The Shanghai police data heist grows more insane: Experts say the database of nearly 1b Chinese citizens was not hacked—it simply had no password, allowing the thief to waltz in, wipe the data & leave a ransom note: "contact_for_your_data…recovery10btc." wsj.com/articles/china…

MYTH: We don't have a solution to nuclear's "waste problem" REALITY: Nuclear waste isn't a problem. In fact, it’s the best solution we have to meeting our energy needs while protecting the natural environment! Here's what you need to know:

My main takeaway from the internet so far is that people are lonely.

In the last 10 years I have hired over 300 people. I have found that it's WAY HARDER to recruit senior women leaders, even as a female CEO. Here’s my playbook for how to get great senior women to join your company:

Re: new publishing model, I am giving @elife the benefit of the doubt for tackling this challenge. They've pioneered significant improvements in the past that we now take for granted. We may not believe in the solution (yet) but we should all laud effort to cut this Gordian knot.

Vince Buffalo Harmit S. Malik eLife - the journal What strengthen's the cynical narrative that alternatives won't work is dismissing them before they're even 12 hours old.

If you’re tuning into Chinese politics for the first time, here are four resources I found useful for understanding what just happened at Party Congress, China's national convening every five years to choose a new leadership team:

Police investigating a crash in the 8500 block of Wallingford Ave N. Amazingly, no serious injuries. Please slow down. The roads are still very slick.

hold my beer

Online now! Genome–microbiome interplay provides insight into the determinants of the human blood metabolome dlvr.it/ScYp5y

Update: The Twitter wildfire is at 44 billion acres and 0% contained.

We aren’t overly great when it comes to estimating how common certain societal trends are. Here a nice example from YouGov of US Americans overestimating the size of minorities and underestimating the size of majorities.

How does the #microbiome affect the metabolome? Researchers at ISB found that the blood metabolite variation explained by the microbiome was largely independent of the variation explained by the #genome. 🦠 🧬 Charlotte Cheng D. @gibbological bit.ly/3hADxLC

An amazing RCT study showing how remediating abandoned homes directly reduces gun violence in Black neighborhoods. Clear evidence for local gun violence prevention policies that improves the public safety and neighborhood quality of marginalized residents.

Really great analysis of why TikTok feels different from other platforms and in line with what I’ve heard from company engineers. It’s not the recommendation system but rather the design of the user experience.

🚨 We are responding to a large number of calls across the City for slips and falls on ice on sidewalks, roadways, parking lots, etc. Falling on ice can cause significant injuries. Don’t drive or walk on the ice - stay indoors until conditions improve if you can.

University endowments should be taxed at a higher level. Large college endowments have reached a size where they have outsize effect on the free market (ie buy real estate/assets tax-exempt, fund LBOs). They’re no longer charitable funds.

It is with great sadness that I have to resign as eLife - the journal editor and early-career advisor after Michael Eisen was fired as editor-in-chief for making use of his freedom of speech to stand up – once again – for the people who were silenced. A brief statement here:

An important statement on the latest tea controversy. 🇺🇸🇬🇧

Some news years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at empireofai.com. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/