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As California warms, cases of dengue fever are expected to growA warming climate is making California more hospitable to dengue fever and the mosquitoes that carry it.news.ucsb.edu

Reading @greatdismal.bsky.social's Sprawl trilogy back in the day I wouldn't have guessed that the most depressingly prescient bit would turn out to be the sociopathic zillionaires like Josef Virek and the Tessier-Ashpools, but here we are.

@knownforms.bsky.social apropos of nothing, at lunch I was having a wide-ranging discussion about higher and professional education that touched on medical residency trauma, and I realized I'd lost track of how you and Other M are doing — how are you doing?

so I know I'm 20+ years late to the party but ICYMI Angélica Gorodischer's KALPA IMPERIAL is brilliant and hilarious, thank you @kellylink.bsky.social and @gavingrant.bsky.social for bringing it to el mundo angloparlante

“The difference in measured productivity growth between California and the rest of the US is wider than the difference between the US and Europe, yet that difference isn’t the source of constant agonizing by U.S. states worried that they are falling behind.” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/challengin...

Challenging the Narrative of European Decline: Revised, Free RepostI do not think that word “productivity” means what people think it meanspaulkrugman.substack.com

Thing I had to tell a (local) LLM today: "Be very certain in your fruit identification. If you're not completely sure what fruit it is, just say 'some kind of fruit'." 🍑≠🍋

Code for Science & Society is looking for a senior Rails developer on a two-year, grant-funded contract with potential extension, working (remotely or hybrid) out of the California Digital Library on connecting field research work to research outputs: codeforsociety.org/jobs/fair-st...

Code for Science & SocietyAdvancing the power of data to improve the social and economic lives of all people.codeforsociety.org

J.J. Abrams’ Koyaanisqatsi

Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Chicken Run

John Sayles’ The Wicker Man

Christopher Guest’s Zero Dark Thirty

paging Charles Goodhart arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...

Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI toolsWorkers are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks.arstechnica.com

on the one hand, moving a FOSS project off GitLab would probably just make it easier for them to focus on their paying customers on the other hand, fuck this noise: about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-...

GitLab Act 2A letter to our customers and our investors.about.gitlab.com

“The replication crisis, if there is one, cannot be established by the methods used to declare it.” …did a replication crisis write this?

“Programming languages have semantics. The code you write constrains the compiler to implement the behavior you specified with your program. Prompts do not have semantics.” isaacvando.com/nondetermini...