For years, Black trans women have been told their life expectancy is 35 years. That’s false.
“Willis says the statistic once communicated an urgency in the community. Today, she thinks trans people need more complicated stories.” #Health
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People are transcribing your conversations without asking. That puts you at risk.
Apps like Granola make it easy to transcribe conversations without asking for consent. Those transcripts are a subpoena honeypot.
American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing.
China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America's closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure - and it could take the US economy down with it.
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