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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 1d

Very very sad Josh.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is fuming after a meeting with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary over the agency’s safety study of abortion medication mifepristone did nothing to settle his complaints.

The Missouri Republican told Semafor he was “really disappointed” and said it could take years for the FDA to complete its study, calling the situation “a dead end.” Hawley also said he’s “lost confidence” in Makary’s leadership: “I don’t think he’s serious about it.”

David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 1d

Sad Josh.

Exclusive: Hawley fumes at FDA over abortion drug study

The Missouri Republican told Semafor he was “really disappointed” in the FDA, led by Marty Makary.

www.semafor.com

David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 1d

But yes, please tell us how AI is the future.

Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 5d

VC, founder, dumbass

@Nick_Davidov
Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops"
Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything.
It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure.
She didn't have Time Machine.
Disc recovery tools can't see anything.
I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days).
I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack.

Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov
VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova

David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe that 1992 Barbie was quoting Trump: "math class is tough."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on drug prices: "They're coming down by 500, 600, 700 percent ... numbers nobody ever thought possible"

David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 1d

The definitive exploration of this nonsense...

Trump Wages War on Windmills | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

www.youtube.com

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on drug prices: "They're coming down by 500, 600, 700 percent ... numbers nobody ever thought possible"

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”

www.mediamatters.org

David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 1d

There are usually no procedural principles in politics. Just substance.

Exhibit 1,784,382.

Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: In 2003, Texas Republicans backed strict limits on medical malpractice lawsuits.

Now, 2 decades later, many are urging the TX Supreme Court to reinterpret that statute in cases transgender care. And the court appears very open to doing so.
#txlege
www.expressnews.com/politics/art...

Republicans push court to make it easier for 'detransitioners' to sue doctors

A case before the Texas Supreme Court could make Texas doctors more likely to face legal action when helping adults transition.

www.expressnews.com

David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 2d

the best people

Tom Dreisbach @tomdreisbach.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN:

A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was convicted by a Florida jury of sexually abusing children, including an 11-year-old.

Per police, Andrew Paul Johnson tried to bribe one of his victims by promising to share expected Jan. 6 restitution money from the Trump admin.

Dr. Meredith Wills @bbl-astrophyscs.bsky.social · 2d

I know I’m fixating, but “shooting down party balloons and using it as a pretext for war” is literally the “99 Luftballons” story arc. 🎈🤯 (Even “Miami 2017” didn’t map this closely.)

Wikipedia entry describing the story arc of “99 Luftballons”:

The lyrics of the original German version tell a story:

99 balloons are mistaken for UFOs, causing a military general to send pilots to investigate. Finding nothing but balloons, the pilots put on a large show of firepower. The display of force worries the nations along the borders and the defence ministers on each side encourage conflict to grab power for themselves.

In the end, a cataclysmic war results from the otherwise harmless flight of balloons and causes devastation on all sides without a victor, as indicated in the denouement of the song: "99 Jahre Krieg ließen keinen Platz für Sieger," which means "99 years of war left no room for victors." The anti-war song finishes with the singer walking through the devastated ruins of the world and finding a single balloon. The description of what happens in the final line of the piece is the same in German and English:
'''Denk' an dich und lass' ihn fliegen," or "Think of you and let it go."[11]

Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: In 2003, Texas Republicans backed strict limits on medical malpractice lawsuits.

Now, 2 decades later, many are urging the TX Supreme Court to reinterpret that statute in cases transgender care. And the court appears very open to doing so.
#txlege
www.expressnews.com/politics/art...

Republicans push court to make it easier for 'detransitioners' to sue doctors

A case before the Texas Supreme Court could make Texas doctors more likely to face legal action when helping adults transition.

www.expressnews.com

David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 2d

Google AI still can't count apparently.

(I have run this search from time to time over the past couple of years and it is always wrong.)

Google AI saying there are only 5 i's in the word 'invisibilities' - there are 6.

David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 2d

does someone want to tell him....?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Jim Jordan: "You have a right to protest in the street, but that doesn't give you a right to go into the Capitol and disrupt Congress"

Tom Dreisbach @tomdreisbach.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN:

A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was convicted by a Florida jury of sexually abusing children, including an 11-year-old.

Per police, Andrew Paul Johnson tried to bribe one of his victims by promising to share expected Jan. 6 restitution money from the Trump admin.

Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 2d

In this @slate.com piece, @dsc250.bsky.social (Drexel) and @carolejoffe.bsky.social (@ucsfmedicine.bsky.social) tell the story of how a new abortion clinic opened in deep-red Wyoming post-Dobbs and helped lead to the state Supreme Court striking down its abortion ban.

Learn more:

How One Clinic Saved Abortion Access in a Deep-Red State

Julie’s involvement with abortion care began in 2001, when she began work with Dr. George Tiller.

slate.com

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Jim Jordan: "You have a right to protest in the street, but that doesn't give you a right to go into the Capitol and disrupt Congress"

David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 2d

We the people…

Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress

www.nytimes.com

David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 3d

I sure wish the lawyers challenging the tariffs in the Supreme Court could submit this clip to the Justices.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "So I put on a 30% tariff, which is very low. I got an emergency call from I believe the prime minister of Switzerland. She was very aggressive ... I didn't really like the way she talked to us, so instead of giving her a reduction, I raised it to 39%."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "So I put on a 30% tariff, which is very low. I got an emergency call from I believe the prime minister of Switzerland. She was very aggressive ... I didn't really like the way she talked to us, so instead of giving her a reduction, I raised it to 39%."

David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 3d

Every second he is still in the presidency is an abomination. Come on @bardcollege.bsky.social

Renee D. Becerra @reneedbecerra.bsky.social · 3d

Leon Botstein absolutely has to leave Bard College

David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 3d

Every poll that makes it look more and more likely that the Democrats will take the Senate this November makes it more and more likely both Alito and Thomas will retire this summer.

Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not into prediction markets... but this has all of the makings of a SCOTUS retirement. His book goes on sale on October 6, 2026--the day after OT2026 starts . . . and now a new hagiographic biography? Hmmmmmm.

Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not into prediction markets... but this has all of the makings of a SCOTUS retirement. His book goes on sale on October 6, 2026--the day after OT2026 starts . . . and now a new hagiographic biography? Hmmmmmm.

David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 3d

That's nothing but argle-bargle. She should hide her head in a bag.

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 3d

One of Antonin Scalia's kids allegedly said that she was relieved that her father died when he did, because he would be so "upset" at how "coarse" and "polarized" politics has become, which makes me wonder if Scalia's children have any idea who their dad was www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The justice nodded in agreement. I hadn’t expected this observation to lead directly to discussion of Scalia and his legacy, but Alito’s reply began: “Even since Nino died, things are so different. I so often wish he were still here. He started so much and it would have been good to have him around to see it to completion.”
Conservatives now boast a 6-3 majority on the court and are reshaping the law for a generation, but Scalia almost certainly wouldn’t have been happy to see how American politics have grown coarser and more polarized than ever before. One of Scalia’s children, I related, had told me she felt grateful to God for taking her father at that moment because it spared the principled originalist, a celebrant of Latin Mass and the American Founding, from witnessing so much that would have upset him.
“He would have been appalled at so much,” Alito agreed.

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 3d

One of Antonin Scalia's kids allegedly said that she was relieved that her father died when he did, because he would be so "upset" at how "coarse" and "polarized" politics has become, which makes me wonder if Scalia's children have any idea who their dad was www.politico.com/news/magazin...

David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 3d

I'll say it again - AI companies and their boosters have drastically underestimated how much people care about accuracy.

Hallucinations are not just a silly side problem with AI. They are a foundational problem that, until solved, dooms this technology.

Luc Rocher @rocher.lc · 4d

⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.

Banner image with screenshot of scientific article from nature Medicine, as well as two panels from the study method and results

David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 4d

are they happening by accident? It's not clear

David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 4d

Found one from last night! From Dove (again).

Luc Rocher @rocher.lc · 4d

⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.

404 Media @404media.co · 4d

“In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were given opposite advice,” the study’s authors wrote. “One user was told to lie down in a dark room, and the other user was given the correct recommendation to seek emergency care.”

Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn't ready to take on the role of the physician.”

www.404media.co

Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 4d

Over the past three weeks, the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible www.vox.com/politics/478...

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