Right, since the guys working on HamClock have put the backend server in place my HamClock is back up and seems stable. Use this command line to activate using the new configuration: hamclock -b ohb.hamclock.app:80

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

2026 basically

I covered an R meeting as a science writer a few years ago and it was some of the most fun I've had at a meeting and the attendees were so nice and happy to talk.

apnews.com/article/mode... Moderna says FDA refuses its application for new mRNA flu vaccine

I don't know for sure, but AHRQ was decimated by staff cuts and losses. I am checking on any active litigation.

another year of us not running a super bowl ad

Amateur radio operators are leaving screenshots of their HamClock installations on this Facebook thread: facebook.com/groups/hamop... as a tribute to creator Elwood Downey, WB0OEW, who passed away today. If you are so inclined, perhaps share this with your ham radio contacts.

This lecture is now online, for the public! media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_object...

Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Good news from Merck & Moderna. Custom-made mRNA vaccine, now dubbed intismeran autogene (mRNA-4157) + Keytruda linked to 49% lower risk of melanoma relapse or death. My read is that these vaccines have real potential not so much for initial treatment but to keep cancer in remission.

Fahrenheit 45-47.

@mkennedy.codes @brianokken.bsky.social Hey guys - I am a mostly regular listener to the podcast - and know that y'all talk on occasion about building shippable Python applications - here is an example of one I did over my year end break: huberthickman.github.io/HamClockLaun...

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Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”

A few weeks ago I spun up hamclock on an old Mac mini and an used 32” 720p television. That started me down the path of wondering about becoming a licensed ham radio operator. So I did evening study sessions and passed the technician level exam on Saturday.

Amateur radio study guides routinely describe the FCC as an independent federal agency. ARRL manuals and Part 97 overviews explain it was created by Congress and is not part of a Cabinet department. If you’re a licensed ham, you already know this. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Jesus Christ

The 13th day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features an image portraying part of a dense cluster of galaxies—a wide variety of shapes, colors, and distances. Every day until December 25, this page will present a new image of our universe:

A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...

Saw this somewhere - made me laugh

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991. From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

PBS: “A poll from the journal "Nature" found 75% of researchers are considering leaving 🇺🇸— including a man dubbed the Mozart of Math… a scientific brain drain.” The Trump Effect. The opposite of Making America Great Again. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Lying about vaccine safety is a sin.

A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs 1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Time for the annual “am I old or are the celebrities at the Macy’s parade fairly obscure”

More adventures with hamclock - now have it running on an old late 2012 Mac Mini. Not a bad look for a system put together from unused stuff.

This is exactly right

My weekend tinkerings with hamclock on an old 720p television

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy

Have you heard about this? "As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash." h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com

omg

Sending this to my PhD epidemiologist kiddo.

Here is my #birdoftheday photo #birds #osprey. Taken in Boston this summer. This osprey had a nice dinner that day.

The Trump regime is East Winging the Goddard Space Flight Center, home to the 10,000 scientists and engineers in NASA science and engineering directorates.

Today’s fresh hell.

I am ready for the trick or treaters. I gave out half dollars and candy. Most of the kids don’t know about half dollars and the little ones treat it like a great treasure. I love to see their faces light up when I give them a bright shiny half dollar.

Soooo...he lied. The White House is demolishing the entirety of the East Wing to make way for President Trump’s $200 million ballroom, a construction project that is far more extensive than he initially let on, a senior administration official said on Wednesday. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

I buy more American soybeans than China.

Current benchmarks for medical LLMs create an "evaluation illusion." They use simplified data and tasks that don't reflect complex clinical reality. Automated metrics also fail to assess safety and utility, meaning high scores don't translate to real-world value. #MedSky #MedAI #MLSky

Tulane "terminated an academic director this summer after the syllabus she'd helped create for an infectious disease class was rejected by a newly hired instructor because it included an academic article about a polio outbreak in Gaza." #Louisiana #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Healthcare #Genocide

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

if you’re in line to get raptured, STAY IN LINE