Lars

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Cynical liberal with bad knees. Military Brat. Career 1: EMT-P; Career 2: Process Chemist; Career 3: Clinical Researcher

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The moment you realize you take the responsibilities of your Druid elder volunteer position more seriously than the job that pays your salary. Even though it’s likely the former will get you burned at the stake shortly because the dems can’t manage to defend democracy

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LLMs are useless for lawyering and other tasks involving actual analysis and understanding not because the technology hasn't gotten there yet, but because that's fundamentally not what statistical word association is capable of doing. Not only can't it understand, it's not even trying to understand.

Good part of traveling too much for work. Sample of the last week

Great Myna, Lumphini Park, Bangkok, Thailand. 🪶

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Made my Deadlift goal of 2 reps at 225. Good day.

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Chasing xkcd.com/2931

End of the school year stress appears to be good for lifting. Made a new 3 rep max of 205 on deadlift today

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Sea Hag is a non-gendered term. Anyone can lurk under the waves. Anyone can cackle. No matter who you are, you can drag sailors to their doom and use their bones to build your underwater hut, and that’s beautiful

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This is one of the most helpful debunking posts Your Local Epidemiologist has written. Before vaccines? Kids died. Also getting constantly infected with diseases is *bad*. Farms & pets & good bacteria are helpful. Getting sick is not. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/kids-dont-...

Kids don't need to get sick to be healthyyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com We have forgotten how many children used to die before their fifth birthday

Do not enable abusers. Take care of victims.

I wrote an obituary for OJ Simpson. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

OJ Simpson died the comfortable death in old age that Nicole Brown should have had | Moira Doneganwww.theguardian.com The 1994 murders of Simpson’s ex and her friend Ron Goldman are inextricable from society’s failure of domestic abuse victims

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Domestic violence is a kind of small-scale terrorism. What OJ Simpson did to Nicole Brown Simpson was not the event of one night—it was a years long campaign that thousands of women suffer at other men’s hands. Read Andrea Dworkin’s memorial to Nicole: evergreenreview.com/read/in-memo...

In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpsonevergreenreview.com Evergreen Review

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Q is the hero we need

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Well...fine...if you insist. But where the hell am I gonna keep my library card?

@realqrampage.bsky.social if my comments were heard as telling you what to do I apologize

If you want to know how my week is going an am drinking a margarita, starting a binge watch of Vikings from episode 1, and oiling my battle axe (of course I own an authentic Irish battle axe)

A baby zebra having a moment

THIS. Mine could append to my signature line. “I’m a highly introverted pseudoextrovert. This like is equivalent to a carefully thought out paragraph reply from an extrovert”

If I "star" an email in my inbox, it should send a message to the sender that I liked their message, and then we can both move on with our days.

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It really beats the alternative- COVID+ in an ICU, a breathing tube, and a bedside crash c-section.

Millions of pregnant people have received COVID vaccines, and the data are solid: the vaccines are safe and effective for the pregnant person, and a growing consensus is emerging that vaccination during pregnancy also protects newborns. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...

COVID Vaccination during Pregnancy Protects Newborn Babieswww.scientificamerican.com Studies show that vaccination against COVID during pregnancy provides a powerful safeguard for vulnerable infants too young to receive the vaccine on their own

Just spent a couple of days in Kansas City. Beautiful town that has seriously invested in building an inclusive community. Unfortunately some of the most marginalized have been pushed away from downtown.

For the first 25 years of my life I was a nerd hiding in a jock identity. Then for 30 years I was a healthy but non athletic person. Six weeks ago I started integrating the two. So far so good. Except I’m worried I won’t be able to get out of the bathtub tonight. 😂

Shoulder and glute day. Sure. Thats a good idea

@mortythenurse.bsky.social Sure let’s superset squats, kettlebell Bulgarian split squats, and kettlebell lunges

This had an ardbeg single cask in it. I’m about to add a four roses single barrel.

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do you ever think about how a bottle of juice is still considered a bigger threat to air security than emergency doors flying off a plane

@mortythenurse.bsky.social of you want a splurge meal I heartily recommend Jaleo

Privacy laws matter.

I’ve been lurking in car forums for the last few months and saw reports from drivers of General Motors cars that GM was selling their driving data to LexisNexis. It was resulting in their insurance going up. Can that be true, I thought. Reported it out. Yes. True. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/t...

Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companieswww.nytimes.com LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars, including when they sped, braked too hard or accelerated rapidly.

Happy international women’s day to the many women here who help keep me sane. @mortythenurse.bsky.social @dirtgirl.bsky.social @karenpercy.bsky.social @rahaeli.bsky.social @risettemd.bsky.social Thanks!