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OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, an AI model for life sciences research, including drug discovery, as a research preview for customers such as Moderna and Amgen (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/16/openai-models-life-sciences-drugs

OpenAI launches new AI model for life sciences research
Researchers are drowning in data. AI could help.

Het ronselen van aanslagplegers via oa Telegram, lijkt me in het verlengde van dergelijke aanslagen in het criminele circuit, relatief erg eenvoudig, zeker voor statelijke actoren die het zo kunnen organiseren dat hun hand daarin niet zichtbaar is.
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Van Weel: 'Alles wijst erop dat verdachten aanslag synagoge Rotterdam zijn geronseld'
Alles wijst erop dat de vier verdachten van de aanslag op de synagoge in Rotterdam zijn geronseld, zegt justitieminister David van Weel dinsdag in de Tweede Kamer. De vraag wie er echt achter die aanslag zit, is volgens de minister 'pertinent'.

Diverse Jewish cultures
– from the Qırmızı Qəsəbə (Red Village) of Azerbaijan, to the mellahs and haras of North Africa, to the shtetls of Eastern Europe
– have been supplanted by an increasingly homogenized and diminished Israeli colonial culture modelled on German “high culture”.
Rich creolized languages such as Ladino, Krymchak, Kayliñña, Judeo-Arabic, Yevanic, Gruzinic, and Yiddish are now endangered or extinguished,
eroded in part by the imposition of German-acce…

How Zionism’s anti-Jewish logic led Israel to bomb an Iranian synagogue
Israel bombed Tehran’s Rafi-Nia synagogue in the middle of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The attack revealed, to a shocking degree, Zionism’s willingness to treat Jewish life as disposable in the service of its ideological project.

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Morgan Delt:
🎵 Some Sunsick Day
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https://morgandelt.bandcamp.com/track/some-sunsick-day
https://open.spotify.com/track/7kXJUbAAPx2Bc4tKASpV5T

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Conservative heads San Jose mayor's governor campaign - San José Spotlight
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has bristled at being labeled right-leaning while stressing he's a lifelong Democrat. His hiring of a self-described conservative to run his California governor campaign could fuel fresh skepticism.

> Fowlkes’s alleged crime is using Signal, [...], telling people how to delete messages, and removing people from group chats,
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/16/daniel-sanchez-estrada-prairieland-trial-zines/

Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us
The outcome of a court case could decide whether the Trump administration can criminalize simply possessing political literature.

Just went through a code file and replaced "target" with "recipient" in a bunch of docs and variable names, because I had had two senses of "target" and because I want to encourage less-combat-focused thinking among potential devs (which at the moment and for the foreseeable future is just me). Zero changes to code functionality (unless I messed up) and took maybe 30 minutes. Got me thinking about the goal of software development and who would view that time as "wasted".
From a short-sighted "measure user-facing functionality" standpoint there was basically zero progress made. From a "cultivating-code-understanding-entities" perspective, there are both immediate and long-term gains. I got a chance to review the entire file at a high level which improves my understanding of things even if no changes had been made. The changes increase clarity of a lot of documentation, as well as variable naming clarity in code which deals with both senses of "target" which now has clear separation between variables that refer to targets and recipients. If there are any other devs in the future, this will help them a lot. Even if not, by increasing my own development efficacy, the expected values for project-gets-shipped and overall-project-impact just went up. I've also helped myself not introduce the same ambiguity in all my future projects, because I'll remember this time investment, and I've bent the ideological flavor of the protect towards neutral/beneficial interactions between "initiators and recipients" instead of hostile interactions between "initiators and targets".
Overall, well worth the time investment if we consider all the subtler benefits, and not just a very crude measure of user-facing behavior. (Secretly, this is also a post about LLMs.)
#programming

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/115911152397377403
Now where have I seen this before?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/115911152397377403
Now where have I seen this before?

“We find in animals complex organs of sense, richly supplied with nerves, but the function of which we are as yet powerless to explain. There may be fifty other senses as different from ours as sound is from sight; and even within the boundaries of our own senses there may be endless sounds which we cannot hear, and colours, as different as red from green, of which we have no conception....The familiar world which surrounds us may be a totally different place to other animals. To them it may…