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Bumper sticker reading “MY OTHER MAP IS THE TERRITORY”

<aristocrats voice> Business Journalism!

playing a game of civ thinking "i am an isolationist techno utopia. these fools are rolling in the mud together while i am ensconced in the work of the academy" and the next turn the game throws up the list of most advanced civilizations and you are the donkey idiot at the bottom

Many people like to laugh at medieval illuminations of stag-snails, oh those funny medieval artists making up anim...

The Eli Lilly impersonator is the only Good Poster who has ever lived

I worry in the next few years we're all going to have to have some patient, complicated conversations with older or less media-engaged relatives who see the le epic trump takedown posts but do not stuff like this about who Gavin Newsom Really Is

rip annie dillard

LLMs don't work for biology because sequence doesn't predict structure. The absolute best they can do is plagiarize a known functional sequence, they can't make a new discovery. Until we get enough compute (i.e. quantum computing) to do physics models, ML will be near useless in drug discovery.

Ayup. I work in antibody discovery in big pharma our hit rate for in vivo & in vitro screens is ~60% I've screened over 10k predicted molecules from partners at the big AI labs in SF this year. They have produced a total of 2 hits, both of which were plagiarized from molecules on the market already

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

Great read on the labors of love both to sustain and rediscover "Brittany's Drape of Gold"

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Anyone who wants to understand how policing works in the U.S. needs to read this incredible local investigation about what Minneapolis police did after feds killed Renee Good.

Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud

lol owned

Since the story about the AI kill chain is circulating, this interactive study produced thru a collab between Airwars and AI Now in July is an excellent companion read. ai-killchain.airwars.org

this whole thing is madness inducing but the middle paragraph here is the one that made me say "oh we're FUUUUUCKED fucked" out loud

"Moved files onto the open internet without permission" is also literally just hallucination. We've known since 2022 that these things do shit you ask them not to do, and that this is a fundamental flaw of the architecture that can never be fixed So they're correcting it with marketing instead

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

This whole thread man

The first gov't agency to realize Oracle is worthless will have a hundred-year reign

post something random or you'll have an awful September youtube.com/shorts/d8M4N...

As someone involved in a public works project outsourced to a private equity firm in a construction suit, I can vouch that it’s all like this, all the time

[YouTuber shock/grimace thumbnail] did the Cedar Point waterslide KILL ME?

Thinking about this book again, like I do every day

"mark zuckerberg" is largely a construct of markets, no more real or human than a futures contract or a corporate debt bond. some developments regarding it involve a weird freckly bag of meat but that's not "mark zuckerberg" and its existence is largely incidental.

You can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...

Truly these are the end of days

During the pandemic my Prius warranty expired and a dealership rep called me to promote the $700/month warranty extension. I told him I was laid off and everything was going to rent. I couldn't afford it. He said "What happens when a truck hits you and breaks your axel? Can you afford that?"

this is my new favorite diagram

Embrace American Gentry Thought www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Reconstruction has been left unfinished.

john hoffman, MN state senator who survived an assassination attempt by vance boelter, who killed mark and melissa hortman, is here supporting omar fateh. he said fateh was his first visitor when he was in hospital. gave him a note saying “we’ll get that fucker” that is still on his fridge

Fable concludes that an untrained adult would throw a naan further as there's sufficient membrane tension to stop folding. A baguette javelin would theoretically go further but is too unstable to maintain flight and would start tumbling unless you could add spin-stabilization or fins.

American Water should not exist. Jacobs subsidiary Operations and Maintenance International should not exist. Veolia’s O&M contract arm should not exist. Evoqua’s O&M contract arm should not exist.

This is the first time I’ve ever seen a CA publication speak plainly about both the stakes (and the basic distributional politics involved) The FAIR plan is a ticking time bomb and the primary problem is it promises to insure uninsurable property for rich people. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

I hate MtGA man

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

Reporting on OMB's sweeping politicization of federal grants tends to focus on science / health research. But as I note in this piece for @crisesnotes.bsky.social, the rule is a huge threat to *intergovernmental* grants and state/local fiscal stability. www.crisesnotes.com/russell-voug...

The increasing adoption of Flock into America's PD has foreseeable escalation and death risks