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Tetsu Kaba 🇺🇦 @tetsukaba.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Reminds me of Carmen Ghia from The Producers

Tetsu Kaba 🇺🇦 @tetsukaba.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Per Heather Cox Richardson, trickle down has been around since McKinley. From todaya quote from William Jennings Bryan heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-16-...

“There are two ideas of government,” William Jennings Bryan said. “There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up and through every class which rests upon them.”

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Tetsu Kaba 🇺🇦 @tetsukaba.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The numbers are great. The waveforms don’t match. Here’s an example, note the waveform position can vary depending on what’s being monitored snd the setup.

An example of a monitor with waveforms matching the numbers. The location of the various waveforms can vary depending on monitor setup.

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Tetsu Kaba 🇺🇦 @tetsukaba.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

My state Board of Nursing (US) was asking our opinions on AI. Here’s my response:

There is a vast difference between pattern-recognition models that do things like help identify tumors and LLMs that are built from the theft by scrapping of thousands of books without giving payments to the authors -- stealing their livelihood. LLMs are notorious for hallucinating facts and references. LLM usage is dangerous because nursing is built on scientific facts, not machines' hallucinations. Patients deserve the strictest safeguards, so their health isn't harmed by a machine's error. Our profession's reputation could be at risk from blind enthusiasm for tech's latest shiny toy. Also, the data centers required for AI are heavy users of electricity and water resources. They tend to be placed in poor areas and cause environmental pollution while raising electrical rates for our most disadvantaged patients.

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Tetsu Kaba 🇺🇦 @tetsukaba.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

One of my Costa Rica memories is of the giant birds that came for their daily feeding at the hotel we were at near the Arenal volcano. They looked like they could be baby pterodactyls.

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Tetsu Kaba 🇺🇦 @tetsukaba.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I know the feeling. We took care of these two hooligans for my son while he was on a trip. They’re ~1.5 years younger than our cat and still kittenish. Watame, on the left, loved to use me as a trampoline for zoomies in the middle of the night. I didn’t get much sleep.

Watame and Darby tuxedo kitties enjoying the sun

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Tetsu Kaba 🇺🇦 @tetsukaba.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Haruo Nakajima in the rubber suit in Ishiro Honda’s Gojira was infinitely better. From IMDB:

The Godzilla suit used for the film was so hot inside that suit actor Haruo Nakajima would frequently faint. According to Nakajima, temperatures inside the suit reached up to 60 degrees Celsius (or 140 degrees Fahrenheit) due to the hot studio lights and it was not uncommon for one cup of Nakajima's sweat to be drained from the suit. Special effects director Teruyoshi Nakano, who worked with Nakajima in the later Godzilla films, described his admiration for the actor, stating "Inside the Godzilla suit, it was very dark, lonely, and isolated. Usually the person who wears the suit becomes nervous and anxious. During summertime it's very hot, it can become hell in there. But Mr. Nakajima always persevered. He acted in the suit underwater, he was buried underground, he withstood pyrotechnic explosions...and through it all he was always Godzilla."

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Tetsu Kaba 🇺🇦 @tetsukaba.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

All info from the CDC website (surprisingly it hasn’t been removed yet): The mortality rate for infants in 1900 was up to 30% before their first birthday from all causes. The reason for Vitamin K injections:

Why does my baby need a vitamin K shot?

Babies have very little vitamin K in their bodies at birth because:

Vitamin K from the mom is not easily shared with the developing baby during the pregnancy.
The intestine of the newborn baby has very little bacteria, so they do not make enough vitamin K on their own.
Without enough vitamin K, blood cannot clot well. As a result, bleeding can occur anywhere in the body. This means not only that bleeding from a cut or bruise may continue for a long time, but that uncontrolled bleeding into the brain and other organs may occur.

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Tetsu Kaba 🇺🇦 @tetsukaba.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Somehow “they” made me wear full PPE at work for months and worry about bringing the virus home to my family. These people are insane.

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Tetsu Kaba 🇺🇦 @tetsukaba.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

That must have been terrifying. I worked in a hospital, but at least I had sufficient PPE and was able to get the vaccine before it was available to the general public. The people contact was weird though, only talking to other people in full PPE. Didn’t even see my adult kids in person.