Tom Carlton
@safisana.bsky.social
Never ruin a good story with the truth.
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Super interesting methodology: How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America’s Heartland, by @natlash.bsky.social
How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America’s Heartland
Early this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana. Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could’ve been airb...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Super interesting methodology: How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America’s Heartland, by @natlash.bsky.social
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There's a big shift in cardiology to the high-risk, non-obstructed, inflamed artery and reducing heart attacks
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The Big Shift in Cardiology to Atheroma and Inflammation
One A.I. company's tag line: "Creating A World Without Heart Attacks"
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November 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
There's a big shift in cardiology to the high-risk, non-obstructed, inflamed artery and reducing heart attacks
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Draft atlases of the developing brain of humans and other mammals are presented in a collection of papers from BICAN published in Nature. These resources combine single-cell and spatial technologies to track how brain cell types emerge, diversify, and organize during development. 🧪
BICAN: A cell census of the developing human brain
Building on their landmark efforts to create cell-type atlases of adult brains using single-cell and spatial genomics technologies, researchers in the BRAIN ...
go.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Draft atlases of the developing brain of humans and other mammals are presented in a collection of papers from BICAN published in Nature. These resources combine single-cell and spatial technologies to track how brain cell types emerge, diversify, and organize during development. 🧪
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How Eyes Evolved: A Fascinating Tour Through the Animal Kingdom
How Eyes Evolved: A Fascinating Tour Through the Animal Kingdom
Lars Schmitz, a professor at Claremont McKenna College, guides us 'through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal kingdom: how they work, why they've taken the form they have...
www.openculture.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
How Eyes Evolved: A Fascinating Tour Through the Animal Kingdom
The colonial paternalism, “white man’s burden.” Dyer's testimony before the Hunter Commission, where he stated he wanted to produce a lasting impact and considered the crowd to be rebels trying to isolate his forces.
Jallianwala Bagh massacre (movie gandhi)
YouTube video by Dhritesh Patel
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November 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The colonial paternalism, “white man’s burden.” Dyer's testimony before the Hunter Commission, where he stated he wanted to produce a lasting impact and considered the crowd to be rebels trying to isolate his forces.
“Democrats made a mistake. Going back to the first term, thinking that law could rescue the Republic. Only politics can address the challenge, the threat, that Donald Trump poses.” Michael Sandel
How can Democrats connect with voters? 'Democracy's Discontent' author Michael Sandel has thoughts
YouTube video by GBH News
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October 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“Democrats made a mistake. Going back to the first term, thinking that law could rescue the Republic. Only politics can address the challenge, the threat, that Donald Trump poses.” Michael Sandel
Avoiding ChatGPT Hallucinations
So it “fills in” plausible wording based on training patterns rather than an actual verified quote.
So it “fills in” plausible wording based on training patterns rather than an actual verified quote.
October 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Avoiding ChatGPT Hallucinations
So it “fills in” plausible wording based on training patterns rather than an actual verified quote.
So it “fills in” plausible wording based on training patterns rather than an actual verified quote.
Palantir’s Role in Immigration Enforcement Data Architecture and Operations 1/2
October 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Palantir’s Role in Immigration Enforcement Data Architecture and Operations 1/2
Historical support of Tom Nichols’ distinction between fascism and incipient authoritarianism:
Trump’s efforts for a fascist controlled state has not yet achieved the elements of total control.
* Suspend the Constitution,
* Ban opposition parties,
* Control the courts and media,
* Rule by decree.
Trump’s efforts for a fascist controlled state has not yet achieved the elements of total control.
* Suspend the Constitution,
* Ban opposition parties,
* Control the courts and media,
* Rule by decree.
October 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Historical support of Tom Nichols’ distinction between fascism and incipient authoritarianism:
Trump’s efforts for a fascist controlled state has not yet achieved the elements of total control.
* Suspend the Constitution,
* Ban opposition parties,
* Control the courts and media,
* Rule by decree.
Trump’s efforts for a fascist controlled state has not yet achieved the elements of total control.
* Suspend the Constitution,
* Ban opposition parties,
* Control the courts and media,
* Rule by decree.
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Some companies are giving new meaning to 'making something out of nothing' and applying this unique and surprising approach to food.
How is carbon dioxide being turned into food in the lab?
Butter made from captured CO2 is the latest food item to make headlines, highlighting growing interest in this field
www.chemistryworld.com
September 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Some companies are giving new meaning to 'making something out of nothing' and applying this unique and surprising approach to food.
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Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online
Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online
It took 90 years to complete. But, in 2011, scholars at the University of Chicago finally published a 21-volume dictionary of Akkadian, the language used in ancient Mesopotamia.
www.openculture.com
August 15, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online
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The 5 Best Noir Films in the Public Domain: From Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street to Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker
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The 5 Best Noir Films in the Public Domain: From Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street to Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker
I try to catch the Noir City film festival whenever it comes through Los Angeles, not just because it uses the Egyptian, one of my favorite theaters in town, but because it comes curated by the expert...
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August 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The 5 Best Noir Films in the Public Domain: From Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street to Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker
www.openculture.com/2015/07/the-...
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this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
Moeder Dao. A non-traditional documentary. A montage film constructed from archival footage shot between 1912 and 1933 in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) by colonial filmmakers. The film is silent except for ambient sounds and traditional Indonesian music.
Moeder Dao, de schildpadgelijkende (Vincent Monnikendam, 1995) Sub esp.
YouTube video by kinoglaz
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July 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Moeder Dao. A non-traditional documentary. A montage film constructed from archival footage shot between 1912 and 1933 in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) by colonial filmmakers. The film is silent except for ambient sounds and traditional Indonesian music.
July 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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The legendary jazz drummer played with with Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, and Stan Getz. His new memoir tells all—and lays out his own philosophy. Read the introduction here.
Billy Hart’s Life in Rhythm
The legendary jazz drummer played with with Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, and Stan Getz. His new memoir tells all—and lays out his own philosophy.
www.thenation.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The legendary jazz drummer played with with Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, and Stan Getz. His new memoir tells all—and lays out his own philosophy. Read the introduction here.
ChatGPT Has Thoughts About
Women in Hollywood from 1900 to 2020 reflect not just shifting beauty standards but evolving social values, gender roles, racial dynamics, and power structures. Here's a breakdown of the major eras, their dominant physical ideals, and the cultural meanings behind them: 1/3
Women in Hollywood from 1900 to 2020 reflect not just shifting beauty standards but evolving social values, gender roles, racial dynamics, and power structures. Here's a breakdown of the major eras, their dominant physical ideals, and the cultural meanings behind them: 1/3
June 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
ChatGPT Has Thoughts About
Women in Hollywood from 1900 to 2020 reflect not just shifting beauty standards but evolving social values, gender roles, racial dynamics, and power structures. Here's a breakdown of the major eras, their dominant physical ideals, and the cultural meanings behind them: 1/3
Women in Hollywood from 1900 to 2020 reflect not just shifting beauty standards but evolving social values, gender roles, racial dynamics, and power structures. Here's a breakdown of the major eras, their dominant physical ideals, and the cultural meanings behind them: 1/3
Inside the most advanced sky-mapping instrument ever built.
Rubin Observatory’s First Images Are Stunning
Rubin Observatory's wide view captures the universe like never before. What secrets will its 10-year survey reveal?
spectrum.ieee.org
June 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Inside the most advanced sky-mapping instrument ever built.
Tool aims to solve the mystery of non-coding sequences — but is still in its infancy.
DeepMind’s new AlphaGenome AI tackles the ‘dark matter’ in our DNA
Tool aims to solve the mystery of non-coding sequences — but is still in its infancy.
www.nature.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Tool aims to solve the mystery of non-coding sequences — but is still in its infancy.
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From Justice Brandeis's famous concurrence in on such case, Whitney v. CA (1927): "Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears."
June 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
From Justice Brandeis's famous concurrence in on such case, Whitney v. CA (1927): "Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears."
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My look at the most recent science of footprint analysis for ancient human relatives. An extraordinary case from the ancient shores of Lake Turkana, revealing trackways by two species, Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei, made within a short time.
www.johnhawks.net/p/when-homin...
www.johnhawks.net/p/when-homin...
Footprints of two hominin species hours apart on the same shoreline
A new study by Kevin Hatala and coworkers finds that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei walked on the same shores within hours of each other.
www.johnhawks.net
May 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
My look at the most recent science of footprint analysis for ancient human relatives. An extraordinary case from the ancient shores of Lake Turkana, revealing trackways by two species, Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei, made within a short time.
www.johnhawks.net/p/when-homin...
www.johnhawks.net/p/when-homin...
LLMs don’t reflect—they reconstruct meaning from patterns, like holograms, not mirrors.
Coherence isn’t cognition: Language fluency feels smart but isn’t proof of understanding.
LLMs simulate knowledge's shape, not its substance.
Coherence isn’t cognition: Language fluency feels smart but isn’t proof of understanding.
LLMs simulate knowledge's shape, not its substance.
LLMs Aren’t Mirrors, They’re Holograms
An LLM isn’t a mirror—it’s more like a hologram, one that reconstructs meaning from language.
www.psychologytoday.com
May 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
LLMs don’t reflect—they reconstruct meaning from patterns, like holograms, not mirrors.
Coherence isn’t cognition: Language fluency feels smart but isn’t proof of understanding.
LLMs simulate knowledge's shape, not its substance.
Coherence isn’t cognition: Language fluency feels smart but isn’t proof of understanding.
LLMs simulate knowledge's shape, not its substance.
LLMs think in space, not time, using vector blocks—webs of meaning in high-dimensional layers.
Vector blocks reveal thought as structure, mapping meaning before a single word is ever generated.
Intelligence may be about structure, not sequence, reshaping how we see thought in machines and humans.
Vector blocks reveal thought as structure, mapping meaning before a single word is ever generated.
Intelligence may be about structure, not sequence, reshaping how we see thought in machines and humans.
The Curious Geometry of Intelligence
Intelligence—natural or artificial—may be a matter of geometric structure, not temporal sequence, challenging how we understand thought itself.
www.psychologytoday.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
LLMs think in space, not time, using vector blocks—webs of meaning in high-dimensional layers.
Vector blocks reveal thought as structure, mapping meaning before a single word is ever generated.
Intelligence may be about structure, not sequence, reshaping how we see thought in machines and humans.
Vector blocks reveal thought as structure, mapping meaning before a single word is ever generated.
Intelligence may be about structure, not sequence, reshaping how we see thought in machines and humans.
Acoustical analysis of ancient music reconstructs historical tuning and intonation systems, offering insights into past human behavior
Human touch? Acoustical analysis of ancient music reconstructs tuning and intonation, elucidating aspects of human behavior
Mathematical analysis reconstructs tuning of ancient Greek and Roman music and reveals parallels with atomist philosophy.
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Acoustical analysis of ancient music reconstructs historical tuning and intonation systems, offering insights into past human behavior