James Pitt
@sahelanth.bsky.social
this is all Tiktaalik's fault
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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
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Come be my colleague! Yale School of Public Health has an open-rank search for Health Policy & Management. Focus areas are empirical research in health policy, healthcare management or health services research. You still have time! apply.interfolio.com/176891
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Come be my colleague! Yale School of Public Health has an open-rank search for Health Policy & Management. Focus areas are empirical research in health policy, healthcare management or health services research. You still have time! apply.interfolio.com/176891
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Meanwhile at home: My tiger jaw (yes that's its name) blossomed🥳
November 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Meanwhile at home: My tiger jaw (yes that's its name) blossomed🥳
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Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
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"The cooperative eye hypothesis proposes that human eyeballs are uniquely conspicuous and evolved under selective pressures to behave cooperatively....but lacks robust empirical support: human eye pigmentation does not uniquely stand out among primates, is not uniform at species level..."
Look past the cooperative eye hypothesis: reconsidering the evolution of human eye appearance
The external appearance of the human eye has been prominently linked to the evolution of complex sociocognitive functions in our species. The cooperative eye hypothesis (CEH) proposes that human eyeb....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
"The cooperative eye hypothesis proposes that human eyeballs are uniquely conspicuous and evolved under selective pressures to behave cooperatively....but lacks robust empirical support: human eye pigmentation does not uniquely stand out among primates, is not uniform at species level..."
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Finally understood TMLE’s “doubly robust” property through simulation. Works well when either outcome OR treatment model is correct. XGBoost + TMLE captured complex relationships without manual specification. It worked on simulated complex data, would it work in real world? 🤔 #rstats #idsky #episky
Bias, Variance, and Doubly Robust Estimation: Testing The Promise of TMLE in Simulated Data | Everyday Is A School Day
Finally understood TMLE's "doubly robust" property through simulation. Works well when either outcome OR treatment model is correct. XGBoost + TMLE captured complex relationships without manual specif...
www.kenkoonwong.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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New paper reminds us yet again: HOMICIDE is the leading cause of death for pregnant women.
Gun violence & partner violence are related.
All-cause homicide & firearm homicide of pregnant women are higher, in states w/ higher calculated firearm ownership (1/x 🧵
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Gun violence & partner violence are related.
All-cause homicide & firearm homicide of pregnant women are higher, in states w/ higher calculated firearm ownership (1/x 🧵
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Firearm Homicide in Pregnant Women and State-Level Firearm Ownership
This cross-sectional study examines firearm homicide rates in pregnant compared with nonpregnant women and whether estimated state-level firearm ownership is associated with homicide deaths among preg...
jamanetwork.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
New paper reminds us yet again: HOMICIDE is the leading cause of death for pregnant women.
Gun violence & partner violence are related.
All-cause homicide & firearm homicide of pregnant women are higher, in states w/ higher calculated firearm ownership (1/x 🧵
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Gun violence & partner violence are related.
All-cause homicide & firearm homicide of pregnant women are higher, in states w/ higher calculated firearm ownership (1/x 🧵
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
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my bf shared the world's worst take on princess mononoke with me and now u have to see it too
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
my bf shared the world's worst take on princess mononoke with me and now u have to see it too
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2. On background, an anonymous current AMA member informed me that criticism of Oz will be silenced multiple ways:
- if you bring a poster to protest Oz, you may be subject to removal by police
- if you attempt to protest, you will be expelled from the AMA, and will be required to report this
- if you bring a poster to protest Oz, you may be subject to removal by police
- if you attempt to protest, you will be expelled from the AMA, and will be required to report this
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 AM
2. On background, an anonymous current AMA member informed me that criticism of Oz will be silenced multiple ways:
- if you bring a poster to protest Oz, you may be subject to removal by police
- if you attempt to protest, you will be expelled from the AMA, and will be required to report this
- if you bring a poster to protest Oz, you may be subject to removal by police
- if you attempt to protest, you will be expelled from the AMA, and will be required to report this
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Dual class shares should be illegal
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Dual class shares should be illegal
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Coercive sterilization in ICE detention. Eugenics.
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Coercive sterilization in ICE detention. Eugenics.
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sts researchers: :spend decades tracing the way well-intentioned design choices constrained by culture, capital, and the material environment can have negative outcomes in aggregate:
ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires
futurism.com/artificial-i...
ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
sts researchers: :spend decades tracing the way well-intentioned design choices constrained by culture, capital, and the material environment can have negative outcomes in aggregate:
ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires
futurism.com/artificial-i...
ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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A good reminder that danmei might be really cool in the surface, but it's absolute hell for the authors.
November 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
A good reminder that danmei might be really cool in the surface, but it's absolute hell for the authors.
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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
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"Curly" fries are actually straight, they only appear bent due to the curvature of the Earth
November 16, 2025 at 5:12 AM
"Curly" fries are actually straight, they only appear bent due to the curvature of the Earth
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Well this is as done as it's going to get. Tiliqua frangens, a megafauna skink from pleiocene and pleistocene australia with large pointy scales feeding on spring wildflowers. #palaeoart #palaeoart #reptile #lizard
November 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Well this is as done as it's going to get. Tiliqua frangens, a megafauna skink from pleiocene and pleistocene australia with large pointy scales feeding on spring wildflowers. #palaeoart #palaeoart #reptile #lizard
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RPG idea where the protagonists are on a mission from a victim's relative to bring God to justice.
November 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
RPG idea where the protagonists are on a mission from a victim's relative to bring God to justice.
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Lois McMaster Bujold's THE CURSE OF CHALION has a thing called "death magic", where you call on a God to smite your enemies, if you're willing to pay the price. It is violently illegal to attempt or research, but not actually to commit, because definitionally, it's a miracle. You can't arrest God.
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Lois McMaster Bujold's THE CURSE OF CHALION has a thing called "death magic", where you call on a God to smite your enemies, if you're willing to pay the price. It is violently illegal to attempt or research, but not actually to commit, because definitionally, it's a miracle. You can't arrest God.
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it's like they've forgotten what kind of periodical they are, and the more wretched elite culture has gotten, the more elliptical the nyt has become
whenever the nyt talks about trump, they try to do it in the style of the new yorker "talk of the town" section, like it would be gauche to come right out and say something, so they have to be fucking arch like joan didion. a news article about the nazi presidential candidate should not be "dry"
This headline stack is one for the time capsule. First, analyzing Harris's message discipline, which is common to normie politicians, as if it's uniquely revealing and shifty. Second, framing Trump's openly racist, completely dishonest stump rhetoric as if it's quirky and full of subtle meaning.
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
it's like they've forgotten what kind of periodical they are, and the more wretched elite culture has gotten, the more elliptical the nyt has become
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As @opinionhaver.bsky.social explained: flanderization. Some CODs had hallucination sequences that were well received, but since the arc of the AAA gaming industry trends towards slop, now half the missions are nightmare sequences where you call in drone strikes on the Childhood Trauma boss.
November 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
As @opinionhaver.bsky.social explained: flanderization. Some CODs had hallucination sequences that were well received, but since the arc of the AAA gaming industry trends towards slop, now half the missions are nightmare sequences where you call in drone strikes on the Childhood Trauma boss.
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do you know WHY actors and athletes are so well compensated today that it’s hard to look at them as “labor”
because they organized and negotiated for it
because they organized and negotiated for it
beyond just being wrong on the merits, the thing that bugs me about people dismissing actors and athletes as labor is that, historically, they’ve been at the forefront of a lot of labor victories that have helped labor more broadly
November 16, 2025 at 2:26 AM
do you know WHY actors and athletes are so well compensated today that it’s hard to look at them as “labor”
because they organized and negotiated for it
because they organized and negotiated for it
Mbwun from Lee and Child's The Relic!
(book version, not movie version)
(book version, not movie version)
November 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Mbwun from Lee and Child's The Relic!
(book version, not movie version)
(book version, not movie version)
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A Washington resident has been hospitalized with bird flu, according to the Washington State Health Department, and they’re infected with a strain of the virus that hasn’t been seen in humans before.
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Strain of bird flu virus never before reported in people is behind first human case in U.S. in nine months
A Washington resident has been hospitalized with bird flu, according to the Washington State Health Department, and they’re infected with a strain of the virus that hasn’t been seen in humans before.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
A Washington resident has been hospitalized with bird flu, according to the Washington State Health Department, and they’re infected with a strain of the virus that hasn’t been seen in humans before.
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...