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The Sketch blog has become the one thing you need to read—along with @simonwillison.net—to keep the pulse of LLM-assisted development. Senior engineers putting in the work and giving no-bullshit perspectives. Read this one by @crawshaw.io through. Not skim or half. Especially if you are a skeptic.

Damn, RIP 😭😭😭 daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

Just deleted Instagram and Twitter today. Feels good!

In this Pride Month, let us remember that #FunctionalProgramming has the privilege and honour to share our beloved λ with the Lesbian community. Let's go Lesbians!

We live in interesting times www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What's the logic stopping gun rights maximalists from arguing for privately owned nuclear warheads?

There is a price to pay when you discount pandemic risk, when you act like COVID was a one off event. This stupidity over mRNA is part of it www.statnews.com/2025/06/02/m...

made a small tool, because i was annoyed it didnt exist yet: searching your bluesky likes flo-bit.dev/search-blues...

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

The Defectors - highly recommend this drama-doc @BBCSounds about the 2016 defection of #NorthKorea Deputy Ambassador Thae Yong-ho, set against real-life testimony from those who have fled. Presenter @chinarhyming.bsky.social drama by Al Smith, producer Sasha Yevtushenko www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

105 controlled vaccine trials. 110 yrs. 1.8 M participants. All in one live, crowd-sourced sheet. Built by contributors worldwide to counter the myth that vaccines weren’t tested with controls. Quiet work still breaks through the noise. www.bradspellberg.com/vaccine-rcts @bradspellberg.bsky.social

In our first FAQ Friday, we answer our *most* frequently asked question, "What is Oxide?"

A simple stats mistake leading the head of the NHS to dismiss the importance of her own organisation. Analogy: access to clean drinking water shows no explanatory value for the variation in health outcomes in the UK. We all have it, so it drives no variation. But it’s still critically important!

Limited time $0.99 audiobook deal with Audible & via amazon.com - www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CR...

If we're getting Gilded Age diseases and economics again can we also have their OTC narcotics

Via @gusbaratta.bsky.social

Bonjour, tout le monde! On nous dit que le ciel est plus bleu ici 👀 #Montréal

I just heard someone call R the language of the devil 😂

This is on a log scale... We take modern weather forecasting (and other resilience measures) for granted.

The Monty Hall problem doesn't seem so bizarre once you're down with marginalization. #thinkinglikeabayesian

One thing I admired Americans for was they provided efficient and effective aid for people around the world. I thought this made America great. The PEPFAR program saved plausibly about 25 million lives and prevented at least 5.5 million babies from being born with HIV. See: pepfarreport.org

I'm currently holding the Bayesian inference hammer and everything looks like a nail... and rightly so!

i think that the quality of discourse in the software industry would be a lot better off if programmers were a bit more willing to admit that sometimes we just do stuff because we *like* it, instead of because it's objectively good or bad.

One asymmetrical factor in this trade war. While comparatively few Americans seem to care, they have pissed off *every single Canadian* (except, apparently, surrenderer-in-chief Danielle Smith). Motivated people can accept a lot of pain in the pursuit of what they perceive as a just cause.

Any countries whose scientific research funding bodies are NOT currently under siege by their own national leadership would do very well announcing investments in bringing in foreign research talent right now

Okay. Canadians are all reeling from these tariff announcements. Many people are anxious. What’s the silver lining here? Buy local—grow local business. Grow Canadian industry and new export relationships. What else?

The kids are alright. #Arsenal

too on-the-nose that @theonion.com is one of the first accounts to reach 1M followers here. they're officially bluesky's paper of record now, i don't make the rules

Not good news: @who.int just announced a new Marburg outbreak in Tanzania. “As of 11 January 2025, nine suspected cases were reported including eight deaths across two districts – Biharamulo and Muleba. … Results are pending official confirmation.” 🧪 #IDsky www.who.int/emergencies/...

For real though why can’t I do this

The #H5N1 #birdflu virus from a severe case in Louisiana shows it was developing mutations that could help it attach to cells in human respiratory tracts, including a mutation seen in a recent severe case in British Columbia, Canada, the #CDC reported today. www.statnews.com/2024/12/26/c...

Congo outbreak identified: "The mystery has finally been solved. It's a case of severe malaria in the form of a respiratory illness... and weakened by malnutrition." www.reuters.com/world/africa...