Lynne Sikora
@hemlocklover.bsky.social
Retired healthcare professional, savoring one day at a time. Advocate of the Socratic Method. Morning coffee is the best meal of the day.
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Never a doubt.
Paul Skenes is your 2025 NL Cy Young Award Winner!
Paul Skenes is your 2025 NL Cy Young Award Winner!
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Never a doubt.
Paul Skenes is your 2025 NL Cy Young Award Winner!
Paul Skenes is your 2025 NL Cy Young Award Winner!
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Timothy Snyder with some compressed truth about truth. www.facebook.com/thedailyshow... via @mariopro.bsky.social
When Step 1 becomes a commonplace, journalism and its practices are in peril. We crossed into that world well before the 2024 election, but it was hard to get journalists to see it.
When Step 1 becomes a commonplace, journalism and its practices are in peril. We crossed into that world well before the 2024 election, but it was hard to get journalists to see it.
June 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Timothy Snyder with some compressed truth about truth. www.facebook.com/thedailyshow... via @mariopro.bsky.social
When Step 1 becomes a commonplace, journalism and its practices are in peril. We crossed into that world well before the 2024 election, but it was hard to get journalists to see it.
When Step 1 becomes a commonplace, journalism and its practices are in peril. We crossed into that world well before the 2024 election, but it was hard to get journalists to see it.
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Unlike medical algorithms, insurance AI tools are largely unregulated. They don’t have to go through FDA review, and insurance companies often say their algorithms are trade secrets. There’s no outside testing to see whether they’re safe, fair or effective.
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How artificial intelligence controls your health insurance coverage
Health insurance companies use AI to decide which health care treatment to cover. State laws and federal agencies are now moving toward regulating these algorithms.
theconversation.com
June 29, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Unlike medical algorithms, insurance AI tools are largely unregulated. They don’t have to go through FDA review, and insurance companies often say their algorithms are trade secrets. There’s no outside testing to see whether they’re safe, fair or effective.
theconversation.com/how-artifici...
theconversation.com/how-artifici...
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Silence Dogood has some more messages to deliver. Tonight their canvas was the Old North Church.
Silence Dogood has some more messages to deliver. Tonight their canvas was the Old North Church.
Old North projections
Silence Dogood had some messages to project onto the Old North Church tonight.A small crowd gathered as the images cycled. Asked whether the projectors were part of the official 250 celebration or som...
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April 18, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Silence Dogood has some more messages to deliver. Tonight their canvas was the Old North Church.
Silence Dogood has some more messages to deliver. Tonight their canvas was the Old North Church.
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Elizabeth Bruenig attended the annual Natal Conference last month and found the idea that having children is good and ought to be supported by society pretty unobjectionable. What was disturbing was the dominance of far-right politics in the discourse:
The Pro-Baby Coalition of the Far Right
Perpetuating humanity should be a cross-politics consensus, but the left was mostly absent at a recent pro-natalism conference.
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April 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Elizabeth Bruenig attended the annual Natal Conference last month and found the idea that having children is good and ought to be supported by society pretty unobjectionable. What was disturbing was the dominance of far-right politics in the discourse:
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California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."
April 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."
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Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...
My Open Letter to Elon Musk
From Marc | Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” This is my response.
www.democracydocket.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...
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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
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AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.
March 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.
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Shameful, absolutely.
I’ll add some detail: ruthlessly self-serving — personal power over ethics — normalizing collaboration with an obvious narcissistic, pathologically lying, likely sociopathic, power craving authoritarian. Overall,he’s despicable.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/the-shamef...
I’ll add some detail: ruthlessly self-serving — personal power over ethics — normalizing collaboration with an obvious narcissistic, pathologically lying, likely sociopathic, power craving authoritarian. Overall,he’s despicable.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/the-shamef...
The shameful legacy of Sen. Mitch McConnell
The hypocrite from Kentucky announces he will not seek another term.
anntelnaes.substack.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Shameful, absolutely.
I’ll add some detail: ruthlessly self-serving — personal power over ethics — normalizing collaboration with an obvious narcissistic, pathologically lying, likely sociopathic, power craving authoritarian. Overall,he’s despicable.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/the-shamef...
I’ll add some detail: ruthlessly self-serving — personal power over ethics — normalizing collaboration with an obvious narcissistic, pathologically lying, likely sociopathic, power craving authoritarian. Overall,he’s despicable.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/the-shamef...
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#50501Protest #Musk #Trump #Fetterman #Indivisible #Resistance #USConstitution #GoodTrouble #Pittsburgh
“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.”— Rep. John R. Lewis👇🏽
“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.”— Rep. John R. Lewis👇🏽
February 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
#50501Protest #Musk #Trump #Fetterman #Indivisible #Resistance #USConstitution #GoodTrouble #Pittsburgh
“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.”— Rep. John R. Lewis👇🏽
“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.”— Rep. John R. Lewis👇🏽
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It is unconscionable to hold disaster victims hostage as part of a scheme to pass massive tax breaks for billionaires and wealthy corporations.
Let me politely articulate our position to House Republicans.
Get lost.
Let me politely articulate our position to House Republicans.
Get lost.
January 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It is unconscionable to hold disaster victims hostage as part of a scheme to pass massive tax breaks for billionaires and wealthy corporations.
Let me politely articulate our position to House Republicans.
Get lost.
Let me politely articulate our position to House Republicans.
Get lost.
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What does renaming the Gulf of Mexico have to do with lowering the cost of living in America?
Absolutely nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
January 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
What does renaming the Gulf of Mexico have to do with lowering the cost of living in America?
Absolutely nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
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Keep your hands off Social Security and Medicare.
January 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Keep your hands off Social Security and Medicare.
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Absolutely chilling.
This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Absolutely chilling.
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“I could not in good conscience continue being a spokesman for an industry that was making it increasingly difficult for Americans to get often lifesaving care,” writes Wendell Potter, a former vice president at Cigna.
Opinion | I Was a Health Insurance Executive. What I Saw Made Me Quit.
Shareholders, not patient outcomes, tend to drive decisions at health insurance companies.
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2024 at 8:43 PM
“I could not in good conscience continue being a spokesman for an industry that was making it increasingly difficult for Americans to get often lifesaving care,” writes Wendell Potter, a former vice president at Cigna.
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This is unbelievably horrifying.
He’s outlining a process to make disinformation impossible to refute, and criminalizing anyone who tries.
He’s outlining a process to make disinformation impossible to refute, and criminalizing anyone who tries.
November 9, 2024 at 7:47 PM
This is unbelievably horrifying.
He’s outlining a process to make disinformation impossible to refute, and criminalizing anyone who tries.
He’s outlining a process to make disinformation impossible to refute, and criminalizing anyone who tries.