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@Davelite93 @AdamSinger @TimConley It's not either/or. People aren't talking about unpaid leave. We get the pay *and* the time off.

@AdamSinger @TimConley I'd rather get paid for 3 months than take 3 months off. I don't need 3 whole months, that's crazy. There's also a reason the US is an economic powerhouse and much of Europe is floundering

Americans: we are financially better off than you Europeans: thank you for your email, I'm currently out of office on annual summer vacation until 30th sept, 2026

A DOCTOR WARNED THEM IN 2003. 62 WOMEN ARE DEAD. In 2003, Dr Andrew Stockdale, a consultant oncologist at Heart of England NHS Trust (@uhbtrust), walked into a multidisciplinary team meeting and told colleagues what he was seeing. Women who should have had one mastectomy were coming back for two, three, more. He had figured out why: Ian Paterson was leaving cancer tissue behind on purpose, running what he called a "cleavage-sparing mastectomy" that nobody had approved and nobody was questioning. Stockdale reported it. To the GMC (@gmcuk). To meetings. To anyone who would listen. The meetings, by his own description, were not exactly open forums. Paterson was, quote, "a forthright individual who held firm views." The chest walls of women he had operated on still had enough breast tissue to fit a bra. Stockdale, an oncologist, knew that was wrong. He referred them. They went back to Paterson. Paterson operated on them again. Nothing happened. For seven more years, nothing happened. Paterson was not suspended until 2011. By then he had treated 11,000 patients. The 2020 public inquiry estimated more than 1,000 of them were actively harmed. In October 2024, Stockdale gave evidence to a coroner's inquest covering the deaths of 62 women. The inquiry found that Heart of England NHS Trust and Spire Healthcare (@spirehealthcare) had received multiple warnings and failed to act on any of them. The 2013 Kennedy Review put it plainly: whistleblowers do not fare well in the NHS. It described the institution as inward-looking, over-defensive, and prone to destroy those who suggest the emperor has no clothes. Dr Stockdale was not destroyed. He was just ignored, which in the NHS is apparently the next best thing. Paterson is in prison, serving 20 years. The system that let him operate for a decade after the first warning received a report with 15 recommendations. The government said it would respond. Then COVID happened. Then they responded in December 2021. Then they published a progress update. And somewhere in that bureaucratic relay race, 62 women's families are still waiting for a coroner's conclusions expected in 2026. One doctor. One warning. 2003. The rest is institutional arithmetic. Sources: @itvnews, @BBCNews, @guardian, @PSLearning, minhalexander_com, Ian Kennedy Review 2013, Paterson Inquiry Report February 2020.

@GAL4_sixteen @collinstimbela_ In a few. Many regulate well outside the family. Many domestic abusers charm neighbours & are well liked at work. See all the news articles with people lining up to say they're shocked 'such a nice man' did horrible things, and good character defences in court. It's a choice.

@collinstimbela_ Refusal to regulate might be the wrong word..I grew up with this man, it’s a total inability to regulate, a skill that never developed in childhood. He tries to regulate much like an overweight person tries to limit what they eat, unsuccessfully

A grumpy man can control a family without ever raising his voice. He just has to make his displeasure expensive enough. A long silence at dinner. A ruined car ride. Soon, everyone starts pre-adjusting. The kids are told “not now” before they can ask. She chooses the restaurant he likes, the movie he won’t complain through, the route that avoids traffic because traffic makes him unbearable. This is how a household becomes organized around one person’s refusal to regulate themselves.

@emanumiller @SportSJA @guardian No AI required. 'Select all' and 'delete' will do the job.

@SportSJA @guardian Politics aside, never rated him. His propensity for self-indulging, verbose irrelevant quips, snipes and metaphors are quite annoying. Was delighted when he left the Telegraph. Someone needs to create an AI tool to strip his columns of fluff and leave the actual sports writing.

🏆✍️ WINNER! Jonathan Liew (@guardian) is named SJA Columnist of the Year at the British Sports Journalism Awards, sponsored by Canon. 🥇#SJA2025 #BritishSportsJournalismAwards #sportsmedia #sportsjournalism

Day 1682 Day 1682 of silence for millions of girls denied their right to education. Classrooms remain empty, not because students are gone, but because they are forbidden to enter. @KarimKhurram_KK @Rewayat10 Education is not a privilege it is a right.

@jan_murray What a grudging and graceless non-apology.

🚨 UPDATE: Scope has reversed its decision and reinstated my choir Pleased to say Scope has now reinstated the invitation for my choir to perform at the London Marathon tomorrow. While this is a win, the distress and uncertainty caused by this situation has taken its toll. At present, only one fellow choir member has said they feel comfortable performing tomorrow. Understandably so. In a statement published on their website this evening, they’ve confirmed the choir is not political - and never was. They also acknowledge that my gender-critical beliefs, cited as the reason for dropping us, are lawful -and that those views are mine and separate from the choir as a whole. All of which we knew all along. However, they go on to describe gender-critical views as “highly polarising” and potentially “deeply upsetting and alienating” - language and ideological framing that echoes previous public commentary that presented my lawful, mainstream views as extreme. While this is a win, the distress and uncertainty caused by this situation has taken its toll. At present, only one fellow choir member has said they feel comfortable performing tomorrow. We are now considering our options.

@gjquartermaine @heynavtoor @PamelaR1215 I assume that standard format is not entirely multiple choice checkboxes. It includes free text. Removing variations in layout doesn't remove the problem of who - or what - writes that text, and who - or what - analyses what is written.

Interesting research. That said, I've assessed CVs for 40 years. It's part of the job bidding for projects. Almost all public sector agencies provide a required format, so each CV is identical in its presentation. That quickly removes any presentational bias to focus on substance. In other cases, for example, we have our own format for in-house CVs, the key is to focus on substance. If one candidate is better qualified and more experienced than another, no amount of AI jiggery-pokery will change that.

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT. The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time. A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B. Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself. GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won. Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective. It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect. Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance. 99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time. If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars. Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

Mainstream entertainment shouldn't normalise sexual choking. Nothing should. Please ask the BBC and EBU to make Eurovision follow its own rules banning inappropriate content. #NoSafeWayToStrangle c.org/xcypkndBZD

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

@Lindy_Loo15 @staylorish @DeidreBrock It's also harder to use the Internet if you can't read and write.

@staylorish @DeidreBrock You have to first understand arithmetic to properly use a calculator otherwise… Rubbish in = Rubbish out Much like the SNP government.

At Edinburgh Southern hustings, SNP candidate @DeidreBrock has just said that reading, writing, and arithmetic is not something she subscribes to in education, because modern kids have calculators. This has understandably caused consternation in the audience.

@glasgowsportsfa @SarahPedersen2 How many female military dress uniforms include a miniskirt?

@SarahPedersen2 Yes Prof Sarah, I can … it’s a dress outfit. None of the athletes in the games will actually be competing in these outfits. It’s a bit like a soldier having a dress uniform.

Can someone please explain why we are putting our female athletes in short skirts and high heels??

@CallMeBayGirl @Grumblebum6 @WingsScotland @lottalottebotte There appear to be 2 Esthers who have been granted honours. Esther Abla Mawufenya ANYIDOHO (Member of the St John Association of Ghana) and Esther Nina Dawn HORTON (Member of the Order of St John, Priory of New Zealand). Married/maiden name difference is possible.

@Grumblebum6 @WingsScotland @lottalottebotte Surely that secretary is legit she has a CBE for goodness sake. LOL

Here’s mysterious new LGBT Youth Scotland convenor Tim Westwood on his LinkedIn page, and failed Labour council candidate Tim Westwood from 2022 🧐

@x22Report110 @WingsScotland Hard to confirm the identity of someone who hides behind fake pictures and a fake CV.

@WingsScotland If there are concerns about an individual’s role or conduct in an organisation, those should be based on confirmed identity and credible sources, not assumptions drawn from name similarity

@WingsScotland At least that first photos looks human. A very badly photoshopped human, but better than the other attempts.

@adamross @dieworkwear @CathyYoung63 And apparently Emperor Constantine, judging by the post above yours. Some people really know how to hold a grudge.

@dieworkwear @CathyYoung63 Who knew so many people were still upset about Vatican II—not to mention, the Crusades.

never seen someone get excommunicated by a community note

@deputyassi38811 @sappholives83 "By the end of college", so those are the figures by age 21 for most of them. What do they do over the next 60 years?

@sappholives83 grok... broader sexual assault perpetration (including verbal coercion, unwanted contact, etc.): Often 22–57%, review of 78 samples finding an average of ~29%. male college students: By end of college, 14% reported attempted or completed rape; 34% reported any sexual assault.

An independent review of 72 separate studies found that an average of 29% of men surveyed admitted to having committed sexual assault, and 6% admitted to having committed at least one rape. When they changed the wording from “have you committed rape” to “have you forced a woman to have sex with you,” that last number jumped up to 12%. And these were just the men who were willing to admit their crimes to total strangers. Women and girls live with the threat of rape and sexual assault hanging over our heads like the sword of Damocles from the moment we draw our first breath until our bodies are so decomposed that sexual violation is no longer physically possible. There is no such thing as a female human being who is so old, so young, so ugly, so fat, so dirty, so smelly, so physically or mentally disabled, so mentally ill, so comatose, or so dead that no man will rape her. Homeless women experience especially high levels of sexual violence — but no woman or girl is ever immune. The youngest victim of sexual assault of whom I am aware was abused on video even before her umbilical cord was cut. The youngest rape victim - and I do mean rape - that I’m aware of was two hours old. The oldest was 93. In my personal experience, I’ve worked with rape victims who were as young as 3 months old, and the oldest victim I’ve personally seen was 89. I didn’t work with her, though — she died of shock and blood loss on her own kitchen floor after her male assailant shoved two and a half feet of mop handle into her vagina three times, the last time so savagely that you could see the end of it protruding as a lump under her skin about two inches below her sternum. 25% of US women will report a rape at some point. 63% of rape goes unreported, and 90% of rape victims are women. You do the math. And that’s in the US, where women and girls aren’t legally able to be sold into marriage against our will. A girl forced into marriage may be raped tens of thousands of times over the course of her life, and none of it is ever reported, or included in the already horrific statistics on the sexual abuse of women and girls — the latter of whom make up 82% of abused children, even though preferential pedophiles (men who are only interested in children) usually go for boys. Girls are the favored target of opportunistic offenders, men who sexually abuse children simply because they can. In other words, the overwhelming majority of child predators are men who abuse little girls for no other reason than the fact that they are both female and vulnerable. They’re not abused specifically because they are children, but because they are girls. Now imagine what it’s like to grow up with this knowledge: to have to be constantly on your guard around half the population from childhood on. To live side by side with the beings most likely to violate and murder you — and who, when you try to discuss the subject, get angry, accuse you of either not trusting good men or being too trusting of the bad ones, and do everything in their power to pin the blame for their behavior squarely on you. Every woman knows multiple rape survivors, if she’s not one herself — and so does every man. More to the point, perhaps, is that every man also knows men who sexually assault women - whether or not he is aware of their behavior, or will admit to it if he is. Furthermore, I have never discussed sexual assault/male violence with a woman who didn’t turn out to have a story of her own. Not even once, not in 42 years. And you know what’s really gross? The fact that I can tell you these things, and your first concern is automatically whether or not I prefaced my statement with a disclaimer that allows you to tell yourself that it’s not your problem.

@DalgetySusan @boswelltoday Well, that's much more convincing. I'm definitely certain he's a real human now.

Tim has a new profile pic.

@JerryClackson @ameliabombelia @HagFeminist @helenhairnets @psynthetic_ Or fly off like a pair of deflating balloons.

@ameliabombelia @HagFeminist @helenhairnets @psynthetic_ I think they’ll shrivel and end up like raisins. 😂

the single strongest argument for giving trans ppl hrt is that it works. the fact that you can actually, meaningfully, change your sex needs to be at the forefront of all trans advocacy/education going forward

@SpencrGreenberg Dratted touch screen took a screen repositioning as a vote. Please move 1 vote across when calculating totals.

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Can you tell which of these four fruit still lifes were made by AI and which were made by a 19th-century painter? At least one was painted by a human, and at least one was made by an AI. Place your guesses in the 4 surveys below: