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If you've ever played a wrong note on the Carnegie Hall stage, you're not allowed to tell yourself to quit every single time you push a bug into production. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

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THIS IS HUGE! TWO Phase I HIV vaccine clinical trials have demonstrated that a stepwise mRNA-based vaccination strategy can SUCCESSFULLY activate AND advance immune responses toward producing broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs), a CRITICAL milestone in HIV prevention. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 36 days ago • 33 comments

🚨 Overdose deaths in the U.S. dropped nearly 30% in 2024, saving 30,000+ lives. This progress is thanks to public health efforts: wider access to naloxone, addiction treatment, and funding from opioid lawsuit settlements. Public health works. It's worth fighting for. Let's keep saving lives.

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

✅ Pays taxes ✅ Holds down a job ✅ Gone on a date ✅ Written a poem ✅ Played baseball (a few times, just not my thing) Disclaimer: this checklist does not make my life more valuable than anyone who hasn't done some, or any of these things. Just posting a counterexample. #actuallyautistic

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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 96 days ago • 1678 comments

Action items: 1) call your reps about at least one thing 2) check on the band geeks of color in your life Context: www.cbsnews.com/news/concert...

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

The audacity to act like a .txt is paginated- on an error log, no less #sasproblems

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

We're on what, the second Lavender Scare? "sex chats" "explicit chatrooms" The major outlet reporting is very much giving "just trust us" with a passing mention of Chris Rufo like he's some kind of whistleblower. When I follow the link- nary a screenshot or "discretion advised" warning. 🧵

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

Always share a plumpost.

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Fellow journos covering "AI": Please don't do their PR for them! "Virtual employees" is a harmful anthropomorphism in that it (a) is false; (b) confuses readers about the emerging technology and inaccurately lends human attributes like agency, accountability, etc.; and (c) harms humans in real jobs.

submitted 166 days ago • 9 comments

If you've taken an intro to SQL class, consider your impostor syndrome dead

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

Can never forget how much of what we’re going to see in the next four years was road-tested and normalized by the last four years.

submitted 127 days ago • 13 comments

I sounded the alarm about Mencius Moldbug before November but too many thought stealing a name from a potential Hollow Knight character was a bigger crime than upending democracy

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Egg prices in the U.S. will remain high so long as the #birdflu #H5N1 outbreak is not under control. Ignoring outbreaks does not magically make them disappear. Pass it on.

submitted 129 days ago • 8 comments

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here's how we would've spent that $$: Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year. Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

“Budgets are moral documents.”

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

So do I, but you do not see me falling in line.

submitted 133 days ago • 11 comments

A thread on what you can do to push back against the cuts to biomedical research at NIH.

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 134 days ago • 267 comments

I tried to parse a PDF from scratch and that was a PITA. You need several computer vision subtasks and train the model how to put things in order. And that's years of effort, standing on the shoulders of- Wait, he's asking how to convert from one format to another? Export (my) as(s)

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Jiji wishes to eat with hooman

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Y'all this is not a joke- some of my classmates decided to create a constitution for a "totalitarian meritocracy" for AP US Government where people get varying degrees of civil and political rights according to test scores. But teenagers gonna teenage, riiight? When I learn about Curtis Yarvin:

submitted 138 days ago • 1 comment

Now do you believe in shmeritocracy?

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“The Trump administration has frozen the federally funded ‘Road to Zero’ program, a stunning elimination of a small trove of Biden-era grants aimed at improving safety for pedestrians and cyclists in red states and blue.” usa.streetsblog.org/2025/01/31/i...

submitted 141 days ago • 7 comments

Time to read Mismeasure of Man again www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

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A brief history of "skibidi" 🧵 (1/n) Skibidi, as we know the Gen Alpha word, gained traction via Skibidi Toilet- a short video series about humanoid toilets taking over the world- named for the scat syllables in "Dom Dom Yes Yes" by Bulgarian singer Biser King. knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcul...

submitted 142 days ago • 1 comment

read the last sentence 100 times until it's burned into your brain. if we comply, we vest power in them.

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If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it. Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice. But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word. They aren’t firing for a reason.

submitted 142 days ago • 2863 comments