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Ibrahim Khan

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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 2h
👍Experimental vaccine shows promise against deadly brain cancer in some patients www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...
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Experimental vaccine shows promise against deadly brain cancer in some patients
The vaccine, called SurVaxM, aims to prevent the recurrence of glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer with few major advances in treatment.
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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 6h
Debt is as much an emotional challenge as a financial one. Follow this therapist’s advice to create a plan that works. A Guide by Vicky Reynal
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A psychological guide to climbing out of debt | Psyche Guides
Debt is as much an emotional challenge as a financial one. Follow this therapist’s advice to create a plan that works
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 18h
Canadians think America “is toxic and broken and can never be trusted again,” Chrystia Freeland, the former Deputy Prime Minister, tells David Remnick, and they’re seeking allies abroad. www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
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Canada’s Plans for Donald Trump
Canadians think America “is toxic and broken and can never be trusted again,” Chrystia Freeland, the former Deputy Prime Minister, tells David Remnick, and they’re seeking allies abroad.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 5h
During more than two decades at Harper’s Bazaar, Richard Avedon transformed the fashion photograph, issue after sensational issue. www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
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Richard Avedon’s Defining Early Fashion Shoots
During more than two decades at Harper’s Bazaar, Richard Avedon transformed the fashion photograph, issue after sensational issue.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 5h
“When you’re at rock bottom, the only way to go is up” post.substack.com/p/when-youre...
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“When you’re at rock bottom, the only way to go is up”
In this edition of The Weekender: going broke in your 30s, famous restaurateurs fleeing New York, and are those kindergarten teachers really decked out in designer uniforms?
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 6h
As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones www.propublica.org/article/toho...
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As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones
For decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide their...
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 6h
📚💙 Permission to Lead Your Own Life allisonaubrey.substack.com/p/permission...
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Permission to Lead Your Own Life
“Virtually all of us lack a deep sense of permission to lead our own lives.” My conversation with Jungian analyst James Hollis.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 6h
Why Does It Feel Like We Are Living in the Worst of Times? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-gl...
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Why Does It Feel Like We Are Living in the Worst of Times?
Why does the present feel uniquely doomed? Psychology shows how we misread progress, amplify threats, and compare today's crises with a resolved past.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 6h
apnews.com/article/indi... 😮India cracks down on youth protests as anger grows against Modi and election chief
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India cracks down on youth protests as anger grows against Modi and election chief
Indian authorities have launched a major crackdown in New Delhi, detaining thousands protesting a contentious voter list revision that has fueled anger at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and...
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Writers Write @writers-write.bsky.social · 12h
Banned Books Week – The 11 Most Challenged Titles Of 2025 | Celebrate Banned Books Week and discover which books faced attempts to restrict access, and why. 📚 #books #booksky #bannedbooksweek #reading
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Banned Books Week: The 11 Most Challenged Titles Of 2025
Discover the 11 most challenged books of 2025 and learn why these titles faced attempts to restrict access during Banned Books Week.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 11h
🇮🇳 SIR, visas, AI, and botched jobs hted.substack.com/p/sir-visas-...
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SIR, visas, AI, and botched jobs
A weekly conversation on some topics that were on @HT_ED's mind.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 11h
@azeem.bsky.social : 🔮 The end of screen time open.substack.com/pub/exponent...
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🔮 The end of screen time
AI changes how we work, but can it also change where?
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 11h
From Australia to California, the UK to Peru, turbulent weather is on the way
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How will El Niño affect the world? | New Scientist
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 11h
How not to govern: October 9, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-9-...
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October 9, 2026
Late Wednesday afternoon, Dana Mattioli, Drew Hinshaw, Rebecca Ballhaus, and Joe Parkinson of the Wall Street Journal reported on the tawdry grifting of Kimberly Guilfoyle, former fiancee of Donald Tr...
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The Obama Foundation @obamafoundation.bsky.social · 21h
It’s always a blast to be in the garden at the Obama Presidential Center! This week, Michelle Obama met up with a group of Chicago students from After School Matters with Urban Growers Collective and Cliff Rome to talk about gardening, sustainability, and food preservation. Take a look!
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 18h
@paulnoth.bsky.social : Cartoon Drug Wars 💎 paulnoth.substack.com/p/cartoon-dr...
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Cartoon Drug Wars
I’ve been so busy promoting my book—which comes out on Tuesday!—that I almost missed my cartoon in the latest issue of The New Yorker.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 19h
What Is Love? Scientists Have Answers—But They… greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
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What Is Love? Scientists Have Answers—But They Don’t All Agree
Researchers across disciplines have attempted to define, categorize, and measure the elusive experience of love.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 19h
Halloween Games and Trivia by Janis Masyk-Jackson medium.com/thirty-over-...
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Halloween Games and Trivia
Halloween Fun
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 19h
apnews.com/article/navi... 👍Praise pours in for Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay even as Israel criticizes selection👍
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Praise pours in for Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay even as Israel criticizes selection
Advocates of human rights and international justice are celebrating after Navi Pillay, a South African jurist and former U.N. human rights chief, won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 19h
@road2elsewhere.bsky.social : Darwin in the High Country petermoore.substack.com/p/the-rare-b...
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Darwin in the High Country
Some key species are vanishing in Colorado. Like, the people who bake doughnuts and make beer. WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED by PETER MOORE, special to the COLORADO SUN.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 23h
Today's Daily Cartoon, by Paul Noth.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19h
The investigative podcast In the Dark examines why Curtis Flowers, a Black man in Mississippi, was tried six times for the same crime, revealing a town divided by race and a conviction supported by questionable evidence. www.newyorker.com/podcast/in-t...
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In the Dark: Season 2
The investigative podcast In the Dark examines why Curtis Flowers, a Black man in Mississippi, was tried six times for the same crime, revealing a town divided by race and a conviction supported by questionable evidence.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not. If you need help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status. More info: nyc.gov/knowyourrights
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Know Your Rights: Federal Immigration Enforcement (ICE) - MOIA
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 19h
@wajali.bsky.social with @thedsrnetwork.bsky.social and David Rothkopf: AMERICA, WELCOME TO PUBLIC LYNCHINGS! Place Your Bets and Win a Fortune! thelefthook.substack.com/p/america-we...
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AMERICA, WELCOME TO PUBLIC LYNCHINGS! Place Your Bets and Win a Fortune!
David Rothkopf and I mince no words today as we recap the week’s stories, which reveal that Trump and Republicans are marching towards fascism and an authoritarian state by trying to incite violence a...
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 22h
The Mental Clarity Tool You’re Probably Ignoring drumanaidoomd.substack.com/p/the-mental...
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The Mental Clarity Tool You’re Probably Ignoring
How aligning your circadian rhythm can sharpen focus, steady your mood and restore daytime energy
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 22h
Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose. www.propublica.org/article/ken-...
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 22h
‼️ Audacious space heist aims to bring home bits of mysterious martian moon | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Audacious space heist aims to bring home bits of mysterious martian moon
Samples from Japan’s MMX mission could reveal how Phobos formed—and may contain pieces of Mars
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 22h
👍 Genetic analysis of the world's oldest land animal reveals secret of living 194 years | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Genetic analysis of the world's oldest land animal reveals secret of living 194 years
Researchers studying a giant tortoise named Jonathan say it’s not just good genes, but lack of genetic wear and tear that have kept him going for nearly two centuries.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 22h
OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms
The firm used an unreleased model to tackle hundreds of high-profile problems.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 22h
📚💙 Five of the best science books reviewed: The life of Darwin and the science of clouds: Books in brief 💕📚💕 #booksky #sciencebooks #bookreviews #bookrecs #tbr #Darwin #clouds #space #Iran #archeology #booklovers #books www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The life of Darwin and the science of clouds: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 22h
Big dogs age faster than little ones — rogue ‘jumping genes’ might be to blame www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Big dogs age faster than little ones — rogue ‘jumping genes’ might be to blame
Study of almost 900 dogs from roughly 120 breeds finds that rapid ageing of large canines is linked to changes in the epigenome.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 22h
@thefp.com : Introducing: The Free Press, For You www.thefp.com/p/introducin...
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Introducing: The Free Press, For You
The Free Press For You feed is built around you, and it lives only in the app.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22h
The Defense Department’s announcement that it would live-stream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan reverses decades of established practice surrounding the death penalty. The announcement has raised many legal and ethical questions. wapo.st/4dx3CoZ
A quote in white text on a black background. The quote reads: "[This is] a barbaric promotion of a culture of death. ... The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people." Below the quote, it states: "Archbishop Paul Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 22h
“Denial, of course, has long been one of Trump’s signatures as a politician. But in this of all years it seems a bit of a surprising choice for a campaign theme,” Susan B. Glasser writes. Read her latest column: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/i7RCHK
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 22h
A First for My First tomtoro.substack.com/p/a-first-fo...
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A First for My First
And to think we started one year ago...
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 22h
‼️ When you don’t get a Nobel ‼️
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 22h
@us.theconversation.com : How AI chatbots are answering an ancient human need theconversationus.substack.com/p/how-ai-cha...
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How AI chatbots are answering an ancient human need
Human beings have always turned to oracles and divination for answers to difficult questions. Today, AI might be fulfilling that role.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 22h
@lizadonnelly.bsky.social with @narrativelyacademy.bsky.social : The Dance Between Words and Images lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/the-dance-...
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The Dance Between Words and Images
Narratively Academy, a Substack that supports writers, asked me to collaborate recently.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 22h
📚💙 @vilmareynoso.bsky.social : I Am Jane DOE 💎💕💎 medium.com/fourth-wave/...
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I Am Jane DOE
I am flesh. I am blood. I am human.
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 09/10/2026
by all means, AI evangelists: leave me behind, off with you, godspeed, don’t let the door hit you news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 22h
@vinayprasadmdmph.skystack.xyz : The ethics of a hepatitis B trial in the Guinea Bissau open.substack.com/pub/vinaypra...
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The ethics of a hepatitis B trial in the Guinea Bissau
Many physicians don't understand clinical trial ethics.
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 09/10/2026
Barbara Ward imagined a ‘planetary’ politics grounded in ecological interdependence, moral responsibility and global cooperation. In today’s Essay, Or Rosenboim argues that Ward’s distinctive vision still offers insights into some of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century buff.ly/7a1gDaQ
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Why we should heed Barbara Ward’s vision of planetary justice | Aeon Essays
She was among the first to argue that prosperity, equality and the protection of nature are inseparable planetary goals
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
‼️ A paper suggested a paleontologist’s fossil was forged. He wants it retracted. retractionwatch.com/2026/10/08/m...
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A paper suggested a paleontologist’s fossil was forged. He wants it retracted.
An artist’s reconstruction of a mosasaur first described by Nicholas Longrich and colleagues in 2021. by Andrey Atuchin, 2020, in: N.R. Longrich et al/Cretaceous Research 2021 Nicholas Longri…
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Experience, Dogma, and Data danielkherndon.com/experience-d...
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Experience, Dogma, and Data
A short article about how we think.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@spiveywilliamf.bsky.social : Public Executions: Is That What We’re Doing Now? williamspivey.medium.com/public-execu...
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Public Executions: Is That What We’re Doing Now?
Pete Hegseth Wants to Livestream an Execution, Proving America Is No Better Than the Taliban or ISIS.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Quiz: Can You Name These 16 Figures From History? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Quiz: Can You Name These 16 Figures From History? (Free Access)
These notable people were covered in The Times over the past 175 years. Guess who they are.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Cornell 7 Are Not Monsters — They Are Products of a Culture that Doesn’t Value Women by Laura Westford medium.com/fourth-wave/...
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The Cornell 7 Are Not Monsters — They Are Products of a Culture that Doesn’t Value Women
Misogyny is not an aberration — it is integral to our culture
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Oracle Problem: an invisible bottleneck to AI and medicine open.substack.com/pub/a16z/p/t...
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The Oracle Problem: an invisible bottleneck to AI and medicine
Is this model a good doctor, or was it good at the test?
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The fall of Roe dramatically changed abortion access. This researcher used Reddit to capture how www.statnews.com/2026/10/09/b... via @statnews.com
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The fall of Roe dramatically changed abortion access. This researcher used Reddit to capture how
With research on abortion access barriers, STAT Wunderkind Betsy Pleasants is defining a framework for using AI tools without losing sight of the people behind the data.
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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Will MAHA survive the midterms? www.statnews.com/2026/10/09/m... via @statnews.com
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Will MAHA survive the midterms?
As the midterm elections draw near, the MAHA movement is nearly invisible on the campaign trail and struggling to find a financial or messaging foothold in key races.
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