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Tom Madden
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Bioinformatician (retired) working on alignment tools such as BLAST. PhD Physics. Sail flying scots in my free time. Opinions are my own.

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Good #nokings costumes at #nih
October 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
October 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Reposted by Tom Madden
One of the side-effects of the AI bubble is that we stopped talking about alternative solutions to computing problems. Everything needs to be solved with "AI" - meaning an LLM - and nobody stops and asks if there is an alternative. This drives me mad because LLMs are not only unreliable, but […]
Original post on mas.to
mas.to
September 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Reposted by Tom Madden
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people. "

Commander William Adama […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
August 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Silent protest from "Naptown" (local) group at #goodtroubleliveson
July 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Teachers at the #goodtroubleliveson rally in Annapolis
July 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
John Lewis sign at Annapolis #goodtroubleliveson event.
July 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Pretty good turnout in Annapolis for the #goodtroubleliveson rally. It was 88 F (31 C) and very humid.
July 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Maryland Representative Sarah Elfreth speaking at Annapolis #nokings. Asked for help with upcoming elections to turn House.
June 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
George Washington reenactment of #nokings speech in Annapolis.
June 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
US flags a theme at Annapolis #nokings
June 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Signs from Annapolis #nokings
June 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#nokings Annapolis Haven’t even started
June 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Reposted by Tom Madden
RFK Jr's "MAHA" report came out last week. It misinterpreted data, had broken links to some citations, and cited 7 articles that don't exist.

That last one is a hallmark of AI hallucinations.

How much of the MAHA report was AI generated? 🤔

www.notus.org/health-scien...
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Reposted by Tom Madden
May 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Federal cuts to National Institutes of Health could threaten medical progress
https://youtu.be/U8CcOAsyORM
April 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Reposted by Tom Madden
American civilization is collapsing under the weight of shitty people who are frankly fine with this happening because he’s called Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez.
Bare-bones docket for Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez (misspelled in the file as "Jaun")
April 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Reposted by Tom Madden
I want to know the backstory of how long the hacker knew about this security vulnerability and their waiting for a moment of meaningful protest and civil disobedience […]
Original post on alpaca.gold
alpaca.gold
April 13, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Reposted by Tom Madden
Gift link: "Democrats should stop pulling their punches. What the country needs is an unequivocal, full-throated condemnation of pandering protectionism." Leave the throwback mercantilism and simplistic populism to Donald Trump and his followers for once. [@crampell.bsky.social]
Opinion | Why are Democrats pulling their punches on Trump’s disastrous trade war?
The party is blowing its chance to mount an offensive against protectionism.
wapo.st
April 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Reposted by Tom Madden
Editors at Jeff Bezos’s
@washingtonpost were even more dismissive of the #handsoff pro-democracy movement on 4/6.

More than 1 million Americans expressing their concerns got a tiny box.

The next day, WaPo editors chose to devote half the #frontpage to a […]

[Original post on journa.host]
April 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Reposted by Tom Madden
Making the rounds.
April 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM