Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

Gold Reserves (Tonnes)

🇺🇸 US: 8133
🇩🇪 Germany: 3353
🇮🇹 Italy: 2452
🇫🇷 France: 2437
🇷🇺 Russia: 2333
🇨🇳 China: 2192
🇨🇭 Switzerland: 1040
🇯🇵 Japan: 846
🇮🇳 India: 801
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 612
🇹🇷 Turkey: 479
🇹🇼 Taiwan: 424
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan: 384
🇵🇹 Portugal: 383
🇵🇱 Poland: 334
🇸🇦 Saudi: 323

We got tired of the grey sky of the last few days. So we decided to climb up and go for a few hours skiing today. And it was so nice! 🤩🔥🔥🔥
#sport #skiing #ski #france #alps #mountains #snow

Foreign holdings of US government debt.

🇯🇵 Japan: $1098 billion
🇨🇳 China: $769 billion
🇬🇧 UK: $693 billion
🇱🇺 Luxembourg: $345 billion
🇰🇾 Cayman Islands: $323 billion
🇮🇪 Ireland: $299 billion
🇧🇪 Belgium: $285 billion
🇨🇦 Canada: $281 billion
🇨🇭 Switzerland: $275 billion

We operate in the eternal sunset of consumer electronics.

Whenever I listen to an owner / CEO talk about their company’s culture, I always want a follow up survey with their employees to find out if they actually know what the reality is. Employees 2 or more steps removed from the owner have a very different idea or experience of culture.

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"In both cases, the plaintiffs claim that the insurers use the flawed model to pinpoint the exact date to blindly and illegally cut off payments for post-acute care that is covered under Medicare plans—such as stays in skilled nursing facilities and inpatient rehabilitation centers."

#AI #artificialintelligence #insurance #healthinsurance
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Humana also using AI tool with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit claims
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/humana-also-using-ai-tool-with-90-error-rate-to-deny-care-lawsuit-claims/

#Ohio wasting tax payer money depending poorly conceived and poorly written laws.

I'm shocked, shocked, I say.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/us-judge-blocks-ohio-republicans-troublingly-vague-social-media-law/

Johann Gottlieb Fichte makes early copyright distinctions: The material book is the buyer's. Its ideas, Martha Woodmansee explains, become "the common property of both author & reader." The form remains the property of the author. 3/

In her essay (link earlier), Woodmansee says in the 18th C writer, paper maker, type founder, typesetter, printer, proofreader, publisher, book binder "are all presented as deserving equal credit for the finished product & having equal claim to the profits it brings." 4/

Ax-Wielding Kansas Proud Boy Sentenced To 4.5 Years - Joe.My.God.

https://www.joemygod.com/2024/01/ax-wielding-kansas-proud-boy-sentenced-to-4-5-years/

This is a reminder that your continued use of Twitter / X supports this behavior.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12951233/elon-musk-cis-gender-heterophobia-claims-hank-green-youtuber.html

Now see my response to Lev Manovich's assertion: "As AI progresses, it’s less and less 'AI.'" What of authorship when a creator works with the machine, which in turn learns from other creators?
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7151550746440658944/

Coin-operated device to buy a clock, Berlin, Germany, 1961. #PastTimes

via Brian Roemmele from Twitter

‘This to Him Is the Grand Finale’: Donald Trump’s 50-Year Mission to Discredit the Justice System - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/12/donald-trump-indictments-legal-system-00135151

Bill O'Reilly Outraged After School District Pulls His Books

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/bill-oreilly-outraged-after-school-district-pulls-his-books-under-florida-law-he-supported-its-absurd/

Frozen grass on the shore of Green Lake today.

#winter #seattle #ice #icicle #pnw

we're seeing broccoli levels at about 65%

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A refugee bear from a bombed-out Ukraine zoo finds a new home in Scotland https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240113/p2g/00m/0in/018000c

Following weeks of intense campaigning and numerous rallies, more than 19 million voters across Taiwan headed to the polls on Saturday to determine who will be the next president to lead the democratic island amid heightened tension across the Taiwan Strait.

https://www.voanews.com/a/millions-of-voters-head-to-polls-as-taiwan-election-gets-under-way-/7438424.html