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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

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Whoever designed the API for numpy.argmax deserves a medal

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

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.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 21 days ago • 64 comments

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?

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

The kids are alright. #Arsenal

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

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

submitted 33 days ago • 90 comments

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/...

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

For real though why can’t I do this

submitted 41 days ago • 6 comments

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...

submitted 59 days ago • 44 comments

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...

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

New study finds long COVID in children linked to immune cell dysfunction. Neutrophils—key white blood cells that fight infections—are less effective in kids with lingering symptoms like fatigue. This may explain long COVID’s impact on their quality of life. #LongCOVID #Pediatrics 1/

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Note to journalists: important to communicate that the stated aim of GBD was to have a massive epidemic (immediately before vaccines became available), and also somehow keep it away from older population at higher risk (which would be about 25% of UK population if take age 60 as cutoff)

submitted 89 days ago • 22 comments

It should be clear that acting early in a pandemic is like acting early to put out a fire. Minister Hancock yesterday made similar statements as part of the UK inquiry: 1/ bbc.com/news/live/cm...

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

I'm learning C after Rust and and it's eye opening to say the least

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

Why is this human just sitting in the yard? And why is he pointing that thing at me? #birds

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,828,105! 🤸

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

Populism is the downfall of liberal democracy. In the end, people are people, aka idiots

submitted 225 days ago • 0 comments

The Universe by @astrokatie.com and John Green continues to be one of my favorite listens this year youtu.be/MKX1k0kOYMU?...

submitted 236 days ago • 1 comment

Decided just now to start rereading Hitchhikers Guide for the first time in many years and uh

submitted 235 days ago • 24 comments

Refactoring a library to payback technical debt is like paying the principal on a fiat loan. All your other libs/infra that depend on the refactored lib is the interest.

submitted 319 days ago • 0 comments

With BlueSky finally opening up federation, I think it's time to write up something that explains the whole thing, BlueSky, atproto, the works, in one easy to find place. Just the high level bits, hopefully something that any developer can understand: steveklabnik.com/writing/how-...

submitted 366 days ago • 50 comments

Killing prisoners shouldn’t be a legitimate power of government.

submitted 395 days ago • 29 comments

this year, 64+ countries (which represent 49% of the people in the world) are holding national elections i wrote some thoughts on my personal blog about my hopes for bluesky this election season, and how newsrooms can reach their audiences in novel and engaging ways here curious to hear thoughts!

submitted 411 days ago • 22 comments