjects where he is unqualified. Teaching about race is political. Full stop. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/o...

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Worth reading these reflections from Anna Rogers, Tal Linzen, Emily Bender, Sam Bowman, Chris Potts, Chris Callison-Burch, Ellie Pavlick, Yejin Choi, Iz Betalgy, and more. For me, quoting friends at a conference in 2023: "I care about language. I'm not leaving NLP."

Mark Riedl@markriedl.bsky.social · last yr.

This is a fantastic oral history of the last 10 years of NLP and AI. www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...

if you own a smartphone, good news! they are harvesting your soul and using it to power machines that blow up children in the third world

the nazis are out here asking the big questions like “what if we programmed a missile to think and have subjective opinions on genocide” hell has spilled over onto Earth

southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · last yr.

You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here. But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.

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23andMe has gone bankrupt and might now have to sell all their user data. what happens when Meta falls? Or Google or Amazon? what happens to all that user data? Who ends up owning the most comprehensive database about you, your life, your habits, and the most accurate model of your inner thoughts?

Because of what I do at work, people quite often ask me about "more responsible" ways to use GenAI, so I've written a blog post with 7 things to look out for and 3 ways of making intentional choices when using text generators www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...

Responsible-ish GenAI dos and don’ts: text edition — Careful Industries

Seven things to bear in mind and three responsible-ish AI strategies

careful.industries

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‪The Bellingcat challenge is back (and set by me this week)! 👉 challenge.bellingcat.com 👈 This week's challenge uses satellite images taken with Landsat 8 - but the colours aren't always 'normal'... 🛰️ Can you complete them? 🔍

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Hmm. A masterclass in writing a statement about "Science under threat" without specifying where that threat has come from? 😕

The Royal Society@royalsociety.org · last yr.

Science advances our economic, physical, and social and cultural wellbeing, and is key to a sustainable future. However, we live in times of great change, and the values that have driven science for the benefit of humanity are under threat. Read our statement here: royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...