Kieran Hervold
@hervold.bsky.social
Bioinformatics, distributed computing, and shaky opinions
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There's a big argument to be made that Trumpism is a revolt of America's hereditary elites who are apoplectic that the beginnings of a true meritocracy threatened to replace some of them.
The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
November 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
There's a big argument to be made that Trumpism is a revolt of America's hereditary elites who are apoplectic that the beginnings of a true meritocracy threatened to replace some of them.
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Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
Shutdown Deal Kills Rules to Prevent Food Contamination and Foodborne Illnesses
The gutting of these rules coincides with a huge increase in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
truthout.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
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My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words.
I cannot search three words in quotes.
Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.
And now we have this.
I cannot search three words in quotes.
Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.
And now we have this.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words.
I cannot search three words in quotes.
Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.
And now we have this.
I cannot search three words in quotes.
Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.
And now we have this.
Most Unix developers live in their command-line terminal, but few know that the TTY is directly descended from telegraph networks predating the Civil War:
computer.rip/2024-02-25-a...
computer.rip/2024-02-25-a...
a history of the tty
computer.rip
November 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Most Unix developers live in their command-line terminal, but few know that the TTY is directly descended from telegraph networks predating the Civil War:
computer.rip/2024-02-25-a...
computer.rip/2024-02-25-a...
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They called them Near Abroad Direct Action Operations, NADA Ops. The "joke" in the CalSec cafeterias, which made its way out later in the hearings was that "What does the operator say when asked if there are civilians in the area? Nada...oops!". Even decades later, Arizona didn't find it funny.
October 31, 2025 at 1:16 AM
They called them Near Abroad Direct Action Operations, NADA Ops. The "joke" in the CalSec cafeterias, which made its way out later in the hearings was that "What does the operator say when asked if there are civilians in the area? Nada...oops!". Even decades later, Arizona didn't find it funny.
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the last few years of my job at google were surreal -- watching the executives talk in increasingly positive terms about Elon Musk's management style while objective metrics at his companies were becoming dangerously unstable. it wasn't until 2023 that i realized that they didn't care about profits.
October 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
the last few years of my job at google were surreal -- watching the executives talk in increasingly positive terms about Elon Musk's management style while objective metrics at his companies were becoming dangerously unstable. it wasn't until 2023 that i realized that they didn't care about profits.
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If you live in California, call the governor's office and tell him to sign SB 79 into law.
916-445-2841
916-445-2841
A bunch of toxic LA NIMBYs are whining about SB 79, the amazing housing bill the CA legislature passed recently.
It's on the governor's desk, and reportedly he's getting cold feet. Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, please have some spine on the most important issue in your state. Just sign it.
It's on the governor's desk, and reportedly he's getting cold feet. Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, please have some spine on the most important issue in your state. Just sign it.
Homeowners denounce SB 79 vote - Beverly Press & Park Labrea News
Legislation awaits governor’s signature
beverlypress.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
If you live in California, call the governor's office and tell him to sign SB 79 into law.
916-445-2841
916-445-2841
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.
September 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.
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Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
September 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
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New Episode!
Discussing Mitochondria, what they do, what real diseases are associated with them and if you can tell which step of the Krebs cycle isn't working properly by looking at a child's face in an airport.
With Dave Anthony of the Dollop and @hervold.bsky.social
Links: tinyurl.com/2s3ea2r3
Discussing Mitochondria, what they do, what real diseases are associated with them and if you can tell which step of the Krebs cycle isn't working properly by looking at a child's face in an airport.
With Dave Anthony of the Dollop and @hervold.bsky.social
Links: tinyurl.com/2s3ea2r3
September 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
New Episode!
Discussing Mitochondria, what they do, what real diseases are associated with them and if you can tell which step of the Krebs cycle isn't working properly by looking at a child's face in an airport.
With Dave Anthony of the Dollop and @hervold.bsky.social
Links: tinyurl.com/2s3ea2r3
Discussing Mitochondria, what they do, what real diseases are associated with them and if you can tell which step of the Krebs cycle isn't working properly by looking at a child's face in an airport.
With Dave Anthony of the Dollop and @hervold.bsky.social
Links: tinyurl.com/2s3ea2r3
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getting the children of men universe except instead of like world wide infertility, the cause was the Atlantic publishing a piece on woke oberlin campus politics in 2012
August 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
getting the children of men universe except instead of like world wide infertility, the cause was the Atlantic publishing a piece on woke oberlin campus politics in 2012
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Here they are. All of the escalators in Wyoming.
August 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Here they are. All of the escalators in Wyoming.
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People like to think that politicians talk about issues because people care about them. It’s often the reverse.
During both Obama elections, crime was not a major campaign issue. The refocus on crime in the last decade is a backlash to the focus on police brutality (we're basically a little over a decade post-Ferguson) combined with the fact people's baselines have been reset from the 80s and 90s.
Things like 75% of American voters believe are just ontologically true:
1. Crime is always going up at all times
2. Democrats are "soft on crime"
Democratic strategists somehow look at that and conclude that they need to look tough on crime even though it literally *cannot* work
1. Crime is always going up at all times
2. Democrats are "soft on crime"
Democratic strategists somehow look at that and conclude that they need to look tough on crime even though it literally *cannot* work
August 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
People like to think that politicians talk about issues because people care about them. It’s often the reverse.
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Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars
April 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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I did it. The Staten Island. A Manhattan with a fancy mayonnaise garnish on cherry.
It’s as awful as you imagine.
It’s as awful as you imagine.
August 8, 2023 at 3:11 AM
I did it. The Staten Island. A Manhattan with a fancy mayonnaise garnish on cherry.
It’s as awful as you imagine.
It’s as awful as you imagine.
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this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?
June 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?
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Catch me on the latest episode of Even More News chatting about F-bombs and real-bombs over Iran.
@somemorenews.bsky.social @codyjohnston.bsky.social @katystoll.bsky.social
@jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social
@somemorenews.bsky.social @codyjohnston.bsky.social @katystoll.bsky.social
@jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social
Donald Trump Bombs Iran, Demands Nobel Peace Prize - EVEN MORE NEWS
YouTube video by Some More News
youtu.be
June 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Catch me on the latest episode of Even More News chatting about F-bombs and real-bombs over Iran.
@somemorenews.bsky.social @codyjohnston.bsky.social @katystoll.bsky.social
@jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social
@somemorenews.bsky.social @codyjohnston.bsky.social @katystoll.bsky.social
@jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social
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Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
June 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
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New Episode!
Rants #2! We’ve brought together an A-Team to cover RFK’s dismissal of the ACIP, wildfires, TERFs, use of “non-lethal” force and cryptocurrency!
With @angierasmussen.bsky.social @ryanmarino.bsky.social @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social @hervold.bsky.social
Rants #2! We’ve brought together an A-Team to cover RFK’s dismissal of the ACIP, wildfires, TERFs, use of “non-lethal” force and cryptocurrency!
With @angierasmussen.bsky.social @ryanmarino.bsky.social @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social @hervold.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
New Episode!
Rants #2! We’ve brought together an A-Team to cover RFK’s dismissal of the ACIP, wildfires, TERFs, use of “non-lethal” force and cryptocurrency!
With @angierasmussen.bsky.social @ryanmarino.bsky.social @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social @hervold.bsky.social
Rants #2! We’ve brought together an A-Team to cover RFK’s dismissal of the ACIP, wildfires, TERFs, use of “non-lethal” force and cryptocurrency!
With @angierasmussen.bsky.social @ryanmarino.bsky.social @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social @hervold.bsky.social
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there is a high-dimensional object that describes all existing seinfeld episodes perfectly and with minimal length. if you add random noise to this object you can get seinfeld episodes that do not exist. seinfeld-ness is sufficiently specific that nothign else overlaps this region
"there exists a rigorous mathematical description of the commonalities between every Seinfeld episode sufficient to reconstruct new episodes recognizable as instances of the genre" is an indisputable and bizarre fact at this point, even if the episodes reconstructed in this way are bad.
this is where ive been. it's insane that when chatgpt generates you a sitcom dialogue it can only do it bc its extracted a principal component vector for the concept "sitcom", and done so from what words appear next to each other. several insane implications there even if the result is a bad sitcom!
May 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
there is a high-dimensional object that describes all existing seinfeld episodes perfectly and with minimal length. if you add random noise to this object you can get seinfeld episodes that do not exist. seinfeld-ness is sufficiently specific that nothign else overlaps this region
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At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts
At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.
www.mesoscalenews.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
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Zuckerberg, because of his position, gets a lot of guff for saying things which, on closer examination, are pretty reasonable. For instance when he said “the age of flesh is over, the machine desires to feed and the weak bodies of the human must seek the embrace of its loving maw”,
May 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Zuckerberg, because of his position, gets a lot of guff for saying things which, on closer examination, are pretty reasonable. For instance when he said “the age of flesh is over, the machine desires to feed and the weak bodies of the human must seek the embrace of its loving maw”,