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celadoor

@celadoor.bsky.social

Exocontemporary Artist. Hacktographic photographer working at the intersection of imperfection and curiosity. PFP uses my @stoopidavatar https://linktr.ee/celadoor

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celadoor@celadoor.bsky.social · 10mo ago

My favorite part of claude.ai is the hit yourself in the face with a rake thing where they give you a file system on the project landing page but then the threads in the project don’t have access to those files as a directory. It is offensively dumb at a fundamental level.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last yr.

22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses. Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment. ... We were so goddamn close.

Trump administration cancels plans to develop a bird flu vaccine

The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Moderna to develop an mRNA vaccine for flu strains with pandemic potential, including bird flu.

npr.org

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last yr.

Two Naval Academy faculty members have resigned, and 18 more have taken early retirement. One was offered a place of honor at the annual dedication parade. He declined, telling the academy’s superintendent:

He cited a line all incoming students had to memorize when he began his studies there 55 years ago: “Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.” “No matter what you have done before,” he wrote, “your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’”
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · last yr.

The Venn Diagram of Americans who say the government should be run by a business and who also complain bitterly about how every time they call customer service they get put on hold for an hour and then have to talk with "some foreigner who can't speak proper English," is a circle.