BeatenMacaque
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@BeatenMacaque
Lurker. Former exit liquidity. LARP.
This is Melody, humanoid for AI companionship. Tuned specifically for social & emotional exchanges. Maintains eye contact, recalls context & handles dialogue. uses facial actuators + skin material to make these expressions feel responsive & human-like.
back in my day we used to buy charts like this, wait, then get rich
🚨#BREAKING: A Ninth scientist linked to secret US space and nuclear programs dies with no cause of death listed.
American medical student just did “horrifying math” on her student loans - Her amount due is $396,945.67 - Annual interest rate: 5.875% - Monthly interest accrual: $1,943.38 Her monthly resident paycheck is $4,054.98 HALF her income goes to just interest… She says if she pays nothing toward interest, the loan would grow to roughly $600,000 by the time she finishes residency Interest rates on student loans are predatory and should be illegal. This is usury
Physicians, in aggregate, are not compensated commensurately with the value they create. The deeper issue is not clinical skill or effort. It is coordination. As a profession, physicians have rarely acted with collective intent to secure what is structurally theirs. Over time, key domains were ceded, quietly and incrementally, to a small set of policy actors and intermediaries in Washington. Hospital ownership. Graduate medical education funding. Academic training pathways. Insurance design and control. Employee benefits infrastructure. Employer-based clinics. Professional fee structures. Core healthcare software and data systems. These were not lost in a single moment. They were transferred, piece by piece, without a unified response. There was no sustained counterweight. No organized resistance. While control shifted outward, physicians remained fragmented, often directing their energy toward one another rather than toward the structures reshaping their profession. The consequences are visible. Patients bear the cost. Outcomes lag. The system grows more complex and less accountable. There are exceptions. A minority of physicians do engage, organize, and push back, and when they do, they are formidable. Supporting them is both necessary, worthwhile, and a joy! But at the level of the whole, the profession has not operated as a coordinated economic or political force. In that vacuum, others have stepped in to define the terms.
Did an emergency crani in the middle of the night for a young girl with an epidural hematoma and a blown pupil. Got scolded by an administrator the next day for failing to include a 10-point review of systems in my H&P.
No surgeon. No anesthesiologist. One physician. Packed ED. @jessicasinghmd stabilized a critically ill patient with blood in their airway. Shift ends. The incoming physician, also an administrator, says in front of staff: "I need you to function." She reported it. Was told this person "was known for this." Had made other administrators cry. That was the culture. She left. Not because of the clinical work. Because the people who should have her back in life-or-death moments couldn't even acknowledge a successful resuscitation. Her advice now: don't accuse, observe. "I noticed this, and here's its impact." And if you don't feel safe saying it alone, bring a third party. Episode is in the comments. #PhysicianBurnout #PsychologicalSafety #EmergencyMedicine
Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software. It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans. anthropic.com/glasswing
Yesterday’s Mythos announcement from Anthropic was overblown. • Sandboxing was turned off, so test didn’t show much about the real world. • Cheap open-weight models can (already) do some similar stuff • No evidence that Mythos itself is a major qualitative jump. In short, we got played. cc @tomfriedman @RonanFarrow
When you adjust a neurosurgeons pay for 40 hour weeks, their salary drops from a reported $749k to $483k. Now imagine 4 years undergrad, 4 years med school, 7-10 years residency, 300k debt to for an effective 483k pre-tax. You just started and you’re 20 years from using your 401k
When you adjust a neurosurgeons pay for 40 hour weeks, their salary drops from a reported $749k to $483k. Now imagine 4 years undergrad, 4 years med school, 7-10 years residency, 300k debt to for an effective 483k pre-tax. You just started and you’re 20 years from using your 401k
New York City spent roughly as much per homeless person as the city’s median household income last fiscal year, per Newsweek.
When you adjust a neurosurgeons pay for 40 hour weeks, their salary drops from a reported $749k to $483k. Now imagine 4 years undergrad, 4 years med school, 7-10 years residency, 300k debt to for an effective 483k pre-tax. You just started and you’re 20 years from using your 401k
🚨BREAKING: Police just released video of two homeowners being beaten and zip-tied by three illegal aliens during a home invasion in Miami. The Democrat Party let in millions of these thugs and are committed to keeping them here no matter how many Americans are murdered.
