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catespice.bsky.social
I just heard the most insane TERF thing ever and I need to share it with you:

BIOLOGICAL NAME

That’s right. Names are now encoded into your biology, at birth 😂
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
davidaxe.bsky.social
To Jam Russia's Mach-5.7 Kinzhal Missiles, Ukrainian Troops Force-Fed Them An Encoded Patriotic Anthem
To Jam Russia's Mach-5.7 Kinzhal Missiles, Ukrainian Troops Force-Fed Them An Encoded Patriotic Anthem
Spoofing a Kinzhal's navigation receiver sends it off course
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
jperkel.bsky.social
“This new class of genetically encoded sensors has really opened up this world.” New @nature.com, what's new in the world of genetically encoded neurochemical sensors. by @dianakwon.bsky.social 🧪 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How genetically encoded sensors have lit up neuroscience
Tools that track specific molecules in neurons have enabled researchers to probe previously unexplored aspects of neurobiology — although important caveats remain.
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
wretchedmorgan.bsky.social
I bet HD-DVD wouldn’t have encoded everything in 16:9 regardless of the source’s aspect ratio
November 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
grey.lastcaw.cc
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,

...*static*...

YOUR PERONALLY ENCODED SPLEEPER ACTIVATION STRING FOLLOWS
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
hookland.bsky.social
The sacred encoded in the petals of the flower. The sacred encoded in the angles of construction too.
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
hyperplanes.bsky.social
I do think "AI model parameters are just a lossy data encoding format" is a hugely underrated take. Even the people involved in building these things do not seem to realize how much data can be encoded (even without loss) with this many parameters bsky.app/profile/anth...
anthonymoser.com Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d
your honor, the user prompted the computer to unzip the archive, which was a statistical representation of the entire training folder.

any owner of a specific file within the zip has no claim against us, but only the user who opened it
neilturkewitz.bsky.social Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 1d
“OpenAI argued its AI models didn’t store/copy specific training data but, rather, reflected what they learned based on the entire training data set. Since the output was generated as a result of user inputs (prompts), it wasn’t the defendants, but the respective user who would be liable for it.”
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
dame.is
still thinking about that bird that had a PNG encoded into it
November 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
gloriouscow.bsky.social
flux cats

#retrocomputing
some pixel art cats encoded as floppy disk flux timings to be visible in HxC's stream viewer
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
jsvejstrup.bsky.social
I’m very happy to share Zhong Han’s beautiful work on the biochemical function of Senataxin, encoded by a gene that is mutated in rare and early-disabling neurodegenerative diseases. Turns out it rescues backtracked RNA polymerase II during early transcription! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A role for human senataxin in contending with pausing and backtracking during transcript elongation
Senataxin (SETX) regulates RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) transcription and helps maintain genome stability, at least partly by suppressing R-loops. Howev…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
vanillabrwnsugr.bsky.social
I've been trying so hard not to be a bitch but it's encoded in my DNA I fear...I have to be true to myself 😔
November 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
thisthom.bsky.social
“Encoded arc our common cause / Drink liquid clocks ‘til I see God / Crystal display / Can’t turn it off / Shh shh shhh / Don’t talk.”

#BrightEyes #TimeCode #Chester #Photography #CityPhotography #UrbanPhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5 #PhotographersOfBlueSky
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
pacyc184.bsky.social
A phage-encoded anti-CRISPR protein co-opts host enolase to prevent type III CRISPR immunity | Nature Microbiology https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-02178-2
A phage-encoded anti-CRISPR protein co-opts host enolase to prevent type III CRISPR immunity - Nature Microbiology
Streptococcus thermophilus phages circumvent host CRISPR defences via AcrIIIA2, which complexes with enolase, a highly abundant glycolysis enzyme, to block phage RNA binding.
www.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
phagepapers.bsky.social
A Gifsy prophage-encoded protein confers broad phage resistance in Salmonella enterica and is widely distributed across Enterobacteriaceae.

DOI: 10.1128/aem.01384-25

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41211961/
A Gifsy prophage-encoded protein confers broad phage resistance in Salmonella enterica and is widely distributed across Enterobacteriaceae - PubMed
Phage Felix O1 (FO1) is one of the most widely used bacteriophages for targeting <i>Salmonella enterica</i> and is applied in both research and food safety settings. Despite its broad host range, we observed significantly reduced efficiency of plating (EOP) on a subset of <i>Salmonella enterica</i> …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
minouette.bsky.social
Happy birthday to #inventor Hedy Lamarr (1914 – 2000) & Hollywood star. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci Born Hedwig Keisler in Vienna, she gained fame after her risqué & notorious starring role in Machatý’s ‘33 film Ecstasy. Mandl, 1st of 6 husbands, objected & tried unsuccessfully to buy all copies of film.
My linocut portrait of Hedy Lamarr in indigo, with diagrams from her patent (Fig 4 like a piano roll) and a schematic of how a signal marked “Data”could be encoded with a pseudo-random binary sequence “PBRS” to produce a transmitted signal “Tx” - all in blue.
November 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
pizzaforfree.itch.io
Thank you so much for actually uploading this in 4:3, btw~! Too often I find 4:3 media encoded in 16:9, making an awful CRT viewing.
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
sailorrooscout.bsky.social
This finding potentially opens up new perspectives for the prevention and treatment of HIV infections.
• uni-koeln.de/en/universit...

The study has been published in Nature Immunology. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧪🧵⬇️
ABSTRACT Administration of HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies can suppress viremia and prevent infection in vivo. However, clinical use is challenged by envelope diversity and rapid viral escape. Here, we performed single B cell profiling of 32 top HIV-1 elite neutralizers to identify broadly neutralizing antibodies with highest antiviral activity. From 831 expressed monoclonal antibodies, we identified 04_A06, a VH1-2-encoded broadly neutralizing antibody to the CD4 binding site with remarkable breadth and potency against multiclade pseudovirus panels (geometric mean half-maximal inhibitory concentration = 0.059 ug ml-1, breadth = 98.5%, 332 strains). Moreover, 04_A06 was not susceptible to classic CD4 binding site escape variants and maintained full viral suppression in HIV-1-infected humanized mice. Structural analyses revealed an unusually long 11-amino-acid heavy chain insertion that facilitates interprotomer contacts with highly conserved residues on the adjacent gp120 protomer. Finally, 04_A06 demonstrated high activity against contemporaneously circulating viruses from the Antibody-Mediated Prevention trials (geometric mean half-maximal inhibitory concentration = 0.082 ug ml-1, breadth = 98.4%, 191 virus strains), and in silico modeling for 04_A06LS predicted prevention efficacy of >93%. Thus, 04_A06 will provide unique opportunities for effective treatment and prevention of HIV-1 infection.
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
jordanscarroll.bsky.social
A Call of Cthulhu scenario in which someone has encoded eldritch secrets in old OOP roleplaying supplements, including facsimiles of them to hand out
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
sifu.tweety.fish
what's funny is you'd think this would be obvious but there are people doing vast, hugely expensive whole genome studies of "high IQ" subjects with the idea that if they can just get enough statistical power they can show useful variation in this trait that is encoded by the whole fucking genome.
theophite.bsky.social rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 4d
you have to be a genuine fucking idiot to believe this. there is no plausible genetic mechanism for this, especially if you go looking for "IQ" genes. there are a few genes which if you turn them off make humans gravely intellectually disabled. other than that it's a million point mutations.
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
donmoyn.bsky.social
The idea of federal officials going to states to help them upgrade their tech capacities is a novel way of thinking about federalism. The USDS team brought principles of human centered design. They also made sure the code the systems ran on reflected the policy goals they were trying to achieve.
The code is the policy: We’d walk through a state’s automatic renewal rules as they were actually encoded in the software and use data to find where enrollees were falling out unnecessarily. Many states had years of policy miscommunications and vendor mistakes baked into their systems and never had the capacity to take a second look. We hosted marathon meetings that brought together everyone from state policy directors to back office IT staff which revealed dozens of opportunities to make improvements. “No, you should not be multiplying quarterly income by 12 to calculate annual income.” “Yes, you can use SNAP data.” “No, you should not deny children because their parents are ineligible.”
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
alexwlchan.net
Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python: alexwlchan.net/2025/detecti...

I wrote a Python test to find videos that are encoded with AV1, so I can convert them to a codec my iPhone can play.
November 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
phillipcarter.dev
Oh, I see in your bio that you won’t agree with me, but I’ll just reiterate for others:

LLMs have a lossy “knowledge map” encoded that they draw from to produce a response. This map is sometimes incorrect, or sometimes lost too much in the encoding, or the model can sometimes use it incorrectly.
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
ruthmottram.bsky.social
I can't believe Science In Action is ending! We're going to miss you @peaseroland.bsky.social !
A very serious warning encoded in this final episode for everyone to listen to.

How science got here, and where next

Episode webpage: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
BBC World Service - Science In Action, How science got here, and where next
As anti-science leaves research reeling, does evidence-based policy have a future?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
dronewriter4.bsky.social
It wasn’t an image, it was a chain of encoded messages that went through all of her defenses. She was made to understand now, her mind being enveloped by something as her brain was clogged with happy feelings. She understood her new purpose, and she understood all of her friends’s excitement -
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM