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Cake day: December 21st, 2024

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  • Milhoan isn’t just a pastor. He’s a pediatric cardiologist. That doesn’t mean he’s a vaccine expert, however, and critics have known that for years ever since Milhoan downplayed the safety of COVID shots during the pandemic and promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. He also falsely claimed the COVID vaccine caused cancer and miscarriages. He said having to carry around records of when you got your COVID shots was akin to “what happened when the Jews had to wear the yellow Star of David” during the Holocaust. During the worst months of the pandemic, Milhoan said that members of his Calvary Church of South Maui didn’t need to wear masks or practice social distancing.

    He risked losing his medical license over all of this, but he and one of his allies were ultimately cleared of wrongdoing by a Hawaiian state agency in 2022. Still, that shouldn’t be mistaken as proof that they should be trusted on these matters.

    Best I can do is letting him keep his medical license.




  • Okay. Well, I did a bad thing in Church today.

    I refused to receive the Eucharist from an Indian woman. I was supposed to go to her. She was in my aisle, but across the Church was the white priest, so I walked across all the pews and received it from him, for fear that I might get fecal matter on my Eucharist, receiving it from an Indian woman.

    Plus, I’m not gonna receive it from anyone who’s non-white. Sorry.

    Considering what’s happening in the U.S. and in the world with our replacement, I’m not doing that.

    I guess I’ll go confess this to my priest. But I’ll continue doing it. That’s the compromise.

    Very normal way to think.









  • “One of the things that really surprises me consistently is how scared our students are of using it,” Anthony said of large language models (LLMs). The fear isn’t just over typical academic issues like cheating, he told Fortune, but about losing their critical thinking skills to the machine — they’re “scared full stop.”

    “There’s something about AI where people, I think, worry that they’ll lose their humanity if they lean too much into it,” Anthony explained.

    The kids are alright.