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OK honest question what is the root of this? Is this just how you think on drugs?

@grahamsmyth.bsky.social this BBC article sure sounds like Bielsa Ball style footy is the downfall of Man City. People saw what Dallas did 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

There are two wolves inside of you. If the first acquires lock A and the second acquires lock B, and then the first attempts to acquire lock B while the first attempts to acquire lock A, they will deadlock. Teach your wolves concurrency.

Okay seriously, what does 2025 have against Skaters Legs?

Poet and the Pendulum is such a well crafted track about the dark tower

i helped develop/run policy workforce capacity-building programs for the CDC when i was there—training early career scientists on how to do policy (and to do it better) the damage done here to public health cannot be quickly or easily reversed. it will be felt for many years & it will cost lives.

Damn. Good for Warhorse. Gonna be a long wait for whatever they do next.

...okay, I'll admit it, I chuckled

If you work for the federal government and are tempted to take Musk’s “buyout” offer please know that you’re never going to see that money.

This scheme works if you buy the GPUs anyway and it encourages them to do it again. It doesn't work if you don't buy the GPUs. It's that simple.

What is, say, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center supposed to do with this?

LANDMARK: Leeds have recorded 19 clean sheets in our first 31 league matches of a season for the first time in our history. lufcdata.com | #LUFC

BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked President Trump's executive order forcibly to detransition trans women inmates and transfer them to men's prisons, citing the 8th amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

none of this had to happen

Climate scientists, it’s your turn. If you rely on data from NOAA, time to start backing it up. Probably not a bad idea for people to do this with NASA, USGS, EPA, etc. Our group is doing our best but there’s a lot of data out there to save from King Control-X here.

I genuinely strongly believe that the way we do PMQs harms democracy in the UK more than benefits it because they are in a nutshell the sort of horrible and unproductive thing that makes normies think politics is a hobby, a show that you are either into or not.

Zack Polanski, "Austerity was always the problem, not the European Union" "If we want to solve the problems in this country right now we need to tackle inequality" Kay Burley, "How?" Zack Polanski, "Wealth tax.. Inequality in the country.. People are unhappy and our services are broken"

Like a lot of us around the world, I’ve waited an entire lifetime to see something like this. A phenomenal night for Daniel Farke and Leeds United. A very significant and bold statement of intent. MOT

People making memes about Deepseek Vs OpenAI Me, a security engineer; deeply suspicious of anything created in China which has clearly built in filters about history. They're totally spying on you. (I don't trust OpenAI not to steal all your data, but China is like the security threat nowadays)

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

In the least surprising news of the AI

Been out for 13hrs driving upto Leeds and back for England Mens tryouts/training, that was 5hrs of some intense high level #rollerderby 😁 Tomorrow we go again with Brummies training

I think what’s striking to me is that this was not some outlandish sermon - the uproar is that she didn’t bend the knee to Trump and instead preached Christian values like, y’know, a Christian? This has broken the brains of a lot of people who call constantly for ‘a return to Christian values’.

Sorry, why did you stop petting me? #catsofbluesky

Our Club 💙💛 #lufc @leedsunited.com

I highly reccomend reading this article of the story behind the filming of the scene: www.vice.com/en/article/a...

Metals usually get less conductive as they get thinner. But not niobium phosphide! Even as a very thin film, this non-crystalline topological semimetal conducts electricity better than copper. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/very-thin-...

Happy #BluePit 📖 day everybody! In The Faceless Queen, a necromancer hides his true intentions, and feelings, when he is chosen to reanimate one of the giants that once ruled the land – this is epic fantasy adventure and intrigue for fans of Muir and Sanderson. #LGBT #ownvoices #q #a #queerwriters

A note for American followers ;what actually happened in Parliament today was that Labour succeeded in protecting a bill (aimed at protecting children) from being killed off by opportunistic Tory addition of yet another inquiry adding to existing inquiries they failed to act on.

people (whether on the left or right) would rather be first class passengers on a sinking ship

Happy Jermaine Beckford Day. I’ve pulled together some key numbers about Leeds’ famous 1-0 FA Cup win over Manchester United at Old Trafford, 15 years ago today… #LUFC

Been working hard the last week - Gym (chest) and Climbing on Tues - Gym (legs) and PT (upper/core) Thurs plus evening Sports Massage - Gym (back) and Swim/Sauna Fri Heavy 5*5 style lifts, high weight low rep to failure. Trying add strength and mass without too much bulk

Spent New Year at home with the pets, drank some nice ales and played Dragon Age. Today I've woken up rested, exercised the dog, swept and mopped upstairs and put some more washing on. Some new year chores to set me off on the right foot and give me a clear space to enjoy gaming in later

More women have been attacked by other women in restrooms for being suspected of being trans in 2024 than women have ever been attacked in a restroom by a trans woman in all of recorded history.

Update for CS majors Old and busted: Leetcode New meta: Lifting