Currently living my best life 🥰

hope!

Actual snippet from the linked AI model's description: "A gene is a stretch of DNA that the cell turns into protein. Most of the genome is not. Each gene begins with a promoter, where the cell starts reading." 🤦‍♂️ On the other hand, it's suggesting that a dog is a type of pig, and that /feels/ true.

I’m currently taking the BlueDot Biosecurity course, and MAN are current events providing a lot of useful discussion points

with LLMs making lots of boutique software products possible, soon everyone will get to enjoy the user experience of using niche academic software.

Just saw a guy walking down my street with a bindle... is Great Depression-core a thing now?

We have succeeded in making people wary of vaccines, terrified of masks, unable to tell what illness they have, and completely uninformed about the risks of it. Bravo. Command fucking performance.

I always misread the Yankees’ patch as “Stark”, as in Iron Man 😅

Mickey Gasper, huh?

Bit of good news from the NH House floor this afternoon: SB408 (about insurance for prosthetics) was used by Rep Farrington as a vessel to bring his Campus Carry bill back from the dead. That was defeated, with 22 Republicans flipping. #nhpolitics

You: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: some species of flatworms are basically 50% testes by volume!

Dude asks his stylist for the season 3 DJ Tanner

The one other thing I would say: I’ve never seen a better example of how NOT to do public health & infectious disease communications Bhattacharya broke literally every single rule of Comms 101 & we’re going to be using this interview for teaching purposes for generations Utter train wreck 🤦‍♂️

pretty much, it's not that the experts are wrong on this specific issue it is that the entire concept of expertise is incorrect and anything 'the experts' come to a consensus on is by definition wrong

I just want Payton Tolle to be happy.

Ok, I take it all back, RBI is a meaningful stat actually

May the 4th be with you(r baby).

Someone should invent a depression/ideation inventory that doesn’t make you more depressed when you take it

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

who up ponderin dey orb?

I love this 😂

Residents of an Atlanta suburb learned that Flock had been accessing cameras in the town—including in a children's gymnastics room—to demonstrate the company’s surveillance technology to police departments around the country. The city renewed the contract anyway. www.404media.co/city-learns-...

Thread!

I think this overlooks what a problem polarization really has been, not in the “both sides are doing it, it happens equally sense” (obviously not true), but in the “republicans across the broad right have become polarized enough against democrats that they will accept fascists instead.”

*visible confusion*

This was Tom Walsh, Chair of the Transportation Committee, speaking against a bill that would allow municipalities - after performing a traffic study - to lower speed limits to 20mph. He's the same guy who proposed the $50 bike registration fee earlier this year (HB1703).

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

This morning at Hancock High, seniors headed to the floor of the gym to receive their caps and gowns, each from a teacher they had chosen. Stacy Campbell waited there, holding her student Israel Makoka's cap and gown. But he wouldn't come. He and his brother, Max, 15, had been taken by ICE.

I’m sorry but I fully support this snake’s right to read. Or serve as a volunteer bookmark. Or whatever she was doing. Libraries are for everyone 💚

As I have not joked about before: clarity goes a long way these days. A lot of people have been endeavoring, more than they realize, to not have that clarity because the implications would be far, far too much to confront.

I’m partial to this picture of the Kallur lighthouse I took. I think it’s alright

Not now we are talking about the Red Sox mess

/me: *gets watch duty notification* /me: "oh it must be because I was just in CA, something must be on fire in Orange County" /me: *goes to check* /me: WHAT THE FUCK MASSACHUSETTS

I accept

Turning on the Sox game in the 2nd inning

This is NOT AI. These are green dragontail butterflies (Lamproptera meges), native to S & SE Asia. They compensate for undersized wings with long 'swallowtails' to generate lift. Butterflies that fly in cursive, swimming like fish through the air. (📷: Center for Biological Diversity)

I firmly believe presidents & people with control over medical agencies should understand percentages! If *you* don’t, no judgment; I will explain in the next couple posts how they work. The short version is that Senator Warren is correct in the clip, and there’s NO interpretation in which RFKJr is

Would be extremely poetic if Mackenzie Scott decided to fund a ton of small local papers…

Ready for more pain 🙃

It’s that “new math” that’s all the rage these days

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

With respect, I feel like "yiiiikes" doesn't even begin to cover it

The first time I heard the song “steal my sunshine” I became very worried for the fate of the planet but later understood I was merely listening to a song and these events were not actually occurring

Ok so a thing that I'm not loving about ABS is that it shifts the onus a bit from the umpire (gotta make the correct call) to the player (gotta challenge a bad call).

I bet a car could do this no problem, who cares. They’re the same to me

“A Washington Post analysis found that through March 31, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year” 😢

Not a dime of taxpayer money or govt contracts should go to Palantir.

Nomar would never.