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Erin Banks (she/her)

@erinbanks.bsky.social
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FNP-C, GI specialist. Former ICU RN. All opinions my own. No official medical advice. I once liked the internet. Now I’m just here?

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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 19h
Complex corporate structures should be stopped for all sorts of reasons, but especially because of the HELLSCAPE it creates when trying to verify credentials for new privileges. Like, why should I have to contact 5 different people to confirm 4 subsets of ONE JOB. I am ready to scream.
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When you start killing ants in a line moving back and forth from their colony and the food the scouts found, do the other ants feel it? (This is a genuine question)
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blair @blairaf.com · 30/09/2026
"You may not deadname superintelligence but you should deadname trans people" is now 100% real US policy
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@emilymbender.bsky.social have you discussed specifically OpenAI and if it’s training on journals, guidelines, etc. warrants the way it’s marketed? And how much can we really trust the HIPAA secure claims from these agents/companies?
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Karina Coombs @karinacoombs.com · 29/09/2026
I remember being at a parent orientation for my new college student and the entire theater erupted in cheers when some school officials emphasized the dangers of AI. This was an entire theater of parents. And my 18 year old and her peers ruthlessly mock the technology. There’s hope.
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Parenthood is getting slapped by your 20-month-old and sitting and breathing slowly for several seconds before turning back to calmly say that we use our hands to be kind and gentle, and then holding their hands and saying I won’t let you hit me while they are clearly wanting to laugh.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
themomoftheyear.substack.com
I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I never feel more trapped in my generation than when I end a text with “lol,” try to delete it, or figure out a different ending, and literally can’t. I don’t want to be like this lol
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Kathleen McLaughlin @kemc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The reach of the lesbian bar story in the Boston Globe gets to something about local news, which is that people want deeply reported, weird and wild stories in their newspapers - that was a big part of the draw for local news for generations, it was fun to read!
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hard to keep track of just how illegal this all is. DHS quietly updated policies to DELETE people with final deportation orders from databases--even while they are still inside US concentration camps. They also stopped sharing where people are held in phone calls with attorneys or family. #ICEOUT
washingtonpost.com
Immigrants with final deportation orders disappear from ICE detainee locator
The change will make it harder for many families and attorneys to determine where an immigrant is being held after being taken into ICE custody.
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Do people in Tesla Nazi trucks know how stupid they look, or
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Related tangent: this is why the central plot of Knives Out doesn’t actually map out. Even if the wrong medication had been given, it would most likely have been a standard dose not a lethal dose. Because we dilute medications intentionally to make those type of fatal errors incredibly difficult.
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A great example of intentional design to make certain mistakes incredibly difficult to make: the dose of liquid children’s ibuprofen and children’s acetaminophen is essentially the same ml per weight/age. These are the type of things that make it much harder to accidentally overdose your kid!
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Everyone pour one out for the bookshop.org fulfillment team. “The past week has been an unfurling nightmare for the Bookshop.org fulfillment team” is quite a sentence.
Screenshot of an email, which starts mid-sentence, with additional uncaptured text out of frame. It reads:

“April 15th. Our distributor confirmed with us multiple times that orders would ship first-in, first-out, and the stock they were expecting to get would fully cover our preorders. That ended up not happening: first-in, first-out was not followed, and many of our orders haven't shipped.
Our current plan is to ship as many of the 2,008 orders placed on March 31st, the day of the announcement, as possible. We have shipped 1,050 orders and expect to ship another 900 orders when the final delivery from the publisher is made in the near future.
If you placed your order on or after April 1, 2026, barring a miracle, it will not be filled and you will be refunded. We will start refunding orders this week. If your order is refunded, you will get a notification email when the refund is processed.
The past week has been an unfurling nightmare for the Bookshop.org fulfillment team as we realized something very wrong was nappening with our orders for Hollywood, Ending. For days we tried to 'stop the machines' and get our distributor to honor our orders, without success. We know that an apology email doesn't replace the book you were expecting to get. If you have any questions.”

One section is highlighted, reading “The past week has been an unfurling nightmare for the Bookshop.org fulfillment team”
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
It is an affirmative, positive choice by those in charge to use this method. To have it behave this way. They have seen the results and they accept them. It is THEIR CHOICE.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
The truth was that if United Health had an AI that was accepting a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate, United Health would stop using the AI in about 0.2 seconds.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The AI industry claims their products will "improve efficiency" and "accelerate science" but I'm able to do less science because I have to spend more time screening applicants to my lab. LLM noise drowns out signal- last year I shortlisted unqualified apps, and surely missed some gems.
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One of my cats is Dumb, but not Stupid, and the other is Stupid but not Dumb. (The third is neither Stupid nor Dumb, but an Asshole).
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My vet must follow me because they just called me right after I posted this and left a message that Fred needs a follow up for future refills of his inhaler 😂
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It is easier to get my cats asthma inhaler refilled automatically (when I’m not actually out yet and don’t actually need more, because I keep forgetting to give it) than it is to get their prescription food refilled. God forbid I go over 12 months to pay for a check up to say “yes, he’s still fat”
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Also randomly remembered in the last week the time former friends viciously mocked me for using “Jeep” to refer to an SUV of any kind, and now that I’m probably a decade removed from that interaction, I’m pretty sure that wasn’t actually a weird, idiotic thing to do? Jeeps are SUVs… Kleenex:Tissue
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If I ask for a reference list for an appeal letter on open evidence, it still has to stop and check that all the mentioned articles are legit/real. It’s the “best” and “leading” LLM for medical research, and it still routinely may be making things up.
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It’s not like I would’ve gone to my 20 year high school reunion, but I mean, little bummed to find out I wasn’t even invited 🤷🏻‍♀️ like, yeah, obvs I’m not flying from LA to Atlanta for that while I have a toddler, but like, I didn’t even know it was happening
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When Democrats attempt to triangulate on trans rights, it's my sense that many liberals and people in politics don't understand why many trans people are so upset. I wrote about the differences between then and now, what trans people have lost, and what we still stand to lose
autonomy.substack.com
This Is Not A Love Song
Explaining the “maximalism” of trans rights
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Ruby Bridges, age 6Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her schoolNorman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Not Koru. The Good Ship Payola. Sailing the Sea of Enshittification in which sellers cling to debris.
Bezos big dick yacht.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026
Rome wasn't overthrown in a day. Oligarchies are stubborn, and by the time they've established and entrenched themselves, they have resources, power blocs and even mercenaries they can deploy to repel would-be dethroners.
A woodcut engraving of a courtroom scene in which the divorcee has thrown herself into the arms of one of the lawyers and they are about to kiss. The image has been altered: the heads of the judge, the court clerk and both lawyers have been replaced by green Android 'droid' mascots in judicial powdered wigs. The judge's bench sports a pixelated, 1998-era 'I'm feeling lucky' Google button.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“An hour and a half after Time Magazine broke the story about the bowling alley reno” under Obama, “GSA canceled the project, amid a Republican backlash over whether it was a good use of taxpayer money.” But the Decorator-in-chief is a Very Special Boy who gets to operate under Very Special Rules.
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Buy the same logic, restaurants should not be allowed near other restaurants. Food courts? Unchecked chaos. Shut down Sawtelle, there can only be one ramen place within a 10 block radius.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Imagine someone making an even more complex and time consuming boardgame that's *not* about war but like, a single shift in a roadside diner
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton was an uncredited producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When she learned the only female producer was making less than her male counterparts, Dolly cut her a check for the difference, on the spot.
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Hey, hot tip for medical providers: don’t copy and paste your AI results into a patient message and call that patient education for abnormal imaging results.
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Does anyone know a hack for how to read a paywalled article when the archive.ph hack still has the paywall on it? (I assume this is LLMs fault, that more websites are making archiving the site no longer bypassing paywalls)
archive.ph
Welcome to nginx
If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required.
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
this from upenn's student paper is worth reading as the term starts: "AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought."
thedp.com
Editorial | Penn has an AI problem
The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board argues that Penn’s choice to embrace AI is detrimental to the institution of higher education. 
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
There are definitely some creepy Disney adults, but I’m not sure how giving a little gift to a face actor is crossing the line into inappropriate stalking? What am I missing here or is this another social media dogpile placing all the worst possible motivations and actions on one random person.
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is why I tell everyone who is using AI for any purpose that the first thing to do is ask it questions you know the answer to very well. Because that’s how you find out how reliable the answers are. When you see how confidently it says things that are *almost* right, but not
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My current employer recently got rid of UpToDate access and instead is providing OpenEvidence that integrates into our EHR. Sounds cool, yeah? Except that OE routinely provides clinical summaries with details that are categorically untrue. I’ve witnessed this multiple times.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 17/08/2026
This is from the movie Ice Princess. Michelle Trachtenberg died from complications of a liver transplant, but she was private about her health (her right) and the media reports about substance abuse are tied to one source (rosie o'donnell)
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Y’all I am GUTTED about this. It hits different when it’s someone who you grew up with, in a way, you know?
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Erin Banks (she/her) @erinbanks.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Didn’t realize I could get my 18 month old quoting Critical Role already, but I showed him my talking Kiri plush and now he’s saying “okay okay okay” all the time. May take a bit more explaining to others if he decides to start parroting back “mmm, I’m a captain” 😅
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write...
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is a case study in pro-AI propaganda, and annoying enough to inspire a Saturday thread: bsky.app/profile/bren... 🧵>>
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✨priya @ DICE Oct 3 @priyahuq.myatproto.social · 14/08/2026
quickly made up some posters you can print! i choose to believe that most HP fans are ignorant about jo rowling's hatred and if educated, would choose better. i don't think this education can be stretched further online. it's up to us to share our knowledge irl. left is letter, right is A4
handwritten/handwriting font black and white poster that says 
"HARRY POTTER FUNDS TRANSPHOBIA. If you support the new HP show, you are directly harming trans people and helping destroy ALL of our human rights. J.K. Rowling hates trans people and funds efforts to criminalize our existence." with a QR code to an advocate article about it. 8.5x11", free to print and distributehandwritten/handwriting font black and white poster that says 
"HARRY POTTER FUNDS TRANSPHOBIA. If you support the new HP show, you are directly harming trans people and helping destroy ALL of our human rights. J.K. Rowling hates trans people and funds efforts to criminalize our existence." with a QR code to an advocate article about it. A4
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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 15/08/2026
You can just hear the tone. "The sesame is *visibly dying*."
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An Anarchist Who Tried Her Best @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It’s so fucking weird and disturbing seeing people still talking about whether Trump is a fascist, or will become a fascist, when we’re ALREADY AT the point of secret police disappearing people without any due process to unregulated concentration camps and taking citizens as political prisoners.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
this is literally just Making Friends
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 14/08/2026
answer the question: were the victims of the warsaw ghetto uprising genocide victims, yes or no
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