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This is the most detailed picture of a human cell ever made 🧪
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX1CGIZMKJs/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ

Sam Bousaba on Instagram: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building proteins by linking amino acids together. In eukaryotic (human) cells, a ribosome typically adds about 5–10 amino acids per second (not ~20). Since a single cell can contain millions of ribosomes, protein production is massive—resulting in millions to tens of millions of peptide bonds formed per second per cell. The microtubules act as an internal transport network. Motor proteins such as kinesin move along these tracks, carrying cellular cargo. They “walk” step by step using ATP, at speeds of roughly 500–1000 nanometers per second. Each cell contains a dense network of these filaments, with many motor proteins moving simultaneously. Just beneath the cell membrane lies the actin cortex, a dynamic meshwork that helps maintain cell shape and resist mechanical stress. This structure is continuously remodeled—assembled and disassembled—allowing the cell to adapt to its environment. Now scale this up. Across ~37 trillion cells, each containing millions of ribosomes and hundreds to thousands of mitochondria, your body is constantly producing energy in the form of ATP. Total ATP turnover is enormous—roughly equivalent to your body weight in ATP recycled every day. The DNA in a single human cell, if stretched out, measures about 2 meters. Across all your cells, this would span distances comparable to traveling from Earth to the Sun and back many times (the exact multiple depends on assumptions about cell count and DNA packing). None of these processes are under conscious control. They began when you were a single cell and have continued uninterrupted ever since."
62K likes, 2,387 comments - scienceoftheuniverse on May 2, 2026: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building prot…

One of the things in this here timeline (the world, not social media) that I find extremely disgusting is the amount of ableism in “blue no matter who”-type and “Apple is evil” posters.
This is prevalent on most social media platforms, but the strongest I’ve ever seen this is on Bluesky and Mastodon.
If you’re ableist, you’re not a good person.

Got to Foggy Bottom just as Transit app warns me about significant delays on the Metro rail way home. So I walked a couple more blocks and got on the bus where it is air conditioned.
Metro seems to be getting worse at least on the orange and silver lines recently.

According to Justice Department’s own account, 15 arrested by federal government in Minneapolis this week are responsible for denting gov F-150 (by kicking), & tipping tailer (owned by accused). That’s it.
Why hasn’t potus nuked Minneapolis from space? /s
Attack on Americans & 1st Amendment makes me think we’re not free country I thought we were & realize perhaps never were, I was “lucky” not to notice before.

Federal prosecutors charge 15 people with impeding agents during immigration surge
Federal prosecutors have charged 15 people with impeding federal agents during a massive immigration surge in Minnesota earlier this year. The defendants allegedly used tactics like stalking agents and using ice blocks to slow convoys. Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen said the operation targeted Minneapolis-based antifa groups. President Trump had previously directed authorities to target antifa, which he labeled a domestic terror group. The charges follow "Operation Metro Surge," which …

GitHub Actions for the R language: Makes automatic testing of your R package much easier and making sure your package works on different OS and R versions is a matter of just a few lines of yaml: #rstats

GitHub - r-lib/actions: GitHub Actions for the R community
GitHub Actions for the R community. Contribute to r-lib/actions development by creating an account on GitHub.

You know what they say about hitting the translate button on a tweet written in Hebrew:

Free agent Stefon Diggs keeps eye on Commanders: 'Back home' fans still matter

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-free-agent-stefon-diggs-commanders/

Let's get this straight: anything created with "AI" is #slop.
It doesn't have to be vibe-coded. It doesn't have to be horrible code. It doesn't matter that you've spent hours perfecting the prompt. It doesn't matter that ten people have spent a week reviewing it in detail.
As long as an "AI" took part in writing it, it's slop. It's an unethical technology, and anything created with it is tainted. It's an inhuman technology, and you're supporting it. You're being disrespectful to your users and contributors. You're putting your own convenience over humanity. You're aiding the worst murderous assholes in the history of humanity. And what's perhaps worst, you quite likely believe that you are making a net positive contribution, that you're helping people, while you're actually disrespecting and harming them.
#NoAI #NoLLM

US imperialists threaten 94 year old revolutionary hero Raul Castro.
Threatened indictment of Raúl Castro ratchets up US pressure on Cuba | Cuba | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/15/raul-castro-indictment-cuba-trump

I think you just have to watch the game and then you’ll know what I mean by "Messi things".
He can decide the game on his own, as we saw today.
Messi did indeed decide the game on his own on Tuesday, scoring a trio of clinically taken goals to bury Algeria and push Argentina to the brink of the knockout round.
He did so 20 years to the day after scoring his first World Cup goal for Argentina.
It feels sometimes like Messi is ageless, but rolling the tape on …