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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 11h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 14h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h

Seen in Maywood, Illinois

Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 21h

There are so many people making amazing, creative, beautiful and meaningful art. Isn't it inspiring?

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 10h

If you wanted to create the perfect tool to enable fascism you would create AI.

And they did.

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One Health Genomics Edinburgh @onehealthgenomics.bsky.social · 23h

New Publication:

Role of RNA in genome folding: It's all about affinity

@uoe-igc.bsky.social @drrafalczapiewski.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Role of RNA in genome folding: It's all about affinity

In mammalian cells, RNA species make up ∼10% of chromatin by mass and play a structural role in the nucleus by acting as scaffolds and influencing gen…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 20h

Vimig: The virus-induced migrasome as a novel mechanism for viral transmission and communication

journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Vimig: The virus-induced migrasome as a novel mechanism for viral transmission and communication

Vimig, defined as “virus-induced migrasome,” represents a novel class of extracellular vesicles that originate from virus-infected cells. The mechanisms underlying vimig formation involve actin remode...

journals.plos.org

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John M. Drake @jdrakephd.bsky.social · 15d

New essay out in #Science: why is the human fatality rate from the current #H5N1 outbreak so much lower than in past outbreaks?

I explore three possible explanations—and what they mean for pandemic risk.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Understanding avian influenza mortality

Three theories could explain why the North American H5N1 epidemic has not been more deadly

www.science.org

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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 1d

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 1d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 2d

May Picture https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483161

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Kristin Henry @kristinhenry.bsky.social · 2d

What's happening is not acceptable, in any way!

So, what do we do? What are the small and big, and everything in between, things we can do?

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2d

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 2d

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2d

The acting CDC Director has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Trump has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health.

Both are calling to make the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots, which makes absolutely no scientific or public health sense.

Acting CDC boss wants to break up MMR vaccine into three shots

Jim O’Neill joins President Donald Trump’s call for three distinct measles, mumps and rubella shots, claiming a separation would ‘reduce the risk of side effects’ and ‘maximize parental choice’

www.independent.co.uk

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

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

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Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 3d

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 2d

Happy #WorldOctopusDay! 🐙

Fresco from Rome with an octopus clutching a moray eel and a lobster in its tentacles. Dated to the 2nd quarter of the 2nd century AD.
Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome.

An octopus on the early 4th-century mosaic floor in the Basilica of Aquileia, Italy.

Mycenaean terracotta stirrup jar with octopus 1200-1100 BC.

An octopus battling with a lobster on a mosaic from Pompeii.

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 2d

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

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Kristin Henry @kristinhenry.bsky.social · 2d

If you're trying out another platform, here's one of my posts:
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Attached: 1 image I'm a bit behind on the Mathtober prompts, but I'll catch up. Maybe. Yesterday's prompt was "Notation". I decided to play with musical notation, in today's drawing. It's been a l...

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d

You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...

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Kristin Henry @kristinhenry.bsky.social · 4d

At this same event...another guy said I needed to drive down Sand Hill Road and get some VC money. Hahahahhah

First of all, that's not how art funding works. Second, even when I was working in tech...that wouldn't have worked..VC guys do NOT throw money at women unless she's dancing at a strip club

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4d

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

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