when you run out of episodes of The Pitt, move on to med school grand rounds lectures:

Univ of Miami: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=8w62yN2ZAa8 (https://www.youtube.com/@universityofmiamidepartmen7840/search?query=%22clinical%20problem%20case%22)

UCSF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOX3B_PukT4&list=PLp2l8GCZXFqSgUfwaResQ7rGwKbGIUi_m&index=15

Univ of WA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ladeedpelsk

#thepitt

Apple Podcasts (macOS 26.4.0) started playing everything an octave lower than normal, maybe even two octaves lower. playback speed was still set to 1x.

rebooting "fixed" it. a friend said he experienced the same thing earlier this month.

I'd love to understand the root cause of this bug. is there a code path that shifts pitch (and isn't exposed to the user)? some reference pitch that a caller can specify? a frame decoding bug?

#macos

for 2 measles cases, this list of exposure locations is wild: https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dph/health-safety/disease-illness/measles#toc-Locations-of-potential-exposures

2 infected people made 7 (!) visits to urgent care or emergency departments, including a 2-day hospital stay while contagious.

presumably both cases were mistaken for the flu before the red spots appeared, but who knows. based on the exposure times, it seems like Overlake may have diagnosed a case faster than UW Medicine or Kaiser Permanente.

(background: https://publichealthinsider.com/2026/04/01/two-measles-cases-identified-in-king-county-connected-to-international-travel/)

#seattle #measles

I've been trying to improve my mental model of when and how people use LLMs for text that others will read. That included asking people who sent me mostly-LLM-cleaned-up emails to tell me how they generated the text.

Other than SEO'ers churning out AI slop for clicks (which these aren't), I think well-meaning people simply don't see an "LLM voice,"[1] let alone its flaws.

They don't know that the LLM output is recognizably different. To them, it's not. …

1/2

#llm

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/magazine/chatbot-writing-style.html

"Meta itself estimated that 10% of all its revenue was coming from running ads for scams and goods that they themselves had banned: around $16 billion a year."

"Meta also estimated that its platforms were involved in initiating a third of all successful scams taking place in the entire United States."

https://80000hours.org/2026/03/robs-meta-leaked-documents-scams/

#facebook

"One of VRNW’s original founders, Josselyn often said that Whatcom County is a good place to live and a good place to die.": https://vsedresources.com/vsed-resources-nw-loses-a-guiding-light

(interested in legalizing assisted suicide for people with dementia? DM me)

#endoflife #dementia

UW School of Music has a double reed recital on Friday Feb. 27: https://music.washington.edu/events/2026-02-27/2026-university-washington-double-reed-recital (free)

the program includes Take Five arranged for 4 bassoons. yes, that's a thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKBrnjxlKgU (also https://www.youtube.com/@footrane, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rWC9tqNFp4)

#seattle

as a Seattle resident, obviously I'm rooting for the Sonics

I built my own mattress in 2019, before #DIY mattresses became a thing. These days, here's where I'd start:

1. Watch name-brand mattresses get cut open: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp2450zejDD0KF4l_P2TMdGS8YDI548Yg

Mostly bad polyfoam above low-end coils or bad polyfoam. The $3000+ ones? Not much better.

There's a reason why store-bought mattress cases don't have zippers: if we knew what was inside, we'd keep looking.

2. Coils: https://pocketspringstore.com/products/quad-with-firm-sides, https://www.mattresses.net/diylamaco.html

3. To sanity-check yours: r/mattress & r/mattressmod

do I know anyone who works at #Cloudflare? the same spammers keep hijacking or hacking CF-proxied domains (thousands of them over 1+ years).

Cloudflare's trust & safety team is a black hole that does nothing, responds to nothing, and doesn't seem to act on patterns (even when they're pointed out with ticket numbers). T&S is a shitshow, which I sort of expect… but usually someone in management notices; at CF, that hasn't happened.

everyone I provide "friends & family" tech support for is asking how to disable the new Gmail AI crap.

here's how: https://proton.me/blog/turn-off-gemini-gmail

if time permits, there's a better way to disable it: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360058752414-Migrate-to-Fastmail-from-Gmail

#gmail