RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.

needs programming + indexing: scan all the BCF records and build a an index containing the offset of each record. An old java implementation here: https://github.com/lindenb/jvarkit/blob/master/src/main/java/com/github/lindenb/jvarkit/tools/misc/VcfGetVariantByIndex.java

Ops, wrong url for github : https://academic.oup.com/bioinformaticsadvances/article/5/1/vbaf089/8142418

@wmo-global.bsky.social Global annual to decadal climate predictions 2025-2029 wmo.int/sites/defaul...

Are you using Ublock Origin ? Add "google.com##.hdzaWe" without quotes to your Ublock Origin My Filters to block the google AI overview and apply changes.

So, lets see if I got this right.

Saturn V, 13 launches, 100% success rate.
SpaceX Starship, 9 launches, 0% success rate.

Seems to me that Nazi rocket engineers are not what they used to be...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QBv2CFTSWU Miss USA 2011 — Should Math Be Taught In Schools? (2011)

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U.S. Will No Longer Recommend Covid Shots for Children and Pregnant Women Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. upended decades of standard protocol in announcing that the vaccine would be dropped from the immunization schedule for healthy children. #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/h...

U.S. Will No Longer Recommend ...

🪲✈️ This macro insect flight compilation from Dr. Adrian Smith captures the wing mechanics of 23 different species in slow motion. From green June #beetles keeping their protective covers linked during flight to stoneflies using all four wings independently, the footage explains how each insect developed different aerial strategies.

Recorded at up to 6,000 frames per second, the #video makes visible detailed wing folding patterns and different beat frequencies across seven different #insect orders.

👉 Learn more: https://zurl.co/FSZVl

#tksst #video #animals #biology #entomology #insects #bugs #macro #nature #science

JBrowse v3.5.0 released https://jbrowse.org/jb2/blog/2025/05/27/v3.5.0-release/

Terminal Genome Viewer (tgv), written in Rust github.com/zeqianli/tgv

La question de l'aide à mourir est délicate. Pour ma part, j'ai toujours été pour le droit à mourir.

Mais il faut entendre les soignants, les malades et les personnes handicapées qui alertent : sans un système de santé capable d’accompagner dignement, la liberté de choisir sa fin existe t-elle réellement ?

People defending AI-generated “art” because AI is also used to find medical cures is like saying that smashing people’s toes with hammers should be acceptable because hammers are also used to build hospitals.

To clarify

#capitalism

https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/ by Benjamin Aster is incredible! Editable Minecraft-style world, entirely CSS and HTML, not a single line of JS

My notes on how it works here. It uses radio boxes for state, paused animations for controlling the viewport https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/css-minecraft/

CSS Minecraft

Link: https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100148

Vienna granted asylum to a spherical micronation in 1982, changed their mind, fought all the way to the supreme court, lost, then gave up.

It's still sat in a public park and has 650 citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelmugel