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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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It takes a lot to impress me, but this is fucking impressive.
October 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
It takes a lot to impress me, but this is fucking impressive.
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honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
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Happy belated birthday to Leonard Cohen. I was tempted to post a link to The Future, a song terrifyingly appropriate for this era, but I don't want to do that to your Monday. Instead here's one of his greatest songs about love.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGor...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGor...
Leonard Cohen - Dance Me to the End of Love (Official Video)
YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO
www.youtube.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Happy belated birthday to Leonard Cohen. I was tempted to post a link to The Future, a song terrifyingly appropriate for this era, but I don't want to do that to your Monday. Instead here's one of his greatest songs about love.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGor...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGor...
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Now you see, THIS is how I remember it when the video was being shot…
That is clearly fake because THIS is the actual audio from that music video:
September 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Now you see, THIS is how I remember it when the video was being shot…
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To which I add this wonderful Bruce Sterling passage, which for many years I kept beside my keyboard.
August 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
To which I add this wonderful Bruce Sterling passage, which for many years I kept beside my keyboard.
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The crux of it-
youtube.com/shorts/rQziw...
youtube.com/shorts/rQziw...
James O'Brien’s simple question to caller: What if Hamas was hiding in Israel? | LBC
YouTube video by LBC
youtube.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The crux of it-
youtube.com/shorts/rQziw...
youtube.com/shorts/rQziw...
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1999: VCs and brokers approached me with maybe an $11B deal/ I just remembered my basic values, and I turned them down
Not being altruistic, just basic
Things have worked out better than I thought, by the time I pass, guessing my total contribution to stuff I believe in will be around one billion
Not being altruistic, just basic
Things have worked out better than I thought, by the time I pass, guessing my total contribution to stuff I believe in will be around one billion
30 years of craigslist: monetization no big deal
Okay, I explain more in video:
youtu.be/KdknaEr2iHE
but the gist is that I had great teachers in Sunday School, Mr & Mrs Levin, who were Holocaust survivors.
They taught me to know when enough is enough.
Okay, I explain more in video:
youtu.be/KdknaEr2iHE
but the gist is that I had great teachers in Sunday School, Mr & Mrs Levin, who were Holocaust survivors.
They taught me to know when enough is enough.
August 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
1999: VCs and brokers approached me with maybe an $11B deal/ I just remembered my basic values, and I turned them down
Not being altruistic, just basic
Things have worked out better than I thought, by the time I pass, guessing my total contribution to stuff I believe in will be around one billion
Not being altruistic, just basic
Things have worked out better than I thought, by the time I pass, guessing my total contribution to stuff I believe in will be around one billion
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Anyone have a fav youtuber they always feel delighted to see has a new video out? Looking to broaden my happy places.
a man in a cowboy hat is fishing in a lake and the words `` happy place '' are behind him .
ALT: a man in a cowboy hat is fishing in a lake and the words `` happy place '' are behind him .
media.tenor.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Anyone have a fav youtuber they always feel delighted to see has a new video out? Looking to broaden my happy places.
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I want to do a 🧵 about the Sidney Sweeney thing, because it's *extremely* revealing & educational.
First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares.
Let's look at the *structure* of the episode.
First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares.
Let's look at the *structure* of the episode.
August 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I want to do a 🧵 about the Sidney Sweeney thing, because it's *extremely* revealing & educational.
First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares.
Let's look at the *structure* of the episode.
First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares.
Let's look at the *structure* of the episode.
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The hard part for me with AI is on some level you’re talking about 8 (?) men deciding where this all goes — Sam, Satya, Mark, Elon, Sundar, Jensen, Andy, Dario. How do you model or forecast that? What do you do if or when they change their minds?
July 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The hard part for me with AI is on some level you’re talking about 8 (?) men deciding where this all goes — Sam, Satya, Mark, Elon, Sundar, Jensen, Andy, Dario. How do you model or forecast that? What do you do if or when they change their minds?
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I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣
Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡
Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡
July 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣
Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡
Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡
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I’ve been looking for a Colbert quote to post that did suitable justice to my reference for him. I think this might be it.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.
July 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I’ve been looking for a Colbert quote to post that did suitable justice to my reference for him. I think this might be it.
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Another issue here is mismatch between public expectation & scientific reality re: what's possible in predicting localized convective extremes (i.e., severe/torrential t-storms). Days/environments supportive of such risk are predictable; exact timing/location/intensity of subsequent extremes is not.
There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.
WPC issued as many as six MPDs for the deadly flash flooding in the TX Hill Country starting yesterday evening and lasting through much of today. The first MPD generally set the stage for what was to come, while the next three shown were as the event unfolded.
July 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Another issue here is mismatch between public expectation & scientific reality re: what's possible in predicting localized convective extremes (i.e., severe/torrential t-storms). Days/environments supportive of such risk are predictable; exact timing/location/intensity of subsequent extremes is not.
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This was posted this morning by Humans of New York and I think this captures exactly what we are all experiencing right now
July 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This was posted this morning by Humans of New York and I think this captures exactly what we are all experiencing right now
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Many of the most accurate descriptions of American politics can be found in the comments on Balloon Juice. This one, from commenter Davis X. Machina (from about 15 years ago), is particularly apt today.
July 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Many of the most accurate descriptions of American politics can be found in the comments on Balloon Juice. This one, from commenter Davis X. Machina (from about 15 years ago), is particularly apt today.
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Recommendations: best (non fic) books/resources for avid 14-16yo scientist who finds the maths component harder than the rest of it?
May 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Recommendations: best (non fic) books/resources for avid 14-16yo scientist who finds the maths component harder than the rest of it?
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This has to be one of the most informative, important and revealing THREADS I’ve read this year (naturally also terrifying). Please READ the entire THREAD.
Thank you @skiles.bsky.social.
Thank you @skiles.bsky.social.
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
March 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This has to be one of the most informative, important and revealing THREADS I’ve read this year (naturally also terrifying). Please READ the entire THREAD.
Thank you @skiles.bsky.social.
Thank you @skiles.bsky.social.
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i think the biggest thing i’ve learned this past few weeks is that americans are not revolutionary at all
if we had segregation or chattel slavery practiced today in the U.S. i think the fight to end those things would be so much less popular than you’d think
if we had segregation or chattel slavery practiced today in the U.S. i think the fight to end those things would be so much less popular than you’d think
March 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
i think the biggest thing i’ve learned this past few weeks is that americans are not revolutionary at all
if we had segregation or chattel slavery practiced today in the U.S. i think the fight to end those things would be so much less popular than you’d think
if we had segregation or chattel slavery practiced today in the U.S. i think the fight to end those things would be so much less popular than you’d think
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Good morning. Richard Atkinson's Big Adventure.
February 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Good morning. Richard Atkinson's Big Adventure.
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I like this.
From my 2017 essay, "Send the interns." pressthink.org/2017/01/send...
It is relevant again because we have headlines today like this from Politico. "White House seizes control of press pool, will decide which outlets cover events with president."
It is relevant again because we have headlines today like this from Politico. "White House seizes control of press pool, will decide which outlets cover events with president."
February 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I like this.
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I keep saying Dems need to do a daily briefing on Capitol Hill and fill the void, fact check the WH. Hire Pete Buttigeig and give him a staff to do this.
February 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I keep saying Dems need to do a daily briefing on Capitol Hill and fill the void, fact check the WH. Hire Pete Buttigeig and give him a staff to do this.