I don't understand why Dario and Sam keep asking for government intervention. OpenAI and Anthropic are the two major frontier labs and they are both located in SF. Just meet at a local Starbucks and sign an agreement to slow things down. Invite Sundar too. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/t...

What Anthropic’s C.E.O. Argued in His Call for Slower A.I. Development

Dario Amodei’s 3,800-word letter laid out a three-step plan to rein in artificial intelligence.

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A tornado formed during Kilauea lava fountain eruption yesterday. Lasted about a minute.

A river otter chomping on a fish at Phoenix Lake today.

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Juvenile bobcat encounter on Tennessee Valley Trail.

In Turkey, when authoritarianism took hold, satire was one of the first casualties. Political comedy shows disappeared—now, airing one could land you in jail. Dictatorships always follow the same playbook.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · last yr.

Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large

Renewable energy is humming along despite the setbacks: “…people are now putting up a gigawatt’s worth of solar panels, the rough equivalent of the power generated by one coal-fired plant, every fifteen hours.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

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🔬API-first feature extraction for image-based profiling workflows If you need to obtain interpretable features from your segmented microscopy images, but want to do it in a fully automated way, we know the struggle. 1/6

For many years while I was running a scientific skepticism site/podcast I repeated the mantra "vaccines were so successful, we forgot their impact due to vanishing diseases." Bringing a major pseudoscience conspiracist in charge of HHS is a sure way to remember their impact- in the most painful way.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · last yr.

"Measles cases reach 33-year high as RFK Jr. pursues anti-vaccine agenda" arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

More on this @latimes.com by @niamhordner.bsky.social www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Textbooks: “Enhancers are just a bunch of TFBSs” But how do they REALLY work? New paper with many contributors here @berkeleylab.lbl.gov, @anshulkundaje.bsky.social, @anusri.bsky.social A 🧵 (1/n) Free access link: rdcu.be/erD22

'Even in a city renowned for its bleeding heart, there is a breaking point, a collective exasperation with those who weaponize our compassion to fuel a crisis that claims lives young and old, drawn to our streets by cheap drugs and lax enforcement' thevoicesf.org/san-francisc...

San Francisco voters urge unity to tackle fentanyl - The Voice of San Francisco

Our justice system is facing unprecedented times of polarity. San Francisco watched as ICE protests in Los Angeles erupted into violence and Waymo burnings. Subsequently, our city faced its own violen...

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"After court order, OpenAI is now preserving all ChatGPT user logs, including deleted chats, sensitive chats, etc."

Terminal Genome Viewer (tgv), written in Rust github.com/zeqianli/tgv

Having missed last week's $10K treasure hunt, I decided to hunt for another treasure myself this weekend: the Tiburon Mariposa Lily, which grows only in Tiburon and nowhere else in the world. ONLY in the Ring Mountain Preserve in Tiburon. So I headed there yesterday to try my luck. 1/n

16 resources for re-analyzing public expression data 🧵 👇 1. rnama.com/docs/search... RNA meta Analysis has ~26,700 studies (5,717 RNA-Seq and 20,955 Microarray)

Combine and Search the World's Gene Expression Data

Improve gene expression accuracy through meta-analysis then search over 26,000 studies for correlated signatures.

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The Methuselah tree. A majestic redwood, estimated nearly 1900 years old. Its diameter at base is about 4.25m. [Near El Corte de Madera Creek Preserve]

What to do when you encounter a mountain lion?

Resolution Trail, El Corte de Madera Preserve: the trail was named after an Australian Douglas DC9 that crashed here in 1953. Some debris still can be seen along the trail. 1/n

Was this event really the beginning of the Internet Age? A commemorative plate from Alpine Inn, a beer garden near Palo Alto.

The Rangehouse: the old US Naval Magnetic Silencing Range in the Marina. The facility was used to calibrate naval vessels' magnetic signatures to avoid detection by mines etc.

Ditto.

And in a very serendipitous, very SF moment, Daniel Lurie spotted a whale out in the Bay during the panel. “Look, greatest city in the world.” 🐋

Last historic theater in downtown Berkeley to be torn down: 'Could never ever be duplicated'

Last historic theater in downtown Berkeley to be torn down: 'Could never ever be duplicated'

(KRON) -- Despite a final attempt by neighbors, a historic theater in downtown Berkeley will come down. Berkeley City councilmembers voted Tuesday night to uphold their approval of a project to tear down the United Artists Theater and turn it into housing. People packed into a special city council meeting in a last effort to [...]

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After 15 years of hiking in the Bay, I still find new and amazing trails. The weather was perfect for Old St Hillary's Wildflower Preserve yesterday. Made me feel truly blessed to live in the Bay. 🧵

She’s heeeere. 👀 R-Evolution, the 45-foot-tall, 32,000-pound steel sculpture that first debuted at Burning Man in 2015, is now calling San Francisco home for the next six months. 🎥: Eric Thurber

Hahah

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last yr.

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

The tech capitol of the world finally allows its police department to use tech, and crime rate drops. youtu.be/bk5fGu_-NcQ?...

San Francisco Police credit their new surveillance hub with drop in crime

YouTube video by KPIX | CBS NEWS BAY AREA

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Anyone surprised?