Andrew Longhofer

The troubles

"i would have left the control group alone in a room with means and opportunity but withholding the treatment that would reduce motivation, but the IRB told me that would be 'illegal' and that i'm an 'evil monster'"

Removing race from kidney function algorithm helped more Black patients access transplants Removing race from the eGFR had a big impact, resulting in 5.3 more kidney transplants per 1000 Black candidates.

“A new study found the change had big results, impacting 27% of Black patients and resulting in 5.3 more transplants per 1000 Black candidates.”

our boy's on it

Just remembered a slice of “This is a university. Not all lessons happen in the classroom.”

Protesting Student: Don’t touch me! I know my rights.
UCPD: *OUR* rights.
PS: What?
UCPD: Our rights. They’re not yours or mine.
PS: Wait. You’re not arresting me?
UCPD: Nope. Just headed to the bathroom.

labeling your nsfw isnt censorship and relying on the bsky moderation ai to label for you isn’t helpful bc most of the time it labels incorrectly or doesn’t at all

its just common courtesy

typography matters

This is a top 10 meme of all time for me

"you slept like shit" —my apple watch

yeah, watch, i got to bed late because of dst and the dog woke us up with a seizure in the middle of the night

"maybe go to bed earlier tonight"

what part of dst didn't you understand

"this was useful and i helped"

no, watch, you didn't

“hantavirus”- Liza Minnelli, apparently

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

not the most pressing issue at the moment but somebody should ask Zohran if he got the shoes

(AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded all JetBlue flights due to a request from the airline, the agency said in ⁠a notice on ​Tuesday.

Wut?

Lady Q, K'ehleyr, Tarah, and Selar are the most withering, enduring characters. Suzie Plakson deserves a spot among Jeffrey Combs, Majel Barrett, Diana Muldaur, Fionnula Flanagan, and James Cromwell as an all-time premium guest star who never got a featured or series regular role

The FOMO is real right now

ChatGPT helped B.C. shooter plan attack despite employee warnings, claims lawsuit Lawsuit alleges OpenAI’s artificial intelligence model created a ‘trusted confidante’ that fostered dependency in Tumbler Ridge shooter

ChatGPT helped B.C. shooter plan attack despite employee warnings, claims lawsuit

Yes! John Brown and Jayhawks stole from slave owners.

If you thought it was OK to steal Black people from Africa and keep them as slaves? Then they thought it was OK to steal them from you and set them free, and to steal all your other stuff and keep it.

If you didn't like it? They took you out.

imagining funky music and this being a Laugh-In one-liner party sequence

A text from Pizza Hut reads: Goodnight ❤️❤️

Night night, Pizza Hut

I tell you h’what

I cannot fathom choosing AI over McCarthy or Bishop

This. My university keeps wanting me to make a “syllabot,” an LLM-based chatbot my students can query about the syllabus. And all I can think about is all the resources being consumed so no one has to use Ctrl+F.

Screenshot of Guardian live web page saying: 9:40pm: The dome above Sexy Coffee near Glasgow Central has collapsed. Sexy Coffee is on fire.

Me when somebody says not to call them “skeets”

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or just as good, use a city referent. "New York time"/"Chicago/Dallas time"/"Denver time"/"LA/SF/Seattle time" are unambiguous and reflect how calendar software labels them, and if you can use the cities you and your recipient are in, even better

In case you missed this Friday!

Perfect for all you methodmaxxers out there...

Lacan, Deleuze, Butler, C. Harris, Agamben

and then there are other friends who come out of the woodwork to say you've always been a dame and we're ready to fight anyone who's dumb enough to disagree