It was unharmed.

It’s just a diamond cutting wheel on a dremel.

The last time I saw this in the ER as a medical student I had to teach the fireman how to cut with the diamond dremel correctly. I never really expected my metalworking and blacksmithing hobby to be particularly useful in emergency medicine.

It did take 3 hours to get the damn thing off because we had to make 2 cuts to get it open.

Nier: Automata has a special place in my heart and I’m seriously considering getting a tattoo of Pascal because of that story thread.

This does seem to be the most consistent explanation.

As a cis-woman that plays Arma, I find it very amusing/interesting that the trans-women in my Arma unit outnumber the cis-women 3 to 1.

If the options in November 2028 come down to Newsom vs Trump (or whoever is his puppet), I’m still voting for Newsom. I won’t be happy about it, but if we can’t get a real progressive through the primaries, I’m still voting against the GOP and for the non-GOP candidate with the best chance of winning.

The medical school application system, AMCAS, sells the information of every medical school applicant. I had to call the recruiters’ office and explain to them that I have multiple failing organ systems and take more than 10 medications a day. I asked if they could get me a medical waiver for chronic kidney disease and they sheepishly agreed to remove my name from their list.

Most of the drug research that actually produces new, useful treatments is done by universities and government research institutions, (or at least it was before the budget cuts). That research produced with state funding is then bought for pennies on the dollar by big pharma who does the last couple steps and reaps all of the financial rewards.

The NIH and CDC would be fully funded in perpetuity (along with many research institutions and universities) if they got paid even a fraction of the profits for their foundational research.

It’s 7 to 10 hours a day and they won’t be telling you when they’ll be getting home for you to be able to leave.

To be somewhat pedantic, “Nazi” is not a demographic identifier. Demographics almost always refers to more immutable features like age, sex, gender, orientation, race, nationality, citizenship, etc. Political ideology is a way to divide and count people, but it’s not something that is reliably counted as a demographic indicator.

I have the KPDH soundtrack going on repeat. (My life is extremely stressful at the moment and I need my dopamine from somewhere)

I just don’t see a world in which it becomes the gold standard prior to getting so horribly enshittified that no medical institution can justify the cost of the accursed thing.

Some of my classmates used chatGPT to summarize reading assignments and it garbled the information so badly that they got things wrong on in-class assessments. Aside from the hallucinations and jumbled garbage output, I refuse to use AI unless there is absolutely no alternative on an ethical basis due to the environmental and societal impacts.

As far as I’m concerned, the only role for LLMs in medicine is to function as a scribe to reduce the burden of documentation and that’s only because everything the idiot machines vomit up has to be checked before being committed to the medical record anyways. Generative AI is a scourge on society and an absolute menace in medicine.

This is stupid. Fully reading and analyzing the source for accuracy and relevancy can be extremely time consuming. That’s why physicians have databases like UpToDate and Dynamed that have expert (ie physician and PhD) analyses and summaries of the studies in the relevant articles.

I’m a 4th year medical student and I have literally never used an LLM. If I don’t know something, I look it up in a reliable resource and a huge part of my education is knowing what I need to look up. An LLM can’t do that for me.

4th year med student here: I use Google to find studies and STATPearls pages because the built-in NIH search function sucks.

They can get your actual region off your billing details for subscription pricing. The content availability might vary by IP, but the pricing is going to go off your billing address. That’s why I pay taxes on some of my subscription services is because my state has a tax on that while other states don’t. When signing up for a new service, it doesn’t show me the total with tax until I enter my address.

I think it’s important for people to recognize the toxic effects of general misogyny and phenomena like Gamer Gate have on gaming communities. To this day, I see plenty of cis-male and trans-femme gamers wonder about why there are so few cis-women in gaming spaces without recognition of what gaming communities are like towards young women and girls who express interest. Nothing quashes your desire to join a community quite like incessant harassment, abuse, rape/death threats, and doxxing.

(To be clear, I am not insinuating that trans-femme folks have an easy time of things, but I can say they outnumber cis-women in gaming communities like Arma by a factor to 2 to 1 or greater. There are 3 trans-women in my Arma group and I’m the only cis-woman there.)

I’m pretty sure that’s a state-by-state code. I know in California PC5150 is the code for removing someone’s rights for being a danger to themselves or others for the purpose of a compulsory mental health examination.

The environmental impact of using generative AI is obscene. I don’t have the source for the claim, but I’ve seen an estimate that an AI generated image creates as much damage as a gallon of gasoline being burned for substantially less actual use.