Anne Carpenter

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Dedicated to drug discovery, enthralled by science. 5 kids. She. SAB Recursion. Founder SyzOnc. Lab at Broad Institute.

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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders. AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

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Just to be really explicit about what’s happening here, the cover conflates age, physical disability, and cognitive disability, and goes on to conflate disability with unfitness for office. It’s utter bullshit.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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We used to live around the block from Elizabeth Warren, and I personally witnessed her giving out full-size candy bars on Halloween, I’m just saying

My wife and I ran into her and her husband when our daughter was a newborn, and she was really touched when my wife told her how she was glad to have a role model for our daughter representing us. My wife came away from the interaction an even bigger fan.

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4th of July in Kotzebue: Baby contest, Miss Arctic Circle, & Arctic Circle contests started last night. Baby contest is named after my Aunt Louvie, master sewer and my dad's hunting partner until she passed in 2007/8. My cousin Shyena Lie is in the first baby pic, then representations of diff styles

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honestly they’re kinda cooking with this

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Oh wow, I should have anticipated where this thread was going but I didn't 🧪

When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.

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Surely I am not the only one who remembers the time when “thought leaders” declared that massive online courses were our inevitable future.

No matter who says that these tools aren’t intended to replace teachers or how many times it’s said, that’s exactly what will happen. (Or it will be used as a justification for eliminating teacher jobs because now teachers can “grade” more efficiently) www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-t...

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the four year old, mad at my wife: “you broke my heart into pieces and they rolled all the way to Legoland and we have to go to Legoland to put them back together” absolutely incredible work, kiddo, I am in awe

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Right now there are 5,984,970 active accounts on Bluesky. And there’s one account who has blocked 1,135,239 of them. That is exactly the level of pettiness that I aspire to.

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The fundamental fact with which one must get to grips upon first attempting to drive in Boston is that the streets are non-Euclidean This causes many difficulties

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I can't tell you how many times I've had someone ask me where X street is and the answer is "you're on it." There are still some pretty awful signage gaps (I think especially along Memorial Drive).

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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. Results showed that close to half of the participants secured housing, and nearly $600K saved in public service costs due to fewer ER visits & jail stays. They also saw improved mental health.

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.www.yahoo.com Participants in Denver's basic income program received up to $1,000 a month. They became more housing secure and landed full-time jobs.

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I mean, sure, but this advice is why (for example) most surveys are useless, phone banking for elections is less effective, and just plain ridiculous to have to do. Destroying a primary communication channel under a wave of fraud should cause more tumult that "just stop using your phone." Right?

The first rule of avoiding scam calls is to never answer unknown numbers, and even some known ones. Curious? Bored? Worried it’s an emergency? Wait the extra minute it takes for the call to go to voice mail, then decide if it’s legitimate.

Sick of scams? Stop answering your phone.www.washingtonpost.com Phone scams are still hugely popular — and they depend entirely on people curious enough to answer.

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oh my god

"The longer a woman works at Apple, the larger the gap in compensation she receives compared to similarly situated men," the proposed class action alleged. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Apple punishes women for same behaviors that get men promoted, lawsuit saysarstechnica.com Apple could owe thousands in back pay to 12,000 female employees.

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Men, and white cis men especially, talking openly about your pay to your coworkers is one of the best actions of workplace solidarity you can do for this very reason.

something I learned while still pretty junior was that if you only ever talk to other underrepresented people about pay, you get an idea of normal numbers, but who you really need to be talking to are the white guys. their numbers are completely different I am now very senior. It’s still true

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and given that the US has 360m people, give or take, and--his numbers--this is a billion units a year in a market that--let's be real is going to be US dominated--we're saying every person in the US, man, woman, or child, needs to buy one or two $20k robots a year, every year

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OH MY GOD. “In fact, hair relaxers marketed to children in the United States have been found to contain the highest levels of five of the chemicals prohibited in the European Union.”

“A study that followed a cohort of nearly 34,000 women, found that those who frequently used chemical hair-straightening products, a majority of whom were Black women, were two and a half times as likely to develop uterine cancer as those who did not use the products.”

The Disturbing Truth About Hair Relaxerswww.nytimes.com They’ve been linked to reproductive disorders and cancers. Why are they still being marketed so aggressively to Black women?

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Make a band less mild Red Hot Ghost Peppers

Make a band less mild They Most Definitely Are Giants

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feels extremely american to be like “we need you to keep running your stochastic terrorism business so you can pay back the victims of your stochastic terrorism”

NEW: Alex Jones gets to keep broadcasting on Infowars, with the judge finding it is "in the best interest" of Sandy Hook families for the company to avoid bankruptcy so Jones would be better able to repay his massive debt (via Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman)

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lol, lmao petapixel.com/2024/06/12/p...

Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photopetapixel.com The photographers strike back.

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A monitor portrait on a portrait monitor.

Over 5 petabytes of JUMP Cell Painting data downloaded/accessed so far 😮 🚀🚀🚀 It's such a slog making data and then prettying it up, but wow! That is some serious usage that makes it all worthwhile. So far 45 papers use it. Thanks to AWS Registry of Open Data for freely hosting for the community!

I love reading career trajectories! Don't underestimate how much it matters to tell someone you think they have what it takes... from "I'm not sure I can run my own lab" to Director of a Center within 10y @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social Full interview here: focalplane.biologists.com/2024/06/12/i...

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This deadline was extended. Please act by June 30! Someone I know who did this just received a notice that 100% of their remaining debt was wiped. Not everyone will have those results, but I can't think of a situation in which it isn't worth doing.

If you or someone you know completely gave up paying student loans and are in default: the Fresh Start initiative deadline is very soon. Paired with SAVE, below, especially the changes for undergraduate borrowers (5% of discretionary income), it is the best opportunity that ever has existed

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so, to recap one Supreme Court Justice accepted millions in gifts another explicitly wants a Christian theocracy their wives are insurrectionists and they are both casting votes on a case that could declare Trump immune from prosecution seems like a pretty strong case for court reform to me

More. New tonight: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Martha-Ann Alito Condemns Pride Flags, the Left, and the Mediawww.rollingstone.com Martha-Ann Alito, wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in a new recording bemoans having to “look across the lagoon at the Pride flag.”

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make no mistake, regional institutions losing programs like this eliminates access to opportunities for first gen college students and already underserved and excluded populations. and it's on purpose. the UNC system in particular has it out for their regional campuses, this is just the beginning

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one way to describe me is that halfway through Heat, i turned to my friends and said, are they occasionally taking each other's places? nobody can tell them apart? like, is this weirder than Face/Off? (learned years later that i have face blindness)

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Wait am I reading discourse on here that people are discovering subsistence farming is actually hard often backbreaking work? I swear to god my rural ass is going to become the joker