David Rasmussen, aka Rasamoto @Bertrecords@qoto.org

"Therefore their AI is doomed to be stupid."

Brilliant commentary.

My latest eBook is out. It's called Favorite Photos from 2022. It includes a favorite photo from each month of 2022 and a story about them. It also includes runner-up images.

It was a surprising amount of work to make.

https://www.bryanhansel.com/shop/favorite-photos-from-2022/

My favorite Dionne Warwick song and Burt Bacharach writing effort. #burtbacharach #RIPBurtBacharach #BlackMastodon

New @NEJM
Interferon λ, a new way to cut hospitalizations by 50% after Covid, in a randomized, placebo-controlled trial >2,000 patients age 50+ or high risk
@dr_gilmarreis and colleagues
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2209760

As a geneticist, I was having a conversation with a friend in the supermarket yesterday. How they only buy natural foods. I laughed because they had 3 pink grapefruits in their basket. I told them that the only reason that grapefruit is pink is because of mutagenesis. As a child most grapefruit were almost clear. However exposing the seed to high levels of nuclear radiation scrambled its DNA. At some point one of those seeds produced a sweet pink grapefruit.

They were horrified 😆😁😄😃😀

Someone asked ChapGPt to come up with 10 Commandments for the modern world. I could be guided by these principles. Perhaps a new religion is in order?

7 rules of small town #Minnesota:

1. Never say you don't like something or someone.
2. Only certain people can gossip. You aren't one of them.
3. Local is a term that white people use to argue over who has lived on native land longer. You don't qualify.
4. Never disagree with how things are done.
5. If you sit on a board, expect a decision that would take 10 minutes elsewhere to take three to five meetings.
6. Never leave a party first or eat the last thing.
7. Prepare for 30-minute goodbyes.

Hey all 👋

We have an update on Twitter API Fees and Moa.Party shutdown.

⚠️⚠️⚠️ In all likelihood, we will shutdown the main instance on Feb 9th, when free access to the Twitter API ends ⚠️⚠️⚠️

Please read our status update for full details https://moaparty.com/status/2023/02/05/

@historyofpunkrock Still own that cassette. Got it in Minneapolis. Having been reminded how long ago I should say it never happened.

Excellent read

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/hunter-brown-is-framber-valdez-in-a-justin-verlander-shaped-container/

#Twitter has banned #Movetodon from the API, so it no longer works.

Fedifinder still works, so that's an option at least for a little while.

https://fedifinder.glitch.me/

Special Counsel Jack Smith must be chuckling this morning following this development. It turns out someone in 45’s campaign in Wisconsin made recordings of a meeting held two days after the 2020 presidential election. Whoops! What they caught on tape, and what it means, in today’s piece. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/lordy-there-are-yet-more-tapes?sd=pf

Interesting stress test. I guess I am about to discover what happens when a post goes somewhat viral on Mastodon I have one happening now, hundreds of likes.

My little 2gb Ubuntu #selfhosted #selfhosting server seems to be responding well, but is a bit ... busy.

Reminder that there are no moderate Republicans in Congress.

Every time I read “critical race theory” I have to double-check what they think it is and why they think it’s a problem. Because it just sounds like the effort to understand history and the truth of slavery and structural racism, which any honest person knows is a real thing.

45 years ago
Poly Styrene on the front cover of Los Angeles punk fanzine 'Slash', February 1978

#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #polystyrene #xrayspex #history #punkrockhistory

Who will cry for the little boy?

WE WILL.

#TyreNichols #BlackMastodon