🥈 Build track: Provinans by Shereen Lee from Toronto, Canada
A tool that stitches decades of cancer records into a single dataset, even when the rules for classifying the disease change. A 2023 revision moved as many as 28% of patients into a different stage overnight.
There is such warmth that @NifMuhammad brings to all his writing, and it's present in his interviews, too. I love this dialogue between him and @shereen_lee_ in @Hazlitt––a small but rich discussion about so much more than his wonderful new book: https://t.co/CwLe66nAps
There is such warmth that @NifMuhammad brings to all his writing, and it's present in his interviews, too. I love this dialogue between him and @shereen_lee_ in @Hazlitt––a small but rich discussion about so much more than his wonderful new book: https://t.co/CwLe66nAps
In our latest #CoastalJob, hovercraft operator Ian Cragg speeds to the aid of people and vessels during emergencies at sea and on shore.
https://t.co/xBquGhUBQA
Thou art loved. Thy storye doth mattir. The thinges thou dost for the worlde do mattir. Todaye, Ich wisshe thee some measure of rest, peace, delighte, joye, pleasure, revelacioun, mirthe, togethirnesse, fancye, excitemente, or love - from the verye grounde of myn herte. Take care
This week, Shereen Lee speaks with Kaveh Akbar about his new collection, “Pilgrim Bell.”
"It still feels a bit molten, and it still feels a little bit like trying to describe a cloud from inside the cloud...it just looks like a fog."
https://t.co/UEstLpuMuK
“One of the major things here is that Victoria sees things that are really there and are really true. But she’s not able to communicate with them, and she’s not really able to process them.”
- Shereen Lee, “A Conversation with Carrie Jenkins”
https://t.co/Rc8lrbz1OE
“Paying attention to something or someone as they really are seems to be a really important precondition of loving them.” - Lucky enough to speak to the wonderful @carriejenkins for @thepuritan's Summer 2021 issue:
https://t.co/jN3Q5RPI6K
In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, the majority of resources went to nonprofits run by the white and relatively affluent. This meant Black men had to advocate for themselves—and fight for their own lives.
https://t.co/QgZjNnXEsB
I also want to thank past editors @sam_mccabage and @belovedofthesky for all of your help and advice. @goldshel whose extensive research helped us with so many of our pieces. And MR, sorry for sending you 22 requests in one day!
Did you know that AI has always been in bed with binary gender classification? The original Turing Test itself isn't a computer that can convince a person it's a human - it's a machine that can pass as a woman better than a man can. Like if you knew, RT if that's news to you ;)