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"the campaign to “Desegregate CT” will “deconcentrate poverty” in the city, not end it...City Hall’s push for more suburban “affordable” housing is not about Black and Latino community justice, it’s about planning their further push out of the city." ctmirror.org/category/ct-vi…

Just received concerning data coming soon from UCLA and Mount Sinai clinicians about lymphopenia, covid and breast cancer metastases. Sadly our concerns of the increasing incidence of metastatic disease and recurrences of patients in remission following Covid and worse with lymphopenia is being validated. Data soon at AACR this month.

A tense start to final pandemic accord talks as African countries reject the latest draft, warning it fails to fix the inequities exposed by COVID-19. The question now: can global consensus still be reached? ✍️ @kerrycullinan11 @AfricaCDC @CeHDI_health healthpolicy-watch.news/tense-start-to…

This one is hard to watch. An older adult living with rats in their apartment and being left to deal with it alone This is what happens when housing fails people. You cannot separate public health from housing justice because conditions like this make people sick. #PublicHealth

Deregulation was supposed to induce competition. Neoliberals would say this is competition, but has the cost of financing or the ease with which one obtains it improved?

The poverty line went from $30k to $55k in half a decade man

This is quite obviously a threat to use nuclear weapons. It is very important to recognise this.

🚨 Holy shit… Deloitte was charged $1.6 million for a healthcare report filled with AI-hallucinated citations. This is the second time in two months they’ve been caught. First an Australian government agency. Now a Canadian province’s Department of Health. And their response? They “stand by the conclusions.” Let me translate that for you: “The AI made up the sources, but trust us, the advice is still good.” That’s a $1.6 million report. For a healthcare system. With fake citations that nobody at Deloitte bothered to verify before submitting. Not an intern’s draft. The final deliverable. The Australian incident was supposed to be a wake-up call. Deloitte even partially refunded that government for the errors. You’d think after publicly embarrassing themselves once, someone would have implemented a basic fact-checking step before hitting send on the next million-dollar engagement. They didn’t. And here’s what makes this story bigger than Deloitte. Every major consulting firm is racing to integrate AI into their workflows. McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Accenture. They’re all doing it. Because AI lets them produce reports faster with fewer junior analysts, which means higher margins on the same $500/hour billing rates. But the entire consulting business model is built on one thing: trust. You’re paying for credibility. You’re paying so that when you hand the report to your board or your minister, nobody questions the sources. The moment that trust breaks, the math changes completely. Why pay $1.6 million for AI-generated analysis with fake citations when you could run the same prompts yourself for $20/month and at least know to check the sources? That’s the real disruption nobody’s talking about. AI isn’t going to replace consulting firms by being smarter than them. It’s going to replace them by revealing that a huge percentage of consulting work was always just expensive research and formatting. And now the clients have access to the same tools. Deloitte’s problem isn’t that they used AI. It’s that they used AI the way most people use AI: paste in a request, take the output at face value, ship it. No verification layer. No human review of citations. No system. The firms that survive this era won’t be the ones who use AI the fastest. They’ll be the ones who build actual verification systems around AI output. The ones who treat AI as a first draft, not a final product. $1.6 million. Fake citations. Twice in two months. And they stand by the conclusions. The consulting industry’s biggest threat isn’t AI. It’s clients realizing they don’t need to pay someone else to hallucinate.

This is what’s really going to hurt the social media world of ripping off legitimate news sources and passing them off as your own. Lots of people use the AP’s reporting and photos without actually subscribing to the wire service. The AP starts to go, it all starts to go.

Mamdani seems to be folding on abolishing the NYPD gang database, one of the few concrete NYPD reforms he campaigned on (after repudiating his earlier police abolitionist politics).

SARS-CoV-2 directly infects the inner ear in a mouse model and causes hearing dysfunction #LongCovid cell.com/cell-reports/f…

I've heard the words, "Covid masks" from many people, including doctors & the media. Masks were available & worn long before Covid. Linking masks directly to Covid gives people more excuses not to wear them as they can convince themselves Covid is over so "Covid masks" not needed

The federal govt wants to end the block on new leasing for mineral extraction at Chaco Canyon. They announced a 7-day comment period and it ends tomorrow, April 7. Submit a comment now to remind the govt of their obligations to tribes. nativenewsonline.net/environment/ac…

Karl-Anthony Towns is the fastest player in NBA history to eclipse 16,000 points, 8,000 rebounds and 1,000 three-pointers (718 career games). He's also the seventh player in NBA history to accomplish this.

HOUSTON (AP) — Artemis II breaks Apollo 13’s distance record as humans travel farther from Earth than ever before.

Quite simply, this must be stopped.

Bloomberg acknowledges that the US war on Iran is backfiring, undermining the petrodollar system that gives the US empire so much power. Gulf regimes are exporting significantly less oil, and they're not reinvesting those petrodollars in US assets. Meanwhile, many foreign central banks have been selling US Treasury securities (US government debt) to prevent their currencies from depreciating, leading to US bond yields rising markedly -- not falling, as they typically did in past crises, when investors engaged in a "flight to safety". The US financial sector is losing its perception of having "safe haven" status. This means that both key aspects of the petrodollar system are breaking: there are fewer oil exports in dollars (Iran wants oil to be traded in Chinese yuan), and there are fewer petrodollars recycled into US financial assets.

gentrifiers mad about............................... poverty.

Delusion is a hell of a drug.

#CUBA: Cuba is to receive electricity from the Turkish floating power plant Belgin Sultan, which is now moored at the port of Havana. "Currently grappling with a severe energy crisis, the island will get a crucial boost thanks to this Turkish floating station,” local media said.

Just a quick reminder that the more journalists lose their job, the bigger this democracy crisis gets. There’s a strong chance your local newspaper uses AP content to fill space because they are also short staffed. So if the AP crumbles, that’s a big problem!!