Michael Baym

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Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School in Biomedical Informatics and Microbiology. My lab studies microbial evolutionary genetics, antibiotic resistance, algorithms for genomics, weird phages, and some other fun things

Also @baym at Twitter and @mhbaym at Post

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Today I learned that apparently if you switch servers you have to be very careful switching back not to form an infinite redirect loop. Thanks, @DunhamLab for the warning!
Ok, so maybe running a family server was funny but probably didn't actually make sense
I don't suppose anyone here knows what relay mstdn.science uses?
Sorry... (really not sorry at all). I asked ChatGPT to write a Jay-Z song name checking John Mastodon, and the results were so much better than I could have expected.... #JohnMastodon

@baym kinda beat me to it, but I'll put this up anyway:

#Hanukkah #JohnMastadon

I asked openGPT to sing me the ballad of John Mastadon and Elon and it has opinions
#JohnMastadon

Oh my.

@Mediaite conservative writer Isaac Schorr misread the Twitter account @joinmastodon as "John Mastodon," and said that the open source social media software was named after this imaginary person. https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/hypocrisy-and-fear-all-the-way-down-at-twitter/

Hypocrisy and Fear All the Way Down at Twitter

After you’ve drawn such a strong distinction on speech and human freedom, you can’t make any mistake about the side on which you belong.

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Yeah so who’s got a good pointer to tips for hosting your own little family instance?
Maybe the real light of evolution was the ad-hoc explanations we made along the way
Real normal stuff going on over at the bird site