*Obviously mayonnaise

Geocities

NYT cooking recession indicator continues to deliver "I developed these spinach meatballs as a way to feed six people with just a pound of meat"

There were some architecture students from Philly with a project called The Broad Street Intervention. I made a John Snow joke and they stared at me like🫪

I hope you read to the end because I'm really proud of this kicker.

A bunch of chocolate that claims to be made with natural herbal ingredients for "sexual enhancement" actually contains the active ingredients found in Viagra and Cialis. www.wired.com/story/sexual...

Crossed off a lifetime bucket list item today

"New. Unnoticed."

I am *begging* news organizations to learn the difference between LLMs and *the entirety of other machine learning tools*.

Audible from Providence all the way up to the NH border???? The fuck?

Heard it in Haverhill

Okay so that wasn't just me

I’m still so mad that it’s actually “in medias res”. Nobody fucking knows that! What the fuck?! “In media res” is better in every way. Fuck all the way off, LATIN.

Find me in Philly on June 13 at this fun show www.inliquid.org/aftcp

This is very preliminary, but this is an overview of every species in the Open Tree of Life, colour coded by whether their position in the tree is based on taxonomy only (dark colour) or includes phylogenetic information (blue). Phylogenetic coverage is sparse, mostly plants and vertebrates.

The more we understand of Biology the weirder it gets…

Here is my Claude Skill for bringing some evidence guardrails to doing a health question/evidence review. It has many opinionated design decisions, and I have written a pretty lengthy README to share the thinking behind it: github.com/DrCatHicks/i...

Clams, especially on pizza

Interesting new tool to extract phylogenies from images (Tremble). It is crazy that this is still something we have to do. doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

The incidence and prevalence of #LongCovid worse than anticipated in the US, with 1 of 6 persons affected, and of these 89% had at least 1 chronic condition requiring management. From 58 hospitals, 4 regions, 457,950 patients. Prevalence increased thru mid 2024. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Here is said article, which has just been published: The safety guardrails of several prominent Large Language Modeld can be bypassed if a user tricks the AI into having a multi-pronged, ongoing conversation, researchers at Cisco have warned.... www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/all-maj...

*spins discourse madlibs wheel* This is an odd take because _piñatas_ are symbols of _Trotskyist_ frivolity not _market anarchist_ fun

Even though Amtrak has been consistently underfunded and shanked in the back, it remains such a lovely way to travel and I wish I could take high speed rail all over this land

Open source and commons ideals are more important than ever If you asked me to name the topic I'd class as my core academic specialisation, you'd probably guess artificial intelligence, and you'd be wrong, or at least premature, that one came later. The real answer is openness: open access, open…

I'm tired of journalism that assumes everyone is going to get a brain implant and that ethics matter because this is inevitable. Everyone is not going to get a brain implant, and ethics still matter even if only a small group of people get these devices.

"You probably hope you can fall back to sleep in a few minutes, but I assure you, you cannot. I’m about to turn it up. I’ve got some buddies out here to rip off a cacophony, and we don’t take harmonization lightly. We live by the song, die by the song."

I do not have to hand it to the pope but uh yes, sharing, good.

"What becomes clear is that Yemen is not only a place of crisis, but also a place of continuous problem-solving. Where challenges exist, solutions also grow. Where climate risks increase, communities continue to adapt and build resilience through practical climate solutions."

I was buying some wine yesterday and the banter at my local about beach weather was high comedy Don’t fahget yah aloe buddy

The Hub of the Universe

all slot machines, etc., are tuned to the key of c, in order to keep casinos literally harmonious. which means you can play any recording of terry riley's "in c" over adrian rew's field recordings & it'll sound pretty magical. (or perhaps stage a guerilla performance of "in c" in a casino.)

The Miracle of Science is a problematic bar

i was visiting a neighborhood bar in boston when a roving gang of elite college professors strode in acting like they owned the place. they saw me ordering a domestic lager and shouted "this motherfucker's not chasing novel gustatory experiences!" and started beating me with heavy wooden rulers

I wrote about why governments must stop relying upon Facebook and X/Twitter to communicate vital disaster information to the public a while back - unfortunately, this issue is only getting worse. You can do something about it: write to your local authorities and demand they change their approach.

"train ai to sound like you" great now it's saying "can't wait to read it!" without reading it

Hey guys, don't worry about AI solving an Erdős problem, at least you can all rest assured that the output cannot be copyrighted.

Good news: you can do this sort of audit/analysis with open-weight models. Bad news: this auditability will be another reason why some people in power will be seeking to restrict or ban open-weight models.

Code is a very formal kind of language, and in the end has a “does it work or not” pass/fail test. What works for code doesn’t work for other kinds of language!

tired: "english majors are dumb because there's no objective measure of whether something is right." wired: "english majors are smart because there's no objective measure of whether something is right."

Q: What's the weather like in Boston this week? A: Yes.

Baltimore! Artscape is this weekend and I will be there in the Artist Market #sciart

If you're an individual trying to create something, but constantly getting bombarded with messaging that you should become a nu-media company this will hit you in the feels. A good lesson from some great writers who make the Internet much less shitty every time they publish

I wrote up a response to the "Preprint Problem" paper. Racist heriditarian pseudoscience is bad, and more than none of it is posted on preprint servers, which is also bad. But the paper does not establish that this is a "preprint problem," which is my angle obviously. /1

I took my eyes off the screen while the page was loading, and when I looked back I couldn’t remember what I was even trying to read.

maybe if he gets mad enough he'll go to war about it, that would really prove that she's nothing like Helen of Troy

And here he is on bsky bsky.app/profile/tdie...

As an English speaker, I do love stumbling upon Dutch content for the initial sensation that I am suffering from aphasia.

In one hour, we are hosting Creative Commons to discuss this framework at our ASAPbio community call. You can still join: asapbio.org/outreach/mee...