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a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/

In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

As you may already know, "New research [by UCLA team] shows that after the body’s defenses kill the virus behind COVID-19, leftover digested chunks of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can target specific immune cells based on their shape.. The team’s findings build on an earlier UCLA discovery identifying 'zombie' coronavirus fragments that can imitate the activity of molecules from the body’s own immune system to drive inflammation.. not only have the researchers shown that human immune enzymes can break down the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein into such fragments, they found that some fragments can work together to attack important types of immune cells by targeting their cell shapes." We are living with the zombie coronavirus. 'COVID-19 viral fragments shown to target and kill specific immune cells in UCLA-led study'

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"... leftover digested chunks of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can target specific immune cells based on their shape..
The team’s findings build on an earlier UCLA discovery identifying 'zombie' coronavirus fragments..."

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I tried watching (modern) Matlock but the whole “opioids are the devil that should be wiped off the face of the earth” storyline was so fucking ableist it made me want to scream every time it came up - and it was like the entire conceit of the plot.

That having been said, I need to upgrade my llama.cpp and run some of these evals again, because it's possible that the new PEG parser might make a difference.

Take this with a grain of salt. I've been evaluating Qwen3.5 27B, 35B-A3B, and (currently) 122B-A10B, and they're useful, but not great.

The complaints you might have heard about 3.5 spending too much time in thinking-phase is a feature, not a bug; blather scores higher on benchmarks.

DOI Targets for Removal from National Parks under EO14253/SO3431 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive From README file located in source data:This data belongs to the American people, who need to know what is being done in their name. Donald Trump, Russell...

“This data belongs to the American people, who need to know what is being done in their name. Donald Trump, Russell Vought, Doug Burgum, and the rest of this corrupt administration are trying to use your public lands to erase history and undermine science.” Link to data: archive.org/details/nps-...

😻😻😻CLEANSING THERMONUCLEAR FIRE IS CANCELED FOR THE MID-AFTERNOON!

HOORAY FOSTER KITTENS AND FRIENDS AND GOODNESS REMAINS I. THE WORLD!😻😻😻

Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.

Nah, it's fine. One one hand, yeah, you're vagueposting, but on the other hand that's not what stands out. Mostly you're just coming across as adult, thoughtful, and compassionate.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.

What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.

Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

I was wondering what impact the spread of #measles might have on the #SARS-CoV-2 #pandemic, and it turns out someone already modeled that:

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

That's for the original strain, though; Omicron might be worse, but hopefully not.

#covid19 #publichealth #doom

I keep seeing studies
which find how Covid
damages the brain
and the lungs
and the heart,
and a new study finds
it raises the risk
of kidney disease too,
all of which is why
you will find me
still wearing a mask.

The eternal question of Chinese take-out:

How much of it do you eat, vs keep to scramble into eggs later?

My rule of thumb is to keep about 5%, but no large pieces (since those scramble less well), and no water chestnuts (since those add too much water).

Mongolian Beef goes best in eggs, IMO.

Mom what is the tiny human doing?

YOU MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT TO HAVE STRENGTH TO GRIND YOUR ENEMIES' BONES TO DUST.

I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”

According to research
on how long diseases
“linger in the air—
after an infected person
has left the room,”
measles can linger for two hours,
and the flu for one,
Covid can linger for three hours,
and norovirus for two,
so if you are lingering
in a room for hours:
wear a mask.

A new study finds
if you want to protect yourself
from Alzheimer’s
you should practice
cognitive speed training,
and considering
that a recent study found
“Long Covid linked
to Alzheimer’s disease mechanisms”
if you want to protect yourself
you should also practice
wearing a mask.

What you need to know about Texas ICE detention deaths Last year was the deadliest year in ICE detention in two decades. Nearly a quarter of those deaths occurred in Texas.

“The detention staffers blocked the security cameras and grabbed my testicles and firmly crushed them.”

They are crushing testicles in ICE camps.

One detainee was suffocated to death & the regime rushed to deport the witnesses who saw him killed.

This is a humanitarian crisis.

Photo of four athletes seated at a press conference table, all wearing face masks, with microphones in front of them. A blue backdrop behind them shows sponsor logos (including P&G, Samsung, TCL, Visa, Salomon) and Olympic branding. WHN branding “whn.global” appears at the top left. Large yellow text over the lower half reads: “Olympians are still masking in 2026” Smaller white text below reads: “At the Winter Olympics in Italy, some athletes are still masking and isolating, aware that COVID and other respiratory illnesses are not over.” Footer text: “The World Health Network is a network devoted to global compassion—working together to inspire collective action through science for a safer, healthier world.”

At parts of the Winter Olympics in Italy, COVID precautions remain, grounded in the reality that respiratory illness is still circulating. When your lungs are your livelihood, prevention is part of performance.

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention #Olympics #LongCOVID #MaskUp #N95

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

My brother-in-law
keeps sending me documents
(redacted documents)
which he insists prove
“an elite conspiracy
to thin out humanity,”
so I asked
if that means he plans
on trying to protect himself
and others
from catching Covid,
and in response
he changed the subject.

On one hand, you are right. Laura Scudder's and similar peanut butters taste better, and are healthier for me.

OTOH, I can keep the generic crap in my office desk drawer for months without spoilage, and spoon a dollop of protein and fat (and misc chemicals) into my mouth as needed. Convenient!

It's a good thing that the DOJ is a fair and impartial arbitrator, and not at all subject to the President's influence. [straight face]

The other night I learned that the song's actual lyric is "I'm in love with a strict machine."

After some deliberation, I have chosen to continue to hear it as "I'm in love with a state machine."

FSM need all the love they can get! (And they need all the love that they can't get, too)

OK, this one is only for real West Coast peanut butter heads

Even though they have the exact same ingredients in the exact same proportions, Laura Scudder's tastes saltier than Adams and is therefore better. Who's with me??