"The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump."
You might want to cancel your #WashingtonPost subscription after reading this most recent attack on free speech.
Essential
#journalism by #TheTexasObserver that illuminates the ubiquity of #Nazis (and this doesn't even include #Musk) on X. They have a lot of followers. These are the names of the pariahs spreading hate: Cyan Cruz, Michael Gramer, Robert Thorne, John Anthony Provenzano. Some are followed by these pariahs in gov't: Sen. Thomas Massie of Kentucky & Arizona State Senator, Wendy Rogers. Among other horrors, one of their acronyms is JQ -- the Jewish Question.
Wow. "A Republican congresswoman from Texas [Kay Granger] has not cast a vote in the US House since July while she has been living at a memory care facility β something she did not disclose to the public, according to a Dallas media outlet that figured out the reason for her prolonged absence."
I understand today's #NYT has an article about #FTD. If anyone has a subscription and would be willing to share a gift link for this piece, I'd be very grateful.
#Dementia
#BruceMiller
I said no. The first request was for a volume I edited (not one of my monographs) that had many contributors. They were not contacted.
"Cambridge University Press & Assessment (CUPA) is taking an opt-in approach β the UK publisher has contacted 20,000 authors for permission to license their content to technology companies developing LLMs. . . . only a few authors have declined to license their content."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04018-5
#AI
#CambridgeUniversityPress
If the Institute for Scientific Information of Coffee says coffee is good for the brain, body, and soul (that last is my addition), it's got to be true.
#NarrativeMedicine is a discipline that makes the case for the importance of empathy, time listening, & "close reading" as doctors engage with patients. Their stories are as significant as bloodwork, PET images, & CATscans. What we are now seeing is a different kind of storytelling -- stories about money and care denial and suffering that creates and exacerbates illness. It makes me wonder if narrative medicine is even possible.
https://www.aamc.org/news/narrative-medicine-every-patient-has-story
#RitaCharon
#ColumbiaU
#Medicine
