The research fairy 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 @bgcarlisle@scholar.social

The capitalist class: You better accept these terrible working conditions and wages or we will replace you with an artificial intelligence!

Meanwhile in the artificial intelligence lab:

Tfw someone should do a study

A union for peer-reviewers when

Don't bring propositional logic to an inferential statistics fight

Dear hiring committee members,

Your insistence that you are "not hiring for any tenure track positions in bioethics at the moment," is an interesting opening gambit in our negotiations, and I applaud your persistence on this point after so many emails

My counter-offer, that you are indeed hiring a tenure track professor and compensating very generously, remains firm, however I am willing to haggle over the following minor points ...

So on the STAT news podcast, they interviewed a biotech AI enthusiast who suggested that AI could help to streamline drug development by helping to better micro-target patient populations who would respond to potential drugs

Which is a great idea except that clinical trial populations are extremely skewed toward white men

Guess who we'll be making drugs for

Like, *more so*

Wealthy academic institutions stop forcing vulnerable people like students to give you interest-free loans in the form of up-front payment of travel expenses and eventual reimbursement through difficult-to-navigate and slow bureaucracy challenge 2020

If you want me to see a post, don't write one that includes:

* cuck
* cucked

What fool called them Christian church facilities and not "Amen-ities"?

~ What happens every single time, I swear ~

Me: Do you have Signal?

Them: Yeah, why?

Me: *Is still unclear whether they have Signal Private Messenger, the smartphone app*

Me: I mean, do you have Signal Private messenger?

Them: Oh you want to use Messenger

Me: Signal Messenger, yes

Them: I thought you weren't on Facebook

Signal developers: Hey let's name our app something that is hard to search for because it's a common word. Also, it's a word that is commonly used as a synonym for cell phone reception, so it will always be unclear whether you mean to refer to the app!

I wish that Signal had not chosen that name

Even if you capitalize it, people who haven't heard of it don't understand that you're talking about a particular app unless you spend a lot of time explaining it, and if they had even just spelled "signal" wrong as their name like a lot of 00's-era app names, that would have been better

Thing that I don't care about that much:

* The super-rich getting fleeced

Go for it. Take Bezos or whoever to the cleaners and give him sketchy non-medicine for it. Idc.

Thing that worries me:

* An eventual spurious positive result on one of these trials leading to desperate middle- or lower-income people re-mortgaging their houses to pay for 6-figure-level costs of ineffective "life-extensions" on the assumption that they'll live long enough to pay it back

I have an mp3 of a song that I really like that I ripped off a CD that I bought in ~ 2006

I'm pretty sure the CD had a scratch in it because the mp3 has a skip in two places

I think

I'm so used to the skip being there that it sounds *right* now

And because it's not the kind of song that would ever get played on the radio here, I really don't know