Aviv Sharon

I wrote some reflections this afternoon about how the discovery of the double helix changed the course of science. Gift link: nyti.ms/4qPS3y6

Thank you Will Bunch

Trump Sued After Destroying White House for His Tacky Ballroom Donald Trump was hit with a brutal lawsuit after demolishing the East Wing of the White House.

There’s only been one lawsuit filed against the devastating destruction of the White House.

One.

And it’s by Virginia couple, Charles and Judith Voorhees.

Not Congress, not historical (or any) institutions, but a citizen couple.

We continue to be the resistance.

newrepublic.com/post/202201/...

RFK Jr. keeps repeating this ridiculous, ignorant bullshit.

Trust in expertise is literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I wrote a whole-ass thread about it last time around; maybe worth revisiting.

bsky.app/profile/carl...

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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הערב ראיתי עם האחים שלי את הסרט "צבעי הזמן" בפסטיבל הסרטים של חיפה. היה מעניין ויפה 🤩

youtu.be/_sTdOm2BID8?...

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

A scientist is saving Ukraine's hamsters—in the middle of war Mikhail Rusin is perhaps the world's greatest hamster champion.

“This is where I find my inner peace.” The man trying to save Ukraine's hamsters.

A reminder that small actions may be highly significant in the long term and can be vital when everything else going on is too big and too scary to fix by yourself.

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

בלי ספוילרים!

חלמתי שאני נלחם בשטח בנוי והכדורים מעופפים סביבי 😬

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

These senators had every last shred of information they needed to know that Kennedy’s confirmation would be a disaster for American health. They chose to placate Trump.

Suddenly they’re finding their courage when it’s too late.

Absolutely pathetic and contemptible. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

למה טינדר מראה לי גברים מלוקסמבורג ואלבקרקי?

Among other things, there has been a total collapse of any pretense that government agencies aren't overtly partisan tools distinguishable from campaign accounts.

לא ישנתי דקה הלילה ואז הלכתי לישון בבוקר.

רציתי לכתוב תרגום מילולי מאנגלית "לא ישנתי אפילו מצמוץ" אבל בעצם צריך להיות "לא ישנתי אפילו קריצה"

אז הפלמים והוואלונים תקועים האחד עם השני. טרגדיה.

Pete Hegseth’s Department of Cringe Renaming the Defense Department is a pathetic stunt.

It is impossible to overstate the inanity of the vapid and stupid stunt of renaming the Defense Department, and Congress should step in and put a stop to it immediately.
Gift link:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Google's search engine was the greatest information retrieval tool I'd ever experienced in my life. So many mysteries unraveled under the scrutiny of a few keystrokes.

They lobotomized it *for this*.

הייתי במצעד הגאווה בחיפה ולחצתי יד לח"כ יוראי להב-הרצנו 🏳️‍🌈

החדשות הטובות: מכרתי אוטו.
החדשות הרעות: זה היה בצורה אימפולסיבית, במחיר נמוך.
קשה לי עם משא ומתן

Get well soon, Raul!

יש בגט! 🥖

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

Childhood Vaccination Rates Have Dropped Again, C.D.C. Data Shows

New federal data shows that vaccination rates among American children entering kindergarten fell during the 2024-25 school year, extending a worrying trend that began during the Covid-19 pandemic.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/h...

הלכתי להתראיין בבי"ס הבוקר והלך לי טוב וחיבבתי את המנהלות והן הבטיחו שיהיו איתי בקשר לגבי משרה חלקית שם בשנה הבאה.

ואז אחה"צ קיבלתי טלפון לגבי משרה חלקית אחרת שהתעניינתי בה בטכניון (!) וגם הם הבטיחו להיות איתי בקשר לגבי המשך התהליך. 🤞

I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.

לייצר קזאין (חלבון החלב) מזורחן בחיידקים - לייצור גבינות נטולות חלב
#פידמדע