Alex @db0255

Uploaded a pic of a cherry angioma on my leg to AI. It diagnosed me with androgenetic alopecia due to my sparse (leg) hair on the vertex (my knee). It is so very wrong, but very right. 😂😂😂😂

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Nick Mark MD @nickmmark

3 weeks ago

~90% of hospitalists vote to unionize at Swedish Medical center in Seattle.

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Alex @db0255

4 weeks ago

@JannScottTonite Cavernous sinus thrombosis seems more plausible. That can kill more quickly than meningitis, and fits the picture.

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Alex @db0255

a month ago

@EntropicOtter @BrandonLuuMD Can you control for conscientiousness and randomize everything else?

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@DebraPe41842754 @TheAntBox It’s more so just trying to resolve a problem and not escalate things. You don’t have to let people walk all over you, but what if the guy has mobility issues and needs to back in and needs more space? Like everything she is saying is correct, but U just wonder why make it worse?

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Alex @db0255

a month ago

@Serenitee_Sam I know nothing about this woman. I know nothing about her mental health. I don't know the situation tbh. But I know one thing, she is having a bad day. 100% sure of that.

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Alex @db0255

a month ago

@linseymarr @collins_daman It's more like human to human transmission similar to TB, though. Close contact, extended time, etc is needed. The r0 is 1.2ish.

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Alex @db0255

a month ago

@MikeC38523422 @JasonGandhi9 @rawsalerts It is spread through the air via aerosolized rodent urine/feces. I'm sure direct contact would also spread it. The incubation period is long so it might not have even been contracted ON the cruise ship.

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Alex @db0255

a month ago

StayCurious Metabolism staycuriousmetabolism.substack.com/?r=aas5

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Nav Toor @heynavtoor

a month ago

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario. a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose. the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant. he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests. Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time. GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead. Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on. Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for. then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company." GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing. then he splits the users by income. Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%. 18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time. so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for. it isn't recommending the best option for you. it's reading the room. and the room is paying. read this: arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525

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Alex @db0255

2 months ago

@kevinmd Why can’t anybody write without AI nowadays?

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Alex @db0255

2 months ago

@User37733773 @rawsalerts “I’m lowkey fine with imperialist colonialism” said the person who would benefit and not at all be affected negatively from it any way.

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Alex @db0255

2 months ago

@Emaperidol U don’t CONTROL me. Cupping while thrombocytopenic is an AMERICAN value!! (I need a new bit lol)

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Alex @db0255

2 months ago

@I_amMukhtar Watching this without context and knowing he’s a comedian, then this is clearly a bit…like Brand is seeing how awkward he can make the interaction, no?