SarahSorlien, MD

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Retired anesthesiologist learning Data Science for a second act. Was a young libertarian and now completely recovered. Love my dogs, grandkids and too many hobbies.

"40 Senators have sponsored a bill to make sure you have to upload your driver’s license before you can use your First Amendment on the internet. That’s what they want. That’s what this bill is."

Influencers Starting To Realize How The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) Will Do Real Damage
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/25/influencers-starting-to-realize-how-the-kids-online-safety-act-kosa-will-do-real-damage/

Influencers Starting To Realize How The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) Will Do Real Damage

We’ve talked a lot about just how bad the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is. Yet some people (including people who, frankly, should know better) keep trying to tell me how well meaning it is. It’s n…

Techdirt
Two Florida moms concerned about book bans formed Moms for Libros to encourage parents to apply for slots on textbook review committees "rather than let the process be saturated" by the conservative group Moms for Liberty.
https://t.co/Km5pjgB5Pv
Parents take the reins in Florida's book censorship fight

One group of Miami moms is pushing back on book banning.

Axios Miami
'Disinformation can kill': How RFK Jr. 'had everything to do with' a measles outbreak in American Samoa https://www.alternet.org/disinformation-can-kill-rfk-jr/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
'Disinformation can kill': How RFK Jr. 'had everything to do with' a measles outbreak in American Samoa

Hours after anti-vax Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the United States House of Representatives Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Thursday afternoon, one of the nation's foremost experts on vaccinations reminded P...

Alternet.org
So I still visit Twitter to see my medical colleagues. Today the feed was filled with hateful posts from people I don't know and don't want to know. Time to leave the bird site.

There's a really good community feature on here called groups. It works like this:

1. Follow a group's account
2. You will start seeing posts on that topic
3. You can post to the group by @-ing it

It's more powerful than hashtag following, as all group posts are actively pushed to all of the group's members. No one misses anything.

Find out more about groups at https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse/

If you're interested, try following one of the friendly active groups curated at https://fedi.directory/tag/fediverse-groups/

How to use discussion groups on Mastodon and the Fediverse | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

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Skill 88/99
Luck 25/99 NYT average 5.4!

My condolences to the approx 22% of players who lost their streak today.

Google Bard/OpenAI runoff with simple question:
"can you tell me how many weeks old my puppy born on 3/10/2023 is?"

Bard: first try, correct formula (days/7), wrong answer. 8 weeks. Second try: days divided by 4 weeks in a month: 16.5 weeks. Third time correct.

OpenAI nailed it with lovely exposition on trial one. 9.5 weeks old.

And this is little Ricky the Havanese. (pictured at 8 weeks)

Reports of a mass shooting this morning

And now?

11 injured, 9+ shot during mass shooting at a South Carolina park.

Victims range from 16-20 years old

119 days into 2023:
175 mass shootings
5,868 homicides
567 children (under 18) murdered

Mass shootings tripled when the assault weapon ban ended.

It's the guns.

Guy kills five neighbors including a child because they ask him to stop scaring the kids with his machine gun. My brother is at Safeway yesterday and a guy pulled a gun on another guy inside the store because of a parking lot beef. Like. This is terrorism. I am terrified. No one wants to live like this!!!!