Liesl (she/they) 1990. pisces. queer. white. â i love fruit, tea, science, and hockey. my gay wife and i live with our cattes. b.sc psych (bio) mcl » m.ed ed/psych ( 802 » 518 » 717 » 423 » 802/518 ) literally 100% mobile and virtually no tags. hockey sideblog: @tres-bien-desbiens bear sideblog: @bearyparfait (katmai season!)
shout out to everyone here for the cogsci/neuropsych takes. please know that sometimes i only post horse memes instead of smart takes.
one thing about scientists is that we only have two modes: 5-10 paragraph analysis, and smooth brain laughing at the worst memes on earth
i'm liesl. queer white usamerican-canadian. i grew up in new england (quebec border), and currently live in appalachia (tennessee). i'm in neuropsych and cognitive (neuro)science research, with specific interest in: epigenetics in heritable neuropsych conditions (especially psychotic disorders); addiction research, biopsychosocial models of stress and wellness in individuals, communities, and populations; secular addiction and post-carceral rehabilitation. my current research is on social media, generative AI, behavioural addiction, and models of social and self connectedness in determining outcomes (specifically aiming to describe why some AI chatbot users experience psychosis or are driven to suicide, among other detrimental outcomes).
i am always always always willing to talk about these topics and will in fact invite myself onto posts to host a mini-TEDx on these topics and others in my field. please let me know if you are in my field or an adjacent field, i would love to talk to you about research!
my hockey sideblog: @tres-bien-desbiens (pwhl, nhl, iihf, olympic/worlds, some wnba, some ncaa, ice dance and figure skating)
my bear sideblog: @bearyparfait (currently in katmai bear cam mode, but i also post a lot of bear art and other bears on there.)
i am an adult and i post about "adult topics" on this blog. i trust each and every one of my followers to decide if they are ready, able, and willing to see these topics. if that is not you, i encourage you to unfollow or block me.
(blog and cut content note: abuse, CSA, mental illness)
i am disabled. specifically, i am epileptic, and the type of epilepsy i have often impacts my mood, personality, and memory. my mind is organized into a system, which has been present to my knowledge since at least age 6. i do not really engage with plural discourse, mostly because my experience is intimately informed by my autism and the specifics of my CSA experience.
i do talk about my experience as a CSA survivor, typically not graphically, but i do acknowledge the levels of abuse, coercion, manipulation, and my own experiences with my father having severe cptsd and schizophrenia (which would likely now be diagnosed as schizoaffective). i also have cptsd and have awareness of generational trauma and the legacy of cyclic abuse, and i talk about that, too.
i am a prison abolitionist and support reforming our criminal justice system from retribution-based to rehabilitation-based. i believe most people can be rehabilitated, and acknowledge the criminal justice system as legalized slavery which disproportionately impacts black and brown people in poverty.
a few more rent-lowering gunshots:
trans siblings are always welcome here đłïžââ§ïž
all members of the 2slgbtq+ are supported and welcome here, including nb, gnc, and aspec. exclusionists need not apply. none of us are free until all of us are free.
bodily autonomy is a non-negotiable human right for all people, which includes children, disabled adults, those who have uteruses, trans people, and racialized people. the usamerican medical system is distinctly unjust to these groups.
abortion should be legal, accessible, and free. the only requirement is you are pregnant and want to not be pregnant. i support catholics4choice.
i'm culturally catholic, a long-standing critic of the church (and officially an apostate). i will voice both support for positive actions by the church and strong criticism for past and continued wrongs. the latter will be much more frequent than the former.
nuanced AI views, but generally against LLMs as a consumer product, supportive of gen AI in biology and diagnostic research settings, critical of water and other ecological concerns wrt data centres. gen AI chatbots are a plague. gen AI cannot make art or be creative; these are human endeavours.
my stepdad was an evangelical and i have a lot of opinions about evangelical usamerican christianity, mostly critical. i talk about the role of churches in southeastern us communities, especially in terms of disaster response, as well as the role of churches in addiction treatment and charity work.
southern folks deserve respect for their cultures, histories, and humanity. i will talk at length about systemic inequality, literacy issues and the death of free public education, and rural society.
gender is a social construct and there is no inherent difference between men and women that is not socially mediated. raise all children the same.
okay don't bother sending hate i will just block u lol
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"But AI can't do your job. It can help you do your job, but that doesn't mean it's going to save anyone money. Take radiology: there's some evidence that AIs can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss, and look, I've got cancer. Thankfully, it's very treatable, but I've got an interest in radiology being as reliable and accurate as possible.
If my Kaiser hospital bought some AI radiology tools and told its radiologists: "Hey folks, here's the deal. Today, you're processing about 100 x-rays per day. From now on, we're going to get an instantaneous second opinion from the AI, and if the AI thinks you've missed a tumor, we want you to go back and have another look, even if that means you're only processing 98 x-rays per day. That's fine, we just care about finding all those tumors."
If that's what they said, I'd be delighted. But no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate. The market's bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: "Look, you fire 9/10s of your radiologists, saving $20m/year, you give us $10m/year, and you net $10m/year, and the remaining radiologists' job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed, and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it's catastrophically wrong.
"And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis."
This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes.
This is another key to understanding â and thus deflating â the AI bubble. The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble."
- Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaurâs Guide to Criticizing AI
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[ID: a woman stands in front of a hell landscape cgi. she's talking to someone out of view; "... Not supposed to be here, I'm Hindu, I'm supposed to be reincarnated, I told you this bef-"
She's cut off my a section of Lil Nas X's song Montero, specifically the line "... Me in the the mornin', i'll be on...". As the line plays, she looks to the side down, as if something nearby is falling. The music fades in, gets louder, and fades back out. She pauses after it fades all the way out.
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I love that Leverage really goes out of itâs way to show us that just because you break the ârulesâ, it doesnât mean youâre breaking the rules. Rules and laws and society are all made up, at the end of the day, and all you really have is your own moral compass and sense of justice; is this just to you? Is it right? Should it be OK for companies to put people in insurmountable debt for the rest of their lives just because our medical care is so expensive in this modern day and age? No law or rule should change what you know in your heart is right and wrong, and I think thatâs the key thing that makes someone a good person in my eyes.
#there was a time when parker wouldnât have noticed, #not because she lacked the capacity to care, #but because she had narrowed herself, #to stay alive she cut off as many unnecessary things as possible, #watching her get them all back, #is one of the glories of this show (via @seananmcguire)
This scene hit me like a brick. My parents were hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt when I was 16 bc Iâd had cancer the year before (my treatment ended up being free but the initial ER bills and such were not).
But somewhere along the line they just⊠Disappeared. My mom says theyâre not being paid and theyâre not in collections. Itâs almost as if someone out there didâŠexactly what Parker did.
Ever since I saw this the first time, Iâve imagined it was Parker doing it. That she and Hardison had a free weekend and decided to take it out on a collections agency. That I was one of the lucky ones who got a little Leverage.
Okay but like yeah, that is actually a thing that happens, albeit not exactly like this. I donât remember the exact process but basically thereâs a booming industry to sell peoples debt - the business you owe money to sells it to someone else for a fraction of the money owed, wipes their hands of the whole affair, and now whoever bought your debt is riding your ass to get you to give the money to the. But itâs also entirely possible for people to just⊠buy up massive amounts of debt for pennies on the dollar, and then just. Forgive it. Because capitalism is a living nightmare, but the system is broken enough that itâs possible to exploit it for good sometimes.
Like, the main reason I know about this is because John Oliver did a piece on debt buying a few years ago, and ended it by revealing that heâd bought 15 million dollars worth of medical debt just so he could forgive all of it. Both to expose how broken the system was because some random fucker like him could buy millions of dollars in peoples debt with zero regulations, and also just to take the record for biggest TV giveaway in history.
yes! if you want to help with the medical debt crisis in the US and have some extra money please donate to RIP Medical Debt if you can. Theyâre completely legit and really do what they say - you really CAN relieve an incredible amount of debt for the needy with even a small donation. Iâm a monthly donor and receive a quarterly report of the debt theyâve abolished, and it truly is amazing. Based on those reports the average amount of debt abolished per person is actually I would say about $600 - which means, if youâre doing the math, that with a $6 donation to RIP Medical Debt, you can potentially pull one person out of a poverty spiral - maybe even one family. For six dollars. thatâs a pretty good deal, I think.
