#AIForGood
“Biology is, in essence, just code. AI’s algorithms can sort through vast amounts of code and identify, or build, anything that might act like an antibiotic.”

- San Francisco Chronicle

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The Artificial Humanities preorders have arrived! Get your copy here:
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Scientists found a hidden source of clean energy. It could power Earth for 170,000 years. - Live Science

Joan Didion’s notes after meeting with her psychiatrist’s will become public as a book, titled “Notes to John” in April.

You may read this gift article from The New York Times for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/b...

Because human beings need to have a sense of belonging, thus, a sense of community, to survive.

Even evolutionists agree on this.

TIME:
How do you define community?

US SURGEON GENERAL: Community is a place where we have relationships, help each other, and where we find purpose.”

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#KardashevScale Year-end random thoughts: where to human? youtu.be/rhFK5_Nx9xY

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Without knowing a single Polish word, I managed to buy
1. stuffed cabbage
2. Poppy seed roll
3. Chocolate raspberry cake
4. A box of happy barrels (alcoholic chocolate) at the Polish grocery. Jewel Osco was closed when I got out of the house. Will my Thanksgiving host welcome me with these ?

On Bluesky if you’re a nobody, you remain a nobody. On Threads you may remain a stranger, but you don’t stay a nobody. That’s a comfortable spot.

I come here for the Sunday funnies.

Metropolitan Museum of Art high-res digital pieces now free to use for non-commercial purposes

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💡 Tip: You can set your website as your username on Bluesky!

This is one form of self-verification, and we especially encourage official organizations and brands to do this! Examples include @npr.org @react.dev @duolingobrasil.com.br.

Here's our guide for how to do this:

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #265,111!

What does it mean? Nothing significant. I use Threads more. The algorithm on Threads get me interacting with people.

I finally came around to doing my invoices. That means I still have the desire to live! Question is, will I be paid, considering the impending gov shut down?

If Bluesky seems dead or low activity on your end it might be that you haven't yet made the most of its design. It's different from Twitter in some key ways so you have to interact differently. I'm writing these tips below from my non-techy perspective, techies please weigh in if I get things wrong:

My Bluesky Discover feed is a stream
of unrelatable stuff.

When you’ve only been on Bluesky for a couple days, and you woke up from a nap, and you read the feed from @hmpxvt.bsky.social , you feel this sudden doom that the world is about to end.

This is why Bluesky is one step up in mental calisthenics for me: I need to think about what folks are talkin’ ‘bout.

Welcome to my blue sky, where the sky’s not always blue, but fingers crossed, would be mostly true. (Hah! That rhymes!) Profile pic is a witch pic — don’t nitpick, k?