If you don’t swear at AI agents every single time that they do something like this, I really don’t think we can be friends

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Okay, so a few things 🧵 1. There is in vitro evidence that ivermectin can inhibit importins (proteins that import things into the nucleus). However, hantaviruses, like Andes virus, do not have a phase of their replication cycle that requires them to go to the nucleus. ictv.global/report/chapt...

Another excellent, well-argued, thoughtful and thought-provoking column by the New York Tines’s superb @DavidFrenchjag.bsky.social. The gust below, but I urge you to read the whole piece. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/o...

Two of the many things I have learned, becoming a caregiver for my dad: 1. I could’ve more to help my mom take care of my dad. I’m not sure why she never asked. 2. When he became disabled, she did him no favors doing everything for him instead of making him learn to do more for himself.

The most frequent reason I wander back on Twitter these days is to see if someone really posted something that dumb. They did.

What do you do when your group no longer has a social contract in the only country you’ve known, a country you’ve built, the country with much of your blood, sweat, and tears in its soil?

Electric vehicles lose some range in the winter — and, to a lesser degree, in the summer. But exactly how much? AAA has brand-new data. n.pr/3OByYS7

Another under-discussed aspect of the "sandwich generation" experience: Neither my aging dad nor my kids use folders to organize their computer files.

An under-discussed aspect of being part of the "sandwich generation" is the need to worry about both your kid(s) and your parent(s) wandering by in the middle of the afternoon and interrupting... something.

Online discourse seems powered less by the exchange of ideas than the constant hunt for conceptual objects that the listener can have and express strong feelings about. Indignation Objects, Rage Objects, and Self-Righteousness Objects seem especially highly valued

Ugh. Just got to a level of drumming where I’m good enough to realize how bad I am.

Even the most minor technical things I do for my dad, he thinks I am magic. (The majority of these are just that he doesn’t have a smart phone and doesn’t understand what they can do.)

Someone should really set up a Bluesky thing like “Overheard” except “bitch what”

These two books contain the sum total of all human knowledge

Moving my dad, and I just found a single piece of matzo

Moving my dad, and I just found a single piece of matzo

Can we please just be clear that there’s nothing inherently wrong with a grown man playing with a Disney-themed bubble wand nor a grown man dancing to a Bollywood song

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

With the sound off, I can totally hear this in an Irish brogue

🚨New paper🚨 from @applylab.bsky.social postdoc Dr Jiali Song in CRPI: Can unreliable auditory hazard warnings help the driver? The effect of timing errors and false alarms on road hazard detection in dynamic road scenes 1/5

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

Friends, it is not that hard to use an unambiguous, intuitive colormap

Weirdly I seem to be night drinking. I go to bed with a full glass of water beside my bed and I wake up with a quarter cup remaining and no memory of drinking.

"Stop studying now and focus on the only class that really matters: gym" jeremyrosenholtz.substack.com/p/dr-knecht

"we cannot know with any certainty that Harvard will even exist a few years from now" jeremyrosenholtz.substack.com/p/donuts-ser...

DoorDashed lunch today for the first time. Paid for by a coupon for working the virtual VSS conference in 2020.

Brilliant 🏆 Isata Kanneh-Mason absolutely tears through Rachmaninoff’s fiendish Piano Concerto No. 3 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

When the Hyatt Regency SFO asks you whether you’d like a room near or far from the elevators be forewarned that the rooms like mine that are far are almost a quarter of a mile away (estimated by my walking time). I took 6055 steps yesterday and only went to and from the conference downstairs.

Yesterday I read an interview with the singer in a punk band who uses GenAI to help with writing his texts. Punk. The whole point of punk was that if you know how to play 3 cords badly and have something to say just fucking go for it.

OMG. Terrorists have struck DC. In a preemptive attack, they have completely demolished the East Wing of the White House. America mourns. 🇺🇸

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#FacePerception #VisionScience #ComputationalNeuroscience #Psychophysics

It’s ironic that the pre-colonoscopy diet includes things that are bad for colon health and excludes just about everything good for colon health. It’s my parents’ usual diet. Also it makes me lose my will to live. Thank goodness it’s only two days. PSA: get your regular colonoscopy.

A Scalable Data Pipeline for ASL Media Processing and Annotation (lnkd.in/ekbXaR-8), focused on streamlining the extraction and labeling of American Sign Language video data needed to support Signs, and its community-validated ASL #dataset. www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...

NEW: Political organizing is getting riskier under the Trump administration, so @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social wrote a comprehensive guide to doing it safely. No paywall! www.wired.com/story/how-to...

I think one of our big problems is that we’re limiting Dickensian villain ghost visits to just one night a year like clearly the market can sustain some expansion

I enjoy my primary care physician a lot more now that I’ve realized that personality-wise he’s basically former postdoc @benwolfevision.bsky.social in doctor form

Informative, and the summaries are not actually that long. Worth a read. austinkocher.substack.com/p/want-to-un...

🚨Job alert! I'm recruiting a postdoc! If you want to study the time course of task-driven visual perception, please reach out! #neuroskyence #VisionScience #CogSci barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...

Body cameras are no good without policy to enforce accountability

ok but steak n shake is using beef tallow to fry its fries now so its basically a wash

I think @benwolfevision.bsky.social will not be surprised

Am I... starting a band with my daughter's girlfriend?

What does one call the point in front of the vantage point, when the vantage point is NOT the center of projection? It's like the principal point, but I'd like not to use the same terminology for both the point that goes with the camera and the point that goes with the eye viewing the image.

"the world's least plausible bus" 😆

Bad design and penguin facts. What more can anyone ask for? Fun thread.

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