Gaywallet

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

If you’re interested in getting to know more about this polarizing and interesting figure, I also really enjoyed the interviews with him by Andrew Callaghan www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwdkng6ZGp8 and www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-8kL04Tvfs

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

As a community, can we please stop this behavior? This isn’t an article, but even if it was an article, rushing to be the first person to leave a “gotcha”-style message doesn’t encourage a conversation. If you have an issue with a headline, it takes a trivial amount of time to explain what, specifically about the headline could be improved or wording that is more relevant to content that the author is presenting. You can also easily start a conversation about why sensationalizing the headline is damaging to individuals. By just pointing at wikipedia, or an xkcd, or leaving a comment like this, we’re encouraging reddit and twitter style vapid interactions which consist of who can make the best joke or flame the person who posted it the quickest.

This doesn’t promote a nice environment, when every article is met with “LAW OF HEADLINES, NO”. It’s exhausting to see. In most cases the person sharing the article isn’t who wrote the article, so they aren’t actually in control of writing it. Yes, they can choose new words to put into their post, but this platform auto-populates most links with the headline from the article, making it trivially easy to just hit submit. Focusing on the headline draws attention away from the article itself and any useful or fruitful discussion that can happen as a result of discussing the content, rather than the often <.05% of the content of the article that the headline constitutes.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

To be clear this was not meant as a criticism of you, specifically. I’m simply asking that we collectively stop this kind of behavior in general on this instance, for the reasons I outlined. If there is still a desire to criticize, that we do so in a way that is not simply stating the ‘law of headlines; no’, as that’s something that I’ve seen happen on Beehaw dozens of times.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

The author of this article has a clear bias and lets this bias lead their perception of accountable care organizations (ACO), despite it being perhaps the only existing lever within our system by which preventative and population health measures can actually be adopted. This complete misread of ACO and VBC (value based care) makes it difficult to view anything else the author says with credit. Which is a shame, because a fair deal of this history I’m familiar with and I completely agree that UHG is a fucking capitalistic nightmare plague on US healthcare costs.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

To me it sounded like they were saying ACO and VBC are both bad. In fact, it kinda felt like they were attributing their creation to UHG as some kinda malicious moneymaking scheme.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

But a lot of this is simply board members and C-Suite not allocating enough dollars for proper hardware, software, and strongly knowledgeable minds to implement good security.

The stolen data was encrypted, so all the hackers were doing was stopping business from being run. With that being said, if you think it’s just about ‘implementing good security’ I think you’re out of depth when it comes to just how large of an attack vector it is and how sophisticated the attacks can be. We’re talking about an industry where people are willing to cough up millions of dollars to recover data in some cases, meaning that it attracts some of the best talent in the world to coordinate attacks and the attacks can be extremely sophisticated.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

Accountable care organization. VBC = value based care.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

I’m not sure how to answer your question in a manner which doesn’t touch on the same points the author brings forward. Was something they said unclear or are there parts of my comment which you’d like me to elaborate upon?

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

Explaining what an ACO and what VBC are is far outside the scope of the educational burden I’m willing to take on. Instead, have some links:

• Here’s a high level review article on accountable care organizations in the United States.
• Here’s a high level review article on value based care and what it includes in the United States.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

She tried to paint ACOs as the brainchild of UHG specifically, as a means to extract wealth from an existing system. That ignores the current state of ACOs and the many which are able to reduce overall healthcare costs and in many cases reduce administrative costs. Yes, the US healthcare system is broken. Yes, it’s very simple to view this as a “band aid on a fundamentally flawed system” and yes, there’s still room for “corruption to continue”. None of that is in conflict with what I stated. I merely took issue with the framing that UHG is responsible for the creation of ACOs and VBC as that’s just factually incorrect, and it suggests the framing that ACOs are not providing any value to the system or being useful in any way- this is contradicted in the article I linked as well as plenty of other published literature by organizations which are notably not UHG.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

You can also very easily run the bridges yourself if you don’t trust them. I do so in my homelab, it was 10 minutes of work setting it all up. Super stable, and e2e from my side.

Do you have a guide or list of links?

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

Glad to see this highlighted this year, providing visibility to unique intersectional identities and the problems they face is really useful to help others understand the struggles they go through and ways in which they can help.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

Hell yea this rules

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

ah shoot just realized this is a duplicate of another post! Removing

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

This is an oversimplification of processes that happen during sleep. This has to do with fat metabolism in brain cells mediated through the effect of specific gene variants.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

If we ignore the costs, wouldn’t it be mostly a game of probabilities? If that’s the case it would be a matter of repeating the treatment often enough to reduce the probability of the virus returning to effectively 0.

Yes, but a game of probabilities can mean that the management of a chronic condition becomes easier. It takes a certain amount of time for HIV to activate into AIDS. Modern management of HIV is a daily medication where dosage has a lot to do with what state you catch HIV in. With something like this, even if we cannot completely remove HIV from the person’s system, we may be able to reverse it to a state where it can be managed by the existing immune system and eliminated/cured, or at the very least can reduce how much of the medication one needs to be taking to keep things in check.

To patients treatments like this might mean that in the future they may simply need to take a single pill or injection or undergo a minor procedure (such as an implant) much less often than once per day. This could greatly reduce the anxiety that one might experience around the question of whether they took their medication that day, or even remove the burden of having to refill/take a medication daily because it is instead an injection or procedure or implant.

We are, of course, a LONG way from this being possible as human application of CRISPR is extremely limited and extremely expensive (we’ve cured sickle cell anemia in several humans now, with costs of the procedure in the millions) at this point in time, but it’s also amazing that we’ve even done that given how new CRISPR is.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

One of the most promising uses of CRISPR that’s being investigated right now is it’s use to combat climate change by modifying plants to sequester carbon.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

Linguistics has the term backchanneling to describe verbal ways in which a listener can engage with a speaker to signal that they are listening. The most common affirmations that fall into this category are sounds like “mhm”, “uhuh”, or simple affirming words like “yes” or “I see”. But there’s a whole slew of ways you can signal this which are more complicated, such as rhetorical questions such as “really?” in response to content that is surprising or repeating some of the content back at the speaker like “he did not!”

If you’re looking to step your response game up, there’s a concept known as “active listening” which incorporates some of the ideas of backchanneling into more complex ideas as well as taking some of the more well studied psychology of intimacy and relationships. It’s a framework or structure for listening to somebody and to show that you are listening by synthesizing and repeating some of the information back at the speaker. As an aside this helps to reduce any issues with comprehension or miscommunication as the act of synthesizing and repeating the data back at the speaker using different words can often trigger the speaker to clarify in ways they may have failed to do or highlight that you understood something differently than they expected the information they presented to be parsed.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

Another day another ruling by the supreme court to erode any confidence in their ability to do anything correctly. Rather than addressing a problem head on, we shall instead hyperfocus on the way it worked itself through our court system to avoid any responsibility at this time.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

Fantastic article, thanks for posting it. I think anyone who works in healthcare is familiar with the amount of emotional labor necessary in patient interactions. Obviously it varies depending on where you work, as primary care can have a lot of routine interactions, but any situation which warrants medical intervention is a space in which someone is stressed out on some level. When a patient is stressed out, it can often mean that they cannot show up fully present, and thus demand some form of emotional labor to help stabilize, calm, or deescalate. It would be fantastic to at the very least recognize this very real stress to healthcare employees and to create stronger support networks to help relieve this stress and prevent burnout, and I think with all the burnout that happened around the pandemic the industry is beginning to take this a bit more seriously.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

Had shoulder surgery last week, went out dancing, and played a gig at a burner play party up in the Oakland hills. Made a connection with another DJ there who throws queer centered parties, so excited for that! Started this week off still catching up on my sleep deprivation but feeling generally pretty good. I’ve managed to line up a few dates for this week with new people too- looking forward to those future connections. Going to two DnB shows this week, which I think is the most DnB shows I’ve seen in one week because there’s usually not that many going on.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to respond to “demeaning and dismissive” statements by being “demeaning and dismissive.” We’re big fans of the paradox of intolerance around here. It’s not the job of the interviewer to “think about things differently”. Lemon isn’t Musk’s therapist. Lemon isn’t obligated to do the heavy lifting of emotional labor for Musk.

Gaywallet, 2 months ago

They’re the people who never would have touched it, because it was too technical, had too high a barrier of entry, and saw it as niche.

Yup, if anyone wants to “replace” these platforms, they need to make them very approachable to tech naive individuals. Most people have close to no technical skills, and nearly everyone on federated software seems to fail to recognize this.

Ultimately I am in agreement that we shouldn’t be trying to drop a replacement to these platforms directly in. We should be offering an alternative, something fundamentally different, because those platforms have failed to fulfill our desires and needs from social media on the internet.