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Today I Learned.
Florida ~native; 4 years at UF, daily commuting past Florida Museum of Natural History.
In the middle of the state are fort structures with 2000 years of continuous habitation. Wood carvings at the museum.
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Florida ~native; 4 years at UF, daily commuting past Florida Museum of Natural History.
In the middle of the state are fort structures with 2000 years of continuous habitation. Wood carvings at the museum.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Today I Learned.
Florida ~native; 4 years at UF, daily commuting past Florida Museum of Natural History.
In the middle of the state are fort structures with 2000 years of continuous habitation. Wood carvings at the museum.
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Ce...
Florida ~native; 4 years at UF, daily commuting past Florida Museum of Natural History.
In the middle of the state are fort structures with 2000 years of continuous habitation. Wood carvings at the museum.
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Ce...
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
I think x.com/karpathy/sta... is a big deal. Guy who knows, LLMs help with the usual stuff, and are counterproductive for anything too dissimilar.
good news: We've finally solved the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_re... problem.
good news: We've finally solved the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_re... problem.
Andrej Karpathy on X: "@zenitsu_aprntc Good question, it's basically entirely hand-written (with tab autocomplete). I tried to use claude/codex agents a few times but they just didn't work well enough at all and net unhelpful, possibly the repo is too far off the data distribution." / X
@zenitsu_aprntc Good question, it's basically entirely hand-written (with tab autocomplete). I tried to use claude/codex agents a few times but they just didn't work well enough at all and net unhelpful, possibly the repo is too far off the data distribution.
x.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I think x.com/karpathy/sta... is a big deal. Guy who knows, LLMs help with the usual stuff, and are counterproductive for anything too dissimilar.
good news: We've finally solved the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_re... problem.
good news: We've finally solved the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_re... problem.
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it will never not be wild to me that there are actual human people walking around our neighborhood streets dressed just like this I think we need to continue to remind our brains that this is extremely not normal
Earlier this morning around 10:15, ICE agents were spotted near Howard and Greenview in Rogers Park. It doesn't appear they arrested anyone, and they quickly left the area.
September 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
it will never not be wild to me that there are actual human people walking around our neighborhood streets dressed just like this I think we need to continue to remind our brains that this is extremely not normal
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Speak up to prevent a major loss for the field. CASP, which helped shaping structural biology including AlphaFold is on the verge of shutting down. NIH funding has lapsed, UC Davis support ends and the core team is being let go. Painfully shortsighted.
Exclusive: Famed protein structure competition nears end as NIH grant money runs out
Agency silent on funding renewal for contest that inspired creation of AIs that predicted how proteins would fold
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July 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Speak up to prevent a major loss for the field. CASP, which helped shaping structural biology including AlphaFold is on the verge of shutting down. NIH funding has lapsed, UC Davis support ends and the core team is being let go. Painfully shortsighted.
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Still can't believe Google now has a prominent feature *above all the search results* designed to give only wrong answers
June 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Still can't believe Google now has a prominent feature *above all the search results* designed to give only wrong answers
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I wrote my first thread about the ongoing Republican assault on the our constitutional republic just four months ago.
At the time I worried that I was going overboard ... becoming shrill and paranoid.
In retrospect, I underestimated the severity of the situation.
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1/?
At the time I worried that I was going overboard ... becoming shrill and paranoid.
In retrospect, I underestimated the severity of the situation.
bsky.app/profile/some...
1/?
I’m going to hold forth for a little bit on what Trump and Musk are doing to the federal government right now.
If that’s not your thing, well, just look away for a sec. I’ll be back to hyper-local, artisanal civics soon enough.
1/?
If that’s not your thing, well, just look away for a sec. I’ll be back to hyper-local, artisanal civics soon enough.
1/?
June 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I wrote my first thread about the ongoing Republican assault on the our constitutional republic just four months ago.
At the time I worried that I was going overboard ... becoming shrill and paranoid.
In retrospect, I underestimated the severity of the situation.
bsky.app/profile/some...
1/?
At the time I worried that I was going overboard ... becoming shrill and paranoid.
In retrospect, I underestimated the severity of the situation.
bsky.app/profile/some...
1/?
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Courage. Now more than ever. These NIH staffers just stood up to Trump, RFK Jr., Bhattacharya. We need to have their backs. The administration will come for each of them, one and all now. apnews.com/article/nih-...
NIH scientists go public to criticize Trump's deep cuts in public health research
Scores of National Institutes of Health researchers and staffers have come forward to send their Trump-appointed leader a letter challenging policies they say undermine the NIH mission.
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June 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Courage. Now more than ever. These NIH staffers just stood up to Trump, RFK Jr., Bhattacharya. We need to have their backs. The administration will come for each of them, one and all now. apnews.com/article/nih-...
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The war on science in the US is already having an effect on private sector research like AlphaFold. Bears repeating but the private sector builds on top of things created by academic research for the public good. This hurts everyone.
May 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The war on science in the US is already having an effect on private sector research like AlphaFold. Bears repeating but the private sector builds on top of things created by academic research for the public good. This hurts everyone.
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Sure, they doomed millions to painful, needless deaths, built camps, did away with due process, stole from the treasury, destroyed our reputation abroad, took bribes, put bigotry back into law, and thumbed their nose at the judges and lawyers who tried to rein them in - but what does the market say?
May 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Sure, they doomed millions to painful, needless deaths, built camps, did away with due process, stole from the treasury, destroyed our reputation abroad, took bribes, put bigotry back into law, and thumbed their nose at the judges and lawyers who tried to rein them in - but what does the market say?
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Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.
April 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.
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🚨New WP🚨
Using GPT4 to persuade participants significantly reduces climate skepticism and inaction
-Sig more effective than consensus messaging
-Works for Republicans
-Evidence of persistence @ 1mo
-Scalable!
PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Try the bot: www.debunkbot.com/climate-change
Here’s how 👇
Using GPT4 to persuade participants significantly reduces climate skepticism and inaction
-Sig more effective than consensus messaging
-Works for Republicans
-Evidence of persistence @ 1mo
-Scalable!
PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Try the bot: www.debunkbot.com/climate-change
Here’s how 👇
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🚨New WP🚨
Using GPT4 to persuade participants significantly reduces climate skepticism and inaction
-Sig more effective than consensus messaging
-Works for Republicans
-Evidence of persistence @ 1mo
-Scalable!
PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Try the bot: www.debunkbot.com/climate-change
Here’s how 👇
Using GPT4 to persuade participants significantly reduces climate skepticism and inaction
-Sig more effective than consensus messaging
-Works for Republicans
-Evidence of persistence @ 1mo
-Scalable!
PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Try the bot: www.debunkbot.com/climate-change
Here’s how 👇
Don Jr and Eric Trump, as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern recruited by King Trump to escort Luigi Mangione on a journey to a new prison in Greenland
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January 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Don Jr and Eric Trump, as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern recruited by King Trump to escort Luigi Mangione on a journey to a new prison in Greenland
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Agreed.
And we failed that test.
And failed ourselves.
And our nation.
There hasn’t only been one tipping point in recent years—but January 6 and the non-reaction to it was a big one.
We watched an attempted coup.
And elected its leader president.
And we failed that test.
And failed ourselves.
And our nation.
There hasn’t only been one tipping point in recent years—but January 6 and the non-reaction to it was a big one.
We watched an attempted coup.
And elected its leader president.
Not a huge believer in tipping points, but there was about a one-month period when everyone seemed truly appalled and we could have collectively agreed to ensure something like this would not happen again.
To the very end, I will never understand how January 6th, 2021, wasn’t a dealbreaker.
December 14, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Agreed.
And we failed that test.
And failed ourselves.
And our nation.
There hasn’t only been one tipping point in recent years—but January 6 and the non-reaction to it was a big one.
We watched an attempted coup.
And elected its leader president.
And we failed that test.
And failed ourselves.
And our nation.
There hasn’t only been one tipping point in recent years—but January 6 and the non-reaction to it was a big one.
We watched an attempted coup.
And elected its leader president.
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"There are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen"
December 8, 2024 at 6:10 PM
"There are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen"
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As we gawk at the $250M Musk spent elect Trump, take a guess how long it took him to “earn” it back in the market?
It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today.
That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.
It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today.
That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.
December 7, 2024 at 12:00 AM
As we gawk at the $250M Musk spent elect Trump, take a guess how long it took him to “earn” it back in the market?
It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today.
That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.
It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today.
That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.
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uv was great for this. Didn't have to think about creating virtual environments or where I wanted to install textual, just a one-liner like
uv --from textual python -m textual.demo.game
and I was off to the races
uv --from textual python -m textual.demo.game
and I was off to the races
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November 26, 2024 at 1:04 PM
uv was great for this. Didn't have to think about creating virtual environments or where I wanted to install textual, just a one-liner like
uv --from textual python -m textual.demo.game
and I was off to the races
uv --from textual python -m textual.demo.game
and I was off to the races
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.
June 28, 2024 at 4:29 PM
I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.