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cannot emphasize what a relief it is to have new reference sequences for the newly detected segments this fall, particularly NA protein

a streamgraph of HPAI detections in the U.S. among wild birds, cattle and poultry. D1.1 (yellow) has dominated cases lately

I missed this the other day: USDA NVSL finally updated GenoFlu 🎉

Confirms that D1.1 continues to reign supreme, though there are new EA3 reassortants out there that emerged this fall

github.com/USDA-VS/Geno...

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

We did use lists of names from the excellent PLUM website (woo PLUM Act!), so doing something like this now is much easier than it was 10 years ago, but yes, we need legislation to finish the job.

But this Claude incident highlights another problem with AI:

My story and the Post's work are carefully written and reported.

We deliberately choose what we can and can't say. Editors review our language and challenge us on facts.

AI summaries throw all that work into a copy blender.🫠

@grok is this true?

Polymarket still outdoing everyone making the case that extraterrestrial Polymarkets resolves the Fermi Paradox

Is Chunky Chimp in the Bluey universe cel animated, that unhinged Disney lifelike computer animation, or live action (suggesting another civilization of anthropomorphic chimpanzees that engage in cultural exchange with anthropomorphic dog civilization)
Sincerely,
the bazillionth snow day of 2026

table of 17 recent lancaster, pa hpai cases

Situation in Lancaster is ugly.

7.25M birds at 17 premises hit by HPAI in just 30 days

google suggested result "did you mean: propublica [emph] natural [end emph] lash"

Did you?

a bald man in a white shirt and black tie is sitting in a chair holding a hammer . ALT: a bald man in a white shirt and black tie is sitting in a chair holding a hammer .

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is 50 first dates a rougelike

Dara, I’d like to buy your administrative elephant

Hand-made signs with cut-out letters. One says "We [heart] Post Reporters". The other uses the print newspaper section heds to write: "METRO, SPORTS, STYLE, THE WORLD PROTECT THE WASHINGTON POST"

A large crowd rallies in front of a building. A sign reads "Democracy cries in darkness".

Our members joined the #SaveThePost rally in D.C. today to protest the mass layoffs at the Washington Post. We stand in solidarity with @postguild.bsky.social. Support laid off workers: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t... + www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo... ✊

one thing i have noticed is a lot of folks do not seem to understand the difference between a presidential election and 435+ legislative elections. i have seen any number of people say that you could subvert the outcome this november by targeting “swing states,” which does not make any sense.

Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Two more Lancaster farms had confirmations of HPAI yesterday, including a 0.7M layer facility.

Avian flu hits another Weld County egg farm, Colorado declares disaster State officials are confirming a suspected outbreak of avian flu among chickens at a large commercial egg farm in Weld County, with the governor’s office declaring a disaster after a year of relative ...

Egg layers hit by HPAI in Weld CO, 1.3M birds.

Two Weld County farms above 1M layers have been hit at least twice since 2.3.4.4b arrived in 2022.

Weld 04 (2022-11) / Weld 12 (2024-08)
Weld 02 (2022-07) / Weld 06 (2022-12) / Weld 11 (2024-08)

A quiet streak in egg layers seems to be over.

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

USDA dashboard of new Lancaster County HPAI case in an egg layer facility.

Table of HPAI cases phylogenetically linked to Lancaster 01 in 2022

An egg layer flock in Lancaster County, PA hit with HPAI this week.

One to keep an eye on: In 2022, when an egg-laying flock in Lancaster around that size had an outbreak, the infection spread to other flocks in Lancaster and Berks, taking out over 4 million birds, mostly layers.

i don't wanna be overdramatic but we need to unplug the internet

Really appreciate this work from @malar0ne.bsky.social et al, making the case that assortativity of vaccine coverage is vital to understanding (and modeling) measles outbreaks / breakthrough infections

GitHub - propublica/rx-inspector-data: Public release of Rx Inspector data linking generic drugs to the factories that made them Public release of Rx Inspector data linking generic drugs to the factories that made them - propublica/rx-inspector-data

People have been asking, so we published it: The data linking generic drugs to the facilities that make them! You can download the data on GitHub.
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github.com/propublica/r...

saw someone in line with two gallon sized tubs of hummus. like, what?

A man's suit lapel with two pins on it. One is the DOJ seal, the other is in the shape of a thumbs-up and says "Trump" on it.

A billionaire known as “Bitcoin Jesus” was under indictment for massive criminal tax fraud and very likely going to prison.

Then, he hired a “Friend of Trump” and the criminal charges disappeared.

How did they do it? Avi Asher-Schapiro and I spent months getting the inside story.

DHS version

White House version

The White House posted an edited photo of the activist involved in the Minneapolis church protest, made to look like she was crying.

The blue one looks like... Mercator clipped to a circle? With graticules and equator around 25°N?

The other one is somewhat orthographic, ALSO clipped to a smaller circle. Maybe. You can't really get the features with a general perspective projection I don't think.

Also, yes, I know. I am aware.

Logo of Board of Peace tweeted by White House https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2014339243221434783/photo/1

Blue background board of peace logo from Davos stage announcement

Not the first to note the questionable carto in two different Board of Peace logos, one on stage at Davos (blue background) and one tweeted by White House (white background).