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Sr. Research Analyst, Columbia University Cancer Center https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ben-May-2

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finally my massive collection of nylonase-generating Paenarthrobacter ureafaciens will come in useful!

07.03.2026 02:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have a friend who is in Dubai because he had a layover there and decided to stay an extra couple of days. Now he's stranded. :(

04.03.2026 15:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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'80s Horror Icon Reveals Cancer Diagnosis: 'Fear Not, I Am A Tough Old Son-Of-A-Bitch' Campbell announced Monday on social media that he has an incurable form of cancer and has to cancel several upcoming appearances.

www.huffpost.com/entry/evil-d...

this day just keeps getting worse :(

04.03.2026 01:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is why I never signed into my smartphone, only use adblock browser, and factory reset my phone once a month. Once you get used to it it's kind of nice. Just re-import contacts via bluetooth and done. No social media, no email, just text and calls. Like a phone should be.

03.03.2026 22:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
03.03.2026 22:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

03.03.2026 21:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 11191 ๐Ÿ” 3486 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 616 ๐Ÿ“Œ 358

Evidence of why Sabbath was so groundbreaking. Listen to those drums! This entire performance is amazing. Also noteworthy: Ozzy is mixing up the lyrics from a prior version of the song

01.03.2026 20:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My alma mater. me too, george

26.02.2026 22:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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18.02.2026 10:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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reminds me of this classic

www.scribd.com/doc/26279203...

I wonder if I could get this on a tshirt :)

18.02.2026 01:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's for research purposes, so no patient care issue.

The whole point of the way that he designed it is that there is a human in the middle that reviews what the LLM picked out, and it has to justify its decisions.

We've run it on hundreds of synthetic and anonymous notes and it's working well

15.02.2026 17:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

nope - chatgpt :)

15.02.2026 15:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

an MD I work with just used AI to create an entire web app that parses notes and pathology reports for patients with CLL and classifies their clinical phenotype. It presents the results to a user who can then give feedback on things it got wrong, and it improves!

There are genuine uses cases! :)

15.02.2026 11:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge (I even drew a bitmap copy of the spell words you needed to unlock it)

Wizardry 8

I miss well thought out real turn-based combat

14.02.2026 20:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wizardry Bane of the Cosmic Forge and Wizardry 8

14.02.2026 20:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

She's my daughter <slap> She's my sister <slap> SHE'S MY DAUGHTER AND MY SISTER!

13.02.2026 11:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hrm let's see. Jennifer Coolidge? Hilaria Baldwin. Zach Feuer and Jonas Wood (both in my year!). Stephin Merrit, Dan Older (one or two years below me)

12.02.2026 12:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I just did that. Seems to still work?

11.02.2026 11:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A society grows great when old men plant trees they know they will never sit under.

10.02.2026 22:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

what was the shortcut? You can probably enable it again :)

10.02.2026 22:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They don't seem to realize that the federal government cannot tax a substance that is Schedule I

09.02.2026 16:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

oh come on, it's above 0F!

balmy!

08.02.2026 00:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Those details are in the terms of the mortgage, which are not public.

All I can tell you is that when a building has a mortgage, you can look at the tax bills and see that the bank is paying the taxes.

07.02.2026 16:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I dont understand what you've said here

07.02.2026 11:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Registration Contacts | NYC Open Data

HPD Multiple Dwelling registrations:

tinyurl.com/brtt3msx
tinyurl.com/3j3p8htz

Property taxes, valuations, income & expenses, and rent stabilized unit counts:

tinyurl.com/b5ztkf2z

This is all public record. They think they can just outright lie in the media and get away with it lol

07.02.2026 11:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One of these days I need to figure out how to do something good with the giant NYC property database I built. I have multiple dwelling registrations, property taxes, mortgages, violations, and tax abatements going back decades.

07.02.2026 01:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

grrr still want an edit button lol

that tax thing applies to COMMERCIAL mortgages obviously, not personal ones

07.02.2026 01:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

80's, nothing! My building was owned by the same family for 3 generations until it sold in 2012 (to notorious slumlord Margaret Streicker Porres lol)

07.02.2026 01:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In NYC when you take out a mortgage the debt servicer pays the property tax. So that's irrelevant.

Some of these buildings have more than 20x the yearly NOI in debt. In the article Bonanno states she inherited the buildings. Nobody forced her to take on that much debt

07.02.2026 01:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

sorry I'm a little slow on the uptake tonight lol

07.02.2026 01:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0