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meredithw

@meredithw@wandering.shop

I care about doing research right, disability rights, 2E kids, SFF, music & much more. Biostatistician doing pediatric HIV clinical trials, previously psychiatry research. Life's too short to specialize. Never stopped masking.

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GottaLaff, (edited ) to Georgia
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Via Blayne Alexander: 1/2

NEW: a judge just denied bond for , one of the 19 County defendants.

Appearing by video from jail, he said “there’s no way that I’m a flight risk, ma’am. I showed up before the president was here.”

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@GottaLaff I'm sleep-deprived. When I first saw the hashtag I wondered what Harrison Ford was being charged with.

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    @Teri_Kanefield @joan_friedman I find this statement in the article helpful: "...Supremacy Clause immunity—which protects federal officers from lawsuits arising out of conduct that they subjectively and reasonably believed to be necessary and proper to their official duties."

    It addresses something a lot of your commenters have been asking - the issue is subjective belief, not whether objectively the conduct was part of their duties.

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    @Teri_Kanefield @joan_friedman I know he does. I was just addressing the part where a lot of commenters have said things to the effect of "but committing crimes isn't part of his job" - Lawfare's comment makes clear that he can subjectively believe the particular actions were part of his job, doesn't have to prove that they objectively are (as you've been saying, but I think the "subjective" part is important.)

    GottaLaff, to Georgia
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    Here we go, folks.

    ⚠️Via Kyle Griffin:

    NBC News: The County Sheriff's office responded to a bomb threat at the Fulton County Courthouse, the sheriff tells
    NBCNews
    . K-9 units and police are en route.

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    @GottaLaff Sadly not surprised

    timnitGebru, to random
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    "Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, with whom Musk has both worked and sparred, told me, “Elon desperately wants the world to be saved. But only if he can be the one to save it.”"

    Something about the pot and the kettle here smh.

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

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    @timnitGebru How is it difficult to say? <smh>

    eniko, to random
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    It upsets me when people speculate despondently that we'll never get rid of covid now, that our chance has passed, when meanwhile we're not even trying for the lowest of low hanging fruit

    For example, airplanes should be running their air filtration at max when boarding and deplaning. They don't. They have never done this throughout the pandemic. They can, there's no technical issue preventing them from doing this, they just don't, helping to spread covid variants internationally

    Or schools. We've seen studies show that schools are a major vector for the spread of covid (and other airborne diseases!) We've also anecdotally seen many examples of schools that kept covid out completely, either through ventilation and filtration or testing and masking or some combination. Putting air filters in classrooms is dirt cheap compared to disabling students and sickening their households, but it's not even being looked at

    They haven't even tried literally pushing a button and are telling us nothing can be done

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    @eniko This is great, but "They weren't even aerosol engineers or infectious disease experts, they were teachers and parents! Lay people!" is not correct. The parents included a medical specialist, an engineer, and at least one scientist. Not lay people at all.

    GottaLaff, to random
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    It’s. Not. Over. 😷💉

    hospitalizations jump 22% this week — and CDC predicts further increases - CBS News

    https://apple.news/AjxgP6BlFTymuddUZT9aqAw

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    @GottaLaff This is why I never stopped masking.

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    The hazards of TV

    Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    @Teri_Kanefield Completely agree with you about Jefferson.

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    @Teri_Kanefield "Look - we've worked to make things as easy as possible for you. We've organized, sorted, made easily searchable..." And of course we're happy to push back jury selection a couple of days - piece of cake!

    seachanger, (edited ) to pdx
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    @seachanger Where (city, state) was he biking? Adding that info to your post (Mastodon posts can be edited) will make it easier for people to be helpful.

    universalhub, to Massachusetts
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    temple swatted
    https://www.universalhub.com/2023/brookline-temple-swatted

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    @universalhub Noticed that the @BostonGlobe hasn't found this newsworthy.

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    @Itty53 @Teri_Kanefield Ugh! I'll never look at palms the same way again. Fortunately, I don't have to worry about that in New England.

    universalhub, to boston
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    Review: Plants invade museum - and art blooms https://www.universalhub.com/2023/review-plants-invade-museum-and-art-blooms

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    @universalhub Looks like a really great exhibit.

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    @Teri_Kanefield @GregCirillo @ZhiZhu Teri - if your tech support (husband) uses one of the automatic block lists, it's possible that newsie or other sites got added to that list (on purpose or accidentally) - in newsie's case, temporarily since they're still able to follow you.

    dankennedy_nu, to journalism
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    New at Media Nation: Greater Boston arts and local news get a boost from three new nonprofit projects. Checking in with The Review Crew (in collaboration with @universalhub), MassHorizon (founded by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism), and the Plymouth Independent, a fledgling nonprofit. https://dankennedy.net/2023/08/18/arts-and-local-news-get-a-boost-from-three-new-nonprofit-journalism-projects/

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    @dankennedy_nu @universalhub
    Excellent news! Also, you can follow MassHorizon here in the Fediverse at @HorizonMass

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    @dankennedy_nu I read the first two reviews from Sasha Patkin on @universalhub - they are an exciting addition to an already excellent news source.

    dankennedy_nu, to random
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    What is the information value of this ridiculous headline?

    “Long-Shot Vivek Ramaswamy Says He Has a 50 percent Chance at Presidency” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/12/us/vivek-ramaswamy-iowa-state-fair.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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    @dankennedy_nu NYT gets worse and worse.

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    @Teri_Kanefield Excellent as always. Thank you for your work talking people off the ledge!

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    @Teri_Kanefield @lackattack @queenofnewyork I figured that JJ was getting the week off since you're going on vacation.

    GottaLaff, (edited ) to Atlanta
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    📌 “-area prosecutor has notified at least one witness to appear before a grand jury early next week, the most significant indication of her intention to seek indictments in the investigation of how Donald and others tried to overturn the 2020 election in .”

    UPDATE: Stephen Fowler predicts TUESDAY.

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/12/politics/geoff-duncan-georgia-election-probe

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    @Teri_Kanefield @GottaLaff @annabower Have a good vacation!

    GottaLaff, (edited ) to legal
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    Via Kyle Griffin:

    Today at 10am ET, U.S. District Judge Tanya will preside over her first hearing in the election interference case — and decide whether to limit what can reveal to the public about government evidence. 1/… 🪡

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    @Popehat on Bluesky you bemoaned the lack of "live-tweet" equivalents for the major hearings. @GottaLaff provided this very helpful live thread here this morning.

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    @Teri_Kanefield @DrewKadel @Popehat wrote a good piece about the Federal sentencing guidelines at https://popehat.substack.com/p/beware-the-flood-of-trump-sentencing

    Popehat, to random

    It falls to the survivors of depression to talk to the sufferers — to convince them to ask for help.

    https://popehat.substack.com/p/the-weight-of-the-unspoken-word

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    @Popehat Thank you so much. it's important for people to know they can and should discuss this.

    ct_bergstrom, to random
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    I just read the best paper I've seen yet this year, Sam Zhang's work on confusion between inferential uncertainty and outcome variability.

    In the context of a trial or experiment, inferential uncertainty refers to our statistical confidence that two groups are different. Outcome variability refers to how much variation there is in individual outcomes within a single group.

    IMO confusion about this is ubiquitous in biomedical science.

    Here's the paper: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/5tcgs/

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    @ct_bergstrom As a statistician, this is so important.

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