majumdar.bsky.social
pretend adult, pretend scientist. man what am I even doing here
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do not doomscroll. get outta here. play with your kids! drink a milkshake! go look at some bax structures www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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He's been bad for a very long time
www.salon.com/2003/02/01/p...
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this stupid game. don't even know how I got it.
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Since mayoral elections have been on everyone's minds recently, I was just thinking about how the last local election in Fort Worth saw <40,000 total votes cast. 11th largest city in the country!
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Celebrity obscure assemblyman
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"have you considered a pilot program for accepting your mayoral salary in the form of a stablecoin?"
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thank you
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why are you open to that idea? Have the people of Lisle been calling in daily, urging you to drop bombs on Tehran? Why are you like this?
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Easy to forget because of the sheer stupidity of it, but you didn't mention that Trump would go on to appoint Rick Perry to lead the agency that he couldn't remember the name of. Oops.
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Rollie Williams has a great video about this.
youtu.be/wBC_bug5DIQ?...
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decent food scene in Dallas, but you will get run over by a truck if you try to walk to the restaurant. Skyline is pretty good? Fort Worth has a set of incredible museums and art fairs/gallery nights. Having lived in both, I oddly prefer Fort Worth.
I miss Saint Paul every day.
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Singal walked so Vance could run (for office)
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I think it's reasonable to worry about dogshit staffing decisions/political appointments. It's obviously a huge problem across the political spectrum, but there's definitely precedent for it with leftist politicians. Should he win, I really hope he can avoid that.
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Also, while it can be cynically written off as smart electoral strategy for survival, I don't think the cross-endorsements would have happened if Lander and Mamdani didn't trust each other to be good for the city.
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I don't think it's fair to write Mamdani off as "not engaging with policy at all." His city-run grocery store idea is a pilot program that he's promised to evaluate on the merits to see if it's worth expanding. And he's already backpedaled on his stance on private markets in housing.
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this one's a fake tweet
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The Talk Magazine profile of W. There's real talent there. He's just made the choice to use it for evil at every turn.
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oh my god please do not tell me SAM PRESTI is the solution to the NBA subprime cool crisis or whatever. We do not need a new scourge of GM fandom in this league.
(objectively very cool, though; hope he never acknowledges it)
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pritzker dad walz uncle
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Lol Kennedy was trying his hardest to tee him up and Bhattacharya did not quite know how to respond in the administration-approved manner.
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"Upon hitting the clutch 3-pointer, Tyrese Schlumberger performed the iconic 'strangle' celebration as an homage to infamous serial killer Reggie Coors (known as the 'Knick Killer')."
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The only place on the net I trust to find: tearjerking pet obituaries, reporting from a scammer conference, killer WNBA coverage from someone who actually goes to the games and makes me want to tune in, ham
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The other reason I had such a visceral reaction to this is because on multiple occasions over the past year I have had to try to walk other scientists, who I know to be otherwise smart and reasonable people, back from BATSHIT positions that they got *from* Twitter. It's a net negative.
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The local news station, neighbors, conservative in-laws, the people at the bar watching the Stanley Cup finals—these are the people we need to try to engage (gently! This doesn't work if they find us irritating right out the gate). Research is abstract and a tweet is fleeting; it's not a solution.
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I like and respect you, which is why I feel compelled to point out that this is a ridiculous ask. Yes, Twitter has a larger user base than Bluesky, but the vast majority of people aren't on either site.
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This is the thing. This piece has it exactly backwards. Literally the only people paying attention were the ones calling him a fraud and an idiot.
I'm not one of them! I've been put off by him since he cosplayed as a cave rescuer, but otherwise I didn't know about the heinous shit he was up to.
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for the uninitiated
youtu.be/JLOAQjjKJbM#...
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This was the thing I noticed when someone sent me his weird little alphabet aerobics speech to the house chamber a couple of years ago. That specific combination of words and what his hands were doing was deeply unsettling.
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For what it's worth, I steadfastly refuse to use LLM chatbots for anything. I find AlphaFold, a parallel technology, to be useful for work, although people overestimate its potential in drug discovery. But the underlying tech is sufficiently cool that I wish the incentives pointed the right way.
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In the same way, transformers are a truly groundbreaking advance in the field, but I don't trust the company where they were invented (Google) not to use them to ruin what's left of the web. That's heartbreaking to me.
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I can kind of see it both ways. I've been thinking a lot about how Musk has completely ruined space for me, but that doesn't mean that outer space isn't still inherently cool. I think the latter feeling is, at least directionally, what this post was getting at.
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Yes, absolutely. I think the demand is actually more than triple that of California's. Always shocks me to see it.
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That's remarkable.
I had a funny feeling looking at your screenshot until it finally hit me that Texas, for nearly half of the day, was generating double this amount in wind and solar. I really wish we were a state that took pride in this.
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this idea was 100% cooked up by some Fox intern typing "how boost sports ratings" into chatgpt
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An unexpected accent at the Chick-fil-A in White Settlement.
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Come on man, let me just haaaaave some
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If I had to guess, Chris was aiming this at people who act tough only on the internet. "I bet you're not gonna show up when there's an actual fight; the least you can do is go to a goddamn city council meeting."
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"should be considered a success"??? what is this? who edited this? why would you let this run?
A minor point since you clearly haven't been paying attention: when it comes to questions of journalistic value, I don't know if 60 Minutes is the comparison you want to make right now.
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theconversation.com/can-trump-st...
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Say hi to Owney for me
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all while the football team does another 6-7 season in quiet dignity under a coach you've never heard of. Instead they're going to be heckled on the road by drunk teens yelling "JOR-DON" during every field goal attempt. What a fumble.
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You are supposed to be one of the newsrooms that does not fall for this stuff. Get it together.
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I absolutely refuse to use it to generate text, images, other media and I will not engage with a chatbot. I really just don't want to. How they were trained makes me uneasy, I don't trust them and I strongly suspect they would make my life less interesting.
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As a molecular biologist, AlphaFold has been a game changer for formulating hypotheses about protein structure and function. I have yet to do or see any work for which it was absolutely essential, but it's a handy tool and I like it. I'm fine with other little ML tools embedded in software.