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EDIT: Hi all! This AMA has ended. Thank you for all the great questions! We wish we could have gotten to all of them. We encourage you to reach out to us Instagram at longillness. You can also check out our website, which includes links to places you can find our book if interested: https://longillness.com/.
Dr. Meghan Jobson is an internist with specialized training in integrative and palliative medicine. She cares for people with long illness as a physician with the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Dr. Juliet Morgan is a neurologist, psychiatrist, and integrative medicine physician. She cares for patients with long illness in private practice and is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences.
We are the authors of Long Illness, a practical guide to living with long illnesses, from autoimmune disease to dysautonomia, long COVID to myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) to chronic pain or depression.
Using evidence-based integrative medicine, we’ve put together a program that legitimizes long illness and validates concerns where other physicians often dismiss them. Some things we cover are: • The foundations of long illness and what it means for your life• How to work with your medical team to get the care you need • Common symptoms • A wide range of accessible healing techniques • Your mental health with long illness and how to manage it• Long term solutions
Ask us anything!
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My name is Anthony Sanders, an attorney with the Institute for Justice. and I just released my book Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters available for purchase or free download.
Listing every right that a constitution should protect is hard. American constitution drafters often list a few famous rights such as freedom of speech, protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and free exercise of religion, plus a handful of others. But there are an infinite number of rights a constitution could protect. However many rights are put in a constitution, others are going to be left out. So what is a constitution drafter to do? Luckily, early in American history a few drafters found an easier way: an “etcetera clause.” It states that there are other rights beyond those specifically listed. The most famous etcetera clause is the Ninth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” Yet scholars are divided on whether the Ninth Amendment itself actually does protect unenumerated rights, and the Supreme Court has almost entirely ignored it. Regardless of what the Ninth Amendment means, however, things are much clearer when it comes to state constitutions. Two-thirds of state constitutions have equivalent provisions, or “Baby Ninth Amendments,” worded similarly to the Ninth Amendment.
This book is the story of how the “Baby Ninths” came to be, what they mean, and what they tell us about unenumerated rights more generally. Unlike the controversy surrounding the Ninth Amendment, the meaning of the Baby Ninths is straightforward: they protect individual rights that are not otherwise enumerated. They are an “etcetera, etcetera” at the end of a bill of rights. This book argues that state judges should do their duty and live up to their own constitutions to protect the rights “retained by the people” that these “etcetera clauses” are designed to guarantee. The fact that Americans have adopted these provisions so many times in so many states demonstrates that unenumerated rights are not only protected by state constitutions, but that they are popular. Unenumerated rights are not a weird exception to American constitutional law. They are at the center of it. We should start treating constitutions accordingly.
The book can be found either at the publisher’s website (U of Michigan Press) or at Amazon.
It can be downloaded for free from this link: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12676756. And it’s available for free for Kindle on the Amazon page as well. More generally you can find me at my profile page at IJ or on Twitter.
We are the Bloomberg News reporters who investigated the long-lasting health difficulties, particularly among young children, following Australia's Black Summer wildfires three years ago. The blazes exposed an estimated 80% of the population to smoke and we spoke to families, medical professionals and academics to discover a range of troubling and long-lasting health complications. And concerns are mounting we're not ready for the next disaster.
Amy Bainbridge and Angus Whitley spent six months working on a documentary and feature story that pointed to the grim health impacts from wildfires facing the next generation. These blazes are forecast to become more common and destructive, posing health risks for increasingly fire-prone regions from America and Europe to Asia and Africa.
You can read our deep dive here https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-australia-wildfire-toxic-legacy and watch our documentary here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htGnXYcSlms
Proof: https://i.redd.it/zhuw4xp8wd1b1.jpg
Edit: That’s a wrap! Thanks for all your questions.
EDIT: That is all the time we have for today. Thank you everyone for your thoughtful questions. We'll continue to build on our reporting of generative AI, such as this story about how scammers have used AI, as the technology develops. For more Washington Post stories on artificial intelligence, click here.
I’m Pranshu Verma, a reporter on The Washington Post's technology team. I cover the innovations fueling tomorrow and the dark side of technology. I recently wrote a piece about how advances in generative artificial intelligence have put voice actors in a particularly precarious position. Some voice actors have even told The Post that they may abandon their careers because of this developing technology. You can read my story here: https://wapo.st/3pBRGfz.
I’m Amanda Morris, a disability reporter for The Washington Post. For my latest story, I spoke with ALS patients, who use artificial intelligence to re-create their voices that may have otherwise been lost to the disease. You can read my story here: https://wapo.st/41wRco9.
Read more of the Post’s coverage on generative AI here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/innovations
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Hey guys, I am Doug Christie. I have traded all kinds of commodities in all parts of the world including multiple roles with Cargill. I am now the author of a monthly series Agricultural Commodities Focus. Here is my bio.
I am keen on all things agricultural and food-related, and can answer anything about trade flow, industry trends, supply chain, futures market etc. Some of the questions that people like to ask me include:
How much influence does agribusiness have on government policymaking? How do they lobby?
With population growing all the time, won’t we run out of food eventually?
How do geopolitics come into play in the sector?
Can institutional and corporate players corner the commodities market and manipulate price?
How does agricultural commodities trading impact global food prices and access to affordable food?
Does agricultural commodities trading contribute to market volatility and price speculation?
How does the dominance of large-scale traders in agricultural commodities affect small-scale farmers?
My Proof: https://postimg.cc/MXvWWWDX
You can compare the photo against my LinkedIn, Doug Christie.
I’ll start answering questions from 2pm ET today. If you want to dig deeper on the subject of ag, here’s a list of publicly available resources that could be useful.
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2Yo! It’s been a little while since I did one of these. My name is Marques Brownlee, you might know me from my tech videos on YouTube as MKBHD (for the past 14 years). I’m also a professional ultimate frisbee player, golfer and newly minted car enthusiast.
I’ve also had quite a few crazy experiences since last time we chatted in 2020 - I got to collaborate with Sesame Street and I launched my own sneaker (4 days left to get em here)
I got a few hours to hang out. Ask me anything!
My Proof: https://i.imgur.com/ctJAN35.jpeg
Edit: Alright, I'm heading out now. Thank you all for the questions, this has been really fun! (hit me up on Twitter anytime)
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