@IHStreet

I probably owe you an email or something.

 Chicago, IL
thequietbranches.com/
Joined September 2011
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Logging out of this app. I’m out there with the same handle a few other places. Maybe one of them will be as good as Twitter was for a few years. As Gandalf says: goodbye for the present.
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I’m not much for social media these days, mostly using it for any significant life events… The one this weekend is I had to say goodbye to cat at the very old age of 23. I’m grateful I he was with me as long as he was & I’ll miss his presence.
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I never really used his real name online, so am not in this post either. If you knew his name, it likely means we connected beyond just social media.
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Observing #EarthHour and a reminder that dealing with climate change is selfish. It’s for us & our well being (& standard of living). Be selfish. Help do something to deal with climate change.
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Technology dehumanizing people to lines on a spreadsheet to be denied care without even looking at them. Yay detached & de-humanized 21st century living. And despite this being pointed out, likely nothing will actually change. It’s profitable to keep things as they are:
ProPublica
@propublica25 Mar 2023
Doctors at a major US insurance company deny tens of thousands of claims a month without even looking at patients’ files. “We literally click & submit,” a former Cigna doctor told @ProPublica & @Capitol_Forum. “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.” The inside story 🧵
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Misinformation flies so fast and spreads 10 times faster than reality. It’s a reason wonder needs to be paired with critical thinking. I don’t tweet as much b/c of how easy misinterpreting or amplifying is. Basic fact in thread: size of 1 billion (US)
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1 million (m): 1,000,000 1 billion (b): 1,000,000,000 Three zeroes different, that’s it. But… 1 m seconds: 12 days 1 b seconds: 32 years To earn $1m in a year = $2,739/day (great living!) To earn $1b in year = $2,739,726/day (!!!) 1 b is massive. Tweet about it responsibly.
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This SVB thing is going to affect people I know. Startups are part of our ecosystem of experimenting & creating what’s next. It’s building industries & viable tech of the future. A lot of scientists work for startups, many as first steps out of academia. It’s opportunity.
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Anyhow, it’s likely to be a stressful near future in the startup world. I hope we can navigate this time as well as possible & I hope opportunities for scientists moving to industry/startup cos can have a brighter future in a healthy (economic) ecosystem.
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And I’ll do what I can to not just hope, but actively build a better future for science & scientists in the world (though I admit what I can actively do is a drop in the bucket of what’s needed).
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I voted today, for those that will encourage to do also do so. I researched candidates, chose who I think will be a competent public official for office where there was a choice.
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I know people still try to make this a good place. But it’s becoming the space to amplify and trend conspiracy theories, making 0.1/10 issues into 17/10 issues. That’s always been here, I know, but it seems worse now, like that’s the focus of Twitter, not networking.
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Like the internet needed another platform for amplifying misinformation.
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I’ve been playing Hades for the last month. Gotten better at it. Almost beaten it with all the base weapons. Going to try and do it w/ the last one today.
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Tonight on @cta the stop I usually was closed due to police activity. Had to walk the next superblock down to get the next stop where I just missed the train. I dream of a world robustly good enough to support amazing public transit. I am cynical it will ever exist.
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I am increasingly thinking this about most systems in our world. They need to be good, but also robustly good. None of them actually are or ever will be. There are worse problems than waiting 15 more minutes for the next train. But it’s been a long day & I want to get home.
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