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a carholina deity retweeted
I'm convinced none of y'all have healthy friendships and are in desperate need of therapy
a carholina deity retweeted
College isn’t a scam. The scam is what they make us pay for an education.
Medicine isn’t a scam. The scam is that they exploit your desire to live & charge an arm and a leg for meds.
The resource isn’t the scam. The fact that the put the resource behind a paywall is.
a carholina deity retweeted
Guillermo del Toro: “Absolutely no goddamn AI. It’s much more expensive, I don’t care. What we’re protecting is the beauty and the redeeming power of art”
a carholina deity retweeted
Crimes are mostly committed for two reasons:
Desperation or Pursuit/Maintenance of Power
Perpetrators of the former fill up the prisons.
Perpetrators of the latter full up governments, boardrooms, and the rest of the aristocracy.
“War on crime” always means “war on the poor.” Because only crimes of desperation are punished in a society run by powerful criminałs.
a carholina deity retweeted
The idea vaccines cause autism was invented by Andrew Wakefield in 1998 and was so thoroughly debunked he lost his license for gross malpractice
And here we are 27 years later RFK Jr dredging up the same nonsense
Such a tiresome waste of time
a carholina deity retweeted
Honestly, i don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks.
daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs.
college costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and puts students into debt for life and yet we have thousands of professors living in their cars.
everything we need is astronomically expensive and yet almost none of the money we pay is going towards the people actually doing the work and providing the services.
a carholina deity retweeted
I disagree with the Department of Justice going after Yale School of Medicine over DEI admissions policies and arguing that objective metrics like GPA and MCAT scores should dominate admissions decisions.
The evidence does not support the idea that standardized test scores alone identify the best physicians.
The MCAT predicts performance on other multiple-choice exams reasonably well. What MCAT scores do NOT predict are clinical judgment, communication, bedside skill, or physician performance. Put another way: doctors who test well tend to do well on examinations. But test scores do not predict how well they care for patients in clinics, hospitals, surgery, or real-world medicine.
Meanwhile, more diverse physician workforces are associated with better preventive care, greater trust, improved access, and lower mortality in underserved communities. There is no objective evidence that excluding minority applicants within a reasonable score range improves patient outcomes.
We need minority physicians in this country, and we have the data to prove why.
So when people insist that “objective measures” alone should determine admission into medicine — while ignoring the evidence about what actually improves patient care — I increasingly see that argument as less about merit and more about preserving exclusion under the comforting language of statistics.
"Equality feels like oppression to those who are privileged"
a carholina deity retweeted
Quarantining during a public health threat is not a punishment.
It’s not a violation of your freedoms.
It’s part of being in a society.
You do not have the right to spread a dangerous and deadly disease to others.
Robust public health measures save lives.
a carholina deity retweeted
Do you remember in The Lion King when scar told the hyenas if they helped him become king he will make their lives better and then their lives didn’t get better and he blamed them for it.
And upon realizing this, the hyenas ate him.
Do with that story what you will.
a carholina deity retweeted
too many girls are taught to be curious about why someone is mean rather than being taught to simply step away and redirect their energy to folks who want to receive it.
a carholina deity retweeted
🚨BREAKING: MIT hooked people up to brain scanners while they used ChatGPT.
What they found should concern every single person reading this.
ChatGPT users showed 55% weaker brain connectivity than people who didn't use it. Not after years. After just four months.
Here's how they tested it. 54 people were split into three groups: one used ChatGPT to write essays, one used Google, and one used nothing but their own brain. They wore EEG monitors that tracked their brain activity in real time across four sessions over four months.
The brain-only group built the strongest, most widespread neural networks. Google users were in the middle. ChatGPT users had the weakest brains in the room. Every time.
Then the memory test hit. Participants were asked to recall what they'd just written minutes earlier. 83% of ChatGPT users couldn't quote a single line from their own essay. They wrote it. They couldn't remember it. The words passed through them like they were never there.
It gets worse. In the final session, ChatGPT users were told to write without AI. Their brains were measurably weaker than people who never used AI at all. 78% still couldn't recall their own writing. The damage didn't go away when the tool was removed.
Meanwhile, brain-only users who tried ChatGPT for the first time? Their brains lit up. They wrote better prompts. They retained more. Their brains were already strong enough to use AI as a tool instead of a crutch.
The researchers also found that every ChatGPT essay on the same topic looked almost identical. More facts, more dates, more names. But less original thinking. Everyone using ChatGPT produced the same generic output while believing it was their own.
MIT gave this a name: cognitive debt. Like financial debt, you borrow convenience now and pay with your thinking ability later. Except there's no way to pay it back.
The question isn't whether ChatGPT is useful. It's whether the price is your ability to think without it.
a carholina deity retweeted
Do people not understand the psyop?
AI will never become "conscious" and start making it's own decisions.
It will be programmed to do exactly what it does, and those who program it will convince you it is alive and controlling itself.
And then they can do whatever they want, whenever they want, with a perfect scapegoat.
The greatest atrocities ever seen can be conducted with no accountability.
It's like having an infinite get out of jail free card.
a carholina deity retweeted
How are they getting to “vote” on whether their crimes are made public or not?
House votes 357-65 to block release of congressional sexual misconduct and harassment reports
nbcnews.com/politics/congres…
