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B.C. Transplant is encouraging more British Columbians to consider signing up to be organ donors after 2025 saw a record 575 people receive life-changing surgeries in the province.

It seems that a lot of new people have learned about these platforms from a popular post on Reddit. We currently see 78 notifications (and counting) and a pile of applications on piefed.ca

I am pinning this thread on both platforms for new users to pop in to and ask questions. Please give them a warm welcome!

edit: 392 new users on the first day and hundreds more since then, all from one post 🥳

Please let us know how we can help! For example, here are some tips on finding communities: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities The guide says Lemmy, but the steps are the same on Piefed

Since a lot of people arrived here from r/BuyCanadian, maybe you will be interested in !buycanadian@lemmy.ca

🍁 Finding Canadian Communities on Piefed

• Open a topic from this list: https://piefed.ca/topics
• Browse that entire topic, or subscribe to individual communities from the sidebar

Source: https://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/as-an-adult/

Source: https://xkcd.com/3200/

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a maker of electronics cables located in Japan.

Under the RFC2606—an official standard maintained by the Internet Engineering Task Force—example.com isn’t obtainable by any party. Instead it resolves to IP addresses assigned to Internet Assiged Names Authority. The designation is intended to prevent third parties from being bombarded with traffic when developers, penetration testers, and others need a domain for testing or discussing technical issues. Instead of naming an Internet-routable domain, they are to choose example.com or two others, example.net and example.org.

Output from the terminal command cURL shows that devices inside Azure and other Microsoft networks have been routing some traffic to subdomains of sei.co.jp, a domain belonging to Sumitomo Electric. [...]

Source: https://www.litterboxcomics.com/diet-buddies/

Source: https://www.falseknees.com/comics/455.html

Opening paragraphs:

A randomised controlled trial (RCT) is a type of clinical trial that has long been the gold standard for establishing the efficacy and safety of health interventions. The prospective design of RCTs, combined with random allocation of patients to a real-world intervention, minimises bias and allows for claims of causality. However, a trend is emerging, particularly within the growing field of digital health and artificial intelligence (AI)—the application of the RCT or clinical trial label to studies that fundamentally do not meet its core definition criteria. The Lancet Digital Health, like many journals, has observed an influx of manuscripts that describe retrospective data analysis or simulation-based studies yet use the RCT classification. Authors increasingly cite papers from high-impact journals, including those describing AI for cardiac ultrasound and large language models (LLMs) for physicians’ performance on diagnosis and patient care tasks, to justify this semantic drift. Although these cited studies are methodologically sound, comparing different simulations or algorithms under controlled, randomised conditions blurs a crucial line defined by established clinical trial guidelines.

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) provides a clear and essential definition: a clinical trial is a research project that prospectively assigns people or a group of people to an intervention to study the relationship between a health-related intervention and a health outcome. This emphasis on prospective assignment to a health intervention on people is non-negotiable for a true clinical trial. A retrospective analysis of existing data, or a study that randomises participants to different AI simulations without prospectively assigning a real-world, patient-facing therapeutic intervention, is fundamentally different. The study can be important and innovative, but by definition, it is not a clinical trial.

I learned about this one recently. From their site:

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