Eric NMI
@ericnmi.bsky.social
In-house counsel, health care. From the very cold part of the country. Interested in science and tech. Not as serious as I should be.
New to Bluesky Nov '24, and trying to re-create my Twitter feed from the Before times
New to Bluesky Nov '24, and trying to re-create my Twitter feed from the Before times
And all of it is infused with seething contempt for the Americans around him. A society will not function when contempt pushes out basic human respect and decency.
Contempt ruins marriages, workplaces - and societies.
Contempt ruins marriages, workplaces - and societies.
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
And all of it is infused with seething contempt for the Americans around him. A society will not function when contempt pushes out basic human respect and decency.
Contempt ruins marriages, workplaces - and societies.
Contempt ruins marriages, workplaces - and societies.
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Philosophy vs the Terminator -
existentialcomics.com/comic/626
existentialcomics.com/comic/626
Philosophy vs the Terminator
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
existentialcomics.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Philosophy vs the Terminator -
existentialcomics.com/comic/626
existentialcomics.com/comic/626
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If you're going to do health care by risk pools, excluding all the lowest utilizers maybe isn't the best idea.
DeSantis said “Most people, particularly under 50, what they really need is a catastrophic plan that’s affordable, where then they can pay whatever they’re doing out of a health savings account.”
floridapolitics.com/archives/761...
floridapolitics.com/archives/761...
Ron DeSantis says people under 50 don’t have much use for comprehensive health insurance
'Catastrophic care' should be enough for them.
floridapolitics.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
If you're going to do health care by risk pools, excluding all the lowest utilizers maybe isn't the best idea.
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I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
September 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
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Fleetwood Mac is a band made up of British and American musicians, yet the one named Lindsay Buckingham is not British.
September 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Fleetwood Mac is a band made up of British and American musicians, yet the one named Lindsay Buckingham is not British.
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Republicans are engaged in the most sweeping censorship campaign since the red scares, so naturally the priority is explaining how this is the fault of people out of power
September 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Republicans are engaged in the most sweeping censorship campaign since the red scares, so naturally the priority is explaining how this is the fault of people out of power
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There's a difference between a cultural phenomenon that defines what ideas are socially acceptable, i.e., the public self-regulates (folks can debate the proper limits of that), and the work of state actors to pressure, censor, and punish speech the government dislikes (presumptively never okay).
September 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
There's a difference between a cultural phenomenon that defines what ideas are socially acceptable, i.e., the public self-regulates (folks can debate the proper limits of that), and the work of state actors to pressure, censor, and punish speech the government dislikes (presumptively never okay).
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What causes war? Is it man’s endless capacity for hate?
WRONG! It’s your gut microbiome
WRONG! It’s your gut microbiome
September 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
What causes war? Is it man’s endless capacity for hate?
WRONG! It’s your gut microbiome
WRONG! It’s your gut microbiome
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if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
September 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
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BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
August 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
The article points out that slashing Medicaid does serious damage to rural nonprofit hospitals. I work for one. Why anyone would think it’s a good idea to make it harder for us to help the rural sick, and push other hospitals into bankruptcy, is beyond me.
Cutting Medicaid can seem like an easy way to slash the budget. But, the costs can spread to all of us.
The hidden costs of cutting Medicaid
Cutting Medicaid can seem like an easy way to slash the budget. But, the costs can spread to all of us.
n.pr
August 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The article points out that slashing Medicaid does serious damage to rural nonprofit hospitals. I work for one. Why anyone would think it’s a good idea to make it harder for us to help the rural sick, and push other hospitals into bankruptcy, is beyond me.
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Once again: LLMs are word-association algorithms. They are incapable of grokking that the words they parse correspond to actual objects & phenomena outside of their own algorithms. To an LLM, its statements depend not on facts but on how often words occur together in the material the're trained on.
Grok spread dangerous misinformation during the tsunami last night.
It confidently and persistently argued that there were no tsunami warnings in effect for various areas when such warnings were in effect.
Many were using Grok for updates since the ability to locate reliable data on X is degraded.
It confidently and persistently argued that there were no tsunami warnings in effect for various areas when such warnings were in effect.
Many were using Grok for updates since the ability to locate reliable data on X is degraded.
July 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Once again: LLMs are word-association algorithms. They are incapable of grokking that the words they parse correspond to actual objects & phenomena outside of their own algorithms. To an LLM, its statements depend not on facts but on how often words occur together in the material the're trained on.
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Me on the factually misleading and analytically ridiculous misconduct complaint DOJ has filed against Chief Judge Boasberg—and the dangerousness of DOJ so openly trying to undermine public confidence in the only institution that has been even partially effective at checking the Trump administration:
170. DOJ's (Ridiculous) Misconduct Complaint Against Chief Judge Boasberg
DOJ's complaint that Chief Judge Boasberg engaged in "misconduct" would be laughably stupid if it didn't reflect such a transparently obvious and dangerous attempt to delegitimize the federal courts.
www.stevevladeck.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Me on the factually misleading and analytically ridiculous misconduct complaint DOJ has filed against Chief Judge Boasberg—and the dangerousness of DOJ so openly trying to undermine public confidence in the only institution that has been even partially effective at checking the Trump administration:
Anyone who went to Yankees games in the 70s or 80s should rightfully pull out their Back In My Day pipe and start telling stories about the Bronx
Every blue-haired they/them liberal arts grad living in NYC is tougher than this sad little bitch.
July 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Anyone who went to Yankees games in the 70s or 80s should rightfully pull out their Back In My Day pipe and start telling stories about the Bronx
At the risk of sounding wild-eyed....I would prefer a government that does not threaten "consequences" for a talk show, because it does not say nice things about the President.
FOX: Is The View now in the crosshairs of this administration?
FCC CHAIR BRENDAN CARR: It's entirely possible there are issues over there ... the consequences aren't quite finished
FCC CHAIR BRENDAN CARR: It's entirely possible there are issues over there ... the consequences aren't quite finished
July 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
At the risk of sounding wild-eyed....I would prefer a government that does not threaten "consequences" for a talk show, because it does not say nice things about the President.
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Bold move by Texas to say that the First Amendment only applies during daylight hours.
July 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Bold move by Texas to say that the First Amendment only applies during daylight hours.
So how’re everyone’s cartoon apes portfolios doing these days?
July 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
So how’re everyone’s cartoon apes portfolios doing these days?
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1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar
2025: ohhh ok
2025: ohhh ok
July 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar
2025: ohhh ok
2025: ohhh ok
This is a really cool photo
July 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is a really cool photo
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NEWS: Kenneth Chesebro, "architect" of the 2020 fake electors plot who pleaded to criminal charges in Georgia, has been disbarred from the practice of law in New York, per order issued today by New York appellate court.
![ORDERED that respondent is disbarred and his name is stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law of the State of New York, effective immediately; and it is
further
ORDERED that respondent is commanded to desist and refrain from the practice of law in any form in the State of New York, either as principal or as agent, clerk or employee of another; and respondent is hereby forbidden to appear as an attorney or counselor-at-law before any court, judge, justice, board, commission or other public
authority, or to give to another an opinion as to the law or its application, or any advice in
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PM-143-25 relation thereto, or to hold himself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law in
this State; and it is further
ORDERED that respondent shall comply with the provisions of the Rules for Attorney Disciplinary Matters regulating the conduct of disbarred attornevs and shal duly certify to the same in his affidavit of compliance (see Rules for Atty Disciplinary
Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.15).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t4x2ruk2qmob2b2cx55h4v7r/bafkreifbf53i3pe57eehlm7thqfhfczzuaxqftpcip6unmfgfuni47bq54@jpeg)
June 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
NEWS: Kenneth Chesebro, "architect" of the 2020 fake electors plot who pleaded to criminal charges in Georgia, has been disbarred from the practice of law in New York, per order issued today by New York appellate court.
Even the bread & circuses are unaffordable now, so I’m not sure why the worst people are surprised about this.
all the worst people are sad tonight and i just think thats neat
June 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Even the bread & circuses are unaffordable now, so I’m not sure why the worst people are surprised about this.
Attended more board meetings than parties. And it wasn’t particularly close.
Once again it is Father’s Day, which means it’s time to share the most Dad* thing you did in the last year. As is custom, I will go first:
Watching YouTube videos for small repair jobs around the house has turned into watching YouTube videos for large repair jobs I cannot and should not attempt.
Watching YouTube videos for small repair jobs around the house has turned into watching YouTube videos for large repair jobs I cannot and should not attempt.
June 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Attended more board meetings than parties. And it wasn’t particularly close.
You know how little kids play soccer? Time to start the protests in NYC. Then after the Guard has been shipped back to the east coast, maybe it’s Portland’s turn next. Let them chase the ball all over the country.
BREAKING Trump sending 'additional' 2,000 National Guards to Los Angeles, says Pentagon
June 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
You know how little kids play soccer? Time to start the protests in NYC. Then after the Guard has been shipped back to the east coast, maybe it’s Portland’s turn next. Let them chase the ball all over the country.
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Apropos of nothing I feel like one of the most important things to help your kids develop is an ability to self-regulate.
June 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Apropos of nothing I feel like one of the most important things to help your kids develop is an ability to self-regulate.