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• Accurate prediction of protein structures and interactions using a three-track neural network
• Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold | Nature
• (400) https://twitter.com/cathywilcox1/status/1473753432129376257/photo/1
  RT @cathywilcox1: Advent calendar.
  My @smh @theage cartoon.
• ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Movie Review: Matrix 4
• The Annual HungryandFrozen Edible Gift Recipe Round-Up  – Hungry and Frozen
• Joe Biden Should Accept Joe Manchin's Climate Deal – The Atlantic
  If Build Back Better fails, it will be a catastrophe for the Democratic Party too. Biden has argued that only his moderation, his experience, and his institutionalism can relieve the country’s crises. Congressional Democrats followed by electing Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, geriatric pragmatists, to lead the House and the Senate, respectively. If this trio of moderates cannot deliver the goods—if they cannot, despite their decades of yammering, actually succeed in passing what is an aspirational but still insufficient climate law—then the center-left’s case for itself will collapse. The left will argue, more convincingly than ever, that only radicalism and political rupture constitute a sane response to the climate crisis
• America is now in fascism’s legal phase | The far right | The Guardian
  The contemporary American fascist movement is led by oligarchical interests for whom the public good is an impediment, such as those in the hydrocarbon business, as well as a social, political, and religious movement with roots in the Confederacy. As in all fascist movements, these forces have found a popular leader unconstrained by the rules of democracy, this time in the figure of Donald Trump
• Uncanny Valley: A Hollywood Executive Reflects on What Her Industry and the Pandemic Have Done to Women's Faces | Vogue
• The Imperfectionist: Wisdom for the end of the year
  Wisdom for the end of the year Instead of a regular edition, here’s a holiday special, featuring seven of the most powerful snippets I’ve added recently to my digital equi…
• (400) https://twitter.com/tuna_suma/status/1404785742207877131/video/1
  RT @gunsnrosesgirl3: Look at this moth from the genus Phalera

  It looks like a fragment of twig complete with chipped bark and even the layering of wood tissue at the “cut” ends…

  perfectly resembling a broken piece of wood to avoid predation.

• A Year in Reading: Kat Chow – The Millions
• (400) https://twitter.com/SarahLustbader/status/1473479141244780547/photo/1
  RT @SarahLustbader: Here is the head of NYC corrections sounding the alarm: 1% of prisoners were COVID positive until recently, 9.5% yesterday, over 17% today. He “implores” us to stop sending people to rikers.
• Inverting PhotoDNA
  Ribosome shows that PhotoDNA does not perfectly hide information about the source image used to compute the signature, and that in fact, a PhotoDNA hash can be used to produce thumbnail-quality reproductions of the original image.

  Source code
  Code and pre-trained models are available on GitHub.

• Hilary Mantel · Diary: Meeting the Devil · LRB 4 November 2010
• Nine of the best fiction books of 2021 from Crossroads to The Promise | Metro News
• 2021.12.14.472719v1.full
  On omicron
• 2021: the review of the year in neuroscience | by Mark Humphries | The Spike | Dec, 2021 | Medium
• (400) https://twitter.com/repweinstein/status/1473339210199404552
  RT @MollyJongFast: Right wing media did this
• The Case for Joy | Dame Magazine

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