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Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?
-- Blake (getting in touch with his inner Drosophila geneticist)

Profile pic: Me standing in front of the Àrbol de Tule in 2015.

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LocationDavis, CA, USA

Marble is a tortoise-shell cat with a lifetime of personality packed into every single day—and she would like you to know she has earned every bit of it. And don’t let her age fool you—at 10 years old, Marble isn't slowing down one bit, she's just getting better. https://alamedapost.com/features/alameda-life/marble-is-a-total-tortie-princess/

#AdoptableCats #AdoptablePets #alameda #faas #FriendsOfTheAlamedaAnimalShelter #PetOfTheWeek

RE: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/116301300014620100

When we talk about measles, I really wish more news articles highlighted how common and dangerous Subacute Sclerosing Panenchephalitis is in unvaccinated children.

Typical onset 6-15 years after infection.

For unvaccinated children younger than 15 months, risk may be as high as about 1 in 600.

Patients can suffer greatly.

There is no cure and it is almost always fatal.

With widespread measles vaccination, it is almost 100% preventable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subacute_sclerosing_panencephalitis

Carl Zimmer @[email protected] profiles Neion Bio, a startup engineering chickens to produce pharmaceutical proteins in their eggs. ~3,900 hens could replace a $1B CHO cell factory for drugs like Humira. Neion's CSO Sven Bocklandt was a colleague of mine at Colossal 🐺 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/s...

How to Turn a Chicken Egg Into...
How to Turn a Chicken Egg Into a Drug Factory

A biotech start-up is testing a novel way of efficiently producing pharmaceutical drugs.

The New York Times
What Happens When a Whale Is Born?

Researchers happened on the birth of a sperm-whale calf—which, they found, is a complex family endeavor.

The New Yorker

An extremely good article on the horrific bombing of the primary school in Minab that puts it in the context of both the wider history and the recent technological acceleration of the error-prone process of military “targeting”.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

The Guardian

A popular Python library just became a backdoor to your entire machine

https://www.xda-developers.com/popular-python-library-backdoor-machine/

It's one of the most popular Python libraries for interacting with large language models [...] It has over 40,000 stars on GitHub, and it's an important dependency in a lot of AI tooling. It's also been compromised on PyPI, and the malicious versions are stealing everything they can find on your machine.

Sorry but... 🍿

A popular Python library just became a backdoor to your entire machine

Supply chain attacks feel like they're becoming more and more common.

XDA
I now believe it is likely that the West will face record-low April 1 snowpack concurrently across many watersheds concurrently. This year may also bring unprecedented divergence between precipitation & runoff due to record-shattering warmth and extreme evaporative demand.
Trump's latest anti-wind effort: Pay companies to abandon offshore leases
Payment reimburses the company for two leases, one for a massive 3 GW wind farm.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/trumps-latest-anti-wind-effort-pay-companies-to-abandon-offshore-leases/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
The Financial Times reports that russia is earning as much as $150m a day in additional revenue from oil sales, making putin the "biggest winner" from the Middle East conflict.
NPR : National Public Radio