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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA
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This is laughably bad! Saving for my next "why I don't want you to use AI" slide deck.
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Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.
The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.
Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
Now annotated! bsky.app/profile/dood...
In retrospect this is very funny
my dissertation study is on pause because bots got through and i need to strengthen up the screener but in the meantime i am using this chance to fundraise for KHJN who does abortion and trans health work! if you have money burning in your pocket, here’s a good place!!
fund.nnaf.org/fundraiser/7...
So this is from Hayek, of all people, in his Nobel lecture. Quite the counterpoint to Cowen's claim that economists are the smartest and specialist boys.
(Thanks to @kevinbaker.bsky.social for pointing me to the link.)
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...
The former has gotten stunningly little attention and as for the latter: The Idaho Fraternal Order of Police opposed the criminal ban because they said it would be difficult for cops to enforce without taking steps that could be considered “invasive and inappropriate.” @autonomynews.co
Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.
She tested 25 ai headshot generators. “Every one removed her hijab from the generated images.”
Good for them! Folic acid is close to a miracle vitamin for people who live in areas where it’s not naturally present in the soil or water, it has the capacity to help neural tubes close thus preventing really serious conditions like anencephaly & spina bifida-
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Join @ellakaye.co.uk on the Posit Data Science Lab tomorrow to learn how to get started! pos.it/dslab
There are so many no-good, terribly bad, wrong, AI-generated anatomical diagrams out there. Here's one I found on the website of an actual clinic in Minnesota. Yikes. Be careful out there.
“Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences, in economics & other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects of the events to be accounted for about which we can get quantitative data are necessarily limited & may not include the important ones.”
Guess who?
In January, California became the first state to require food makers to add folic acid, a crucial vitamin, to corn masa flour used to make tortillas. Other states are looking into it. https://cnn.it/4tlT816
