Jasnah Kholin
@jasnah.bsky.social
HKer, nidovirologist. Revstar & MayaKuro fangirl. 一个健康的社會不該只有一種聲音. 解散警隊. ★ she/佢 ★
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Grim reading. People buy a lot of stuff and send it back. But, it doesn't get restocked necessarily. Maybe it gets resold. But free shipping and overbuying has made people careless in their purchases. www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...
We Bought a 450-Pound Mystery Pallet Packed With Returned Goods From Amazon and Beyond. Here’s What We Found Inside.
Pallets of overstock, returned, and undelivered-mail packages are an indicator of just how much stuff there is in the retail ecosystem.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Grim reading. People buy a lot of stuff and send it back. But, it doesn't get restocked necessarily. Maybe it gets resold. But free shipping and overbuying has made people careless in their purchases. www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...
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Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time
Congrats to Jennifer English for winning the Best Lead Performer award at the 2025 #GoldenJoystickAwards!
And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈
And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time
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Congrats to Jennifer English for winning the Best Lead Performer award at the 2025 #GoldenJoystickAwards!
And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈
And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈
November 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Congrats to Jennifer English for winning the Best Lead Performer award at the 2025 #GoldenJoystickAwards!
And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈
And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Eye on the ball folks — DULF Charter challenge begins in four days.
Legal fund still needs your help: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...
Legal fund still needs your help: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...
November 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Eye on the ball folks — DULF Charter challenge begins in four days.
Legal fund still needs your help: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...
Legal fund still needs your help: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...
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What’s the most significant advice you received from a teacher?
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
November 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
What’s the most significant advice you received from a teacher?
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
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Looking forward to the @mcid-unibe.bsky.social annual event.
I will give a keynote lecture about some of my work and what I learned in the last years:
"Public Health in the Information Age: Old gaps, new vulnerabilities, hidden subversion and the battle for trust"
Should be fun 🎉🧪
I will give a keynote lecture about some of my work and what I learned in the last years:
"Public Health in the Information Age: Old gaps, new vulnerabilities, hidden subversion and the battle for trust"
Should be fun 🎉🧪
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Looking forward to the @mcid-unibe.bsky.social annual event.
I will give a keynote lecture about some of my work and what I learned in the last years:
"Public Health in the Information Age: Old gaps, new vulnerabilities, hidden subversion and the battle for trust"
Should be fun 🎉🧪
I will give a keynote lecture about some of my work and what I learned in the last years:
"Public Health in the Information Age: Old gaps, new vulnerabilities, hidden subversion and the battle for trust"
Should be fun 🎉🧪
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There's this whole image of nazi eugenics as evil scientists doing science without checks, but in reality what "science" happened was usually incompetent and driven by cruelty, and so fucking much of eugenics was about rejecting modern medicine as an "unnatural" boon to those who would otherwise die
American “public health” has been fully remade into the eugenics based view that the weak will die and the strong survive. This is fascism 101 and it’s the use of natural methods to enact genocide.
It’s a form of auto genocide and part of MAHAs expressly murderous plan globally.
It’s a form of auto genocide and part of MAHAs expressly murderous plan globally.
The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.
November 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
There's this whole image of nazi eugenics as evil scientists doing science without checks, but in reality what "science" happened was usually incompetent and driven by cruelty, and so fucking much of eugenics was about rejecting modern medicine as an "unnatural" boon to those who would otherwise die
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wow! the largest data leak in history - 3.5 billion accounts & it’s even worse - researchers discovered how an attacker can downgrade WhatsApp encryption. Meta turned a blind eye to these findings for a year.
3.5 Billion Accounts: Complete WhatsApp Directory Retrieved and Evaluated
Vienna researchers retrieved all WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history—and it's worse than you might think.
www.heise.de
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 AM
wow! the largest data leak in history - 3.5 billion accounts & it’s even worse - researchers discovered how an attacker can downgrade WhatsApp encryption. Meta turned a blind eye to these findings for a year.
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we did it joe www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
Why a Musicology Society’s Members Are in Revolt
The leading organization for music scholars is facing an uproar from hundreds of members, who are threatening a boycott unless it meets a chorus of demands.
www.chronicle.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
we did it joe www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
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It's true he's dishonest. It's true he's also a homicidal piece of shit. But it's also true that he's extremely stupid.
Secretary Kennedy, speaking to a bipartisan group of governors, has mixed up Medicare and Medicaid, and implied the people who will lose the latter are either unauthorized immigrants, dual eligible, or people who “don’t want to get a job.”
November 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It's true he's dishonest. It's true he's also a homicidal piece of shit. But it's also true that he's extremely stupid.
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Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”
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Here is some LLM fun.
November 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Here is some LLM fun.
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Every time I cringe at my own embarrassing, vapid banality, how insufferably obvious my thinking is, I remember this smug rent-a-clown's preening self-satisfaction, and thank god for impostor syndrome.
Every fucking thing he says flashes the "charlie brown had hoes" tweet into my brain. No it's not, that isn't true.
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Every time I cringe at my own embarrassing, vapid banality, how insufferably obvious my thinking is, I remember this smug rent-a-clown's preening self-satisfaction, and thank god for impostor syndrome.
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Last week, a human in Washington was hospitalized for H5N5, the first human case of highly pathogenic H5N5 in the US. doh.wa.gov/newsroom/h5n.... Thanks to work from Anna Jaeger and Stephen Shank in our lab, we've added this strain to our North American phylogeny: nextstrain.org/groups/moncl...
November 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Last week, a human in Washington was hospitalized for H5N5, the first human case of highly pathogenic H5N5 in the US. doh.wa.gov/newsroom/h5n.... Thanks to work from Anna Jaeger and Stephen Shank in our lab, we've added this strain to our North American phylogeny: nextstrain.org/groups/moncl...
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#NatMicroPicks
Cracking the code of Yellow Fever Virus entry! 🔑🧪
YFV uses multiple LDL receptor family members, including LRP4, LRP1, and VLDLR, as entry receptors, offering new targets for antiviral strategies
#MicroSky #VirusSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cracking the code of Yellow Fever Virus entry! 🔑🧪
YFV uses multiple LDL receptor family members, including LRP4, LRP1, and VLDLR, as entry receptors, offering new targets for antiviral strategies
#MicroSky #VirusSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Multiple LDLR family members act as entry receptors for yellow fever virus - Nature
The low-density lipoprotein receptor family members LRP1, LRP4 and VLDLR are entry receptors for yellow fever virus.
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
#NatMicroPicks
Cracking the code of Yellow Fever Virus entry! 🔑🧪
YFV uses multiple LDL receptor family members, including LRP4, LRP1, and VLDLR, as entry receptors, offering new targets for antiviral strategies
#MicroSky #VirusSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cracking the code of Yellow Fever Virus entry! 🔑🧪
YFV uses multiple LDL receptor family members, including LRP4, LRP1, and VLDLR, as entry receptors, offering new targets for antiviral strategies
#MicroSky #VirusSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Brand new preprint from my lab, showing that TnpB, the ancestor of Cas12, acts as a gene drive in plasmids! And it turns out in conjugative plasmids that it acts as a primitive anti-self defense system, providing a potential link between its transposon effect and becoming CRISPR!
What is the best strategy to win any contest?
Eliminate your opponents of course.
Recently, my friend @fernpizza.bsky.social showed how plasmids compete intracellularly (check out his paper published in Science today!). With @baym.lol, we now know they can fight.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Eliminate your opponents of course.
Recently, my friend @fernpizza.bsky.social showed how plasmids compete intracellularly (check out his paper published in Science today!). With @baym.lol, we now know they can fight.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Brand new preprint from my lab, showing that TnpB, the ancestor of Cas12, acts as a gene drive in plasmids! And it turns out in conjugative plasmids that it acts as a primitive anti-self defense system, providing a potential link between its transposon effect and becoming CRISPR!
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But in the context of plasmids this results in a newly inserted IS605 to reprogram TnpB to target, and destroy, all IS- plasmids within the cell. With no competition only IS+ plasmids will replicate, biasing their inheritance.
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
But in the context of plasmids this results in a newly inserted IS605 to reprogram TnpB to target, and destroy, all IS- plasmids within the cell. With no competition only IS+ plasmids will replicate, biasing their inheritance.
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So what is going on? TnpB happens to be the ancestor to Cas12 and is also an RNA-guided nuclease. The @sternberglab.bsky.social lab figured out TnpB uses this activity to promote genomic retention by cutting excision scars - preventing IS loss.
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
So what is going on? TnpB happens to be the ancestor to Cas12 and is also an RNA-guided nuclease. The @sternberglab.bsky.social lab figured out TnpB uses this activity to promote genomic retention by cutting excision scars - preventing IS loss.
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What is the best strategy to win any contest?
Eliminate your opponents of course.
Recently, my friend @fernpizza.bsky.social showed how plasmids compete intracellularly (check out his paper published in Science today!). With @baym.lol, we now know they can fight.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Eliminate your opponents of course.
Recently, my friend @fernpizza.bsky.social showed how plasmids compete intracellularly (check out his paper published in Science today!). With @baym.lol, we now know they can fight.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
What is the best strategy to win any contest?
Eliminate your opponents of course.
Recently, my friend @fernpizza.bsky.social showed how plasmids compete intracellularly (check out his paper published in Science today!). With @baym.lol, we now know they can fight.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Eliminate your opponents of course.
Recently, my friend @fernpizza.bsky.social showed how plasmids compete intracellularly (check out his paper published in Science today!). With @baym.lol, we now know they can fight.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Incredible headline.
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Incredible headline.
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Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
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"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
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Halted NIH Clinical Trials List Reveals Slashed Treatments for Cancer, COVID and Minority Health. By @danvergano.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/halt...
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Halted NIH Clinical Trials List Reveals Slashed Treatments for Cancer, COVID and Minority Health. By @danvergano.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/halt...