zara weinberg

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cell signaling, synbio, publication anarchist, mentoring, teaching, curiosity, caring. šŸ§™šŸ»ā€ā™€ļøšŸ‘©šŸ»ā€šŸ”¬šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆāš§ she/her
@hannah complete strangers, upon seeing you, think, "Yes. I am aligned with Hannah; her victories are my victories."
I’m still on jeopardy! Today is game FIVE which means if i win then i’m guaranteed a spot in the Tournament of Champions, which is pretty cool imo

I just googled "how to kill children."

Quickly realized that I needed to change that to "how to kill children linux."

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Maybe I just need to "kill man"

Gah! I mean "man kill"!

The construction of the center-running bike lanes on Valencia St has begun and cars are already using it as free parking. Who could have possibly predicted this?

We need protected bike lanes, but the city gave us a few new lines of paint and some soft-posts instead. #ZeroVision #SanFrancisco #BikeTooter

linux user be like 🐧

me: oh cool these two people with the same surname and a boy name and then four years later a girl name contributed to my cryptography library!

me: that would be so cool to have a sibling who works on the same stuff

me: wait. this is rust..

me: oohhhh

me: congrats to her!! ✨

so ya everyone doing very similar and often exactly the same thing like hundreds of meters apart have no good way of like sharing that information except if they are doing so privately person to person. and we expect to be able to like... UNDERSTAND THE BRAIN????
sharing information with colleagues in your own department by publishing papers is like sending a letter next door after a brief detour to the MOON

just learned about Conway's law (organizations that design systems reproduce their own communications structure) and i feel like we need a corollary for merit.

communities that create systems to evaluate merit will reproduce the inequities and biases present in the community.