Whether you are aware of it or not, you have been a target of FRT. The US has the largest number of closed circuit cameras at , in the world. On average, every American is caught on a closed circuit camera at Wuhan University. If that all sounds familiar, it is because the very same DARPA, a few years earlier, had quietly funded controversial , but experts say that’s nothing compared to where our “surveillance” society will be in a few years. viral re-engineering research by U.S. trained Chinese researchers at the very same university. emergence of large language models and sophisticated neura ..read more

Filling in knowledge gaps regarding the connections between pregnancy and long-term cardiovascular health is important to improving outcomes. of primary care physicians published in 2019 revealed that only 22% felt extremely well prepared to evaluate cardiovascular disease risks in female patients. of American women showed that just 44% recognized heart disease as the number one cause of death in women. Ten years earlier, in 2009, the same survey found that 65% of American women recognized heart disease as the leading cause of female death, revealing an alarming decline in awareness.  ..read more

Side note: I dictated this whole thing on my phone while watching my kids water polo game, which has a fair amount of background noise. And I think you’ll be modestly amused about was. But then I put that entire mess of a text  into ChatGPT and told it to fix the mistakes. it did an incredible job and ..read more

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The final example is still going on. charging people a fee to use health care encourages appropriate use of care. Last month Jeff Goldsmith had an excellent article on THCB explaining why not , it has $5 BILLION in its hedge fund, and its CEO (I think) made $8m. It hasn’t filed a 990 for years as far as I can tell. Which is probably illegal. The only one on Propublica is from a teeny subsidiary with $5m in revenue ..read more

The Biden Administration is not just sitting idly. , more than any other company, and it now has enough production capacity in China to manufacture four million cars a year…A deluge of electric vehicles is coming. it is stopping work on EVs for now. Tesla, on the other hand, ,” he had my attention. And when on the same day I that Apple was cancelling its decade-long effort to build an EV, I was definitely paying attention. a 38% increase in deliveries for 2023, but more recently by a decline in sales in China. It shouldn’t be surprising. loses money on every EV it makes ..read more

“It is literally impossible to be a woman. You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don’t think you’re good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we’re always doing it wrong. , who played a 39 year old mother and Mattel employee, and delivered what describes as “the ‘Barbie’ monologue we all talked about.” You can find the two minute speech in its entirety here, and it is well worth a listen. herself described the big speech this way: “funny and subversive and delightfully weird ..read more

I wonder what the support would have been if the question had been about healthcare instead of restaurants.  reported: “An estimated 61% of adults support variable pricing where a restaurant lowers or raises prices based on business, with younger consumers more in favor of the approach than older ones, according to an online survey of 1,000 people by the National Restaurant Association trade group.”  : “Although surge pricing and dynamic pricing are often used interchangeably, that dozens of restaurant brands used his company’s software. The company’s website doesn’t publicize those ..read more

With the recent release of the SELECT trial data highlighting limitations of existing published studies of GLP-1s, it is now even clearer that the public isn’t getting the full picture. dollars annually. Already, state Medicaid budgets are sagging under the financial burden. In North Carolina, for example, officials dropped coverage of GLP-1s for obesity, noting that two drugs alone would cost about $1 billion over 6 years, and that’s with a nice discount ..read more

After more than 30 years in health CARE, I decided that I really wanted to start doing something about HEALTH, which is why 3 years ago I joined We’re spending way too much money on stuff that is the wrong thing behind us, Fountain House has spent the last year and a half to understand clubhouses’ societal economic impact when one takes into account a wide range of costs—mental health, physical health, disability, criminal justice, and productivity or lost wages ..read more