cosmetic chemists/epidemiologists: hair relaxer studies linked chronic use to health outcomes. are there any studies on the impacts of hair bleaching (to include dyeing) in a similar way?

what’s bringing you grief these days?

what’s bringing you joy these days?

It is worth noting that the takeover of 60 Minutes, and CBS News, is the culmination of the strategy that was baked into the launch of Substack. This is the thing we were trying to explain was bigger than just "there are nazis on there". www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/...

i look forward to tom steyer doing what he said he was going to do despite not being in the governor’s seat. he has the money to enact any change he wants to see, i know he’s gonna do it because his whole motivation is doing good work and he just really wanted to be governor to do good work.

when y’all see what this is in response to? 😂😭😂

You gotta learn to ignore people more. Raising your cortisol for what??? Stomach tore up for what??? Sleep thrown off for what??? Put your hater blockers on and stop letting people stress you out for FREE. Gas is already high, friend, your blood pressure doesn't need to be too.

the california governor’s race is an open book test for dems and left leaning people. it seems a lot of folks haven’t learned the lesson hard enough yet and that’s going to have terrible consequences for all of us.

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

apologies for bringing threads bidness to bsky but this is wild…steyer’s comms dude basically accuses a bunch of real people supporting beccera of being bots…a claim he based on interactions with a fake account HE made. www.threads.com/@liaopics/po...

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i suspect there’s gonna be a race to burn 0-days before they get patched. if so, things might get wild for a bit! www.anthropic.com/research/gla...

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www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b... with no algorithm to manipulate and distributed trust and safety mechanisms, bluesky forces politically motivated actors to come up with new strats for social manipulation.

folks, i’ve been out of the venture backed interview world for a minute…is it now common practice to have an investor do the culture fit part of the interview? that just happened to a friend (no, really) and i’m kinda gobsmacked by it. (the company has thousands of employees at this point.)

she’s in oakland, someone tell interpol

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Even though I've made this joke myself I actually really hate the "all developers have to be engineering managers now with agents" No, they all need to be tech leads, not ems. Unless you're having to deal with the agents' interpersonal issues and the PM distracting them and getting them promoted and

i am once again begging yall to read “the warmth of other suns.” it is directly relevant to what is happening in the US right now. stay ready so you don’t have to get ready.

absolutely beautiful thread inside

eng leaders, how are you handling the gap between “vibe coded demo” and “production ready feature”? i mean from both the software development and the managing the expectations of senior leadership POVs? do you give estimates for time it would take to make the demo production ready during the demo?

you put the bacon on the pan that’s going to go into the oven. you start heating your grits water to boiling while the oven is heating up. while those are happening, you mix the batter for your pancakes. cook bacon, grits, and pancakes all at once. eggs go last as other items are finishing up.

this is dope!

ouchie

just gave a lightning talk at atmosphereconf.org on v-it.org — the future of open source is social skills and capabilities that flow through your AT Protocol trust graph. your coding agent handles discovery, you own the trust decisions slides: v-it.org/decks/atmosp... npm install -g vit

you absolutely love to see it www.mercurynews.com?p=12558430/

do folks on bluesky know about the bro cruise?

what are your tried and true tricks for crispy edge pancakes?

I haven’t had notifications on my phone in a decade. A list of exactly five people can break through my DND if they call twice. This freaks 1) millennials 2) Gen Z 3) students out to no end. I don’t know how we ever thought this was okay but then again I’m old.

so after doing some recovery on my old NAS a few months ago, i now find myself wanting to play songs from my old mp3 collection that are not available on streaming platforms. what’s the state of the art for playing mp3’s on an iphone?

very excited the WNBA and the WNBPA reached a verbal agreement!! 🎉🎉🎉

none of the great men in history sat around doing podcasts…

Will you be in SF on May 13? www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-...

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built in 1840 in rural north carolina on 10 acres of land with lots of "outbuildings" and a cemetery on property what do the context clues tell us about this house?

And she has things to say: bsky.app/profile/beuk...

“Bryant was not the first to call for a Target boycott. Nekima Levy Armstrong, founder of the Racial Justice Network, and other civil rights activists in Minnesota, launched a boycott last February over the retailer's DEI rollbacks…” exactly. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

the going rate to be considered a visionary founder when you haven’t founded anything in a decade is $2000.

imagine getting a bunch of plastic surgery to fit the aesthetic of a group of people who would toss you while you’re in the middle of taking questions about your job. middle school mean girls are taking frantic notes.

because of AI, how many concurrent episodes of silicon valley are happening right now in the bay area?

my nephew told me today that i am the anchor being in his universe and i am still overwhelmed by that. love that kid so much.

I went through and added up the total paid rents through our adopt-a-rent program, and it is 329 families for $463,217. All peer-to-peer, no fundraising. Just neighbors helping each other out. If you want to adopt a family, and can afford to give $500 or more, signal me at asiniiwiikwe.72

on monday i had lung surgery (RATS wedge resection). on tuesday i was discharged from the hospital. on wednesday i was walking around my house, doing a couple work calls. today i feel fine. the worst thing im experiencing is my mouth being shredded by the intubation bite guard.

i come to bluesky when i want to talk tech and politics. i go to threads when i want to kiki and talk pop culture. some days i like that bifurcation, some days i don’t.

this was a DAY, i tell you hwat.

FYI the billionaires are trying to get you to look away from the epstein files by organizing a march to roast them about instead.

this is WILD.

Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear t-shirts that say "Let's Sue the Government!" shop.eff.org/products/le...

random: anyone got a box at lumen with an extra seat? trying to do a solid for my nephew.