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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
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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"

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

StillIRise1963, to random
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The 2024 presidential election is a basic test to see how fucking racist white Americans are.

mloxton,
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@StillIRise1963
Kinda is, isn't it.

It is also a kind of whole-of-society" IQ test

mhoye, to random
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Marco Rogers is having an interesting thread about software estimation worth following over here - https://mastodon.social/@polotek@social.polotek.net/112367324284383164 -
but two things I want to note without cluttering up his conversation are:

  • Geez, there's a lot of heuristics and made-up numbers being tossed around. This whole field is pre-scientific.

  • Maybe I haven't been in the right rooms or invited to the right conversations, but I've never, ever seen or heard of a software shop auditing its own time/cost predictions. Not once.

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@mhoye
Yes. It had a full end-to-end quality management process, and each step was subject to a knowledge-management and quality improvement loop to adjust and update the processes. However, it was just the engineering and product support division. Sales, marketing, and admin each lived in their own universe and were immune to being pulled into self-auditing.

When I tried to build our hooks into their processes, I realized they either didn't have documented processes, or didn't use them

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@mrcompletely
I was actually quite astonished.

I had come from Baan, which had a really good documented and repeatable implementation process, and the consulting (implementation) division were very open to me as the support guy adding a hook into their process, and they published an update.

Going to the next firm and realizing that they actually had no standard template of process for implementation was a shock, and also explained a lot of the costly messes we inherited.

@mhoye

mloxton, to random
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Seven things that should be entirely free at point of use:

  1. Healthcare
  2. Education
  3. Justice
  4. Fresh air
  5. Clean potable water
  6. Public Transport
  7. Internet
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@MsHearthWitch
Sounds reasonable

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Angry Staffer:

…Project 2025 ..

  • would let red states monitor & prosecute women who get abortions

  • won’t commit to defending NATO nations

  • wd fire attys who won’t prosec his political opponents

  • suspend posse comitatus & deploy the military on US soil

  • wd end pandemic preparedness office

  • wd fire 1000s of civil servants

  • pardon all J6 rioters

  • try to make law enf officers immune from prosec

If this doesn’t scare the living shit out of you, you aren’t paying attention.

mloxton,
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@1nd33d
... and not for a very long time.
Burn everything down = several centuries of burned down stuff

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TexasObserver, to Texas
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“You’re talking about a population that’s older, poorer, sicker, and less insured.”

New today: As a rural hospital struggles with the cost of unpaid care, a torn community weighs how to keep its local hospital open and financially viable. https://www.texasobserver.org/east-texas-hospital-vote-close-open-rural/

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@TexasObserver
Maybe ask the Liberals for help?

Impossible_PhD, to random
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Taps mic

There's no such thing as cosmetic surgery. The phrase is BS rhetoric.

Boob jobs, butt lifts, lipo, hair transplants--they should all be fully covered by insurance, for cis people as well as trans, and they should be covered to save costs.

Let me show you the math.

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@Impossible_PhD
I hear you, but that is going to run into the "medical necessity" thing in Utilization Management. The criteria for declaring a medical necessity for surgery that would have potential psychological benefits but no biological need, is going to be really hard to argue, and would need a whole shift in thinking on psychology as a real science

mloxton, to random
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Just a note that in many places, giving a job seeker an unpaid task is illegal and can get your organization in a lot of trouble.

https://fortune.com/2024/04/29/gen-z-job-seeker-refused-90-minute-task-recruiter-slammed/

GottaLaff, to random
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😴Via Acyn:

A source tells Ben Meiselas that is taking ‘full-on bonafide naps’ in the courtroom: Trump looked to be close to deep REM sleep. His lids are heavy..

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@GottaLaff
Pifflesticks!

I want him to have gastric reflux during one of his naps, and wake up choking on vomit and then audibly shit himself in panic

@Dr_Elizabeth97

StillIRise1963, to random
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The fact that this presidential immunity question is being discussed in SCOTUS makes this nation look like the land of morons. Seriously.🙄

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@StillIRise1963
It really does.
We look like a bunch of bumblefucks at a an inbred family reunion

mloxton,
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@CStamp
Current SCOTUS: Hold my beer, Dred

@hasani @StillIRise1963

mloxton, to random
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From my end

"Shana found him Sunday sleeping, and busied herself with dinner - deep fried in a black cast-iron pot. She made okra, battered chicken, and catfish, with syrup dumplings, and filled a serving plate. Shana walked to the bedroom with her smoking offering, and delivered it. Replacing the empty pot in the kitchen sink, she turned up the music, and settled down in front of the plate to enjoy. Revenge served hot, it was the best kind of meal."

Tell me what happened in this scene

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@sfwrtr
Thanks
I need to make it clear that she tipped the hot oil over him, without being too graphic. Seems I have undershot

mloxton,
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@sfwrtr
Thanks, that was very helpful.

Is this closer?

GottaLaff, to random
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Sigh. WaPo:

#SCOTUS is hearing arguments on whether hospitals must provide emergency #abortions in states w bans.
At issue is a nearly 40-yr-old fed law that requires hospitals that receive fed funds to stabilize or transfer all emergency patients, regardless of their ability to pay. Biden admin invoked the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act to argue that the federal government has the power to penalize hospitals that fail to provide emergency abortions even in states with strict bans.

mloxton,
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@GottaLaff
Is the law they refer to EMTALA, or something else?

arstechnica, to random
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You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000

Thermonator, the first "flamethrower-wielding robot dog," is completely legal in 48 US states.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/you-can-now-buy-a-flame-throwing-robot-dog-for-under-10000/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

mloxton,
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@arstechnica
American TechBros: Hey, let's do something so stupid that we fuck up our own chances of having nice things. Yee-haw!

mloxton, to random
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https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/patients-are-less-likely-to-die-when-treated-by-female-doctors-study-shows-209503813898

mloxton, to random
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Dear peeps, please read this thread

There is no reason your patients should be experiencing pain in these situations, and failing to solicit pain feedback and control pain level is a quality and safety breach.

https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/112321052414703031

e_urq, to trans
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I am not fond of David Brooks, but I certainly understand why he finds the Cass Report so compelling.

For cisgender people who have no pre-existing knowledge, it's really a perfect document. It is completely decorous while implying that there are too many trans people and efforts should be made to limit their numbers.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/david-brooks-hilary-cass-empathy-transgender

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@e_urq
Lemme just expand that headline - David Brooks is not qualified to offer an opinion on any topic whatsoever. He is precisely one of those supercilious toads that brought us to this mess, and he has no insights to offer in solving it.

MissingThePt, to random
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When you miss spots putting on suntan lotion.

mloxton,
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@MissingThePt
I see the autorust feature is working

mloxton, to random
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OK, sure, but have you ever been in the rain when everything is green and lush, and moss grows everywhere, and you have to stand on a barbed wire so the sheepdog can jump over it, but then because the soles of your wellies are wet, the wire slips out, and twangs up and hits you in the nuts, and you end up clinging to the wire and hurling over one of the sheep?

Well?

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@grrrr_shark
You never know when something can become one of those stories, but this is a partial from my past ;)

GottaLaff, to random
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It's not about Dems vs GOP, libs vs conservs. The 2024 election, Roger Stone said, will be “a fight bw light & dark…a struggle bw good and evil…an epic fight bw the godly & the godless.”

IOW, if Trump loses, America will be plunged into 1000 years of darkness.

Stone's targeted audience see Trump as a Messiah, and are preparing for Armageddon.

& per my own sources, are "definitely planning to create havoc" 1/... https://news.yahoo.com/why-top-trump-allies-like-roger-stone-are-using-apocalyptic-religious-rhetoric-100039179.html

mloxton,
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@GottaLaff
Do guys like Stone truly not realize that they are the evil forces, or do they understand this but not care?

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