Sandy Hilton

Ha!
Yes. That fits him well!

A black fuzzy cat is lounging at the top of a cat tower. One arm hooked over the edge and the elbow bent at 90* looks like he’s ready to give a lecture.

I wish I could understand what he is thinking.

DeLauro to pressing clergy: 'I will not vote to abolish ICE' The Connecticut U.S. representative found herself at odds with faith leaders.

“Renee Goodman [sic], Alex Pretti – there are no words,” DeLauro said.

“You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’”

www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...

The Emotional Dimensions of Pain Assessment Take your mind back to your last pain assessment. I can bet good money pain intensity was measured (that 0 - 10 'how much does it hurt' question). Where it hurts on a body map. Perhaps even duration and constancy (intermittent, ongoing, fluctuating). Quality or 'what does it feel like?' could be included: burning, aching, gripping, cramping, stabbing.... All excellent things to know as clinicians, and as people seeking help - we need to know 'what it is like' because none of us can feel another's pain, and yet clinical decision-making relies on it.

The Emotional Dimensions of Pain Assessment

Take your mind back to your last pain assessment. I can bet good money pain intensity was measured (that 0 - 10 'how much does it hurt' question). Where it hurts on a body map. Perhaps even duration and constancy (intermittent, ongoing, fluctuating).…

The best book club 🤓

From casually checking email to signing up online in less than a minute!

Twitter post from @BenjaminDEKR “OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful. Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed. When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O. Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How? The "Heartbeat" cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, ("remind me tomorrow to get milk")”

Continuation of twitter post “1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus 4.5 2. Opus read HEARTBEAT md, thought about reminders 3. Replied "HEARTBEAT_OK" 4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes) The damage: - Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats - 25 × $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone - Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." The problem is: 1. Heartbeat uses Opus (most expensive model) for a trivial check 2. Sends the entire conversation context (~120k tokens) each time 3. Runs every 30 minutes regardless of whether anything needs checking That's $750 a month if this runs, to occasionally remind me stuff? Yeah, no. Not great.”

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*breathes*

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA

IL Prof here. Community members & faculty have been talking about this all weekend. Many have already made formal reports, but what's infuriating is that our mechanisms have been weaponized and therefore we don't trust that anything will even come of our reports.

I recorded this today, in Portland, Oregon, at a huge march to the ICE facility in SW. The crowd was full of cyclists who had ridden there in memory of Alex Pretti; members of several labor unions; and ordinary citizens of every age, including this little girl. So of course ICE deployed tear gas.

That was the talk yesterday at the clinic “no snow pack, August is going to be horrid”

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

An assortment of tea: Quiet the mind Shield maiden Sweetest Dreams Harvest Spice Friday’s Evening Lucky 13 Everyday Genius

Friday night.

I’m home enjoying the silence after a rough week. (Understatement, the week was horrid & hard)

This weekend is for recovery and setting myself up for a better week next week.

So grateful for a stash of @fridaytea.com options!

A basket of options & all of them excellent choices.

Thanks to communitea contributions, our pay-it-forward card currently holds $1,150.85 in value, just waiting for folks to come make use of it.

This is an ongoing program! Down on your luck? Need a pick-me-up? Come let us treat you to tea & pastry. Just ask to put it on the CommuniTea Card!

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars

Is the rule of law dead now?

Fondly.
I miss the days of research papers and #ICanHazPDF

And the #PelvicMafia

We have scattered and building new networks locally is good but not the same as that glorious period of global cooperation and knowledge.

The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.

The Corporate American way!

The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left “We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

“But we can fight back. The biggest lesson the four of us have learned over this past year is that what feels impossible and overwhelming when you’re sitting by yourself can begin to feel achievable and urgent when you are working with others that share your values.“
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It is illegal under United States law for foreign leaders to have machine guns.

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The only headline from a news account that I’ve seen which points out the US president just ordered and executed the kidnapping of the President of another country.

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.

Please read this.

RFK Jr.'s legacy is a sea of tiny coffins in the US and internationally. Every day he remains in office, the harm he causes grows.

Call your representative — it's time Congress impeaches and removes RFK Jr. standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons