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interactome_pdz: PDZ-domain interactome (2005)
A network of PDZ-domain-mediated protein–protein binding interactions, extracted from the PDZBase database. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents a binding interaction between two proteins.
This network has 212 nodes and 244 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

The first record of the parable commonly known as the "Blind Men and the Elephant" showed up around 2500 years ago, in a Buddhist text from India. At this point it's pretty commonly known. I assume that most folks reading this will be familiar with some variation of it.
If not, it's essentially a story about people who have limited information making assertions about something: one man grabs a tail and says, "it's like a rope," another the trunk and says, "it's like a snake," a third the leg saying, "it's like a tree," and so on. Later variations are less kind to the men, having them not simply report their findings, but fight over them. The first English translation draws a parallel to religion.
This comes to mind for me, because social media has a tendency to incentivize us to make those hard assertions, to dig in, to argue our perspective as part of a spectacle. Free and federated social media isn't structurally that different from corporate media, so the incentive models built to maximize engagement by maximizing conflict tend to leak through the similarities in the user experience and the conditioning of other platforms.
I didn't really come here to critique the fediverse, but rather to remind everyone, "no one sees the whole fucking elephant." We are limited and there are necessarily some things so big they will never be individually comprehensible. Any system that relies on us all agreeing cannot possibly respond to those big things.
We can see that concretely if we look at the difference between "democratic unity" and "diversity of tactics." In the first model, everyone either agrees or gets forced to behave as though they agree (at least on some issues). That's how liberal democracy works. Diversity of tactics (which systematically described, for example, in the "St Paul Principles"), on the other hand, let's people align on goals without needing to agree on exactly how to achieve them. The reality being that often there are multiple "correct" paths, and sometimes those paths can only work if multiple paths are taken in unison.
No one sees the whole elephant. We won't even see the elephant later. People will still be arguing about the elephant long after it's gone. But if you want to get rid of the elephant, you're gonna need to accept that you can't comprehend it all and you're gonna have to figure out a way to work together that doesn't require a unified approach.

I'm sitting outside with a coffee, amid the garden Mum planted so skilfully, and which I maybe didn't appreciate while she was alive, and the various things we've stuck in pots - walnut, fig, olive etc - and have just ordered a hazel tree and a cherry tree from The Woodland Trust. Mum had several big ceramic planters that are now empty or full of scrub and they're just right for young trees that are just a twig and a leaf 🌿

Should the caption of this photo be: "I'm a fox and I vote" or "I'm a fur and I vote?"
https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/andy-burnham-s-resounding-win-special-election-britain-photos-7…

Andy Burnham's resounding win in a special election in Britain, in photos
Labour’s Andy Burnham, the popular mayor of Greater Manchester, won a special election for a seat in Parliament and signaled Friday that he will use it to challenge embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer for leadership of the country.

WPP Media expects ad revenue from AI search and chatbots to reach $5.1B in 2026 and $101B in 2030, but notes lack of historical data makes forecasting difficult (Martin Peers/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cannes-ad-fest…

Cannes Ad Festival Puts OpenAI’s Projections in Spotlight
If you’ve wanted to visit the South of France, this might be the week. The annual Cannes Lion ad festival, a time for ad folks from all quarters to gather, gets underway tomorrow. The impact of AI on advertising and media is sure to be front and center. OpenAI’s chief revenue officer, Denise ...

So close! I got @… set up and the reverse proxy setup through Apache! However...I'm running into CORS issues when attempting to login to the Photos endpoing (web.photos.chiraag.me).
I even tried setting a header in the VirtualHost sections where I allow any origin or whatever (Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin '*') but that doesn't seem to actu…

Beam me back, Scotty!
(To one of my favorite places on this planet... We went till the foot of the 1000 meter tall vertical ice fall in the very back, past the beaten paths... #FootpathFriday and belated #ThrowbackThursday time)

I would like to thank Mythos for my having to perform multi-factor gymnastics every day for every work mobile app:
* Please re-authenticate
* User ID
* BeyondIdentity Challenge (which never works)
* Open BI QR Code
* Screen Shot QR Code
* Open in Work Side Photos app
* Google Lens to read the QR code and turn into a URL
* Open the URL
* Approve BI
* Challenged with my phone's 8 digit PIN
* Challenged by Okta
* Accept the Okta N…

The DHS Difference
Leading the national conversation about SDA homes from a tenants perspective, from a landlords perspective, from a stakeholder perspective...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-dhs-difference/ …

interactome_pdz: PDZ-domain interactome (2005)
A network of PDZ-domain-mediated protein–protein binding interactions, extracted from the PDZBase database. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents a binding interaction between two proteins.
This network has 212 nodes and 244 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted