Michael Botta
@michaelbotta
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Co-founder, @sesamecare, a top-ranked health tech company. Formerly: @McKinsey, PhD @HMSHCP. Enemy of online gambling and helicopters. Otro jíbaro luchando.
New York | 🇵🇷
Joined February 2011
New from me in the Washington Post today - using frontier AI in health care.
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Nvidia, $NVDA, CEO: “you cannot show me a task that is beneath me.”
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Latest podcast from @Gregory_C_Allen has an insane section on criminal activity at Meta. Internal docs leaked to Reuters show: • 10% of all Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods ($16B/year) • Meta estimates it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the US
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.@zackcooperYale: "The rise in health spending above the rate of inflation over the past decade has depressed wages by nearly 10 percent, according to my calculations." The cost of the typical insurance coverage is staggering:
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By the great Regian @PhilKlay (who our art teacher P.K. Steers told us constantly was her favorite student — for good reason)
This is the most rigorously Christian writing I’ve seen about this entire degraded mess. https://t.co/Vir080h38q
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Wayne Gretzky reading country names should be a segment on Inside the NBA forever.
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This is a great piece with some mind-boggling statistics. - At Brown and Harvard, more than 20% of undergraduates are registered as disabled - At Amherst: more than 30 percent - At Stanford: nearly 40 percent Soon, many of these schools "may have more students receiving
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Over a decade ago, at the private NYC high school I attended, in an 18-person math class there was once a quiz that only THREE of us took on time/without accommodations. ADHD/ADD tests were just ordered up (and that's not to mention the tutors, etc, that were writing everyone's
This is a great piece with some mind-boggling statistics. - At Brown and Harvard, more than 20% of undergraduates are registered as disabled - At Amherst: more than 30 percent - At Stanford: nearly 40 percent Soon, many of these schools "may have more students receiving
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The full piece by @rosehorowitch
https://t.co/DjJfFy6yCi
theatlantic.com
America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.
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Chicago Pope uses hometown mob tactics to convert believers, circa 2025.
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Thankful for progress "She Was Born Without an Immune System. Gene Therapy Saved Her Life." “Bubble boy disease” was once a death sentence. A scientific breakthrough changed that. @nytimes
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this is an absolute disaster for meta. and most people don’t know the tenth of it. meta studied the solutions to child safety problems, calculated the growth impact, then shelved the fixes for years because metrics mattered more than protecting kids. in 2019, safety
According to the brief, Meta was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites; that its products exacerbated mental health issues in teens; and that content related to eating disorders, suicide, and child sexual abuse was frequently detected, yet
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