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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 13h

Seems like a bad idea. You can submit comments here: www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/meas...

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 13h

"The two stroke victims each filed a lawsuit in Texas alleging that the TruDi system’s AI contributed to their injuries."

Medical AI meets malpractice law--the beginning of a saga...

jennifer uncoolidge @histoftech.bsky.social · 20h

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

www.reuters.com

Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 16h

I'm absolutely livid. This is clearly illegal, and will kill a lot of people before the courts overturn it.

The cruelty is the point. 😥

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 21h

The Trump administration plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four states led by Democrats because it finds the grants “inconsistent with agency priorities,” according to documents reviewed by the NYT

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...

Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States

www.nytimes.com

Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 17h

Carole Cadwalladr has got us dead to rights. "But we can’t understand any of this until we realise that Epstein isn’t just a doorway, he’s also a mirror. His culture is our culture."
broligarchy.substack.com/p/we-all-liv...

We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world

The most disturbing revelation so far

broligarchy.substack.com

jennifer uncoolidge @histoftech.bsky.social · 20h

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

www.reuters.com

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 21h

The Trump administration plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four states led by Democrats because it finds the grants “inconsistent with agency priorities,” according to documents reviewed by the NYT

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...

Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States

www.nytimes.com

Emi @kayamalie.bsky.social · 1d

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

A diagram of the evolution of whales, from land dwelling mammals to the ocean giants we know today.

Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 1d

Another surprising failure mode with LLMs:

Doing well on medical knowledge benchmarks does not translate into providing useful advice.

Luc Rocher @rocher.lc · 1d

⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.

Banner image with screenshot of scientific article from nature Medicine, as well as two panels from the study method and results

Luc Rocher @rocher.lc · 1d

⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

www.reuters.com

Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating!

"Observed failures of VLMs on fundamental tasks may stem from their inability to manage the binding problem; that is, they have difficulty simultaneously representing multiple objects and their associated features without interference"

Kate Storrs @katestorrs.bsky.social · 1d

Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Non-paywalled version:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786

Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...

Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests - Nature Machine Intelligence

Tangtartharakul and Storrs use standardized neuropsychological tests to compare human visual abilities with those of visual language models (VLMs). They report that while VLMs excel in high-level obje...

www.nature.com

Kate Storrs @katestorrs.bsky.social · 1d

Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Non-paywalled version:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786

Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...

Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests - Nature Machine Intelligence

Tangtartharakul and Storrs use standardized neuropsychological tests to compare human visual abilities with those of visual language models (VLMs). They report that while VLMs excel in high-level obje...

www.nature.com

Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 1d

Elites prize impunity so that when their capricious whims, limited understandings, and fickle attention destroy precious lives and priceless culture, they can shrug and move on without consequences.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.

Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 2d

I've been trying to work more fermented foods into my diet. Decided on a whim to add some of my home-fermented sauerkraut to today's veggie Dan Dan Noodles. Yum, what a great addition!

A white bowl. To one side, green and white bok chopy, flecked with chili oil and sesame seeds. Brown finely diced mushrooms and crumbled tofu, topped with green cilantro leaves and scallions. Noodles peak out here and there. A small pile of yellow sauerkraut at the bottom

Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 3d

I like Chance's music, and... I'm pretty sure I know more about AI, neuroscience and genomics than he does, and nobody cares what I think. Wonder how much he got paid by whom to say this...

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3d

In my wildest dreams I could never have imagined a more gratuitous sign that AI is a bubble than “chance the rapper, sponsored by coreweave.” It’s beautiful. It’ll be in a movie someday

ANYTHING
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Academia. Neuroscience. Genomics. All spaces where Al makes possibilities endless. CoreWeave is the Essential Cloud for Al, built to help pioneers go big. Who's ready for anything? #coreweavepartner #sponsored
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Hawaii News Now @hawaiinewsnow.com · 3d

Hawaii’s first humpback whale count of 2026 recorded 158 fewer whales than the same period last year.

Why officials said may explain the drop
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/02/07/hawaii-humpback-whale-numbers-down-january-2025/

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3d

In my wildest dreams I could never have imagined a more gratuitous sign that AI is a bubble than “chance the rapper, sponsored by coreweave.” It’s beautiful. It’ll be in a movie someday

Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 3d

Public health policy in the modern era: Powerful people with a scammy agenda exaggerating something they misremembered a scientist saying once.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

Dr. Palmer said he and Mr. Kennedy met in September 2024, when Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, hosted a round-table discussion on nutrition. He was invited at the suggestion of Dr. Casey Means, Mr. Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, and her brother, Calley Means, a top adviser to Mr. Kennedy, who also attended.

Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 3d

A bit of good conservation news. I love it when these kinds of projects succeed.

Mongabay @mongabay.com · 3d

A decade-long seagrass restoration effort in Peninsular Malaysia shows degraded meadows can recover, with high survival rates at a site impacted by coastal development.

Researchers say success depends on understanding local species, adapting methods, and addressing the drivers of decline.

Seagrass restoration in Malaysia finds multi-species approach boosts recovery

In the shallow waters off Johor Bahru’s rapidly urbanizing shoreline in Peninsular Malaysia, a busy assemblage of crabs, marine worms and mollusks are a sign of recovery. Just over a decade ago, the…

news.mongabay.com

Mongabay @mongabay.com · 3d

A decade-long seagrass restoration effort in Peninsular Malaysia shows degraded meadows can recover, with high survival rates at a site impacted by coastal development.

Researchers say success depends on understanding local species, adapting methods, and addressing the drivers of decline.

Seagrass restoration in Malaysia finds multi-species approach boosts recovery

In the shallow waters off Johor Bahru’s rapidly urbanizing shoreline in Peninsular Malaysia, a busy assemblage of crabs, marine worms and mollusks are a sign of recovery. Just over a decade ago, the…

news.mongabay.com

Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 3d

We should form a club of people Grossberg said that to! I bet it would have a lot of interesting people in it.

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3d

"Every democracy facing this challenge has learned you don’t defeat authoritarians by being more reasonable. You defeat them by being more determined and by uniting the country against their most visible vulnerability: their corruption."

Worth the wait

www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism

Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.

www.bostonreview.net

Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 3d

Agree wholeheartedly, especially with where this ends up.

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 4d

Science EIC Thorp would like to have it both ways:

1) Credited for being reasonable in acknowledging the importance of (i) quiet insiders & (ii) activists in confronting cuts to science.

2) Clear on who he thinks really deserves the credit for the wins: insiders.

🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A tale of many twos

For the American scientific enterprise, the past year has seemed awash in contradiction. On the one hand, it has produced great upheavals and losses for US science. Many universities experienced some ...

www.science.org

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

As Rupert Murdoch TV hammers away telling its viewers that Canadians are their enemies, Republican views of Canada shift on cue. At this point, Murdoch's propaganda machine can make its viewership believe absolutely anything, no matter how absurd.

The Verge @theverge.com · 4d

"It’s hard not to read these files and come to the conclusion that Epstein helped engineer the ultimate elite impunity — in which our society has been totally destroyed so the richest and most powerful men in the world can do whatever they want."

Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: bit.ly/4kF9C1j

Verge headline: How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
by Elizabeth Lopatto

Photo illustration depicts a shadowy Epstein flanked by Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Donald Trump, distorted by pink noise

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 4d

Science EIC Thorp would like to have it both ways:

1) Credited for being reasonable in acknowledging the importance of (i) quiet insiders & (ii) activists in confronting cuts to science.

2) Clear on who he thinks really deserves the credit for the wins: insiders.

🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A tale of many twos

For the American scientific enterprise, the past year has seemed awash in contradiction. On the one hand, it has produced great upheavals and losses for US science. Many universities experienced some ...

www.science.org

Hawaii News Now @hawaiinewsnow.com · 4d

Balcony solar coming to Hawaii, new laws or not #HNN #HINEWS #HawaiiNews

Balcony solar coming to Hawaii, new laws or not

Hawaii lawmakers are considering legislation to make it easier for apartment owners and renters to install solar panels on their balconies or backyards.

www.hawaiinewsnow.com

Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 4d

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.

What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?

I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 4d

One thing about RFK Jr & the MAGA/MAHA team of MDs & PhDs carrying out his policies (Drs Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, Høeg, Oz, Makary, & Prasad) is that EVERY DAY they take so many new dangerous steps to dismantle & demolish medicine & public health that it's impossible to keep up with all the horror

Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the keto diet could cure schizophrenia — an unfounded claim that experts say vastly overstates preliminary research into whether a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet might help patients w/ the disorder.
via @sherylnyt.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

Kennedy Makes Unfounded Claim That Keto Diet Can ‘Cure’ Schizophrenia

www.nytimes.com

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