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mloxton

@mloxton@med-mastodon.com

Healthcare improvement and strategic foresight analyst, professional trainer in qualitative research methods. Organizational behavior researcher. Board member at Blue Faery Liver Cancer. #Writer of stuff - #AmWriting

Read my #fiction titles on Amazon "The Screw Turns" at https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B09P5LLNZ1
See my Kindle Vela stories at https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0BLXHVVSY
... and my children's stories at https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0BLT56MG9

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mloxton, to random
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Dear university administrators. Calling the cops on student protesters is

a. guaranteed to result in greater violence
b. will damage your reputation for decades
c. will make the protests spread

grrrr_shark, to random
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The story about the late U of Utah retired chemist with the dynamite exploding in his house kind of hits me weirdly because the neighbourhood is one I lived in as a little kid and my dad got his PhD there. (For RL friends: YES, that is the location of the infamous bank parking lot)

Anyhow, I guess the dude was a grad student there around when my dad was, but I don't remember him. But it did drag me to the web page, which has an extensive history of the department, and ah... memories.

I used to sit on Bob Parry's lap and eat chocolates and chat with him. He always treated me like a special person and took me seriously. We were buddies. We used to go to parties at Goji Kodama's house and I adoooooored his kids. I managed to offend Jack Simons at about 3 years old (long story involving swearing), and, the glassblower, Hans Morrow, was not only a chess master who taught me checkers, but he was a wonderfully nice guy who kept me company while my dad was in class. So, well... yeah.

It's a weird and treasured part of my childhood, not related to the story at all, but it's dredged up a lot of feels.

Wish I could still talk to my dad.

At least HE isn't keeping weird chemicals around the house XD

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@grrrr_shark
Writing is sharing, sorta
Just saying

mloxton,
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@grrrr_shark
The void has infinite capacity :)

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@grrrr_shark
Right, and the thing about the void is that while it offers the latter as a certainty, there is always a non-zero probability that a voice coming back from the void will say "yes, I was there", or even more bizarrely, "Yes, I am that person"

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@grrrr_shark
Yah, as Dorothy Spring used to say, "people have the insufferably bad habit of dying".

So, the linkages in large numbers of distributed people can be very strange, and I have been one of those voices coming back

There was this old guy telling the void about soil survey trips he took in Africa when he was a fresh geologist, the Land Rover he rode in, and this very knowledgeable but irascible guy who led them. I could say, yes, that was my father, I was that kid that came along

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@grrrr_shark
Exactly!

... and the feeling of resonance and connection, and something just mysteriously cool when that happens.

So, by all means, tell the void of your experiences

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@grrrr_shark
Very cool, very strange, very entertaining :)

My one sibling was born in Ghana, my other in Tanzania, and I was born in South-Africa. Also, the primary school I went to was on the site of a concentration camp, and some of the buildings were the old camp admin offices. The graveyard was part of our playground.

There was a point when I was about eight, when it occurred to me that this was not normal, and that this was a very weird place

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@grrrr_shark
Of course, as kids, we habitually told each other ghost stories and ferreted around in the overgrown playground to see if we could find any bones ... as one does

mcnado, to random
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I don’t give a fuck what FDA is gearing up for with respect to fowl fever. What I care about is what HHS and DHS are doing with the National Strategic Stockpile.

If a lethal, contagious respiratory virus gets rolling like it’s 2020, we’ll be shit out of PPE in days, out of ventilators, out of sedatives, out of pressors, our of saline and lactated ringers, and out staff. How do I know? Because we already ran this scenario, and nothing has gotten better.

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@mcnado
It's snagging how quickly we learn
/s

clarkiestar, to actuallyautistic
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Can anyone recommend a true crime podcast where they actually solve the crime? @actuallyautistic teen is finding it very frustrating. Enjoys true crime - loves the investigative side - but thinks what’s the point if it doesn’t go anywhere. She’d like to listen to one where it comes to a conclusion on who the guilty party is

mloxton,
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@clarkiestar
"The Opportunist" has crimes and usually not gory

@actuallyautistic

mloxton, to random
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My latest short story at Physician's Weekly - free to read and no registration required

A hospital administration guy funds a grand lifestyle with underhanded deals, and ends up down under.

https://www.physiciansweekly.com/medical-fiction-clifford-and-the-missing-hospital-sheets/

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"President Biden on Wednesday warned he would stop supplying Israel with offensive weapons like bombs and artillery shells if Israeli forces launch an invasion of Rafah, laying down a clear line amid outcry over the conflict in Gaza.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4652482-biden-stop-offensive-weapons-israel-invade-rafah/

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@StillIRise1963
Unless I am mistaken, this is the first time a sitting US president has crimped the flow of aid and supply to them

OldAndCranky, to random
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I think that worm also ate any sense of decency.

mloxton,
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@OldAndCranky
So ironic that a parasite like him that feeds on society gets a parasite feeding on his brain

OldAndCranky, to random
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Does anyone else out there in the vast void (hi, void!) have trouble understanding animated content? I can't even deal with Lower Decks and I am a Trekkie. There's something about the cartoon image that makes my brain go kerblooey. I try to appreciate Miyazkaki, and films like the Spiderverse, things and my brain just checks out and starts thinking of other things. I can handle graphic novels, though. There's something about the...I want to say...lighting of animation or something. That make sense to anyone? I haz brain cooties.

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@OldAndCranky
Like you just get distracted, or the images are hard to process, ...?

gwynnion, to random
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Republicans and Democrats are unified in the belief that Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinians don't matter and deserve to die -- unless they're super rich and selling us oil, that is, like the Saudis.

mloxton,
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@gwynnion
Kinda the whole essence is all about punishment and shame and cruelty

GottaLaff, to legal
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🧵starts HERE.

REMEMBER: I can’t/won’t reply while live-posting. Please use NFL (Not For Laffy) so I can skip your reply, but NO hashtag on that. Thx.

1/…

Tyler McBrien::

Necheles rises to renew Trump's objection to Daniels testifying about any "sexual details," which she says has no relevance and is prejudicial.
By details, Merchan asks, more than just "we had sex"? Yes, Necheles says.

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@GottaLaff
Good luck with the house showing. I hope you get a good offer and this goes smoothly and efficiently for you.

mloxton,
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@GottaLaff
NFL
Paglierie may be thinking of "sfe" in terms of not getting the payment, and Daniels may be more thinking about physical safety and reputational safety

fkamiah17, to random
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Does anyone else get the feeling that, rather than listen to their own or their constituents' humanity and stop the genocide, the Powers That Be ™️ have decided to drop the last vestiges of pretence that the west is any kind of a democracy and go full fascist?

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@fkamiah17
No, because the powers that be are a reflection of the society, and how society deals with shocks and threats, and what it perceives as threats. The rightward shift towards fascism tells me that the broad population actually rather fancies the idea of a strongman dictator over a complicated democracy that includes minority voices, so long as the dictator is their guy.

mina, to Horror
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Railla surely was a great swordswoman, but will her weapon protect her against what is lurking in the swamp?

🖼️ ©Tomasz Jedruzcek

mloxton,
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@mina
Is it malaria?
Dang lurking skeeters

mloxton, to random
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Dort wo man Welpen erschießt, erschießt man am Ende auch Kinder.

GottaLaff, to random
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CREW:

The fact that Tim Scott is refusing to say he’d follow the law and not try to overthrow the results of a free and fair election should scare anyone listening. This is how democracies end.

👇🏼
WELKER: Will you commit to accepting the 2024 election results?

TIM SCOTT: At the end of the day, the 47th president will be Donald Trump

WELKER: Wait -- yes or no, will you accept the results?

TIM SCOTT: That is my statement

mloxton,
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@GottaLaff

Goddess, these guys ache so for facism

GottaLaff, to random
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1/... The quote:

MARGARET BRENNAN: Did you meet Kim Jong Un?

#KristiNoem As soon as this was brought to my attention, I made some changes and looked at this passage

BRENNAN: So you did not meet with Kim Jong Un?

NOEM: I've met with many world leaders. I'm not going to talk about specifics.

mloxton,
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@GottaLaff
Hachette must have a really shitty editorial crew to have that kind of basic fact-checking lapse

DrTCombs, to random
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hate having to ask this, but what are our most trusted AI detectors for writing assignments?

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@DrTCombs
They are called "Teaching Assistants"

mloxton,
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@DrTCombs
I was being facetious because there really are no trustworthy AI detectors

mloxton,
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@thehomespundays
Right, and unless you have horrendous levels of cheating, the number of false positives is going to outnumber the number of true positives.

I think it also just goes in the wrong direction. I would rather see a shift towards handing a student something the AI did, and to ask them to critique, edit, and fact-check it, and then add actual references. To my mind, that advances the craft, rather than trying to ward off the inevitable

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