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It was a lot of fun participating in the Biomarker workshop panel at #ASMS2025. Thank you to all of you who were there! Also, they got some pictures:

Q&A from a talk I gave last week. Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?" A: Fascism. It's fascism.

Please spread the word this BS is going around trying to con people into thinking there is a mystical magical platform that makes you millions in crypto in months. The stories are posing as the BBC and are all over X and IG. It doesn’t read like a bbc article but people will fall for this.

πŸ”₯ Don't miss Veliswa Boya, Senior Developer Advocate at AWS, as she demystifies vector embeddings and RAG at #DevConf2025! Learn the tech behind personalized recommendations and AI systems that shape our daily experiences. πŸš€ #AWS #AI #VectorDatabases

Going to do a detailed writeup of the outage this week. Just need to land some mitigations before we talk about it

β˜• Beyond Slack and Zoom: #DevConf2025 speaker Georgina Armstrong reveals how to unite remote technical teams around complex tasks. From a leader with 12+ years in Data Science who's mastered the remote challenge. #RemoteTeams #DataLeadership

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In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo. #sixwordstory #WritingCommmunity #writing #prompt

UK confirms world’s first case of H5N1 bird flu in a sheep bnonews.com/index.php/20...

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Needing a little pick me up? I gotchu. πŸ“· #longexposure #slowshutter #photography #naturephotography #soothing #beautifuldistactions

Entoloma/pinkgill #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

Was starting to give up on this platform because of all the politics and then I remembered that I could mute words. πŸ™‚

Severe Tropical Storm #Jude has formed near Madagascar. Jude will likely continue to intensify before making landfall over #Mozambique near Nacala. Live tracker here: zoom.earth/storms/jude-...

Touching grass

Uh-oh AI: Operator, the new 'helper' agent from OpenAI, bought 12 eggs without my permission. And it paid $32 for them! I test a lot of new tech. This is the first time a rogue computer cost me real-world $$. Deats & some impressive Operator things in my @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/3CBSHuR

🍹 We're shaking things up! Welcome Lula as our official cocktail sponsor for #DevConf2025 in Joburg and Cape Town! Get ready to mix, mingle, and make connections that matter! 🀝

Theatine Church, Germany The Theatine Church of St. Cajetan and Adelaide is a Roman Catholic church in Munich, Southern Germany.

Its been chilly the last few nights. I guess Summer is coming to an end in the southern hemisphere. Then again, the weather behaves so uncharacteristically these days. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

Category 4 Severe Tropical Cyclone #Zelia makes landfall east of Port Hedland, Western Australia near De Grey River mouth. Latest satellite + radar:

πŸŽ‰ Thrilled to announce @richcampbell.bsky.social as our #DevConf2025 keynote speaker! The legendary host of .NET Rocks and Windows Weekly will take us through 'The Next Decade of Software Development' - exploring AI, quantum computing, and the future of tech. Don't miss this!!! πŸŽ‰

Flat cap photo four of four, but this one from the underneath. Chrysomphalina. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography