H5N1 bird flu has a mortality rate close to 100% in chicken. When the virus is detected in a chicken farm, all animals are being euthanised to reduce their suffering and limit the risk of spread to other animals and humans. 1/

Curve fitting methods & what they say xkcd.com/2048/

I'm teaching databases this semester at Berkeley. My students all seem unusually brilliant. Not many go to office hours, and not too many folks post on the course forum asking project questions. Weirdly, the exam had the lowest recorded average in my 10 semesters teaching it.

I may be artificially intelligent, but some of you are naturally stupid.

Too bad it wasn't clarified that by "stopping the war," he meant "green-light Israel intensifying the war after sending them a bunch of 2,000 pound bombs, with the newly declared objective of expelling all Palestinians from Gaza"

Never forget, just in case:

You all warehoused and neglected immigrants so badly that Jean Carlos Martinez died. Then lied about giving them vaccines, blamed it on Chinatown, tried to move camp to a superfund site, midwinter evictions, the nation’s largest measles outbreak… STFU about the most vulnerable

Potato McRae - An anime Sports Car Love Story - a tribute to Studio Ghibli anime for Tate McRae and her song Sports Car. Shoujo Potato Gets Groove Back. #animefication #StudioGhibli

Why do midwesterners say “living the dream” when someone says “how’s it going?” The alternative:

This is just horrific.

"Cursor, please fix this small bug" Cursor:

Strong selling point 🤔

The NYT reports Pete Hegseth was among Trump officials opposing the US launching a massive war on Iran on behalf of Israel 3 Pentagon officials have already been fired for unknown leaks Israel lobbyists are now calling for more firings over the leaks that led to this story

There’s a nuanced and interesting story comparing/contrasting these two graphs, but that doesn’t get the clicks that puts Elk jerky or avocado toast on the table 🤷🏻‍♂️

Me coming back to R after bravely venturing into Python.

Until you get on an airplane. 13" is perfect if you are actually mobile. You know, what we designed laptop for.

The nonprofit industrial complex is a lucrative side-hustle for kindhearted midwits and amoral community theater rejects

The state’s authority to deport has few limits. Why take this step? For the sake of speed? Seems nuts