Jacob
@jgsimmerman.bsky.social
Carnivorous Plant Farmer, fan of the Pistons and Packers
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Interestingly, someone did do a very basic actuarial study of Chinese billionaires. Apparently they have a avg. lifespan about a decade shorter than the national average.
Now, *why* that is the case... the study left as an exercise for the reader.
Now, *why* that is the case... the study left as an exercise for the reader.
February 14, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Interestingly, someone did do a very basic actuarial study of Chinese billionaires. Apparently they have a avg. lifespan about a decade shorter than the national average.
Now, *why* that is the case... the study left as an exercise for the reader.
Now, *why* that is the case... the study left as an exercise for the reader.
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The steelman argument against Democrats letting Republicans disenfranchise themselves is that it would be Republicans implementing this law, and it would give the federal government a logistical mechanism to illegally interfere with elections which it currently lacks
February 13, 2026 at 11:34 PM
The steelman argument against Democrats letting Republicans disenfranchise themselves is that it would be Republicans implementing this law, and it would give the federal government a logistical mechanism to illegally interfere with elections which it currently lacks
New legend just dropped
February 13, 2026 at 11:13 PM
New legend just dropped
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How to complete your plant genomics project with a comprehensive annotation?
"Cookbook for Plant Genome Sequences"
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
#Genomics #Bioinformatics #BigData
@puckerlab.bsky.social
"Cookbook for Plant Genome Sequences"
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
#Genomics #Bioinformatics #BigData
@puckerlab.bsky.social
February 13, 2026 at 9:37 PM
How to complete your plant genomics project with a comprehensive annotation?
"Cookbook for Plant Genome Sequences"
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
#Genomics #Bioinformatics #BigData
@puckerlab.bsky.social
"Cookbook for Plant Genome Sequences"
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
#Genomics #Bioinformatics #BigData
@puckerlab.bsky.social
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society has progressed to the point that people become an op accidentally
February 13, 2026 at 7:38 PM
society has progressed to the point that people become an op accidentally
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Yeah sure, whatever.
We're going to make the half dream a full reality.
We're going to make the half dream a full reality.
we never had a rules-based order
it was always global white supremacy
it was always global white supremacy
February 13, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Yeah sure, whatever.
We're going to make the half dream a full reality.
We're going to make the half dream a full reality.
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Resolving the "measurement problem" in quantum mechanics would be a huge deal. Doing it without any exotic assumptions or additions to standard QM would be amazing. Now, I'm not reckless enough to say that is what has been achieved here, but...
www.quantamagazine.org/are-the-myst...
www.quantamagazine.org/are-the-myst...
Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? | Quanta Magazine
Columnist Philip Ball thinks the phenomenon of decoherence might finally bridge the quantum-classical divide.
www.quantamagazine.org
February 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Resolving the "measurement problem" in quantum mechanics would be a huge deal. Doing it without any exotic assumptions or additions to standard QM would be amazing. Now, I'm not reckless enough to say that is what has been achieved here, but...
www.quantamagazine.org/are-the-myst...
www.quantamagazine.org/are-the-myst...
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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
February 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
You, too, can think like a billionaire (derogatory) if you block everybody who will tell you that you think ridiculous things.
Starting to come around to the idea that aggressively blocking people can be a failure mode itself because it allows a certain type of person to develop absolutely bizarre theories of the world by ensuring they tacitly affirm themselves in their engagement.
February 13, 2026 at 3:38 PM
You, too, can think like a billionaire (derogatory) if you block everybody who will tell you that you think ridiculous things.
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actually gets things quite backwards (“how do we get selfish beings to become moral?” even more so). The more pertinent question for philosophers and social scientists seems to be, “what is going wrong with some members of a deeply cooperative species, /2
January 21, 2026 at 4:08 PM
actually gets things quite backwards (“how do we get selfish beings to become moral?” even more so). The more pertinent question for philosophers and social scientists seems to be, “what is going wrong with some members of a deeply cooperative species, /2
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I'm not even sure *I* got better as a result of reading the Nicomachean Ethics. Although maybe I did as a result of Philippa Foot reading it
February 4, 2026 at 11:11 AM
I'm not even sure *I* got better as a result of reading the Nicomachean Ethics. Although maybe I did as a result of Philippa Foot reading it
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Happy Birthday Charles Darwin! You would be delighted to know that there are actually over 200 species of drosera!
February 12, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Happy Birthday Charles Darwin! You would be delighted to know that there are actually over 200 species of drosera!
Well this is infuriating.
“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..”
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
February 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Well this is infuriating.
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How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller?
Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase.
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Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase.
1/n
A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand
The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural ...
www.science.org
February 13, 2026 at 11:42 AM
How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller?
Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase.
1/n
Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase.
1/n
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Co-signing this thread as a one-time GOP operative who is begging some folks on the progressive side to stop thinking that their Big Awareness means they have a better idea of who’s a good politician. Some of yall overthink it, simple as.
jumping spiders of the genus Portia have brains so large that they run down into the upper joints of their legs. they use this for complicated behavioral mimicry when hunting other spiders. they are nonetheless not very effective predators because they are analyzing the whole scene.
February 13, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Co-signing this thread as a one-time GOP operative who is begging some folks on the progressive side to stop thinking that their Big Awareness means they have a better idea of who’s a good politician. Some of yall overthink it, simple as.
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They don't understand that when you doubt the Detroit Pistons, it is actually within yourself where you are finding a flaw.
They will be educated.
They will be educated.
February 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
They don't understand that when you doubt the Detroit Pistons, it is actually within yourself where you are finding a flaw.
They will be educated.
They will be educated.
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It strikes me as problematic the extent to which knowing how something works or even wanting to know is seen as endorsement of it.
February 13, 2026 at 1:55 AM
It strikes me as problematic the extent to which knowing how something works or even wanting to know is seen as endorsement of it.
Hmmmm...I can go a bit deeper.
You are here
February 13, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Hmmmm...I can go a bit deeper.
This made me think of Arthur Aron's research in escalating reciprocal self disclosure, where he could put two people in a lab and have them develop emotional intimacy in 36 questions. I imagine a similar dynamic led these people to fall in love with their talking, bullshitting, chatbot. It's sad.
February 13, 2026 at 1:58 AM
This made me think of Arthur Aron's research in escalating reciprocal self disclosure, where he could put two people in a lab and have them develop emotional intimacy in 36 questions. I imagine a similar dynamic led these people to fall in love with their talking, bullshitting, chatbot. It's sad.
Oh shit, that Tesla joke is good
someone posted a pretty good burn by Claude in the comments
February 12, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Oh shit, that Tesla joke is good
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it's not easy breeding deer for gigantism, but that's why I make the big bucks
February 12, 2026 at 8:48 PM
it's not easy breeding deer for gigantism, but that's why I make the big bucks
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Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
February 12, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
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I once again feel compelled to remind folks that you feel science news/new scientific developments are bad and destructive because you are not reading science news: You are reading techbro press releases, regurgitated uncritically by outlets that long ago fired all their science/tech beat reporters.
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
I once again feel compelled to remind folks that you feel science news/new scientific developments are bad and destructive because you are not reading science news: You are reading techbro press releases, regurgitated uncritically by outlets that long ago fired all their science/tech beat reporters.
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And hey, ICYMI: Entirely new branch of the animal kingdom just dropped.
We've been just assuming Prototaxites was a huge fungus. It's not. It's its own thing.
www.livescience.com/animals/gian...
We've been just assuming Prototaxites was a huge fungus. It's not. It's its own thing.
www.livescience.com/animals/gian...
Scientists baffled at mysterious ancient creature that doesn't fit on the tree of life as we know it
An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown branch of life, researchers say.
www.livescience.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:28 PM
And hey, ICYMI: Entirely new branch of the animal kingdom just dropped.
We've been just assuming Prototaxites was a huge fungus. It's not. It's its own thing.
www.livescience.com/animals/gian...
We've been just assuming Prototaxites was a huge fungus. It's not. It's its own thing.
www.livescience.com/animals/gian...