#dogsofmastodon pushed back their domestication date by 5000 years recently. For #catsofmastodon it still feels like it was Tuesday (next Tuesday). https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/science/paleontology-humans-dogs-dna.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XFA.1037.nyivNQ95ho3n&smid=nytcore-ios-share

The #nytimes get its fair share of deserved criticism but this kind of deep, cutting analysis is why I keep coming back.

#Arlo seem to have bricked a massive number of devices connected to their cloud including all of ours. Hours of troubleshooting random blinking LEDs and recovered one so far.

tail to tail traffic here in the clowder. #caturday. #catsofmastodon

In case it isn't already abundantly clear, when they say "woke", they mean "treating people who aren't white males with fairness". https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/hegseth-promotion-list.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WVA.tyE5.oxlxlbTn702W&smid=url-share

Might not be a huge audience here, but I wanted to announce that. FSharp.Data.Npgsql is now part of fsprojects, thanks to @dsyme for the nudge. This should make maintenance easier.. It's a #typeprovider wrapper in #fsharp for #postgres that allows you to just point your code at a database and […]

I think I somehow missed this piece of complete idiocy here in my backyard. What the fuck California. https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/california-introduces-age-verification-law

I don't normally like to promote products but after years of suffering through #turbotax, I got so fed up with their lobbying of congress to block free tax filing options and did a little reading. Bottom line, was that #freetaxusa (dorky name) worked extremely well, imported my old intuit data […]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@recursive/116271640740835563 true story

There's a new form of rush hour in the #sfba ... don't worry about traffic on the bay bridge.. Use the GPU farms when nobody else is grinding them to early thermal death..

somehow coping with the weather# #caturday #catsofmastodon.

There's so much noise around the impact of #AI I'm sometimes reluctant to share here - I know many people are just 100% no, but FWIW, it's incredibly useful for biomedical research, and coding. It has made it dramatically easier to deal with the utter mess that […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Because we care deeply about international mathematics and its mathematicians, we must recognize the threat to both that the upcoming ICM poses. Please read and consider signing: Move the 2026 ICM out of the United States […]

Guess who's behind the sudden rush of age verification legislation? In the US, #meta is spending $26.3 Million to hire at least 86 Lobbyists from 40 lobbying firms, and lobbying in at least 45 states. In the EU, Meta is spending ten million euros annually on lobbying, retaining 18 lobbying […]

If you want to know why we don't cure diseases faster, data is a huge limitation in #biology.. You can't train #AI models on data that don't exist. There's an additional layer of fun for the biomedical world - restricted portals to protect the data from every […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Human in the loop is critical for advanced AI application development. #ai #LLM

A popular machine learning strategy when you have limited data is to augment the data by generating additional data from the existing items, e.g. Rotating images, blurring them, merging them... Claude just helped me generate some synthetic images from my training […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Every time I'm forced to use #python I become slightly more radicalized...

"White House Reacts to Report Russia Helping Iran": https://www.newsweek.com/trump-russia-iran-intelligence-report-response-leavitt-11636666 When Trump was asked about this by a Fox News reporter, Trump said: "What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time." Trump did not express […]

Your periodic reminder that as powerful as #LLMs are, they are not to be trusted with anything number / math related.. "The 24andMe case offers a clear roadmap..."

I have a little money in a #vanguard retirement fund and it’s moving next week to anyone who can promise not to bow to petrochemical bullies like #texas https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/climate/vanguard-texas-coal-lawsuit-settlement.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

could be worse … #sfba #sanfrancisco

https://xkcd.com/534/ #xkcd #xkcd534 suddenly seems a lot more relevant as we have large language, models, writing code #LLM #ai

I would be shocked as a scientist if it was outside the cells.... but maybe it's reading #nytimes headlines that ages us prematurely..

The bank’s phone support workers cautiously approved of the provision of antigravity pads for their chairs, reducing the discomfort and detrimental effect of sitting for long periods. Their caution was justified when it emerged that the local ‘g’ was linked to their call clearance rate […]

another disaster of a morning in San Francisco. #sfba. this harsh winter weather is a lot to bear. on the bright side, we have snow covered Alps.

The house is designed so the long rays of winter sun rising from the east shine into the living room but the house is also sited on a natural hot air vent to provide ample heat. Needless to say there are lots of cat fights over the the cardboard cat castle . #caturday. #catsofmastodon

I feel like #geminiai could do a pretty good standup comedy routine on #bioinformatics tools... "Did I tell you the one about #gatk4 ... well...." half of the routine would just be riffing off bioinformatics tool argument conventions and file formats..

Just f#$k #outlook. Who thought it would be a great idea to have /XYZ trigger a mention of someone. Every time I accidentally use a slash now composing an email it triggers a whole process. This feature is so awful, they immediately also pop up a survey to find […] [Original post on sfba.social]

#linux admin got so much easier with #LLM tech.. all those obscure commands and errors you would paste endlessly into search engines trying to decipher the disease that had suddenly afflicted your operating system is fixable now in a heartbeat. I know lots of folks aren't happy about #ai for all […]

Happy #valentines #caturday.

Current status: "During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:"

Paging #99luftballoons. „According to two of the people briefed on the situation, military officials deployed its new anti-drone technology earlier this week against what officials thought was a cartel drone, but turned out to be a party balloon.“ […]

Step1 .. admitting you have a problem #pandas #python #copilot

The #fda is a hollowed out shell of its former self, led by charlatans. These decisions are going to kill people and promote disease. FDA basically tells #mrnavaccine developers to take a hike, destroying the tools that basically saved our ass in the last pandemic. America is a wasteland of […]

Wouldn't in be super cool if there was a key on the keyboard you could use coding that advanced the cursor to the next tab position. F%^&ing #ai

Tis the season (to comment out the christmas tree cron tab entry) #christmas #homeautomation

wow! they found "found multiple refrigerators with vials of unknown liquids"... sounds like some biohacker wasn't labeling their test tubes responsibly.. https://www.msn.com/en-us/science/microbiology/1-000-samples-sent-for-testing-after-possible-biological-lab-found-inside-home-fbi/ar-AA1VsoeO

and yet somehow, we persist. #sunset #sfba

Sen. Chris Murphy: "Trump reversed decades of national security objections to selling advanced AI chips to UAE. National security experts were alarmed. But there was a secret. Before the deal, UAE had sent $187M to the Trumps and $31M to the Witkoffs in secret payments. Mind blowing corruption." […]

another rough start to the week here in #sanfrancisco. #sfba

my poor creality 3d printer got a nozzle change after 6 years of hard use and z homing was out of range for bed adjustment. an hour of trying various fancy methods for adjusting, and the winning solution was drumroll… Duct tape. #3dprinting #ducttape

In a world of disturbing climate news, every now and then something stands out. This is utterly terrifying, a feed forward loop involving microorganisms that seems pretty robust (in a bad way) and will accelerate the melting of Greenland's ice. I think we're already on track for 30cm of rise by […]

Hone automation:(n). A systematic process for turning a garden plumbing problem into a (file system recovery | network | software | hardware) one. #opensprinkler #raspberrypi.

cats are allegedly lactose intolerant. nobody told alex #caturday. #catsofmastodon.

@glyph @pluralistic Please tell this to my CPAP machine app.

Okay, the “wrapped” mania has officially gotten _completely_ out of control. I just received an official electronic mail from a medical equipment manufacturer, which read, in part: “Your 2025 [redacted] is a personalized year-end recap that turns your [HIPAA protected data] into an inspiring […]

Curious if anyone knows cases of #opensource projects that have licenses restricting unethical uses of software (eg a #NoPalantir clause, or no military, no law enforcement applications). Would be sympathetic to a project saying Apache license for everyone except untrustworthy arms of […]

Thinking the #python community needs a python package manager manager.. Some system that would streamline the installation and versioning the 5 different package managers needed for a typical code base...

god... which PM at #asana thought it would be a good idea to do an Asana wrap..