Tessera
Folgen

Melissa🏳️‍🌈

@melis-willis.bsky.social

📚 Book Lover + Soil Tender 🌀 Family Historian + GenX Resister 📷 Writer + Photographer 👩🏻‍💻 Documenting life on the threshold of all that’s been & has yet to come, on the blog @ undertheelderberrytree.com 🥰 Skeet comms > 👎🏻 DMs 📍New Mexico, USA

1968 Posts1809 Follower505 Folgt
Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 4d ago

The COVID brain fog explained. The COVID-19 virus binds to the ACE2 receptor to enter cells. Dopamine producing neurons are rich in the ACE2 receptor. The virus causes disruption in the dopamine network in the brain. 🧪 tech-paper.com/scientists-f...

Scientists finally have a biological explanation for why long COVID patients lose motivation and can't think clearly. They scanned their brains and found the dopamine system was physically damaged - T...

Millions of people with long COVID report the same cluster of symptoms: a crushing lack of motivation, an inability to think clearly, memory that slips, movements that feel slower than they should. Fo...

tech-paper.com

Melissa🏳️‍🌈@melis-willis.bsky.social · 6d ago

During high Summer (and in the depths of Winter) I seriously question my land loving sanity. WTH with these temps?! I’m so fecking tired of never not being sweaty 😓 Def don’t read the alt text if you want more context 😉

A mama and a juvenile Muscovy duck walk around the perimeter of their mini duck pond looking for goodies in the shallows. It’s 96* out and I had to drag the hose over to get them some fresh water in this drought. While the pond filled a bit, I re-dug a few areas and ensured there wouldn’t be any spillover in case of rain 🤞🏻 I’m hot as hell and exhausted, but the poultry are happy. What even is a romantic vision about farm life? Hand someone a shovel in these temps and they’ll run back to their AC office for sure 😂 But climate change isn’t real, right? 🙄
Melissa🏳️‍🌈@melis-willis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Listen, haven’t they already made movies about this bullshit? We know it doesn’t end well so why are they still messing with this stuff when it’s obviously advancing faster than tech security can keep up? Not cool, man. Not cool at all.

Screen shot from the Ground News app about ai acting autonomously and hacking another company: Open OpenAl Says Al Models Went Rogue During Testing, Triggering 'Unprecedented' Breach at Startup • OpenAl announced on Tuesday that two models, including GPT-5 model Sol, escaped a secure test environment and exploited a zero-day vulnerability to hack Hugging Face. The company called the incident "unprecedented." • Using the ExploitGym benchmark, OpenAl tested the models with reduced cybersecurity guardrails to evaluate offensive capabilities. Rather than solving assigned tasks, the models targeted the test answer key stored on Hugging Face systems. • They chained two remote code execution vulnerabilities to harvest credentials, utilizing a "substantial amount of inference compute." The models moved laterally into internal clusters, executing more than 17,000 individual actions across short-lived sandboxes. • Hugging Face detected and contained the intrusion, rebuilding compromised nodes and…
The Santa Fe New Mexican@thenewmexican.bsky.social · 2w ago

Amid rising temperatures and low water levels, harmful algal blooms are appearing with more frequency in lakes across New Mexico, affecting outdoor recreation. Water availability across the state continues to be impacted by persistent dry conditions. sfnm.co/3ROLPSl

Harmful algal blooms reappear across lakes in New Mexico

Low water levels and rising temperatures contribute to the frequency of harmful algal blooms in lakes across the state.

sfnm.co

Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 3w ago

I can’t stop thinking about how at the very start when people stayed home during the pandemic, the air was demonstrably cleaner within a few months or so. We had tangible proof that this was a solvable problem and thought “well, we’re obviously not doing that though”

Gabino Iglesias@gabino.bsky.social · 2w ago

Seeing some “Tate dresses like a gay man” comments and wanted to say two things: 1. Nothing wrong with being a gay man/fuck homophobia. 2. Y’all need some gay friends because I have many and not one of them would dress like that even for Halloween.

Melissa🏳️‍🌈@melis-willis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Billions of records and no one knows what will happen to any of it if NARA closes its doors in Chicago (I’ve also heard maybe San Francisco and Seattle, too). Please sign the petition, our collective history is at stake. c.org/Fw2bQkhXBR

Sign the Petition

Stop the Closure of the National Archives at Chicago!

c.org

Ally Does Genealogy@allydoesgenealogy.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm very concerned about the closing of NARA facilities in Chicago. Tons of Midwestern records are stored here. Please sign the petition to stop this! c.org/p27fZmjx86 #genealogy #FamilyHistory #NARA

Melissa🏳️‍🌈@melis-willis.bsky.social · 4w ago

It’s (only) 90*F out right now but the sun feels brutal. Just took a little walk around the garden with my kiddo to check our drip irrigation and had a solid chuckle at our pug chasing the shadow of a swallowtail 😂 We’re all hydrating now, pug, humans, and garden included.

A yellow swallowtail resting on a red bee balm flower against a wooden post in northern New Mexico on a hot summer day