Heike Brunner

"I'm not scared of the Maos, Stalins, Hitlers. I'm scared of the 1000s of millions of people who hallucinate them to be "authority", & thus do their bidding."

[Heike Brunner @heikebru]

So, so true. Neutrality is never neutral in a political sense - there's no such thing. What a pic, though. 👇🏼 https://t.co/dI4Lln58Jx

[Tumi Sole @tumisole]

#CountryDuty

[Heike Brunner @heikebru]

@Fnac Au secours

[Heike Brunner @heikebru]

@Fnac S’il vous plait, aidez-moi. Je viens d’acheter une Apple Gift card sur votre site en France. Mais elle n’est pas arrivée par e-mail. Je suis à l’étranger et je n’arrive pas à joindre le service clientèle pour qu’on me renvoie la carte virtuel.

[Heike Brunner @heikebru]

Pourquoi est-ce si difficile de trouver de l’aide pour obtenir une carte virtuelle qui est livrer instantanément? Il n’avez pas de souci pour prendre mon argent instantanément, par contre.

[Heike Brunner @heikebru]

@Fnac Bonjour, en achetant une Apple Gift Card sur votre site, La carte virtuelle n’est pas arrivé, même si j’ai reçu la confirmation de ma commande par e-mail. Votre chat bot sur le site me conseille de vous joindre sur X. C’est un peu absurde, non?

[Heike Brunner @heikebru]

@Fnac Bonsoir - j’ai écrit en message privé… sans réponse.

[Heike Brunner @heikebru]

@Fnac @Lucsky_Turf Moi aussi, j’ai reçu la même réponse de ‘Kevin’ pour venir en message privé … puis… rien. Je parle à moi-même en message privé.

[Heike Brunner @heikebru]

@Fnac Hallo?

[Heike Brunner @heikebru]

@Fnac À tout de suite, merci.

[Nick Hudson @NickHudsonCT]

The potential for social control of our lives and minds is alarmingly real. Full feature-length documentary, with expert views from both sides of the Atlantic here: https://t.co/jM9yzkRvZh

[Nick Hudson @NickHudsonCT]

If you haven't watched @OracleFilmsUK's landmark, "The Agenda: Their Vision - Your Future", please watch this two-minute clip and consider whether it might be worth your time. 🧵

[AJ Kay @AJKayWriter]

True story: @Grok diagnosed my daughter’s broken wrist last week.

One of my daughters was in a bad car accident last weekend. Car is totaled but she walked away. Everyone involved did, thankfully. It was a best case outcome for a serious, multi-vehicle freeway collision.

There was no need for emergency transport from the scene but her arm was hurting badly by the time we were able to leave (9pm-ish) so I took her home with the intention of visiting Urgent Care early the next morning.

Well, ofc she didn’t sleep and by 6am, I was convinced it was broken. The way she was favoring it and the amount of pain she was in indicated more than soft tissue injury.

So we got to Urgent Care and they examined her and took some x-rays. Both the doctor who saw her and the radiologist declared her free of breaks and, after answering some of our questions, sent her home with an ace wrap and ibuprofen.

On the way out, I asked them to please print out the X-ray images for us so I could take them to her PCP.

I hoped they were right, but wasn’t sold.

At home, things were rough. Her hand kept going cold and tingly and she couldn’t move her thumb — and I don’t know how to describe it, but it just didn’t *look* right.

She had other aches and pains too — including two bruised ribs and some minor whiplash — but the arm pain just kept breaking through.

So, as soon I was able, I opened my laptop and started “doing my own research.”

I poured over x-rays of normal wrists and broken wrists and, remembering a post from a few weeks ago by @elonmusk that Grok2 could read medical images, I uploaded the wrist X-ray to Grok and asked if there were any abnormalities.

Grok: “There’s a clear fracture line in the distal radius.”

👀

I had actually asked the doctor about the line Grok mentioned and he said it was just her growth plate. So I asked Grok if it was seeing a fracture line or a fused growth plate.

Grok: “It’s a fracture line.”

👀

Finally, I asked if this was a subtle fracture or obvious. I really wanted to give the benefit of the doubt to the doctor.

Grok: “quite obvious”

👀

Long story short, we went to PCP, got a referral to the ortho, and the next day the wrist specialist took new x-rays (multiple views), examined her, and confirmed Grok’s diagnosis of a distal radial head fracture with dorsal displacement.

(And, FTR, I didn’t tell the doctor about my foray into Grok, largely because I didn’t want her to think I was insane. Her diagnosis was completely independent.)

They set it and cast it.

The ortho said that, due to the displacement, had it gone untreated, she likely would have needed surgery that she can probably avoid now.

And it probably would’ve gone untreated — at least for a while. Because the doctor and radiologist said it was fine and I’m just a mom, right? Who the hell am I to question their diagnosis?

Now, maybe the doctor and radiologist at Urgent Care were tired and coming off a long night. Maybe they were looking only for an obvious clean break. Or maybe they’re in need of some CME.

But *both* of them missed what the ortho and Grok agreed was an “obvious” break.

And I do harbor a fair amount of skepticism about LLMs and the limit(s) of their capabilities and potential impact on society— but this was eye-opening for me and I’m very grateful to @grok and @X for getting this one right. 🙏

[Heike Brunner @heikebru]

@IAMVICKYFANS @RadioGenoa While this is a lovely video, how was someone just randomly filming a bus stop…? It’s clearly staged. But, nice idea.

[Heike Brunner @heikebru]

@united Hello! I’d like to send you a DM for assistance, however I am unable to - I think you need to follow me first?

[Heike Brunner @heikebru]

@LloydsBank I have called 6 x today & waiting times range from 30 - 40 mins. Please advise how else one gets in touch?

[Heike Brunner @heikebru]

@LloydsBank Hello! I’m an overseas customer & have lost access to online banking (system error when I try to reset password) + my card expired so I can’t use security code for tel assistance. How do I reestablish contact? Online chat only works if signed in. 😩 🙏🏼

[Heike Brunner @heikebru]

@LloydsBank Hi Delina. Thank you

[Heike Brunner @heikebru]

@LloydsBank Yes.

[Heike Brunner @heikebru]

@poormanscaviar ‘Crunchy catshits with pink colour’ 😂🤣
And you’re a dog person, through and through (amiright?) so that’s a nasty, NASTY insult. 🙀
I’m having to deal with the crusty catshits my 21yo feline leaves next to the litter box these days…& am de-sensitised now. 😆

[Heike Brunner @heikebru]

Venus hovering next to Orion’s Belt as 2024’s first sunrise breaks over Africa… may ‘20-20-more’ be more loving. #2024
#stars #planet #venus

[Nick Hudson @NickHudsonCT]

And there you have it. Covid deaths were manufactured to order and vaccine deaths were being willfully obscured. Kaiser Permanente lives up to its name and will be sued.