For all of the exhilarating possibilities A.I. brings to medicine — diagnosing rare diseases, predicting individuals’ risks, discovering elusive drugs — one of its strongest footholds in health care today is its ability to eavesdrop on conversations and quickly generate notes from them.
~ Helen Ouyang via The New York Times Magazine
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Anybody who embarks on a study of plagiarism hoping for bright lines is in for a foggy shock. Here is the land of blur.
~ Anthony Lane via The New Yorker
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Resitance is by nature reactive; it is not forward-looking.
~ Mark Lilla
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If we all spoke circumspectly and wisely all the time, who would even need institutional free-speech policies? The point of speech rules is to allow space for the unguarded and the ill-tempered, for the provocative and prickly person as well as the smooth and sinuous. The smooth and sinuous will seldom say anything worth hearing in the first place.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Compared with protein, which lends itself to narratives of growth—more grams, more gains—fibre is a bit of a hard sell, likelier to be espoused by women in sensible shoes than by fitness junkies on Twitch. But the benefits of eating a high-fibre diet are arguably more significant. Gastroenterologists and influencers alike are eager to explain that fibre affects health beyond gut motility, formerly known as shitting: it slows digestion, which can make you feel full for longer and help manage blood sugar and body weight, and has been shown to lower cholesterol and blood pressure.
~ Hannah Goldfield via The New Yorker
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That is not to say America’s particular system of public health was ever perfect. Owing partly to the legacy of segregation, the country never developed a universal health-insurance program, and maintains a fragmented health-care system in which both class and race still dictate much of a patient’s access to care. Many people on the margins who have wanted to get screened for certain diseases or vaccinated against them have not been able to do so, because they cannot afford to or because no doctor will serve them.
~ Vann Newkirk via The Atlantic
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If anybody needs a day off it’s Cameron. He’s got a lotta things to sort out before he graduates. He can’t be wound up this tight and go to college. His roommate’ll kill him.
~ Ferris Bueller
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The fear of body bags has been one of the greatest deterrents to conflict in history. Mass-produced, expendable robots do not carry the human or financial costs that have tempered the urge to go to war for centuries.
~ W.J. Hennigan via The New York Times
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Our fathers were our models for God, if our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?
~ Tyler Durden
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The U.S. dollar functions as a kind of “natural resource” that the United States produces to satisfy global demand for dollar-denominated reserves.38 But how far this can be taken is unclear. A shock to confidence in U.S. institutional governance (a debt ceiling default, for instance) could trigger a compounding panic and a free fall of the dollar. The United States is in uncharted waters.
~ Michael Starr via American Affairs
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