Eric NMI
@ericnmi.bsky.social
In-house counsel, health care. From the very cold part of the country. Interested in science and tech. Not as serious as I should be.
New to Bluesky Nov '24, and trying to re-create my Twitter feed from the Before times
New to Bluesky Nov '24, and trying to re-create my Twitter feed from the Before times
How quickly federalist principles get abandoned when they are inconvenient
Noem on Minnesota officials: "They have not been cut out. They don't have any jurisdiction in this investigation."
January 8, 2026 at 8:40 PM
How quickly federalist principles get abandoned when they are inconvenient
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Stephen Miller, who wants the U.S. to steal Greenland and shake down Latin America, says: ”We live in a world … that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
That‘s a criminal pretending that a civilized world is impossible.
That‘s a criminal pretending that a civilized world is impossible.
January 6, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Stephen Miller, who wants the U.S. to steal Greenland and shake down Latin America, says: ”We live in a world … that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
That‘s a criminal pretending that a civilized world is impossible.
That‘s a criminal pretending that a civilized world is impossible.
I have a kid starting college in 2026, so this is just fine
January 1, 2026 at 11:16 PM
I have a kid starting college in 2026, so this is just fine
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If you're in or around NYC, this beautiful dog desperately needs a home. I guarantee he will make your hard days bearable and your best days better. Please consider adopting, so he doesn't have to suffer in this kennel.
This account also has some other great soon-to-be best friends in NYC
This account also has some other great soon-to-be best friends in NYC
Zeke 241260
Kill Command
#NYCACC #AdoptMe
He is a cute 2 yr old with a great smile
A big teddy bear
Not faring well in kennel, jumping & spinning off kennel walls
Help save Zeke!
#Pledge4Rescue #foster #adopt
Kill Command
#NYCACC #AdoptMe
He is a cute 2 yr old with a great smile
A big teddy bear
Not faring well in kennel, jumping & spinning off kennel walls
Help save Zeke!
#Pledge4Rescue #foster #adopt
December 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
If you're in or around NYC, this beautiful dog desperately needs a home. I guarantee he will make your hard days bearable and your best days better. Please consider adopting, so he doesn't have to suffer in this kennel.
This account also has some other great soon-to-be best friends in NYC
This account also has some other great soon-to-be best friends in NYC
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I have seen DOJ do some strange redactions before, but this is up there:
December 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I have seen DOJ do some strange redactions before, but this is up there:
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Senator Durbin has had this explained to him multiple times. Getting rid of 230 doesn't help this, but will make it worse. It will make it impossible for smaller sites to exist (like this one) and will give MORE POWER to companies like Meta and X.
Why would Durbin want to do that?
Why would Durbin want to do that?
Children are being exploited and abused because Big Tech consistently prioritizes profits over people.
Enough is enough. Time to sunset Section 230.
Enough is enough. Time to sunset Section 230.
December 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Senator Durbin has had this explained to him multiple times. Getting rid of 230 doesn't help this, but will make it worse. It will make it impossible for smaller sites to exist (like this one) and will give MORE POWER to companies like Meta and X.
Why would Durbin want to do that?
Why would Durbin want to do that?
I cannot understand looking at our world, and whatever problems and challenges we face and thinking "Things will improve with more violence."
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I cannot understand looking at our world, and whatever problems and challenges we face and thinking "Things will improve with more violence."
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Judge Behm: "LLMs do not perform the metacognitive processes that are necessary to comply with Rule 11" 🤖😵
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Memorandum Opinion & Order – #176 in Jarrus v. Governor of Michigan (E.D. Mich., 4:25-cv-11168) – CourtListener.com
OPINION and ORDER on Order to Show Cause and Imposing Sanctions for Use of Chat GPT (Fines to be paid by 2/2/2026). Signed by District Judge F. Kay Behm. (KCol)
storage.courtlistener.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Judge Behm: "LLMs do not perform the metacognitive processes that are necessary to comply with Rule 11" 🤖😵
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
Some people will see this information, run it through the cognitive dissonance machine, and decide that rugpulling more college research is the best course of action.
Women have had it. 2 out of 5 said they'd like to permanently move to another country.
That's four times as high as in 2014.
21 points higher than among young men.
Only 19% of men expressed a similar desire.
No other wealthy country has numbers like these
www.axios.com/2025/11/13/t...
That's four times as high as in 2014.
21 points higher than among young men.
Only 19% of men expressed a similar desire.
No other wealthy country has numbers like these
www.axios.com/2025/11/13/t...
Record share of women want to leave U.S. for good — more than double that of men
That's four times as high as in 2014.
www.axios.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Some people will see this information, run it through the cognitive dissonance machine, and decide that rugpulling more college research is the best course of action.
And all of it is infused with seething contempt for the Americans around him. A society will not function when contempt pushes out basic human respect and decency.
Contempt ruins marriages, workplaces - and societies.
Contempt ruins marriages, workplaces - and societies.
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
And all of it is infused with seething contempt for the Americans around him. A society will not function when contempt pushes out basic human respect and decency.
Contempt ruins marriages, workplaces - and societies.
Contempt ruins marriages, workplaces - and societies.
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Philosophy vs the Terminator -
existentialcomics.com/comic/626
existentialcomics.com/comic/626
Philosophy vs the Terminator
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
existentialcomics.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Philosophy vs the Terminator -
existentialcomics.com/comic/626
existentialcomics.com/comic/626
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If you're going to do health care by risk pools, excluding all the lowest utilizers maybe isn't the best idea.
DeSantis said “Most people, particularly under 50, what they really need is a catastrophic plan that’s affordable, where then they can pay whatever they’re doing out of a health savings account.”
floridapolitics.com/archives/761...
floridapolitics.com/archives/761...
Ron DeSantis says people under 50 don’t have much use for comprehensive health insurance
'Catastrophic care' should be enough for them.
floridapolitics.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
If you're going to do health care by risk pools, excluding all the lowest utilizers maybe isn't the best idea.
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I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
September 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
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Fleetwood Mac is a band made up of British and American musicians, yet the one named Lindsay Buckingham is not British.
September 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Fleetwood Mac is a band made up of British and American musicians, yet the one named Lindsay Buckingham is not British.
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Republicans are engaged in the most sweeping censorship campaign since the red scares, so naturally the priority is explaining how this is the fault of people out of power
September 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Republicans are engaged in the most sweeping censorship campaign since the red scares, so naturally the priority is explaining how this is the fault of people out of power
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There's a difference between a cultural phenomenon that defines what ideas are socially acceptable, i.e., the public self-regulates (folks can debate the proper limits of that), and the work of state actors to pressure, censor, and punish speech the government dislikes (presumptively never okay).
September 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
There's a difference between a cultural phenomenon that defines what ideas are socially acceptable, i.e., the public self-regulates (folks can debate the proper limits of that), and the work of state actors to pressure, censor, and punish speech the government dislikes (presumptively never okay).
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What causes war? Is it man’s endless capacity for hate?
WRONG! It’s your gut microbiome
WRONG! It’s your gut microbiome
September 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
What causes war? Is it man’s endless capacity for hate?
WRONG! It’s your gut microbiome
WRONG! It’s your gut microbiome
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if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
September 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
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BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
August 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
The article points out that slashing Medicaid does serious damage to rural nonprofit hospitals. I work for one. Why anyone would think it’s a good idea to make it harder for us to help the rural sick, and push other hospitals into bankruptcy, is beyond me.
Cutting Medicaid can seem like an easy way to slash the budget. But, the costs can spread to all of us.
The hidden costs of cutting Medicaid
Cutting Medicaid can seem like an easy way to slash the budget. But, the costs can spread to all of us.
n.pr
August 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The article points out that slashing Medicaid does serious damage to rural nonprofit hospitals. I work for one. Why anyone would think it’s a good idea to make it harder for us to help the rural sick, and push other hospitals into bankruptcy, is beyond me.
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Once again: LLMs are word-association algorithms. They are incapable of grokking that the words they parse correspond to actual objects & phenomena outside of their own algorithms. To an LLM, its statements depend not on facts but on how often words occur together in the material the're trained on.
Grok spread dangerous misinformation during the tsunami last night.
It confidently and persistently argued that there were no tsunami warnings in effect for various areas when such warnings were in effect.
Many were using Grok for updates since the ability to locate reliable data on X is degraded.
It confidently and persistently argued that there were no tsunami warnings in effect for various areas when such warnings were in effect.
Many were using Grok for updates since the ability to locate reliable data on X is degraded.
July 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Once again: LLMs are word-association algorithms. They are incapable of grokking that the words they parse correspond to actual objects & phenomena outside of their own algorithms. To an LLM, its statements depend not on facts but on how often words occur together in the material the're trained on.