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Retired GP. Bicycling. CrossFit, cognitive disability, Lib. Eternally curious. TrueName John Faughnan (not actor). Amateur xenopsychologist. Painfully woke.
Also mastodon - https://appdot.net/@jgordon
It is indeed easy to learn things by following Bluesky experts. Getting rapid answers to specific questions is a privilege of Bsky celebrity.
And of course the low-follower people responding in your thread are not a true sample.
We could ask Void how one would test my thesis.
Rome had a run of Five Good Emperors that's widely considered to be its imperial golden age and it was ended by the handover of power from Marcus Aurelius to his son Commodus, who took an empire doing well and drove it off a cliff.
People compare Trump to Nero or Caligula, but he's Commodus
usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
You have 256k followers.
I do not believe this is the common experience. Maybe beyond 3K followers?
This is a nice thought but it only works if one is at at least a modest celebrity (which KM definitely is) AND if you restrict your questions to follower scope.
The current LLMs give this power to everyone.
"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
You know how sometimes you read that a celebrity has died and it’s a surprise because you actually thought they had died long ago?
Learn about why dial up internet has been discontinued.
So far seems a decent contribution. The medical piece is going to get a lot of use
Do you use the #medsky tag? It would be a good fit for many of your posts. (Used with medsky stream)
Many job applicants are turning down offers to work for Veterans Affairs, worried that the positions are not stable and uneasy with the overall direction of the agency.
Records show nearly 40% of the ~2,000 doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down.
Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...
Fear can be hard to distinguish from anger and hate.
