1) something being good for spreadsheet people is good for everyone, the spreadsheet people are how people get health for example. 2) we can distinguish between for example cancer detecting AI and racism generating AI. 3) and AI that can tidy up your notes and AI that hallucinate misinformation.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2d ago

People can’t just say this for literally years now and have the products it creates only positively affect spreadsheet people. Most people have profoundly negative experiences with this product because its utility remains pretty niche but targeted to the capital class.

Be a Laurie. I think Laurie is probably sleeping pretty dang well at night

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 2d ago

“I know this is going to sound extremely radical, or crazy,” she recounted telling the woman, “but ICE is there at the gate, and they're looking for you."

🚨 Kentucky has announced the finalists in its "I Voted" sticker contest. 🚨 Per the Secretary of State: Kentuckians can vote for their favorite sticker at the SOS's booth at the State Fair from August 20-30.

An important point that many miss is that mutational “supply” approximates infinity in nature, so what matters is “selection”. In practice, this means that features, including insertions that code for cleavage sites, come and go all the time, but we rarely, if ever, observe them. Until we do.

Aris Katzourakis@ariskatzourakis.bsky.social · yesterday

Neat experiments, with a conclusion that shouldn't surprise: "We found numerous examples of potential furin cleavage site acquisition and replacement through insertion mutation during the normal course of coronavirus replication." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

*checks notes* Yup, that’s right. Thanks @foxnews!

perfect synopsis of modern Republicanism

Andrew Baker was also a “token black professor” at Bates College. But his perspective on the events Tyler Austin Harper recounts in his Atlantic cover story is very different. Read Baker’s side of the story online today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...

Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story

Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper

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The president has a lady Renfield that sleeps in the White House crawlspace and travels in the wheel well of Airforce 1 and prints out his posts for him on a portable printer and wipes the poo poo off of his giant ass and that's supposed to be funny?

Don't believe me, here: Georgia man mistakenly detained by ICE on Delta jet bridge demands answers About airline’s role - WSB-TV Channel 2 - Atlanta share.google/cdaOwrQ9QEvN...

Georgia man mistakenly detained by ICE on Delta jet bridge demands answers about airline’s role

They handcuffed him. He said he was detained for about five minutes.

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moo is eepy. @moo.selfhosted.social · 3d ago

Delta Airlines is working with ICE, move accordingly.

Ian Banks is a conservative think tank dude (not a scientist), who wrote a piece last year advocating that we use the SAT on ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL CHILDREN to identify the top 2% on math skills and select those kids for STEM training. He actively supports FEWER people in science.

Hey @apsphysics.aps.org...why the hell are you bringing in Heritage Foundation supported people to steer the direction of the NSF????? www.aps.org/initiatives/...

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“I think this is really an important achievement,” said Jedd Wolchok…”It tells us what might have been considered science fiction 15 or 20 years ago —that we can produce a personalized vaccine based on sequencing from a tumor from a pathology specimen —could be used to delay progression of melanoma”

Moderna and Merck say mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in late-stage melanoma trial

A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in a late-stage melanoma study, results that could herald a new, powerful approach in oncology.

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I’m an anxious-avoidant writer (paralytically terrified of starting), I justify procrastination as “percolating” etc. And yet! whenever I force myself to actually sit down and barf shit out, the thoughts that emerge are totally fresh, previously unknown to my conscious mind, and often pretty good!

Andrea Mann@andreamann.bsky.social · 2d ago

"By writing, you are literally firing up your brain and therefore stirring up your conscious thoughts and something new emerges. You are not, or at least not always, transcribing something already present in your conscious thoughts.“ LOVE this piece. www.historians.org/perspectives...

oh look, dems can easily leverage messaging to hijack, create, or redirect entire newscycles by exploiting the infotainment media's obsession with scaled ad engagement, who could have possibly imagined such a thing

Who is Natalie Harp? Sen. Jon Ossoff puts Trump aide in spotlight

The former TV news anchor began working for Trump in 2022 and has become a close aide during his second term.

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the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes

And here's the best part: "Tehee but at least agriculture uses the water to make food!" Uh, you'd be surprised! Farmers are INCENTIVIZED TO WASTE WATER. To use more than we need, to grow thirsty crops in deserts, etc. A whole lot of that massive ag water use DOES NOT MEANINGFULLY GROW FOOD.

The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.

Kent Lind@camasonian.bsky.social · 4d ago

We have data on this. The blue is all the non-ag human use:

I just want to know who's baby this is? Because I am proud of her like she's one of mine. This is perfection

Nothing he’s saying here should illicit the reaction we’ve see from so many in the admin tonight. He scored a direct hit on something.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Ossoff on why he invoked Natalie Harp during his speech: "We're in wartime. The commander in chief has mired us in this geopolitical disaster. People have lost their lives ... and he retreats into this bubble of West Wing aides who are his security blanket to make him feel good about himself"

Alina Chan is a discredited crank and it is embarrassing for the Times to publish this

I think one of the most dangerous things that has become normalised in the internet age is the idea that absolutely everything is everyone's business and we absolutely must place moral valence on the behaviour of everyone we hear about

The dude just immediately entered a defensive fetal position on the floor while hysterically repeating Republican attacks in the process of denying them. What a loser

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

WELKER: Do democratic socialists belong in the Dem Party? JEFFRIES: What I can say is I do not support defunding the police, I do not support open borders, I do not support abolishing the Senate. We're focused on actually solving the problems hard-working American taxpayer want us to solve ...

lol. Republican US Senate candidate for … [checks notes] … Minnesota

Here are things that happened at the DNC today: 1) Resolution calling to abolish ICE unanimously adopted 2) Brand-new early state calendar that reflects the full diversity of the Democratic base 3) Rejection of insider efforts to ban RCV from being used in presidential primaries Great results here

Richard Ebright: Pride of Rutgers. Abusive, misogynist, cheerleader and unofficial advisor for MAHA and the destruction of US public health, scientifically illiterate peddler of falsehoods about the origin of COVID….and now a celebrator of suicide.

I'm not a single-issue voter, but "burn these gambling firms to the ground and punish those responsible" gets me pretty close.

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · last wk.

A King County Superior Court judge in Washington state has found that Kalshi’s trick of calling itself a “prediction market” doesn’t make it not gambling under the Washington Gambling Act, and has therefore ordered Kalshi to stop almost all activity within the state. Read more here:

Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Final update for now with info on the most alarming part of the original statement of work, which asked the charter airline contractor to also help DHS establish foreign "detention centers" in "host countries." Will update if Eastern answers the f*cking question. gillianbrockell.com/breaking-eas...

BREAKING: Eastern Airlines gets contract to fly DHS 'deportation fleet'

ICE charter airline Eastern Air Express, a subsidiary of Eastern Airlines, has been awarded a contract to operate a fleet of passenger jets acquired by the Department of Homeland Security to conduct d...

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Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · last wk.

Second update published, one more to come... If you're going "Eastern Airlines? Like the airline I took took to Miami when I was a little kid?" I answer that question here: gillianbrockell.com/breaking-eas...

Insane that AOC is being quoted as saying "Woke 1 was crazy" when this is what she actually said. youtu.be/SFwAnMLBSOw?...

“Commas are important”