Dr I Have 6 Pencils
Classics/Late Antiquity professor at UT Austin. Augustine/Cyprian/Ancient Letters/Imperial and Late Antique History. Disability advocate. Owned by cats. The Enemy.
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View full threadI am a heavy user of healthcare bc chronic illness plus several surgeries this year. The spine surgeon clearly has a human proofread. The foot surgeon clearly does not. Others are a mix. But I learned that this is how especially family med/internal med manage the huge paperwork burden.
- I have also been interested that a lot of people feed test results, especially MRI results, into ChatGPT. Sometimes it’s ok, sometimes it tells them that they need surgery immediately when they don’t. I do think AI will get better at note taking with practice.
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- AI is used almost exclusively to write notes for office visits, procedures, post-op notes etc. Those notes are now available to patients. It is frightening how bad they are. And then they will be fed into some machine to “summarize” my medical history in a decade.
- Yes. It’s being used to read medical imaging and detect problems that escape even expert radiologists. Machine learning has real applications that can improve lives. And is different from GenAI.
- Hmm, interesting.
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- Exactly. I get that SACS isn’t perfect and it’s a lot of assessment work. On the itber hand, not helpful if a bunch of southern publics opt out of a recognized accreditor.
- My great aha moment: in some conversation with one of my profs, I realized that he had a whole busy life and absolutely was not obsessing about the stupid thing I said in seminar that week. I try yo encourage my own students to remember this and yes, take risks! Ask questions!
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- At UT, they are rolling out an AI tool to do just this….
- The fluffy back cat got a haircut last week.
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- He can generally go two years between haircuts. But he is bad at grooming and eventually even brushing isn’t enough. He becomes super happy and cuddly after we get him shaved. And he prances around proudly with him Pom Pom tail. Hilarious kitty.
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- He actually loves it. He’s a weird cat (but also, I am sure he’s happy to not have mats pulling on his skin).
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- One of the best skills our Classics majors get is lots of practice with close reading. I am doing more and more of this, even in advanced classes, these days. For reasons.
- I guess this is the new voter suppression tactic?
- Totally unsurprising.
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- Yes. So I’m guessing the same study would look even worse in 2025.
- I read this book the other day. Strongly recommend. It is especially timely for understanding our weird political moment and the seemingly odd alliances.
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- Oh, nice! Their coffee is really good too.
- It’s bonkers. I’m so glad to be off in the Rocky Mountains where it’s chilly.
- I just bought some chili lime edamame snacks. So good! kind of healthy!
- One of the best things I did was write exams that don’t test time. Everyone gets “extra” time. Most don’t use it, some do.
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- I always regret these choices. I am at the age where I want to be at home when the sun is no longer out!
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- This topic has been raised with UT leadership, given all the grant funding cuts. TX thus far has no appetite for pushing back on the feds, apparently. I’m interested to see if voters ever realize this is what happened to jobs and $$ in the state.
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- Indeed. I am saving this article for when I teach a capstone course on late antiquity.
- Truth.
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- I’m so so sorry. You have all my condolences. I loved your videos of sweet Molly. Big hugs.
- Glad I have a six month supply of Xeljanz (the medication I really can’t not have and need insurance to pay for bc it’s $$). Ugh.
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- Some meds could be sourced abroad (though yes, confiscation is a problem). Some meds are outrageously expensive, like biologics. Even in Mexico or Canada it would cost several thousand dollars/month for Xeljanz.
- Based on the response to the papal election, I would not assume that they are keeping scholarship on the history of any religion.
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- But at least you have that sweet face to comfort you…. I have done this often enough that I now double check every time I throw out expired food.
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- I can’t imagine what incentive China has to negotiate at all. They have to know how much pain the stoppage will inflict on Americans and how quickly public pressure will ramp up on the administration to fix the mess.
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- They define themselves as a persecuted minority. Regardless of reality.
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- Our DMV has a two month wait for appointments (as I learned when I tried to change my Utah license). But TSA was short and fast and I saw no delays. I don’t know if they are enforcing RealID though.
- Flying from ATX to SLC today. I was worried about traveling with my bum foot but it’s been really easy. I got to go through priority TSA and board early. Maybe I should just travel with a boot all the time??
- I’m at the airport today and there are signs everywhere but not issues. But Texas was good about updating IDs.
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- This is so smart!!
- I doubt the biggest worry about a progressive Pope is that they will ban the Latin mass…..
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- Though I do think that, from a faith perspective, it’s concerning to see a branch of American Catholicism veer so far from what the church leadership seems orthodox. Leo pretty much called out the Americans as heretics in his first sermon. This could get interesting.
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- Agreed. Also not my circus. But I’m working on Cyprian these days so the current rebellion by the American extremists is interesting (in terms of what details become their rallying points).
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- I love attending mass in Italy. I generally have no idea when to do all the things but it’s so much more lively than the Mormon churches I went to in my youth. Also very pretty architecture and art to look at!
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- Seriously! I am only half-joking when I say there’s going to be an American schism.
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- Yes. And it’s not banned nor is anyone planning to. But I gather most masses are given in the vernacular so that people can actually understand the sermon! I’m really fascinated by the contortions of Catholics who are opposed to a Jesuit.
- “I’m a Catholic with a pronounced anti-clerical strain who is terrified at the prospect of a new Pope” is certainly a combination of words
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- $100 says he can’t understand a word of Latin….
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- He’s saying he thinks a strong university requires taking all control from the faculty experts and forcing them to tow whatever ideological line the state dictates. It’s a wild thing for a university president to say.
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- The TX/FL model is exceptional in how extreme and total it is. Ohio is getting there. But most states are still at least pretending that shared governance is a thing.
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- This. TX is trying the same and will likely succeed.
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- I love the UT regalia! So much prettier than mine.
- Congratulations!!!
- TAMU is absolutely crushing UT in the SEC Softball semifinal.
