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`Socheton': A Culturally Appropriate AI Tool to Support Reproductive Well-being
Sharifa Sultana, Hafsah Mahzabin Chowdhury, Zinnat Sultana, Nervo Verdezoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12357

`Socheton': A Culturally Appropriate AI Tool to Support Reproductive Well-being
Reproductive well-being education in the Global South is often challenged as many communities perceive many of its contents as misinformation, misconceptions, and language-inappropriate. Our ten-month-long ethnographic study (n=41) investigated the impact of sociocultural landscape, cultural beliefs, and healthcare infrastructure on Bangladeshi people's access to quality reproductive healthcare and set four design goals: combating misinformation, including culturally appropriate language, profe…

Doctor Approved: Generating Medically Accurate Skin Disease Images through AI-Expert Feedback
Janet Wang, Yunbei Zhang, Zhengming Ding, Jihun Hamm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12323

Doctor Approved: Generating Medically Accurate Skin Disease Images through AI-Expert Feedback
Paucity of medical data severely limits the generalizability of diagnostic ML models, as the full spectrum of disease variability can not be represented by a small clinical dataset. To address this, diffusion models (DMs) have been considered as a promising avenue for synthetic image generation and augmentation. However, they frequently produce medically inaccurate images, deteriorating the model performance. Expert domain knowledge is critical for synthesizing images that correctly encode clin…

Donald Trump has repeatedly encouraged or defended violent attacks on Democrats and political critics.
As just a few examples:
— In 2015, during Trump’s first primary campaign, white attendees at one of his campaign rallies tackled and beat a Black protestor.
Trump approved of the attack, telling Fox News,
“Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”
— In 2018, Trump praised then-US Rep. Greg Gianforte for physi…

MAGA political violence claims more victims
Trump’s movement relies on terror.

"AI" product development is in a strategic falsifiability crisis
The crisis is shaped like the No True Scotsman fallacy, Sunk Cost fallacy, and conspiracy theories ALL AT THE SAME TIME
there is no possible accumulated evidence that would lead boosters to conclude that "an LLM isn't an appropriate artifact to address this problem"
I see them throwing LLMs at *already beyond-adequately solved problems* (units conversion! chess! constraint fitting!), ge…

Trump approval steady at 42%, support weakens for his immigration policy, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Jason Lange/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-approval-steady-42-support-weakens-his-immigration-policy-reutersipsos-2025-06-16/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p129#a250616p129

Jeff Bezos makes his most ghoulish deal yet https://www.theverge.com/amazon/667916/jeff-bezos-amazon-saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi

Many people have this sense that the price of books is primarily linked to the cost of materials, manufacture, & distribution. But the majority of the cost of publishing books are in the labor leading up to the 1st copy: editorial & editorial production work, before any reproduction in whatever format. Addition labor happens later, for marketing. When you buy a book, you’re mainly paying for these kinds of labor.
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So... When a judge gets accused of a crime by the executive branch for their rulings, that's really, really bad. That's textbook fascist power creep that needs to be vigorously opposed.
But at the same time, isn't it telling that said judge needs to raise money from donations to afford an appropriate defense? How much more clear could it be that "justice" is reserved for the rich in America?
Reason #54773 to be an anarchist.

"But whatever the motive, we know one thing: it takes five years for Bezos to go from posting his photo op with the headstone of a murdered reporter to making billion-dollar deals with his killer."
https://www.theverge.com/amazon/667916/jeff-bezos-…

Britain's parliament voted on Tuesday to
decriminalise abortion
in England and Wales
to stop a growing number of women from being investigated by police
for terminating pregnancies
under legislation dating back to the mid-19th century.
Abortions have been legal in England and Walesfor almost 60 years
but only up to 24 weeks and with the approval of two doctors.
Women can face criminal charges if they decide to end a pregnancy after 24 week…