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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I wonder if Cain came home for Sunday dinner. Did earth's first father, awkward then tear trodden, embrace Eden's prodigal, while Mother Eve, relieved, set aside one empty chair? The brother's aughts against dissolved in rain twice blessed.

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

My bishop started texting me random questions about my car. "Stick or automatic?" "How many miles does it got?" Should I be worried?

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

What do you think your MAGA relatives would think if they rewatched the opening scene of Hunchback of Notre Dame?

media.tenor.com

a cartoon character stands next to a horse

ALT: a cartoon character stands next to a horse

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Peter Marks’s resignation letter. Everyone should read this.

Peter Marks, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research U.S. Food and Drug Administration
10903 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20903
March 28, 2025
Sara Brenner, MD, MPH
Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
10903 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20903
Dear Dr. Brenner:
It is with a heavy heart that I have decided to resign from FDA and retire from federal service as Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research effective April 5, 2025. I leave behind a staff of professionals who are undoubtedly the most devoted to protecting and promoting the public health of any group of people that I have encountered during my four decades working in the public and private sectors. I have always done my best to advocate for their well-being and I would ask that you do the same during this very difficult time during which their critical importance to the safety and security of our nation may be underappreciated.
Over the past years I have been involved in enhancing the safety of our nation's blood supply, in advancing the field of cell and gene therapy, and in responding to public health emergencies. In the last of these, during the COVID-19 pandemic I had the privilege of watching the vision that I conceived for Operation Warp Speed in March 2020 in collaboration with Dr. Robert Kadlec become a reality under the leadership of HHS Secretary Azar and President Trump due to the unwavering commitment of public servants at FDA and elsewhere across the government. At FDA, the tireless efforts of staff across the agency resulted in remarkably expediting the development of vaccines against the virus, meeting the standards for quality, safety, and effectiveness expected by the American public. The vaccines undoubtedly markedly reduced morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 in the United States and elsewhere. Many of these same individuals applied learnings from the pandemic during a flawless response helping…

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Looks like Studio C has to do a revisit of their "International Relations" at the grocery store scene. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqIh...

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International Relations - Studio C

YouTube video by Studio C

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This passage from the original paper on ELIZA seems equally true of the LLM craze going on right now. We're reading it together in my survey of AI course:

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

in all seriousness: one of the most important philosophical questions of our time

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Miles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The closet technological approximation I have thought of to LLMs: The Microwave! Excels in niche contexts, broadly used, but never loved. The results are universally acknowledged to be pretty crap when applied to general cooking tasks. Saves labour at the margins, but probably cost very few jobs.

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The real reason Coca Cola isn't considered a violation of the Word of Wisdom is the Church is in cahoots with the Coca Cola company* meant in jest, but here's the quote from "Fragments of Revelation"

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I mentor an undergraduate research program that may not continue this year due to funding uncertainty of federal programs. I am saddened that my students will not have the same opportunities that I had when I was in school due to the political farce currently going on.

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I do a bit of transcribing for the National Archives in my spare time, and the JFK Assassination Records just dropped 👀👀👀

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

2 day change -1,400 (always a tweet)

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Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This is huge news. Not only are the diaries and papers of Heber J Grant now available—he was LDS president for over two transition decades for the church—but they’re also announcing a new policy to release papers after an LDS leader is dead 70 years. A very positive opening and change.

history.churchofjesuschrist.org

Heber J. Grant Journals Now Available Digitally in the Church History Catalog

President Heber J. Grant, the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dedicated his life to Church service and to bearing witness of the truthfulness of the Restoration o...

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This is Winston Smith’s job in “1984.”

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Just so you know, there's a whole anime show with surprisingly high quality representation of the immune system on Netflix, "Cells at Work." Got my kids learning about macrophages, Killer T Cells, and platelets.

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Watching the news in 2025 feels like watching a really poorly executed game of Jenga, the outcome of which determines whether you can feed your family or not.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 03/02/2025

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive. Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025
by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Topics cdc, government, united states, dataset, archive
Language English
Item Size 98.5G
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

"In my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil." Perhaps this is self-aggrandizing as I consider myself a book person, but this surprising quote from A Series of Unfortunate Events seems even more relevant today. Reading changes you and exposes you to new perspectives.

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Being a youth leader is humbling because you'll get in one of these and then get absolutely pummeled to the ground by a 16 year old.

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Got a "1 player faced the same situation" today on Connections 😘

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Finally cracked open my student evals *groan.* It wasn't that bad, but I have seen a few comments along the lines of "HE seems to really enjoy stats/programming/math but doesn't see that others don't." I'm sorry for trying to make the topic a little less painful?

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

My five year old wrote me a poem: "And to pass than man does too, do a dance as whale, I says."

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Of course I agree but were y'all there back in the day before LLMs when the algorithms couldn't even put together a coherent sentence? I fed the Book of Mormon into that thing, and reading some of those verses felt like I had my own stone in a hat.

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

We took the kids to the Lego store to incarnate themselves in Legos, here is mine:

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

A small rule-obsessed town that can't be bothered to house a trio of orphans and will burn any perceived rule-breakers at the stake? A Series of Unfortunate Events or current events

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

My kids got these hinge toys for Christmas, so naturally I had to make a truncated icosahedron e.g. soccer ball

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Niléane @mastodon.nileane.fr · 24/12/2024

This German meme was just brought to my attention and I feel obligated to reshare it here Frohe Weihnachten

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Enjoying some Mannheim Steamroller on my parents' piano this Christmas. Wishing you all a wonderful season too!

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Listening to my 8yo practicing German in the other room: "Ist Österreich groß oder klein?" Is DuoLingo prepping her for an invasion of central Europe?

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

"No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read." A great first line to aSoUE #7, also feels unfortunately relevant.

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Currently reading selected poems of Wordsworth, because the back of the book mentioned "his intense friendship with Coleridge" and I got to have the deets.

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

sometimes the Onion makes you laugh at other people, and then sometimes, they make you laugh at yourself 🥲

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Just got back from Wicked and it radicalized me

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 27/11/2024

I must not dunk. Dunks are the time-killer Dunks are the little stress that bring on social alienation I will ignore bad takes I will allow them to pass, or block them And when they are off my feed I will read things that matter And where the takes have gone there will be nothing Only I will remain

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The judges of this state may tranquilly condemn us for our conduct at that time, but history, the goddess of a higher truth and a better legal code, will smile as she tears up this verdict, and will acquit us all of the crime for which this verdict demands punishment. Hilter, after Beer Hall Putsch

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This is me checking in to say I finished @nihilists4jesus.bsky.social's book and it is great 10/10 no notes. I wasn't paid to say this.

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

New apostle rankings: Mentions in Saints Volume 4: 66 Nelson 56 Oaks 6 Eyring 11 Holland 2 Uchtdorf 1 Bednar 0 Cook 1 Christofferson 2 Andersen 0 Rasband 0 Stevenson 0 Renlund 1 Gong 0 Soares 0 Kearon

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Some of my latest favorite passages from Saints Volume 4: President Hinckley trying to get the highest ROI on baptizing spirits in spirit prison

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Professor Chad @derchadmeister.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Just found out you can get a Jumpstart Third Grade on archive.org like its 1999. Gonna be playing this with my kids for the next couple months.

Botley the Robot from the 90s educational program JumpStart Third Grade

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