What fresh hell is this?

I use this whenever my supervisor tells me she has news for me.

For me, this is making things much much less nuanced.

Drawbacks of EPIC

Super expensive - only large outfits can even afford it.

Poor design - a multitude of modules that often use different design principles so knowing one module doesn’t help much with another.

Extreme vendor lock-in - EPIC is very similar in business model to Microsoft in the first decades, basically a mafia.

Lack of interoperability - EPIC interfaces poorly with lab and diagnostic equipment, EPIC actively fights development and adoption of interoperabilty standards.

Dictating Clinical Workflow - EPIC is designed primarily to assist billing, not record keeping for patient benefit. Thus workflows are highly constrained and significant time must be spent clicking about to get the system to let one do normal things.

I mean, EHR is inherently complex so any EHR, but EPIC makes it much worse than it needs to be.

I’m don’t love the chart and hate forced and false dichotomies.

Both ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal’ are over-loaded terms, meaning that they can be used to mean too many things, some definitions almost directly contradict each other.

So I stick with the term ‘assholes’, which has a more universally agreed meaning.

We seem to have a suppressive person in the chat.

(JK, yes, it is. I mis-read the question and gave an example of culty stuff that is a hobby.)

Auditing pre-clears.

Can you explain a bit more, please? I don’t quite follow the meaning here. A small group already has most of the power ( money is power and a few have almost all of it ). What is your preferred way to see progress?

We are always at war with Eurasia

Yes, they do. Sitting alone in a room, creating video content creates a self-centered and narcissistic worldview. It doesn’t matter how many followers you have you are not really interacting with a single one of them. Get out of your house and meet people in your neighborhood, share your work with them then I’ll be impressed

Zuck owns more than Facebook, too. ANY big social media platform is similarly toxic.

These people have co-opted our social discourse for evil causes. And they aren’t the only way to share work online.

Creative people do not have a right to my admiration if they provide fresh bait that the oligarchs use to degrade democracy and civil society

Nah, if you are feeding the Zuck, not my team. The principled creatives aren’t there.

It sucks to try to make a living as a creative. But giving your efforts to support social media platforms controlled by the worst people is inexcusable. Zuck literally and provably helped the fascists gain power.

The creatives I can respect create because they are compelled to. They work jobs and create when they can. They share their work on less shitty platforms and in actual real life.

I remember at my first job in high school in a store on Main Street. We had a sidewalk sale with other business owners.

My innocence was lost when my boss instructed me to place higher prices using our ordinary white stickers and then cover them with ‘discounted’ orange sales stickers at slightly higher prices than normal.

These dicks just do it at scale. Amazon is a tawdry crime organization. We all know it.

Boo hoo, losers. Your device has a power switch. Influencers have a warped and inflated sense of the value they create. They can stop at any time and use their skills in other ways.

Making good content is hard, but ‘good’ content doesn’t have an expiration date. Shallow brain-rot content does and that’s what the algorithms reward.

The entitlement that influencers have is nauseating. There are many creators out there laboring in near obscurity and producing useful content all the time for little or no compensation.

They are tools for Zuck and fools for propping his platforms up. It sounds like a hard slog, but they can stop any time.

No need to be sorry. I also love injecting innuendo into every possible situation!

Ha! The word roots literally mean ‘a foot and a half’. It means I like loooong words!

sesquipedalian

All 18 inches, baby!

You may enjoy, if you aren’t already familiar with, FDR’s Four Freedoms concept.

There are FOUR freedoms!

Yes, that’s about all it is. “Low water activity” and a lower pH. Same reason jams and jellies don’t ferment. They can get moldy over time, but fungi have always been better at low water activity environments.

I don’t buy it.

A diversity of regulatory approaches especially in such a complex subject really does need the 50 state laboratory.

In fact because states are smaller markets, it might encourage the development of more smaller companies. A complex regulatory landscape gives an efficiency edge to players who focus product development in specific states.

Anything to keep this shitshow happening in a more democratic way is fine by me. Anthropic and that Altman fellow seem so desperately out of touch with humanity, I welcome any disadvantages we can give them.

As a junior biologist, I remember having the realization that viruses and other quasi-living things are just an epi-phenomenon of life. That was a level-up moment in my training, a lot of things clicked into place.

Meaning, if one could magically remove all viruses from the biosphere, they would re-evolve very quickly. Let alone the fact there are significant numbers of viral fragments in our DNA, some of which have been co-opted and used for crucial purposes, such as the mammalian placenta.

Plus the tendency of some of those fragments to move around the genome, providing a source of variation that is sometimes selected for.

Viruses and maybe this archaea may not meet a binary definition of ‘life’, but any biosphere anywhere in the universe will have things like them in great abundance. Any evolving system will produce them.