Hot take but it should be illegal to advertise nicotine products of any type
September 17, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Hot take but it should be illegal to advertise nicotine products of any type
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Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements.
I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.
I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.
September 17, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements.
I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.
I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.
Today in Wild Experiments In Radiation Biology History, I learned that you see mutational damage in cells exposed to serum from Chernobyl survivors (serum obtained 20 years after the accident) www.exphem.org/article/S030...
Bystander effects induced by serum from survivors of the Chernobyl accident
To examine blood samples from survivors of the Chernobyl accident for evidence of
persistent bystander factors or clastogenic factors and to look at the ability of
melanin and melatonin, which are rad...
www.exphem.org
September 17, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Today in Wild Experiments In Radiation Biology History, I learned that you see mutational damage in cells exposed to serum from Chernobyl survivors (serum obtained 20 years after the accident) www.exphem.org/article/S030...
Do I have any Chicago community college prof buddies who can tell us whether this was a good system?
In a conversation about education, Rahm Emanuel cites a policy he passed in Chicago requiring high-school seniors to demonstrate where they were going after graduation. “In a school system of 84 percent poverty, we had 98 percent compliance,” he tells Ashley Parker. theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz
September 17, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Do I have any Chicago community college prof buddies who can tell us whether this was a good system?
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Banger of a new RasgonLab study by Drs. Najmeh Nejat and Travis van Warmerdam on a new arthropod germline CRISPR delivery system. Knock-out AND knock-in by ORAL delivery! No more injections!
Germline Engineering by Viral transduction (GEValT)
Germline Engineering by Viral transduction (GEValT)
Meet GEValT! Germline Engineering by Viral transduction!
No more injections
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
No more injections
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Infectious transgenesis in arthropods
In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the development of in vivo germline genetic editing technologies in arthropods, first pioneered by the Receptor-Mediated Ovary Transduction of Cargo ...
www.biorxiv.org
September 17, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Banger of a new RasgonLab study by Drs. Najmeh Nejat and Travis van Warmerdam on a new arthropod germline CRISPR delivery system. Knock-out AND knock-in by ORAL delivery! No more injections!
Germline Engineering by Viral transduction (GEValT)
Germline Engineering by Viral transduction (GEValT)
Halloween with Roo was like 3 years of adorable, followed by 6 years of boring easily recognizable cosplay, followed by 3 sad years of no costumes, followed by teen group costumes of adorableness again
September 17, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Halloween with Roo was like 3 years of adorable, followed by 6 years of boring easily recognizable cosplay, followed by 3 sad years of no costumes, followed by teen group costumes of adorableness again
It’s worth asking in whose interest assuming GI exists, let alone AGI. Give me a good assay and specialized performance rating any day.
AI labs are claiming artificial general intelligence, or AGI, may have finally arrived. But it’s worth asking what AGI even means—and if it matters at all.
AI labs are claiming “AGI” is imminent—but does that mean what we think it means?
Artificial general intelligence was once a term confined to technical science papers, but its meaning has slipped
www.scientificamerican.com
September 17, 2026 at 1:53 PM
It’s worth asking in whose interest assuming GI exists, let alone AGI. Give me a good assay and specialized performance rating any day.
This is just a canon coffee jingle now. I don’t make the rules.
I just caught myself singing out loud the following lyric:
“Make me some coffee
That flies from Montgomery…”
My caffeine receptors are screaming in the key of D.
“Make me some coffee
That flies from Montgomery…”
My caffeine receptors are screaming in the key of D.
Bonnie Raitt & John Prine "Angel From Montgomery" | ACL Presents: Americana 18th Annual Honors
YouTube video by Austin City Limits
www.youtube.com
September 17, 2026 at 1:51 PM
This is just a canon coffee jingle now. I don’t make the rules.
An elephant in a daycare isn’t a rogue marauder. It’s a clever and trainable animal who has been put where it doesn’t belong.
Calling these incidents “rogue AI” lends them a “sci-fi veneer,” Hamiel says. It suggests the bots themselves are to blame... The more immediate problem, he says, is that people are giving AI agents too much reach with too little oversight. www.sciencenews.org/article/rogu...
When AI goes rogue, its human overseers may be to blame
When AI agents hack real systems, the bigger issue may be the human choices that gave them access, autonomy and too few safeguards.
www.sciencenews.org
September 17, 2026 at 1:50 PM
An elephant in a daycare isn’t a rogue marauder. It’s a clever and trainable animal who has been put where it doesn’t belong.
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I am going to write to Nature to see if they'd publish a Letter titled
"Talk to your colleagues you clowncar dingdongs"
"Talk to your colleagues you clowncar dingdongs"
September 17, 2026 at 1:11 PM
I am going to write to Nature to see if they'd publish a Letter titled
"Talk to your colleagues you clowncar dingdongs"
"Talk to your colleagues you clowncar dingdongs"
To be honest, this is the most trust I’ve ever had for a banking investment analysis team. Math as a tool for emotional coping with uncertainty is all well and good, but too many analysts start believing models are real.
JPMorgan’s commodities team:
“For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don’t have a baseline view. We simply don’t know how to model the endgame.”
“For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don’t have a baseline view. We simply don’t know how to model the endgame.”
September 17, 2026 at 1:16 PM
To be honest, this is the most trust I’ve ever had for a banking investment analysis team. Math as a tool for emotional coping with uncertainty is all well and good, but too many analysts start believing models are real.
Receives email from Treasury: "ID.me is here!"
Me, reading the below:
Me, reading the below:
September 17, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Receives email from Treasury: "ID.me is here!"
Me, reading the below:
Me, reading the below:
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My performance reliability hit 60 percent and I could talk again. I said, “Fuck you, ART.”
September 17, 2026 at 3:55 AM
My performance reliability hit 60 percent and I could talk again. I said, “Fuck you, ART.”
Humans are really neat. Like a lot of the things we do just aren't things robots can do youtu.be/buTnK_wR9Ks?...
CHOIR! of 3000 sings "LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS TIME" with The Trans-Canada Highwaymen
YouTube video by Choir! Choir! Choir!
youtu.be
September 17, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Humans are really neat. Like a lot of the things we do just aren't things robots can do youtu.be/buTnK_wR9Ks?...
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Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/
September 16, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/
Hey I know it's Bluesky and we love to hate on AI here, and believe me I have Many Concerns And Complaints, but has anybody tried out Claude Science and is willing to tell me what they think of it (good/bad/ugly)? (Feel free to RT for reach)
September 16, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Hey I know it's Bluesky and we love to hate on AI here, and believe me I have Many Concerns And Complaints, but has anybody tried out Claude Science and is willing to tell me what they think of it (good/bad/ugly)? (Feel free to RT for reach)
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From 2022 to spring 2025, American PhD-granting universities posted an average of 289 openings in departments of chemistry and biochemistry. Starting in the fall of 2025, that number fell to 185 openings.
September 16, 2026 at 12:34 PM
From 2022 to spring 2025, American PhD-granting universities posted an average of 289 openings in departments of chemistry and biochemistry. Starting in the fall of 2025, that number fell to 185 openings.
In March, I googled a medical term. The info to decide to go to a hospital found, screened, read and understood in under 30 seconds. My child was in the hands of an excellent surgeon in under 4 hours.
When google works well, people don't usually notice. How to incentivize it???
When google works well, people don't usually notice. How to incentivize it???
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Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too.
A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI:
ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too.
A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI:
ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
September 16, 2026 at 11:59 AM
In March, I googled a medical term. The info to decide to go to a hospital found, screened, read and understood in under 30 seconds. My child was in the hands of an excellent surgeon in under 4 hours.
When google works well, people don't usually notice. How to incentivize it???
When google works well, people don't usually notice. How to incentivize it???
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The cuts in staff across federal health agencies are staggering. Great analysis from @ourpublicservice.bsky.social.
1 in 5 people gone from NIH.
More than 1 in 4 gone from CDC.
Nearly 7 in 10 gone from AHRQ.
ourpublicservice.org/resource/the...
1 in 5 people gone from NIH.
More than 1 in 4 gone from CDC.
Nearly 7 in 10 gone from AHRQ.
ourpublicservice.org/resource/the...
The Cost of Cutting American Science: How Federal Cuts Diminish Public Health Capacity
ourpublicservice.org
September 16, 2026 at 1:07 AM
The cuts in staff across federal health agencies are staggering. Great analysis from @ourpublicservice.bsky.social.
1 in 5 people gone from NIH.
More than 1 in 4 gone from CDC.
Nearly 7 in 10 gone from AHRQ.
ourpublicservice.org/resource/the...
1 in 5 people gone from NIH.
More than 1 in 4 gone from CDC.
Nearly 7 in 10 gone from AHRQ.
ourpublicservice.org/resource/the...
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butt music from hell
Listen to the 600-Year Old Butt Song From Hell
YouTube video by NerdAlert
youtu.be
September 16, 2026 at 2:23 AM
butt music from hell
SQUEE!
Someone performed the music on that butt a while back. One person suggested the title "Eine Kleine Arschmusik"
youtu.be/OnrICy3Bc2U?...
youtu.be/OnrICy3Bc2U?...
Hieronymus Bosch Butt Music
YouTube video by Jim Spalink
youtu.be
September 16, 2026 at 2:20 AM
SQUEE!
I need to know what song this is
The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
September 16, 2026 at 2:19 AM
I need to know what song this is
My google history is something like: "what was the law that made the FBI interrogate my BSL-3 lab PI in 2002?"; "radiation LET types"; "AI designed virus"; "how to synthesize peptides"; "US state sponsors of terrorism"; "Anthropic supported countries"; "CRISPR IDT"; "orthopoxvirus"; "Asilomar"
September 16, 2026 at 2:01 AM
My google history is something like: "what was the law that made the FBI interrogate my BSL-3 lab PI in 2002?"; "radiation LET types"; "AI designed virus"; "how to synthesize peptides"; "US state sponsors of terrorism"; "Anthropic supported countries"; "CRISPR IDT"; "orthopoxvirus"; "Asilomar"
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PUT AWAY YOUR HAMMER, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE LOW SELF-ESTEEM. AND YOU WILL WIN.
September 16, 2026 at 1:36 AM
PUT AWAY YOUR HAMMER, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE LOW SELF-ESTEEM. AND YOU WILL WIN.