Notices by epicdemiologist (epicdemiologist@wandering.shop)

At my opthalmologist's office this morning:

1. A closely-written document about the use of AI notetaking in visits, which eventually gets around to saying you can opt out. But only verbally. There's no written opt-out option.

2. A sign on the back of the exam room door that says that, for patient privacy, patients aren't allowed to have their cellphones out.

3. An ad for Meta glasses frames at the checkout desk (you can buy them from their optometry lab).

#3GoodThings
1. Vacation day
2. My husband let me sleep in (he got up early for a bike ride & walked the dogs)
3. Iced tea (I love tea but it is TOO HOT for hot tea!)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116104456694325665

I just donated in honor of my youngest kid, a former Space Camper and current planetary scientist!

@selzero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8EuT1tJoDE

@inthehands Fuck. ICE. My kid the planetary scientist was on their high school robotics team. Just one more thing taken away from the people by these assholes.

@futurebird At our house it was my dad & his "only 1 kind of jelly can be open at a time" and since we weren't well-off he bought HUGE jars of jelly. Grape for months.

When my middle sister grew up, the very first thing she did when she got her own place was buy 2 jars of jelly and open them both.

@kaia We need a service for clothes like hermit crabs have for shells. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpjklLt1qWk

@lazerwalker Good grief. That was the second thing they told us about them in first aid class! (The first was "don't hold your thumb over the pointy end!")

@h3mmy @mycrowgirl @dillyd Henry says "well done!"

@capeta @neil Huh. Related to English "fetid"?

@ErickaSimone Aw rats. Reblogged this before fact-checking. I do wish it were true.

When my daughter and my Mexican daughter-in-law got married, the plan was for daughter-in-law to move here, get a green card and then eventually become naturalized. Now I'm looking up Mexico's rules for foreign spouses of Mexican citizens in case their marriage becomes illegal here.

My husband works in PR for a hospital. One of his jobs is to put up a slide on the big public screens that shows current flu activity. He was saying, in the absence of the CDC website, he won't be able to update the slide. I suggested that he update it, with a big NO INFORMATION AVAILABLE, and keep doing that until the data comes back online. He liked that idea.

@asrg @aaron @marcusb @mike @Fingel Are there anti-AI strategies that don't just add MORE energy/water use to the process?

@georgetakei My vet has dog biscuits AND candy bars at checkout! (Also bottled water.)

@gannet @skinnylatte We don't use alliums in my house either, but in our case it has to do with IBS.

I think it's probably true that people are tired of being told that everything is on fire. The problem is that everything is, in fact, on fire, and reality doesn't give a goddamn how tired we are.

@cstross Jo Walton beat you to it with My Real Children.

@patrickcmiller I was just saying to my husband, "This is one of those situations where I regret no longer believing in Hell." But of course, no amount of punishment for the perpetrators will help the people who now face a multi-hour ambulance ride.

@patrickcmiller Good God. The only Level 1 trauma center for 400 miles.