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One of my vendors who I have to call a lot for biopsy emergencies recently change from a phone-tree with a keypad directory where you type in your party's extension to an AI-voice recognition sys…

Ageism is huge in the workplace. It sucks but it definitely happens. I had a young manager complaining that "his job was to teach a bunch of old bald guys with saggy balls how to use excel"…

I would say with inflation, wealth inequality and skyrocketing housing, gas and grocery prices as well as super high amounts of consumer debt and families stretching to keep up it feels a lot like pre…

Now do a no-tech highest quality repairable washing machine, no tech high-quality repairable refrigerator and no tech high quality HVAC!!

fwiw I asked my friend in IT who worked on the Claude rollout if they routinely read out prompts and he said no, they watch category of use and can usage stats then have a few alert flags if it is ask…

Longevity research is the most overhyped, commercially driven scam and fraud hotspot in modern science. Anti-aging docs and researchers print beaucoup bucks milking the rich narcissistic boomer cow w…

I recently had to do a very hated, very tedious, very long, very boring task at work and I asked Claude to hype me up and give me a pep talk to conquer the task and it really did a great job. Then I g…

Still remember the twitter thread from an escort/OF girl whose insta account got banned for soliciting and she went on a podcast saying she got it reinstated by finding Facebook employees on link…

> In an internal memo to employees who work on Gemini, Google cofounder Sergey Brin recommended being in the office at least every weekday and said 60 hours is the “sweet spot” for productivity, ac…

Whoop has said it trained its blood pressure model using data from over 11,000 members and then validated it against clinical readings. The company’s head of health care products Alex Vannoni recently…

Apple, meanwhile, does not display blood pressure readings in its FDA-authorized feature. The Apple Watch analyzes 30 days of data and alerts users of possible hypertension. The company’s data shows t…

For example, Oura’s new nighttime blood pressure feature tells users whether their blood pressure is dipping overnight — when it doesn’t dip, that’s a significant sign of cardiovascular risk. Another …

Paywall'd txt: In early January, the Food and Drug Administration delivered on the Trump administration’s deregulatory promises by allowing more wellness products to be marketed without the agenc…

> we could direct AI produced value into universal basic income so people wouldn't lose their income. This would never get approved in the USA. Think of the backlash here against "Obama…

Essentially Thermo Fisher has been photoshopping their antibody offerings. Here's the original thread on twitter id-ing them: https://x.com/addictedtoigno1/status/20560…

The irony is the company is trying to make robots to help clean airbnbs for renter turnovers. Instead they are messing up airbnbs and making them harder to clean before turnovers.

> The tank that failed was holding white liquor — a chemical commonly used in paper and pulp processing, which consists of sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide. Authorities previously said the tank …