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Victoria Fierce :vbike: (@tdfischer@towns.gay) (towns.gay)
had a lot of fun hanging out with Peter Thiel last night over wine. we came up with a goofy idea to short Silicon Valley Bank then induce a bank run by telling all of his startups to withdraw at the same time. thankfully it was just a fun thought experiment to prime us for the cocaine we ended up doing. i don't remember the rest of the night, it's probably fine. now, let me take a big sip of this coffee while I check my Bloomberg terminal and get my day started
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Dan Luu (@danluu@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)
Funny to see VCs who generally rail against government intervention making the case for a bailout of Silicon Valley Bank now that there's an intervention that would directly help them and their friends. Socialism for me, capitalism for thee. Reminds me a bit of the people I know who went from ardent YIMBY to NIMBY the moment they settled down in a neighborhood and bought a house.
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Excellent, detailed article about a new much more inclusive Skin Tone scale developed by Dr. Ellis Monk working with Google to provide “a fuller range of darker skin tones than the cruder tools currently used” to train AI data sets in medical situations, and, more urgently, to fix pulse oximeters that don’t work as well on people of color. Very sharp read:
https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/05/unbiased-pulse-oximeters-researchers-need-better-way-to-measure-skin-tone/
#BlackMastodon #BlackFriday #medicine #Black #health #race #diversity #inclusion #PulseOximeter #oxygen

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In reply to @chris.

@chris @Jeffro I don't know I think switching themes has been a royal pain for about 8 years now. It's probably more disappointing though if you're using the block editor since you're essentially being told in not so many words that the block editor is supposed to eliminate at least some of the problems since presentation and content are no longer separate.