Entries from January 2022 ↓

• A Tomato Soup Recipe That Roxane Gay Actually Enjoys – The New York Times
• Puzzle Roll Away Mat
• The Most Valuable Thing I Can Teach My Kid Is How to Be Lazy Jan. 20, 2022
• Parenting in (Utopian) Community at Twin Oaks Commune
• Where profits are soaring most for home sellers in Washington (Hint: It’s not Seattle) – The Seattle Times
• DNA Study Identifies Possible “Kunga” in Syria – Archaeology Magazine
• How to set up a website – Fastmail
  With Fastmail, you can publish your own static website or share your files at a domain of your choice. If you are not using your own domain, your content will be published to an address based on your username or alias. For example, if your email address is inigomontoya@fastmail.com, then the website address would be http://inigomontoya.fastmail.com.

  Please note that for security reasons, the content is actually hosted at http://inigomontoya.fastmail.com.user.fm.

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• What wipes in Star Wars teach us about the brain and also interface design (Interconnected)
• 52 things I learned in 2021 by Tom Whitwell from Fluxx | Fluxx Studio Notes
• TRANSCRIPT It's All Going to Pot: The Science and Economics of Edibles – Gastropod
• Do these 3 brain exercises to 'stay mentally sharp and solve problems faster,' says Stanford creativity expert
• 52 Things I Learned in 2021
  Jason Kottke
• Weird Old Book Finder
• Tom Hiddleston on Taylor Swift, Heartbreak, and Great Bolognese | GQ
  Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• Miro – The Visual Collaboration Platform for Every Team
  Scalable, secure, cross-device and enterprise-ready team collaboration whiteboard for distributed teams. Join 30M+ users from around the world.
• New tools offer peace of mind for pandemic travel

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• Broccoli Salad With Garlic and Sesame – Brightland
• Weed’s Last Taboo: Pregnancy
• New Software Engineering Center to Accelerate Scientific Discovery at UW
  Software engineering is vital to Seattle’s emergence as a tech leader driving a local climate of innovation. The new Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) at UW’s eScience Institute will leverage local software engineering talent to advance scientific frontiers that will change the world around us and respond to the challenges that face humanity. The SSEC,
• Major Linux PolicyKit security vulnerability uncovered: Pwnkit | ZDNet
  A serious memory corruption vulnerability in polkit (formerly PolicyKit) has finally been discovered after 12+ years. This program is found in essentially all modern Linux distributions.
• Panda – The brand new editor for Bear | Bear App
  An early preview of the new Markdown Editor coming to Bear. Give it a spin and let us know what you think!

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• Stephen Breyer retiring: his spectacularly calculated exit from the Supreme court has a lesson.
• Seattle DESC opens Phase 2 of Hobson Place homeless housing | king5.com
• Catch-Up with Sundance 2022
  Everything Sundance Film Festival 2022 in one place
• Winners announced! Your best shots of 2021 are here. | Flickr Blog
• Byteboard nabs $5M seed to change the way engineers get hired | TechCrunch
  Byteboard founders Sargun Kaur and Nikke Hardson-Hurley were working at Google when they recognized a fundamental problem with the way engineers were being hired. They saw a process of obscure algorithms, and those with access to the content could (and usually would) study it for months. They thought engineers should be judged by their ability to code and do the job on a daily basis, so they started a company to create a different kind of engineering job interview.
• Hipster Ipsum – Artisanal filler text for your project.
• support: Docsy Theme can not be built. · Issue #547 · peaceiris/actions-hugo
• BigQuery Explainable AI now in GA to help you interpret your machine learning models | Google Cloud Blog
• Moderna-partnered gene editor Metagenomi adds $175M to crown from Bayer, BMS and others to get into clinic, launch new biotechs | FierceBiotech

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• Vertex AI Workbench: Build an image classification model with transfer learning and the notebook executor
  Vertex AI Workbench: Build an image classification model with transfer learning and the notebook executor
• CNN: What to know about the Trump 'fake electors' scheme
• The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back
  A Special Edition of The Ruffian
• Anthony Philippakis | Broad Institute
  Anthony Philippakis is the chief data officer of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the co-director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center.
• The Guardian: US prosecutors investigate Republicans who sent fake Trump electors to Congress
• Pentel EnerGel Gel Pens – Black Colors | JetPens
• Zebra Sarasa Grand Gel Pens | JetPens

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• The Case Against the Trauma Plot
  Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can’t resist it. But does this trope deepen characters, or flatten them into a set of symptoms?

  Parul Sehgal

• emotional support trauma plot – by Brandon
• Remembering the smart, sharp, naughty Betty White
  Betty White was smart and sharp, sexy and versatile, for decades. Anyone who saw her as just a salty-mouthed grandma missed out.
• Deepmind's Mustafa Suleyman Quits Google, Saying 'I Really Screwed up'
• Google Team That Keeps Services Online Rocked by Mental Health Crisis
• Big data study suggests the human brain navigates by taking the "pointiest path" rather than the shortest path
• Metagenomic discovery of CRISPR-associated transposons | PNAS
  CRISPR-Cas systems confer bacteria and archaea with adaptive immunity against mobile genetic elements. These systems also participate in other cellular processes. For example, CRISPR-associated Tn7 transposons (CASTs) have co-opted nuclease-inactive CRISPR effector proteins to guide their transposition. We bioinformatically survey metagenomic databases to uncover CASTs, including systems with new architectures and ones that use distinct CRISPR subtypes. We also describe a putative non-Tn7 CAST that co-opts Cas12. Our findings propose mechanisms for vertical and horizontal CAST targeting and shed light on how CASTs have coevolved with CRISPR-Cas systems.
• (400) https://twitter.com/josephmiles35/status/1484545351923212290
  Bio-pharma organizations can now leverage the groundbreaking protein folding system, AlphaFold, with Vertex AI.
• The Utility of White-Hot Rage
  Living in the era of climate change might make us feel guilt, or grief, or anger. How do those who think about these problems every day keep going?
• (400) https://twitter.com/groenbot/status/1485359273777500162
  RT @theferocity: My eyebrows went up and STAYED up.
• Silicon Valley’s New Obsession: Science Funding – The Atlantic
• Seattle Medium: Seattle Legalizes Psychedelics
• The Seattle Times: University of Washington, Seattle University to return to in-person classes
• Ars Technica: Booby-trapped sites delivered potent new backdoor trojan to macOS users
• The Verge: Meta has built an AI supercomputer it says will be world’s fastest by end of 2022
• A former Google scientist has a new approach to make AI more ethical – The Washington Post
• Google AI Blog: Learning to Route by Task for Efficient Inference
• Google AI Blog: Introducing StylEx: A New Approach for Visual Explanation of Classifiers
• A closer look at how LinkedIn integrates fairness into its AI products | LinkedIn Engineering
• Transformers. Transformer models have become the… | by Vinithavn | Geek Culture | Jan, 2022 | Medium
• The Washington Post: Capitol police officer Eugene Goodman speaks publicly for first time since Jan. 6 insurrection

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• Integrate with GitHub | Atlassian Support
• Google kills off FLoC, replaces it with Topics
• We Have a 'Sixth Sense' That Is Key to Our Wellbeing, But Only if We Listen to It
• How a Rare Brain Mutation Spread Across America – The Atlantic
• Star Trek Wrath of Khan Director on Shatner & Montalban
  Sci-Fi Writer-Director-Producer Marc Zicree sits down with Nicholas Meyer, writer-director-producer whose credits include Wrath of Khan, Star Tre IV, Star Tr…
• January 22, 2022
  Joe Biden’s presidency is just over a year old. Biden has embraced the old idea, established by the Democrats under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Republicans under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, that in a democracy, the federal government has a responsibility to keep the playing field level for all. It must regulate business to maintain competition and prevent corporations from abusing their employees, protect civil rights, provide a basic social safety net, and promote infrastructure.

  The idea that Biden “hasn’t done anything” is bullshit. @HC_Richardson lays it all out. If it’s still not clear which party wants America to succeed, well, I can’t help you. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-22-2022?r=2wupm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

• Quantitative Biology Workshop | edX

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• “You’re My Present This Year”: An Oral History of the Folgers Incest Ad
  The best part of waking up is getting to read this incest oral history.
• All the memes in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This, explained.
• Home – Say Yes! To Covid Test

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• Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw fake electors plot in 7 states – CNNPolitics

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• Why Climate Change Is Pushing Up Lumber Prices – The Atlantic
• Radiance Cohousing | Saskatoon | Home
  Radiance Cohousing: A friendly green community in the heart of Saskatoon, SK built to the Passivhaus standard
  475 Avenue L South
  Saskatoon SK S7M 5Y6
  (306) 880-0373
  info@radiancecohousing.ca
• Google Health's New AI Study Achieves New Advances In Identification Of Genetic Diseases Using Machine Learning – MarkTechPost
  Studies have shown that genetic diseases can cause critical illnesses. Early detection of the underlying problem allows for life-saving treatments in many situations. Recent research shows that nearly 6% of all infants are affected by genetic or congenital disorders, yet clinical sequencing testing can take days or weeks to diagnose these diseases. 

  Genome sequencing has the potential to improve the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. To that end, Google Health has made significant breakthroughs in the rapid identification of genetic diseases and promoting genomic tests’ equity across ancestries. 

  To begin, the Google Health team has collaborated with the University of California Santa Cruz Genomics Institute to develop PEPPER-Margin-DeepVariant, a method for analyzing data for Oxford Nanopore sequencers. It is one of the fastest commercial sequencing technologies available today. 

  The findings show that this method detected a likely disease-causing variation in less than 8 hours after sequencing began in the quickest cases, compared to 13.5 hours in the previous fastest case.

• Animal Group Terminology

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