Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@social.cleverlibre.org

Our travels north allowed few opportunities for photography, given the nearly continuous rain along our entire route, but a stop at Castle Crags State Park allowed a brief look at some ghostly spires.

"Given that up to 20% of clinical trial costs is related to the manual transfer and verification of data from the electronic medical record to a data capture system, as well as the site monitoring of such data, all of which are readily automated tasks, the application of AI to clinical trials could be revolutionary and is likely necessary."

Do Americans Value Democracy?
 
Brace yourselves, this isn’t going to be pretty: A deep dive into the best survey data we have on the ideas and attitudes that shape the political conflict in the United States.
 
New Democracy Americana: https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/do-americans-value-democracy

New commentary letter in Environmental Research Letters expressing views on new World Meteorological Organization #airquality guidelines.

"As we show in the following paragraphs, because of atmospheric chemistry and meteorology, these new guideline values can be unattainably low for some pollutants, are too high for other pollutants, and may be jointly unattainable for a key pair of pollutants for some cities."

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad039f

When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/

#tech #ai #health #healthcare

An Argentine farmer found this 20,000-year-old family of Giant Armadillos (Glyptodon) buried near a river.

They were all looking in the same direction, as if they were walking towards something, the largest being the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. It is estimated that they weighed around 2 tons. #Armadillos #Argentine

@histories_arch

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday the U.S. would begin issuing visa bans on "extremist" Israeli settlers committing violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

"As we strive for peace, Gaza and the West Bank should be reunited under a single governance structure, ultimately under a revitalized Palestinian Authority, as we all work toward a two-state solution," Biden wrote in the Washington Post.

"I have been emphatic with Israel’s leaders that extremist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank must stop and that those committing the violence must be held accountable. The United States is prepared to take our own steps, including issuing visa bans against extremists attacking civilians in the West Bank," he added.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-18/ty-article/u-s-to-issue-visa-bans-on-israeli-extremists-attacking-palestinians-in-west-bank/0000018b-e409-df9a-ab8b-fec973190000

Global investment firms buying up local properties are hurting Atlanta families – especially Black ones.

Brian Y. An of Georgia Institute of Technology writes:
“In the Atlanta metro area, these [Wall Street] firms own nearly one-third of all single-family rental properties. They’re even more concentrated in predominantly Black neighborhoods, where more than 10 houses in a row can be owned by the same corporation.”

https://theconversation.com/i-studied-1-million-home-sales-in-metro-atlanta-and-found-that-black-families-are-being-squeezed-out-of-homeownership-by-corporate-investors-211478
@blackmastodon #BlackMastodon

Stuff this in your pocket for next year when anyone you know thinks about voting for a No Labels ticket...

"That’s $1.5 million going to the top six executives in the organization."

These are not people who give a rat's ass about working families.

No Labels is all grift
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/17/2206441/-No-Labels-is-all-grift

If US restaurants and patrons already expect to tip 20% then the restaurants should add that to the cost of every item, increase wages, and abolish tipping as a thing.

Restaurants that can't afford that don't have a viable business.

Patrons that can't afford that shouldn't be dining out.

We have until March 5, 2024 to organize against this #SanFrancisco ballot measure. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/its-time-oppose-new-san-francisco-policing-ballot-measure

“Is this the conservative thing to do to create another entitlement program, in effect to create a third education system?”

Rural #Republicans teamed up with House Dems to reject #vouchers from the massive school spending bill, HB 1. It's the latest embarrassing blow to the governor's agenda, reports Reporting Fellow @josephinelee: https://www.texasobserver.org/hb-1-vouchers-omnibus-special-session?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=audience

#TXlege #politics #USpol #education #schools #news #PublicSchools #GregAbbott

Statement from Media Matter CEO Angelo Carusone regarding Elon Musk’s lawsuit threat.

Also, seriously? Whenever one of y'all next tries to tell me that radical consent models of data collection and use aren't possible in "big data" and "AI," I'm gonna say "Thanks for the input Sam Altman, but I really don't know if your views on consent are the ones we'll be needing to hear today."

Rural Republicans team up with Dems to reject vouchers in intra party showdown on House floor. In another embarrassing blow to Abbott, his repeated threats has not changed the opposition to vouchers. https://www.texasobserver.org/hb-1-vouchers-omnibus-special-session/

Tesla getting owned by Swedish workers isn’t the story.

The story is that 90% of the Swedish workers belong to a union

And only around 11% of American workers belong to a union

The story is the message

What the Swedes have done by blocking delivery of Teslas will reverberate worldwide with workers showing the power of collective action.

Moms for Liberty pushes to remove Scholastic book fairs from Oklahoma schools. The organization said, in part, that "Scholastic is focused on indoctrinating youth with radical viewpoints and sexual ideologies"

https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-moms-for-liberty-scholastic-book-fairs-request-removed-schools/45846584

#ScholasticBookFairs #MomsForLiberty #Indoctrination #RadicalViewpoints #SexualIdeologies #OklahomaSchools #Politics #News

People of good heart and good character can actually want the same thing—peace on Earth, democracy for all, an end to terror—and still have very different ideas about how to achieve it. The sooner we realize that, the sooner we can understand each other and begin to move forward.