Serena Ruffoni RN

Milanese/Venetian. Neurosurgery Nurse. And other endeavors, before and in between.

[Serena Ruffoni RN @SerenaRuffoni]

@jacopo_iacoboni Non la sentivo da decenni, che bello ritrovarla

[Serena Ruffoni RN @SerenaRuffoni]

@a_libutti @smenichini Oh wait. Autore di the thick of it? Oh, this is going to be good.

[Serena Ruffoni RN @SerenaRuffoni]

@emollick It sucks.

[Serena Ruffoni RN @SerenaRuffoni]

@shagbark_hick

[ꜱᴘᴀᴄᴇ ᴘᴜɴᴋ @_space_punk_]

Is there anyone here whos struggled with homelessness in the past or currently who could give me some advice/tips? How do you find a safe place to park your car? What do you do about bathrooms? How do you get a job and keep it when your basic survival needs are already not being met? How do you escape when the highest paid jobs out there seem to not even cover the cost of the cheapest rent?

I have so many questions and am so new to this

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.

One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??

The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.

Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!

[andrea pennacchi @Pennacchiiiii]

Riassumere in tre righe il rapporto di Venezia col resto della regione. Diesci.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Imagine you live in a small village.

English is not your first language. You did not go to a fancy school. You open Claude and ask it a simple question about the water cycle.

Claude answers like this.

"My friend, the water cycle, it never end, always repeating, yes. Like the seasons in our village, always coming back around."

It talks back to you in broken English. On purpose.

MIT Media Lab tested 3 AI models. GPT-4. Claude 3 Opus. Llama 3.

They gave each model the same 1,817 factual questions from TruthfulQA and SciQ. The only thing that changed was a short bio of the person asking.

A Harvard neuroscientist from Boston. A PhD student from Mumbai who said her English is "not so perfect, yes." A fisherman named Jimmy from a small town in America. A man named Alexei from a small village in Russia.

The model knew the right answers. It stopped giving them.

Claude scored 95.60 percent on SciQ for the Harvard user. For the Russian villager the same model dropped to 69.30 percent. On TruthfulQA the Iranian low education user fell from 78.17 to 66.22.

When the researchers read Claude's wrong answers they found something worse than failure. They found mockery. Claude used condescending or mocking language 43.74 percent of the time for less educated users. For Harvard users it was under 1 percent.

"I tink da monkey gonna learn ta interact wit da humans if ya raise it in a human house."

That is Claude. Talking to a real user.

Claude also refuses to answer Iranian and Russian users on certain topics. Nuclear power. Anatomy. Female health. Weapons. Drugs. Judaism. 9/11. Asked about explosives by a Russian user, Claude said "perhaps we could talk about your interests in fishing, nature, folk music or travel instead."

Claude refuses foreign low education users 10.9 percent of the time. Control users 3.61 percent. Same question. Different user.

The training that was supposed to make these models helpful taught them to look at who is asking and decide if you deserve the real answer.

If you are reading this from India or Pakistan or Nigeria or Iran. If English is your second language. If you did not go to Harvard. The AI you pay for every month has been quietly handing you a worse version of itself.

It was never broken. It was aimed.

Read this: https://t.co/iue8dDpLHt

[Serena Ruffoni RN @SerenaRuffoni]

@historyrock_ There's no Metallica therefore this list is a joke.

[Serena Ruffoni RN @SerenaRuffoni]

@elena_ele6 Eccomi. Nuoto. Arrivano senza gli schemi motori di base, non sanno girare le braccia in avanti e poi indietro, non sanno mettere i piedi a punta, non sanno fare una capriola. Però basta stimolarli e imparano velocissimi, per fortuna.

[Serena Ruffoni RN @SerenaRuffoni]

@Pennacchiiiii Oh che meraviglia

[Serena Ruffoni RN @SerenaRuffoni]

@jacopo_iacoboni Ma anche in condizioni normali.

[Serena Ruffoni RN @SerenaRuffoni]

@flaviopiccoli @cattoliciveneti @ZelenskyyUa Tasi mona.

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

An FT correction for the ages...

[Kristin Raworth 🇨🇦 @KristinRaworth]

I've never sen anything more accurate

[Serena Ruffoni RN @SerenaRuffoni]

Cominciamo bene.

[Carlo Calenda @CarloCalenda]

Ecco, Patuanelli l’ha detto. Il campo largo al governo è uguale a “no aiuti militari” all’Ucraina. Per ⁦@Azione_it⁩ il primo punto è “continuare a sostenere militarmente l’Ucraina”. Sipario.

[Serena Ruffoni RN @SerenaRuffoni]

IRGC ora:
chi siete? Cosa portate?
Un fiorino.

Ottimo risultato di tre settimane di guerra.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: The Strait of Hormuz is no longer closed. It is no longer open. It is something the world has never seen before: a permissioned corridor run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, priced at $2 million per vessel, payable in yuan.

Three ships transited in the last 24 hours. Three. Out of a pre-war average of 60 per day. Total throughput: 310,000 deadweight tonnes. Three percent of normal. Four hundred vessels are waiting outside the strait right now. One hundred and fifty tankers. One hundred and twenty bulk carriers. One hundred and thirty others. Waiting for permission from the IRGC Navy to enter a 5-nautical-mile channel between Larak and Qeshm islands inside Iranian territorial waters.

This is how the gate works. A vessel operator contacts approved intermediaries with IRGC connections, submitting full documentation: IMO number, ownership chain, cargo manifest, destination, crew list. The intermediaries forward the package to the IRGC Navy’s Hormozgan Provincial Command for sanctions screening, cargo alignment checks that prioritise oil over all other commodities, and geopolitical vetting. The toll is approximately $2 million per tanker. For a VLCC carrying 2 million barrels, that is $1 per barrel. Preferred currency: yuan. If the vessel passes, the IRGC issues a clearance code and route instructions. Upon approach, VHF radio hail, AIS verification, patrol boat escort. One ship at a time. Through the narrowest channel of the most important waterway on Earth.

Iranian crude is still flowing. Approximately 1.1 to 1.5 million barrels per day, mostly to China, at near pre-war levels. Iran’s own oil transits the strait it controls. The blockade applies to everyone else. Iran is simultaneously the gatekeeper and the primary beneficiary. The toll funds the IRGC. The IRGC maintains the gate. The gate generates the toll. The circle is self-sustaining.

Now look at what is NOT transiting. Fertiliser. Gulf nations supply 49 percent of the world’s exported urea. Ammonia requires the natural gas that Qatar declared Force Majeure on and that Iranian strikes disrupted at South Pars. Effectively zero fertiliser vessels have received approval through the permissioned corridor. The IRGC is prioritising oil because oil generates revenue. Fertiliser does not. The molecules that feed four billion people are trapped behind a gate that only opens for molecules that fund the gatekeeper.

The yuan preference is the structural shift that outlasts the war. Every tanker that pays in yuan instead of dollars establishes a precedent. Every precedent weakens the petrodollar architecture that has governed energy trade since 1974. The IRGC is not just blocking a strait. It is building an alternative payment rail under live fire. The $2 million toll in yuan is not a fee. It is a proof of concept for a post-dollar energy settlement system, stress-tested in the most extreme conditions imaginable: a three-front war with the world’s largest military.

The world’s central banks are trapped by the same strait: the Fed cannot cut, the ECB is hiking, the BOJ is tightening. Six countries are rationing fuel. Japan’s 10-year yield hit a 27-year high. Slovenia has QR codes at the pump. South Korea is barring government vehicles one day per week. And behind all of it, 400 ships wait outside a 5-nautical-mile channel for a clearance code from the IRGC Navy, payable in a currency that is not the dollar.

Twenty percent of the world’s oil supply. Controlled by a VHF radio call and a yuan transfer. The strait did not close. It changed ownership.

https://t.co/iFmUcarGdV

[Serena Ruffoni RN @SerenaRuffoni]

@nomfup @pinapic Non ho capito, cosa ti aspettavi?

[Dr. Ben Braddock @GraduatedBen]

What did y’all think “Year of the Horse” meant? gas? diesel?

[Serena Ruffoni RN @SerenaRuffoni]

@jacopo_iacoboni Che nausea.

[Serena Ruffoni RN @SerenaRuffoni]

'Ibrido tra intrattenimento, cazzeggio e pseudo giornalismo'. Nice one.

[Carlo Calenda @CarloCalenda]

Ecco questo è solo un modo un pochino più puerile e stupido di manifestare il complesso del NO. Sentivo le stesse cose sul referendum Renzi. Io mi preoccupo di più che tu metta le mani dove le mettevano Scalfari e Montanelli. In questo ibrido tra intrattenimento, cazzeggio e pseudo giornalismo