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Scientist by day and media consumer by night. I use antibodies to detect biomarkers in any animal biomaterial you know (and some you don’t), and I also like to cook, paint, knit, and watch Outlander.
#Biology #ScienceMastodon #Science #RespectfulParenting
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Good time to bump this back up. Read and bookmark if you haven’t already. We’re hitting the main points.

https://america2.news/what-to-expect-when-youre-expecting-fascism/

What to Expect When You're Expecting Fascism

The second Trump administration is likely to begin with a series of shock events designed to overwhelm our capacity for sense-making.

America 2.0
Evolution of Smart Products cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne

One of the most popular cartoons I ever drew was about the Internet of Things, right after Google announced the acquisition of Nest in early 2014. “I think my Nest smoke alarm is going off,” one character tells another. “Google Adwords just pitched me a fire extinguisher and an offer for temporary housing.”

Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne - Marketoonist is the thought bubble of Tom Fishburne. Marketing cartoons, content marketing with a sense of humor, keynote speaking.

Can y'all just like "hell-ban" me into a small room in the Fediverse where I can talk about Twitter and Elon in an enclosed space w/the two other people who give a fck about it and I won't bother the rest of you?

Because part of the reason I'm still there is I think not talking about what's going on there is dangerous.

Letting it go w/out speaking of it is not safe for the people still there, imho. I don't think it's good for the world. But I also know y'all are here for a reason.

Halp pls.

WSJ News Exclusive | BuzzFeed to Use ChatGPT Creator OpenAI to Help Create Quizzes and Other Content

CEO Jonah Peretti intends for artificial intelligence to play a larger role in the company this year

WSJ

Super excited to be able to publish @kathryntewson's first Techdirt guest post... You do not want to miss this one.

"The World’s First Robot Lawyer Isn’t A Lawyer, And I’m Not Sure It’s Even A Robot"

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/24/the-worlds-first-robot-lawyer-isnt-a-lawyer-and-im-not-sure-its-even-a-robot/

The World’s First Robot Lawyer Isn’t A Lawyer, And I’m Not Sure It’s Even A Robot

Note: This post is an adaptation of what started initially as a Twitter thread. I’ve been going pretty hard on DoNotPay and its founder/CEO Joshua Browder for the past couple of days, and I&#…

Techdirt
The World’s First Robot Lawyer Isn’t A Lawyer, And I’m Not Sure It’s Even A Robot

Note: This post is an adaptation of what started initially as a Twitter thread. I’ve been going pretty hard on DoNotPay and its founder/CEO Joshua Browder for the past couple of days, and I&#…

Techdirt
Study of 27 countries finds the average daily time savings for remote work is 72 min per person. Workers allocate 40% of the saved time to their jobs, 11% to caregiving, and 34% to leisure.
https://fortune.com/2023/01/24/worker-productivity-spend-commute-time-working/
Working from home saves employees 2 hours a week in commute time, and they’re spending it in ways CEOs don’t expect

CEOs like Elon Musk and James Gorman say remote workers are less productive. But new research from the NBER indicates otherwise.

Fortune
RT @ProfMakris
Patients with VITT secondary to the J&J vaccine have anti-PF4 antibodies directed against the same PF4 aminoacids as those with VITT after the AstraZeneca vaccine. As suspected it is the same disease.https://tinyurl.com/2p8h7ud5 #VITT
Characteristics of VITT antibodies in patients vaccinated with Ad26.COV2.S

TO THE EDITOR:

American Society of Hematology
This is also why I hate when people feel like they have to infantilize teens in order to argue that when teens date adults there’s a higher likelihood of abuse. It’s not because teens are children! It’s because they’re *not fully developed adults*! There’s a difference.