Joshua Sharp @JoshuaSharp@qoto.org

The Florida GOP is just comically fascist.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3882068-florida-bill-would-require-bloggers-to-register-before-writing-about-desantis/

“Recomposed”

Jimmy Carter's most important legacy is probably his least well known. Before Carter, 3.6 million people per year were infected by Guinea Worm, a neglected tropical disease. Today, that's down to *13* cases per year, a reduction of 99.99%. And it throws his post-presidency into stark relief from Trump's who is golfing and ranting on social media while trying to get richer. https://brianklaas.substack.com/p/jimmy-carters-hidden-legacy

The problem isn't regulating "AI" or future "AGI". It's protecting individuals from corporate and government overreach using "AI" to cut costs and or deflect accountability.

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Bret Stephens once called global warming "mass hysteria" and claimed climate science had been "discredited."

Please don't believe a single word he writes about #COVID-19.

The Onion is on fire and I am in awe. https://www.theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997

Tate Reeves was lieutenant governor in 2016-2019, when the MS Department of Human Services and others diverted more than $77 million in TANF funds away from the poor and toward wealthy individuals and their causes, like Brett Favre.

Presley called Reeves “a man with zero conviction” who “looks out for himself and his rich friends instead of the people who put him into office.”
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/31094/presley-leads-reeves-for-governor-amid-mississippi-welfare-scandal-poll-shows

For all the talk of the Twitter files supposedly (but not actually) revealing that Twitter was actively colluding with Democrats to censor conservatives (note: this did not actually happen), it's interesting to see that none of the Twitter Files discuss the now revealed point that Republicans regularly demanded Twitter remove tweets: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/09/somehow-missing-from-the-official-twitter-files-twitter-had-to-continually-respond-to-trumps-gop-officials-demands-for-taking-down-tweets/

New at The Watch: Debunking a dumb, racist narrative taking hold on the right

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/tyre-nichols-wasnt-murdered-because

Fully funded 4 year #PhD available at the University of Antwerp!

You will work in my lab on #machinelearning and #deeplearning solutions to analyze #massspectrometry #metabolomics data.

Job ad: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacancies/academic-staff/?q=2652&descr=Doctoral-scholarship-holder-artificial-intelligence-for-bioinformatics
Application deadline: 19 March 2023

For more information, please reach out to me via email or social media.

Hamline U update: faculty votes overwhelmingly no confidence in president who presided over free speech debacle. FAAFO.

https://hamlineoracle.com/10822/news/hamline-faculty-no-longer-have-faith-in-president-miller/

The party of free speech out there free speeching I see

https://apnews.com/article/ron-desantis-florida-race-and-ethnicity-education-353417231de0a790c8e290479a5e52b8

Using heparan sulfate octadecasaccharide (18-mer) as a multi-target agent to protect against sepsis
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2209528120?af=R

Looks Interesting. Will have to dig into this and find out why an 18-mer...

#Glycotime #Proteoglycans #Science #Research

I just wrote a short piece over on post.news about how the h-index rose to prominence because it was a clever UI hack—and now that the UI hack is no longer needed, it may seem like a curious choice of bibliometric measure.

Here's the link if you want to read it there.

https://post.news/article/2KNv9uat3nL8CF6tIpA7eIpVGOg

I'll serialize here as well, below.