Dr Sian Gramates

@DrGlam
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Biocurator, feminist, molecular neuroscientist, pagan, Drosophila geneticist, comics geek, cat adorer, coping with disability
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Finally! Cambridge bans city departments from using X

https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/03/04/cambridge-x-twitter-ban

Cambridge bans all city departments from using the social media platform X

The Cambridge City Council unanimously passed a ban Monday on city agencies using X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, starting this May. Councilor Ayah Al-Zubi, who co-sponsored the measure, said it was an idea that "came directly from our constituents."

RE: https://ohai.social/@jascha/116165169216167770

Accurate. If left unchecked, scientists will talk incessantly about the things for days at a time.

Fly peeps: I can't attend #Dros26. Could someone grab a couple of this year's gorgeous Genesee Scientific Drosophila art postcards for me?
People. Who. Aren't. Good. With. Technology. Deserve. Security. And. Privacy. Too.

Zuck's assholes decided to bring facial recognition technology into the courtroom, thus providing the means for deanonymizing jurors.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-trial-mark-zuckerberg-ai-glasses/

Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial

A Los Angeles judge ordered Meta officials to remove their AI glasses at a trial over the impact of social media on users.

And people wonder why I am a AI hater… theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-pu…
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

The Shamblog
The face of a cat who just had a ferocious pitched battle with her own tail.

I didn't post this because previously it was purported CCTV footage and could have been anything. But now it's been verified as a news story.

#ICE faked car trouble to get a helpful person to come help them, and they grabbed and disappeared him.

They are doing every taboo thing that G-d or gods cursed peoples for. Doing violence to the people who made them food, parading good food in front of captive children and then making them eat worms.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/minnesota/news/ice-agents-fake-car-trouble-to-lure-man-brooklyn-center-minnesota/

Minnesota family says ICE agents faked car trouble to lure man out of home

On the same day that federal officials announced the end of Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, a nightmare began for a family in the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights​.

‘Thippe would like to know where I hid the nice sunny warm snow-free deck
“I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention…”
— JD Vance on why he amplified false claims about Haitians eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.