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Written by bk on 2025-01-31 at 03:16

Views of a city I love ( #SF ):

https://anniewilson.substack.com/p/part-2-7-san-francisco-illustrators

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Written by bk on 2025-01-29 at 18:26

Remember when the economy was good and the news was boring?

That was two weeks ago.

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Written by bk on 2025-01-28 at 06:10

RIP, brotherman...

https://everloved.com/life-of/pableaux-johnson/memories/?scroll-to=9cf7549f-5692-4913-8211-f793d024f42f&page=2#9cf7549f-5692-4913-8211-f793d024f42f

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Written by bk on 2025-01-28 at 05:56

Dear friend Pableaux Johnson passed on suddenly to that great gig in the sky Jan 26 2024 doing what he loved -- photographing a second line in New Orleans. He wore many hats -- musician, raconteur, chef, writer, voyager, photographer -- but through it all remained an exemplary human and companion. He knew how to bring us together with food, drink, and conversation -- and surely would be delighted if we cooked some red beans and rice in his honor:

https://www.foodandwine.com/red-beans-and-rice-8780853

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Written by bk on 2025-01-26 at 18:55

My friend thinks that a platform for expressing alternative viewpoints is needed (as in the "loyal opposition"). I agree. If you do too, you can register your support here:

https://www.change.org/p/democrats-form-a-people-s-cabinet

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Written by bk on 2025-01-25 at 00:33

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility OR

Homogeneity, Inequality, Exclusion, Barriers

Which do you prefer?

Which is more American?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty

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Written by bk on 2025-01-24 at 20:41

Scientific #discovery involves making mistakes, but these are often omitted from official reports. In this preprint, I recount a #mistake which led to the discovery that #rats were making ultrasonic #vocalizations while playing. Scientific serendipity is worth celebrating! (thanks to Markus Wöhr for encouragement to submit the tale for a special issue on ultrasonic vocalizations).

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5108903

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Written by bk on 2025-01-24 at 07:38

Farsighted ideas for improving #SocialMedia platforms from Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez at the World Economic Forum:

  1. Link IDs to actual people

  1. Make algorithms transparent

  1. Hold platform owners accountable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxWZB0aq2sI

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Written by bk on 2025-01-23 at 19:02

[#]uspol

Remember that time when Nazis gassed people because they were Jewish, minority, and gay?

https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/celebrity/article/inauguration-why-elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-jeff-bezos-attended-lckr79l5f

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Written by bk on 2025-01-23 at 18:46

Great summary of some benefits of connecting with the #futureself by @sfntweets -- but somehow missed that this literature originated in #neuroimaging research!

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2656877/pdf/nsn042.pdf

https://www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sensing-and-behaving/thinking-and-awareness/2025/making-friends-with-your-past-and-future-selves-010225

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Written by bk on 2025-01-23 at 07:19

Congratulations to Laramie Duncan and #Stanford collaborators on publishing "Mapping the cellular etiology of schizophrenia and complex brain phenotypes" in @natureneuro !

Combining brain-wide genetics and transcriptomics analyses implicated different cell types in #schizophrenia (e.g., retrosplenial excitatory and striatal MSN) versus other disorders (e.g., D2 MSN in alcohol consumption). Excited to explore and learn more with this promising new approach...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01834-w.epdf

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Written by bk on 2025-01-22 at 18:49

Has anyone run the cost / benefit on #AI yet…? 😏

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Written by bk on 2025-01-22 at 18:19

How much money is enough?

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Written by bk on 2025-01-21 at 16:14

[#]DumpTheDictator

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Written by bk on 2025-01-21 at 07:04

The next book from @sarahkendzior should be entitled "I Told You So", followed by 300 blank pages. Fortunately for us, she continues to post prescient takes:

https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/your-questions-answered-trump-term

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Written by bk on 2025-01-21 at 02:37

Remembering the time when that kid almost saved democracy…

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Written by bk on 2025-01-20 at 20:57

New administration maxim:

"If it ain't broke, break it."

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Written by bk on 2025-01-20 at 20:38

Today is as good a day as any to honor the memory of Cecile Richards by following her example of tirelessly fighting for women's rights.

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/honoring-service-cecile-richards

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Written by bk on 2025-01-20 at 19:44

On #enshittification :

"These are the two factors that make services terrible: captive users, and no constraints."

-- @pluralistic

(keep your options open)

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/#praxis

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Written by bk on 2025-01-18 at 01:37

Even better, here's a related review of the affective and cognitive capacities of #rats ...

https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.adq6217

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