Kyle Napoli

Uh oh, based on the other three I have to see the bottom left one...

Verena Verena is an NSF-funded Institute working towards using open data, biological research, and artificial intelligence to predict and prevent the next pandemic.

If you want to help, you can share our story, check out our work at viralemergence.org, and - if you're the one in a million person who can save our project - reach out. (At this point, my job is to fundraise for the amazing scientists I work with, so they can focus on doing some actual science! 🦠)

Death by starvation is turning out to be at least as bad as death by firing squad. Because we have no termination notice, everyone is struggling to apply for bridge funding, and no one is stepping in to save our work, because our project "still exists" even as our labs' bank accounts hit zero. /5

Textbook Defense ebook by Ashlyn Kane - Rakuten Kobo Read "Textbook Defense" by Ashlyn Kane available from Rakuten Kobo. Rowan Chadha's job as a children's librarian might be temporary, but at least it comes with adorable, hilarious patrons....

Here you go...

This is unreal. The 2026 code4lib conference has been cancelled unilaterally by Carnegie Mellon University because the Department of Education raised issues with the diversity scholarships:

> An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]

Saw the worst misreading of a post imaginable earlier and I'm still thinking about it -- was it a bit? A bot? But it honestly seems like only an earnest human could be that wrong in the particular way they were wrong.

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I recently had an awful three-week cold and found xylitol drops soooo terrible, but got some relief from the Ricola throat drops with honey in the middle (I think mine were old, though, they didn't match what's on their site now!)
www.ricola.com/en-us/produc...

I still have mine! But the rest of my setup has changed so much, I no longer know how/whether I could burn new discs

Tidal came out with the year-end wrap up. My top song was Nobody Speak by DJ Shadow/Run the Jewels, and the next was Lady (You Bring Me Up) by the Commodores. I feel surely this has to be more meaningful than, like, sun sign and moon sign.

Playing the hits

maybe i am going insane

HEALTRGATE RFK, JR: THE PUBLIC MAN-MADE DEATH The government has cut $783 million in federal funding to basic research and 56% of HIV clinical trials have been halted. New HIV infections are predicted to increase 49% by 2030. ACT UP LEARN THE FACTS DISMANTLING HEALTHCARE = DEATH

ACT UP NY announces HEALTHGATE, “a campaign released on the heels of World AIDS Day…that condemns Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s deadly pseudoscience-led healthcare death circus while calling for the implementation of the New York Health Act & sustained funding for public & global health”

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

There's just too many of them, we can't fight it 😆

And a different article in my mom's NYT over the weekend was about how no one is marketing to Gen X this holiday season even though that cohort likes to spend a lot 🤷‍♀️

a man in a striped shirt is sitting at a desk with a piece of paper in his hand Alt: A clip from the TV show "Community" in which Troy flips over a piece of paper and grabs a pen without breaking eye contact with whatever/whoever he's looking at or even moving his head at all.

Trying to figure out if this note needs to go to my team (includes acquisitions) or the outreach team... 🤔🤔🤔

Detail of Embroidered Court Suit, 1770- 85, Manchester Art Gallery (1952.359) in a photograph of p.39 of the book Creative Collecting.

A three-quarters view of the jacket, which has a high standing collar. It is dark with an ivory lining and ivory waistcoast underneath. The shape is very sharp and crisp and closely fitted but it has so much amazing floral embroidery all over, you just can't believe it. It's gorgeous.

I've carried these photos around in my phone for years now because sometimes I just have to look at them again.

Today's to-do list is: turkey stock, leftovers hand pies, turkey soup with lemon and rice, and baked oatmeal with the cranberry sauce.

Arcadia was one the works I wrote about in my undergrad thesis, and I was lucky enough to see it at OSF that same year. We had enough money for tickets and gas but not a hotel room, so four of us bombed down to Ashland for a matinee and then drove back after. Those were some good friends!

The mountain is SO out this morning!

In the system my library uses, you get different results if you search something like "new york times" versus "the new york times" 🤷‍♀️

You're doing that Bluesky thing that I now think of as 'appeal to marginalization,' using an imagined Other that you consider unassailable -- and, crucially, almost never party to the current conversation -- to prop your argument instead of standing on your point as yourself.

The toy group is a testament to
Man’s arrogance

"The legislation that ultimately passed was not the comprehensive funding bill that fizzled out at the end of this year’s legislative session....

Iannarone is urging lawmakers to 'finish the job and pass a complete transportation package so stunts like this can’t hijack Oregon’s future.'”

"Iannarone said the effort to send the transportation package to voters “doesn’t protect struggling households, it leaves them stranded – threatening transit for seniors, making it harder for kids to get to school safely, and blocking basic services like plowing roads and filling potholes.

Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent $1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months

A major healthcare policy paper commissioned by @govnl.bsky.social government from Deloitte at a cost of $1.6 million, cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months. #nlpoli #AI
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...

An obviously AI-generated image illustrating an Oregonian story about Thanksgiving dinner stories. It takes up nearly all the space above the fold.

The caption of the image reads, "Adobr Stock AI generated."

What is this shit, @oregonian.com?

Two lawsuits seek return of Coast Guard rescue helicopter to Newport Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced Friday that the state is filing a lawsuit to force the federal government to return a U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter to Newport. Lincoln County and t...

And speaking of ICE, an Oregon coast community is now suing the federal government after its rescue helicopter was relocated to potentially make way for a new detention center in the state.

The cover of the Fall 2025 issue of Art Journal features a photograph from the book Protest City by Rian Dundon: "March 12, 2021: Ninja outside the 'kettle'."

Portland made it into Art Journal via an excerpt from Protest City by Rian Dundon (OSU Press, 2023).

(I'm trying to get through the full transcript online but I'm... struggling.)