Timothyhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opinion/covid-pandemic-lab-leak.html
Tufekci continues to be one of the least trustworthy narrators of "the science" on covid and lab leaks
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Anyway, you can read the screenshotted Slack chats (maybe the hair is rising up on the back of your neck already) and yeah, there on Feb 1st 2020, that's the quote.
What's clear though, is that Andersen is one of a number of genomics researchers who are collaborating here, and this is a side chat -- working under extreme pressure in *February 2020* for chrissakes, and they barely have anything more than rough sequences of the virus
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Proposal that we rename the (outdated, inaccurate, offensive) term “cargo cult” with the (modern, accurate, ironically withering) title “prompt engineer”
https://bsky.app/profile/weisenthal.bsky.social/post/3lhlybnlxi22c
(Via @skamille )
Joe Weisenthal namechecking Walter Ong and Eric Havelock is the kind of convergence of the cosmic spheres that I didn’t feel like was possible to experience anymore in these dark times
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-13/los-angeles-wildfires-why-these-homes-didn-t-burn
I’m biased but I think this is terrific
terra tauriI am super excited to read the first two chapters of Platform Engineering by @skamille.
I'll be leading a little book club at work this week. Tonight is the last night I can reasonably prepare, so I'll be live tooting my hot takes as I read through the first two chapters to prepare myself to facilitate discussions.
Platform Engineering
Until recently, infrastructure was the backbone of organizations operating software they developed in-house. But now that cloud vendors run the computers, companies can finally bring the benefits of agile custom-centricity … - Selection from Platform Engineering [Book]
Lukas Ehlers StührkLet's find out what's in Platform Engineering by @skamille and Ian Nowland.
Helen BranswellCalifornia's Dept of Public Health reports finding #H5N1 #birdflu virus in raw milk. The producer, Raw Farm LLC of Fresno County, has agreed to recall a batch of a whole milk product called "cream top."
Milk from infected cows contains staggering levels of virus. https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/29/bird-flu-raw-milk-h5n1-risk-us-cattle/
Milk from infected cows contains staggering levels of virus. https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/29/bird-flu-raw-milk-h5n1-risk-us-cattle/
Fred MoyerJust ordered @skamille “Platform Engineering” book. High expectations on this one :) Looking to understand the lines between that platform stuff vs getting folks to do things (enablement).