Jack Iwashyna

BCBS Michigan paid its CEO $13.9M in 2024.

The University of Michigan basketball coach made $4.6M.

One of them denies your claims for a living. The other one just loses March games.

We built a system that pays more to gatekeep care than to provide it.

“The divided life, the sundered self, the isolated ego, cannot be at peace”

~ Rufus Jones

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

“Academics tend to have this way of interacting with people that works really well when there is mutual good faith,” Aaronson says. “But it breaks down when that doesn’t exist. And I think a lot of academics were just not prepared to deal with someone like him.”

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Data Visualization A Practical Introduction

Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co

This was often my experience there in grad school

I cannot wait to read this

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

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A more complete set of voices in a companion piece.

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About 60% of the so-called masculinity crisis is men being treated just a little bit more like women and they cannot deal. The other forty percent is climate anxiety and learned helplessness.

JOURNAL ARTICLE Baby boy blue — why is this newborn lethargic? Get access > Michael Rieder, MD PhD FRCPC, Gideon Koren, MD FRCPC Paediatrics & Child Health, Volume 15, Issue 9, November 2010, Pages 571-572, https://doi-org.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/10.1093/pch/15.9.571 Published: 01 November 2010 Article history v A correction has been published: Paediatrics & Child Health, pxag013, https://doi-org.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/10.1093/pch/pxag01 Extract A one-week-old boy was seen in the emergency department with a two-day history of poor feeding and increasing lethargy. He was born at term after an uneventful pregnancy by repeat caesarean section. His birth weight was 3.2 kg.

via @iwashyna.bsky.social

There isn't even a proper disclaimer. Merely a note on the access page:

"A correction has been published: Paediatrics & Child Health,
pxag013, [with URL]"

Correction ≠ FICTION. A dramatic headline hints we'll learn why ...

Baby boy blue — why is this newborn lethargic?

But it was assuredly used to train an AI!

good LORD

WTAF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS

Trust the people who knew him like @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social

At some point we will have a conversation about the bogus claim that running a financially successful company equips you for leadership more broadly.

Wait, do Brits not have like a “District Attorney who prosecutes crimes”?

Like why are Danny’s parents having to recruit Jocelyn out of retirement to take their case?

Finally getting around to watching Broadchurch and was not expecting Phoebe Waller-Bridge in season 2

(I expected the Doctor Who everywhere, and now s2e1 a little Torchwood, too…)

And the paragraph ends “one can only dream of having a legacy of loving your people so hard that you don’t even need to be around for them to feel it”

Damn

…You have to lean into trusting what's most important: that someone gave you the platform to do what you'd do”

~ Lawrence Burney

“I've been guilty of trivializing the opening act, but there's a courage there that I'm not sure I'd have the ability to muster up if put in the same position. You're in a space where the bulk of people in attendance aren't there for you, but you can't be deterred by that truth…

structurally indifferent to truth is a good line

Brown and white boer goat with an ear tag that says 0884, putting his little feet on me in a hammock

I'm sorry I engaged in discourse first thing in the morning. Here's a cute goat to make up for it.

Amid the turmoil, Sam Beyda, a 24-year-old who has never previously worked in public health, has assumed a prominent role at the agency, according to current and former officials. While at the CDC, O'Neill was often absent, those officials said, and he deputized Beyda to run much of the agency's day-to-day operations for him, people familiar with the matter said. Beyda, a 2023 graduate of Columbia University, is based in Washington, D.C., but frequently travels to the CDC's Atlanta headquarters. An internal document in November listed Beyda as leading five of 16 new strategic initiatives, including updating the CDC's agencywide response to outbreaks and crises, downsizing animal research and enhancing surveillance of novel pathogens. Some longtime CDC staffers have credited Beyda with being a quick study and making an effort to ask questions and learn on the ioh Ona coninr novear And ofniol enid Pando

But others say Beyda isn't qualified for a senior role that is often filled by someone with a master's in public health or years of experience in the federal government. Beyda executed January's widespread grant cuts to state and local health departments that the CDC then quickly rescinded, people familiar with the matter said. The administration moved forward about two weeks later with roughly $600 million in grant cuts to four states led by Democrats, a move now held up in court. Beyda was also deeply involved in a chaotic wave of firings at the CDC during the October government shutdown, according to people familiar with the matter, which saw more than a thousand employees laid off only for hundreds to later be reinstated. Beyda is one of at least a dozen political appointees at the agency, representing a larger number than in previous administrations, according to two current employees. The new political appointees wield significant power over the CDC's

Letting a 24 year old lead hundreds of millions of grants cuts at CDC…

“there is no evidence of acute medical conditions resulting from passive exposure to fentanyl or methamphetamine (such as from touching contaminated surfaces or inhaling second-hand smoke)”

Congrats on inventing insider trading war crimes, America

The point is to destroy the administrative state, centers of knowledge and all civic institutions that stand in the way of Russell Vought’s vision of an authoritarian theocracy. It sounds insane and something out of Atwood. But this is where we are. Under his eye.

Logged on to post the sentence “I’ve started stress dreaming about granular lab budgets” and what better visual to accompany that than

But that is not their actual job. There is a job description for all federal jobs. It’s in writing. They can look it up.