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Kim Bellard

@kimbbellard.bsky.social
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Just a curious guy. I write a little, usually on Medium. Health care, tech, the future - those kinds of things.

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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🤬 @cdelawalla.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
👏 @boltyboy.bsky.social @emmabethmcginty.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social Thinking of Healthcare Reform as a Movement – The Health Care Blog share.google/OqIvkIZKl2PK...
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Thinking of Healthcare Reform as a Movement – The Health Care Blog
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As bad as you already think plastic is for our health and for the environment, and as indifferent as you suspect the petrochemical industry is to those, this book makes it clear that it's much worse. 😟 H/T @bethgardiner.bsky.social www.bethgardiner.com
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PLASTIC INC. | Beth Gardiner
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The fact that the provider-payors wars continue but now with AI shouldn't come as a surprise, but let's stop and ask ourselves: does "bot-on-bot" warfare help patients? 😒 H/T @reedabelson.bsky.social @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social medium.com/@kimbellard/...
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Healthcare Is Fighting the Wrong AI War
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is crying wolf about AI. Its new analysis claims that “hospital systems are increasingly billing…
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😑 www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
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The Gap Between the Rich and the Very, Very Rich Is Getting Wider
The 0.1% are worth $28 trillion, or about 15% of the nation’s total wealth. The average wealth for a household in this group is over $200 million.
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sure, we CAN use AI to increase healthcare revenues (for both payors and providers), but that doesn't mean we SHOULD. Let's focus on helping patients, not institutions' bottom lines. @rasushrestha.bsky.social @drewaltman.bsky.social medium.com/@kimbellard/...
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Healthcare Is Fighting the Wrong AI War
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is crying wolf about AI. Its new analysis claims that “hospital systems are increasingly billing…
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Doctors and hospitals are fighting with health insurers about using AI to determine payments. It's what I'd expect, but it's not what we be using AI in healthcare for. kimbellard.medium.com/healthcare-i...
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Healthcare Is Fighting the Wrong AI War
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is crying wolf about AI. Its new analysis claims that “hospital systems are increasingly billing…
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👍 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Opinion | Affordability Is a Winning Message for Democrats. But There’s an Even Better One. (Gift Article)
If Democrats can embrace what affordability is really about, they might do even more than win elections.
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That about sums it up. 😒 “There’s this assumption that there are adults in the room on this issue, but there are no adults in this room,” said Sean Ó Heigeartaigh, director of the AI: Futures and Responsibility Program at the University of Cambridge." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/t...
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As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind (Gift Article)
The gap between technology and policymaking has gotten wider than ever with artificial intelligence, leaving a global policy vacuum as A.I. models rapidly advance.
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Shameful. Scary. Stupid. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
THAT sums it up. 😒
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
😮 "China now accounts for 32 percent of global manufacturing value added, twice its share in 2010, and more than the combined total of the next four biggest manufacturing powers — the United States, Germany, Japan and South Korea" wapo.st/4z1Ldce
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How China is conquering high-tech markets once controlled by the West
Once known for using cheap labor to produce inexpensive clothes and toys, Chinese factories increasingly make some of the world’s most sophisticated products.
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The "backtracks" in the headline is sort of negated by the "recalibrate" in the actual article. Methinks they're going figuring out how to go around the obstacle, not being stopped by it. @cdelawalla.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Trump Backtracks on Plan for New Controls on N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Democrats and Republicans in Congress opposed the creation of a commission with the power to veto federal research awards.
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🤔 Jensen Huang made a similar comment to Ezra Klein about AI meaning not needing to learn how to do math. Losing basic skills seems like a problem. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
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Opinion | A.I. Has Made Me a Better Doctor. It’s Made Med Students Worse. (Gift Article)
I’m confident in my mastery over what doctors do — and less confident about my continued mastery of an ever-evolving universe of facts.
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh. Maybe never mind, then. 😒
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We don't really understand what AI is doing or how, but that shouldn't be so surprising, since we don't really understand what our brain is doing or how either. 🤔 medium.com/@kimbellard/...
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Know Thyselves
With all the fuss about A.I. I was pleased to find some studies that illustrate that we don’t even fully understand the human brain yet…
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
😯 www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
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The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History
Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is not what we should be using AI in healthcare for...but it is exactly what I expected to happen. 🙄 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
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Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher (Gift Article)
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Have you ever said "I'm of two minds" about something? It turns out, you're more right than you may have realized. 😮 medium.com/@kimbellard/...
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Know Thyselves
With all the fuss about A.I. I was pleased to find some studies that illustrate that we don’t even fully understand the human brain yet…
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Life finds a way...
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
😠 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
While everyone else is paying attention to artificial intelligence, I wanted to highlight some surprising new studies about the brain. We still have much to learn. H/T @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social @salkinstitute.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social kimbellard.medium.com/know-thyselv...
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Know Thyselves
With all the fuss about A.I. I was pleased to find some studies that illustrate that we don’t even fully understand the human brain yet…
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🤔 We have to do something. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Montana Ballot Measure Would Strike at Political ‘Dark Money’  (Gift Article)
A measure aimed at stemming the tide of corporate money in politics will be on the November ballot. Opponents say it violates a high court ruling.
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Remind me again: we spend HOW much money on defense? 🙄 wapo.st/46NsIw5
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AI has transformed the Pentagon’s aging networks into a national security risk
Outdated networks face growing cyber threats as AI makes it easier for adversaries to exploit vulnerabilities and launch disruptive attacks.
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"China has had the world’s strictest, most comprehensive, most burdensome A.I. regulations on its companies for three or four years...And it’s during this period when they had these heavy and maybe burdensome regulations that they did a lot of their catching up" 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/o...
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Opinion | The ‘But China!’ Dilemma Driving the A.I. Race
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One thing to keep in mind about AI agents going rogue -- or even just wiping out lots of jobs -- is that China (that is, the Chinese government) has even more to lose than the U.S. 😑 medium.com/@kimbellard/...
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Start Counting Your Days
Probably the last thing the world needs is to hear from me about AI’s existential threat, but, really, what else is there to talk about…
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And we're spending our defense budget on what? 😒
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AI may or may not cause our extinction, but even if it doesn't, it could cost millions of jobs, destroy the credibility of information, and radically change our society. Attention must be paid. @erikbryn.bsky.social kimbellard.medium.com/start-counti...
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Start Counting Your Days
Probably the last thing the world needs is to hear from me about AI’s existential threat, but, really, what else is there to talk about…
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's a start. 👏 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/t...
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Gates Foundation Pledges $1 Billion to Combat A.I. Inequality (Gift Article)
Bill Gates, the foundation’s chairman, has been vocal about the dangers of artificial intelligence. The donation will invested in A.I. projects to bridge social inequalities.
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A hoax, you say? I agree: someone is being fooled. 🙄 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/t...
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Gets Onstage Call From Trump, Who Dismissed A.I. Safety Concerns (Gift Article)
Mr. Trump called Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, while Mr. Huang was onstage in Los Angeles and criticized calls to slow down and regulate A.I.
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
All of a sudden everyone is worried about the existential threat AI poses. We're right to be worried, but let's not forget that is not the only threat AI poses H?t @emollick.bsky.social @anthropic.com medium.com/@kimbellard/...
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Start Counting Your Days
Probably the last thing the world needs is to hear from me about AI’s existential threat, but, really, what else is there to talk about…
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🫨 H/T @bzcohen.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-m...
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AI Is Powerful Enough to Crack Our Hardest Math Problems—and Kill Us All
The Millennium Prize breakthrough is proof of AI’s accelerating and terrifying progress
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Making music from DNA? Listening to two black holes colliding? That's sonification -- and it is pretty cool. 👏 medium.com/@kimbellard/...
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Listen to the Data — Literally
An article by Dina Genkina in IEEE Spectrum caught my attention: How Sound Could Make Sense of Big Data. It brought my attention to three…
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's not often we look to Mississippi for advice on public policy issues, but this may be one where we should. 🤔 www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Essay | Mississippi Fixed Its Schools. Here’s How Other States Can Too.
Powerful teachers’ unions are an obstacle to reform. But Mississippi’s dramatic breakthrough proves that evidence-based literacy can succeed anywhere.
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Data visualization turns data into pictures that can be more easily understood. Sonification does the same thing but with sounds. medium.com/@kimbellard/...
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Listen to the Data — Literally
An article by Dina Genkina in IEEE Spectrum caught my attention: How Sound Could Make Sense of Big Data. It brought my attention to three…
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you have not yet learned about sonification or the Internet of Sounds (IoS), you might want to. H/T @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com @spectrum.ieee.org kimbellard.medium.com/listen-to-th...
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Listen to the Data — Literally
An article by Dina Genkina in IEEE Spectrum caught my attention: How Sound Could Make Sense of Big Data. It brought my attention to three…
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Kim Bellard @kimbbellard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
👏 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/s...
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Top Mathematician Announces New Institute for A.I. Safety (Gift Article)
Jacob Tsimerman, a recent recipient of the Fields Medal, believes that higher mathematics can help curb the dangers of runaway artificial intelligence.
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