Catherine Clase @cmclase@qoto.org

Rain Again
By Ludmila Kovalenko

#art #painting #mastoart #london

@Kidney_boy @MGKatz036 arguably livers are way more scarce than kidneys - you are going to transplant only the fittest people - which is the third argument to consider here @mike_johansen (less important for kidneys I guess)

James Forten was born a free man in 1766 in Philadelphia. During the Revolutionary War he was a powder boy on a sailing ship, only to be captured and then released by the British. He resumed employment as a sailmaker, going on to own the business and employ 38 people. He invented a new type of sail and made a fortune. He funded #abolitionist causes, purchased freedom for enslaved people, opened his home as an Underground Railroad depot & started a school for #Black children.

#BlackHistoryMonth

@mike_johansen @Kidney_boy @MGKatz036 sort of.

Allocation of scarce resources from a societal perspective is not easy.

These are older Canadian g/l https://www.cmaj.ca/content/173/10/S1

These are our current criteria (PDF) https://www.cmaj.ca/content/173/10/S1

Lots of hoops. In US with OPOs and metrics and stuff, I suspect it’s even worse.

@rami @emilymbender @danmcquillan
Two of their main starting points for their data were Wikipedia and Reddit. So if they had just wanted to use higher-quality sources, they could have done that. Use Wikipedia. Don't use Reddit.
The model becomes more fluent (but not more truthful) when you increase the size of the data, and the training becomes incredibly expensive (~$10^8-10^9) when the size is large. They wouldn't have spent all that money if the large size hadn't been necessary for fluency.

"We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it." Excellent piece by @danmcquillan@twitter.com:

https://www.danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.html

I suggest you read the whole thing, but some pull quotes:

"ChatGPT is a part of a reality distortion field that obscures the underlying extractivism and diverts us into asking the wrong questions and worrying about the wrong things."

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There are 193 member nations in the United Nations.

All but 11 guarantee some form of paid sick leave.

Guess what? The U.S. is one of those 11.

As a result, 33 million American workers have no paid sick leave from their employer.

This is deeply inhumane. Paid leave. Now.

@Kidney_boy They are all very good!

@BavariaNephro I agree. I think the team has hit on great formula for informative and entertaining critical literature appraisal. Obvious COI😂

MyTEMP is one of the most important pragmatic trials ever done in nephrology, and though it was negative, it definitively answered the question asked and lights the way to how we find better ways to dialyze patients.

Check out the podcast, it's good.

http://www.nephjc.com/freelyfiltered/56/mytemp

Black service members who served in wars, were often denied access to the GI Bill when they returned.

So white veterans could get loans for college, or to buy a house. Black veterans could not. This lack of access to affordable education and affordable housing had devastating impacts on Black veteran homelessness.

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/18/1129735948/black-vets-were-excluded-from-gi-bill-benefits-a-bill-in-congress-aims-to-fix-th

Black veterans were also denied access to medical care and benefits. This lack of access to healthcare also drove homelessness.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9XEj1AL9Bsw

WHO updates their recommendations to advise masking by "anyone in a crowded, enclosed, or poorly ventilated space" regardless of local epidemiological conditions in light of its global spread.
#COVID #BringBackMasks
https://www.who.int/news/item/13-01-2023-who-updates-covid-19-guidelines-on-masks--treatments-and-patient-care

Howdy.

@calimari Hello and welcome to Mastodon! I'm Sage, and I love to take photos of tide pool creatures. Here's a picture of a Horned Nudibranch I took recently.

I see the impact of microplastics on every beach I visit. Water bottles, plastic rope, foam containers, even frisbees and sun visors are everywhere. And worse, when you look closely at the sand, it's thousands of tiny specs of plastic.

Sea creatures (and everyone on earth!) are harmed by microplastics. We all have to do our part to eliminate plastic use.
#microplastics #plastics

Still looking for a job. The market's been rougher to me than it's ever been since I came out publicly as trans.
My record?
6 years 0 breaches.
I was part of the security leadership team that helped get 1Password to a 6.8 billion USD valuation.
DFIR, infrasec, infraops, I got you.
Please reach out.

The only "agenda" transgender people have is the right to exist.

After several years
of living with
a dangerous respiratory pathogen
one would think
that we would be prepared
for the threat of another
after all, we have had time
to perfect mitigation techniques
one would think
we would be prepared
yes, one would think that.

Once again a patient with upper respiratory symptoms just told me they do not have Covid because they had a negative home Covid test. A positive test is pretty reliable in saying Covid is present but a negative test (especially if not doing serial tests) does not rule out Covid. Still limit contact with others and wear a high quality mask. Even if not Covid, there is no point in spreading other viruses to others.