Mike Hall

[#NAFOViking @nafoviking]

Hegseth will now guard the Reflecting Pool🤦 Good Luck🫣

[Mike Hall @mikehall]

@atensnut I love how conservatives come up with things that would never happen and then say "See?!?"

[Anuj @anujcodes_21]

🚨Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No registration. No paywall.

I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

Watch it and bookmark it now.

[Mike Hall @mikehall]

@theeboilerman @Del50651994 @DannyConway1875 @ScotNational They can't, that's why they aren't.

[The National @ScotNational]

'This is a day for Scotland's voice to be heard' 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@JohnSwinney speaks to The National at the Scottish independence rally in Edinburgh on Saturday

[Mike Hall @mikehall]

@DannyConway1875 @ScotNational Untrue. Fascist regimes and movements have historically and systematically targeted minorities, using them as scapegoats to build national unity based on racial, ethnic, or cultural purity.

[The National @ScotNational]

BREAKING: Police have intervened in an 'anti-fascist' protest at Reform UK's Scotland conference 🚨

Activists unfurled a banner saying 'fuck Farage' and 'no to fascism in Scotland'

[Mike Hall @mikehall]

@BritainForTrump @ScotNational

[Mike Hall @mikehall]

Yeah, it's pretty simple. Sarwar has been distancing himself from Starmer for a while now. He saw this as his chance to get Starmer out which would increase his chances of reelection, but he didn't get the backing he thought he would. #bbcdn

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit.

My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to use Claude Code: we intentionally build it in a way that you can use it, customize it, and hack it however you like. Each person on the Claude Code team uses it very differently.

So, here goes.

[Mike Hall @mikehall]

@mmgeissler You asked Sandie Peggie's lawyer "What's she like?" An absolute softball of a question. She could have talked her up or said anything, but she refused to answer. If she was a lovely person, it would have been pretty easy to just say "She's a lovely person."

[Mike Hall @mikehall]

@billywisnieski @histories_arch You're gonna need a little more than ”fake news", buddy

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Science does not support the idea of pure races with ancient origins. In the past few years, genetic sequencing of ancient and modern humans and related species has given us a flood of new information about how human populations have evolved.

The evidence reveals a history of ongoing genetic mingling, due to interbreeding between different populations and even species. Humans from different groups had children together, and even with Neanderthals and members of other now-extinct hominin species. This mingling occurred constantly in the long process of human migration across the globe. Europeans inhabit one region of a large genetic continuum and are no more or less “pure” than any other population.

▪︎ From Africa to the world:
The genetic history of humanity begins in what we now know as Africa. The exact location (or locations) of the first anatomically modern humans is debated, but there is a consensus they lived south of the Sahara desert between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago. A group or groups of these early humans migrated out of Africa and into the Middle East, as we now know it, some time between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago. Next, some went east into Asia while others headed west into Europe.

At some point, the wandering humans met and bred with Neanderthals. These now-extinct hominins had left Africa many thousands of years earlier. Modern Asians and Europeans still carry genetic signatures of Neanderthals, while sub-Saharan Africans do not.

The humans that migrated east into Asia also met and bred with other extinct species of hominins, including at least two major injections of genes from a group we call Denisovans. Early modern humans almost certainly bred with other ancient hominins as well, because interspecies breeding was likely common. The remains of a girl with a Neanderthal mother and Denisovan father have recently been discovered. Another recent study has shown some Neanderthals too carried traces of human DNA.

▪︎ Genetic diversity leads to greater fitness:
Genetic diversity, as measured by a metric called heterozygosity, decreases with geographic distance from Africa. Higher heterozygosity is generally associated with greater genetic fitness for survival. From this perspective it could be argued that, when the humans who walked away from Africa lost genetic diversity through living in small groups, they also lost genetic fitness. By the same argument, interbreeding between populations increases fitness.

In fact, Europeans probably benefited from picking up some Neanderthal DNA: these genes are thought to have diversified their immune systems and may have contributed to their lighter pigmentation. Humans who migrated west into Europe continued to meet and breed with other human populations.

Another wave of humans from what we call Anatolia (roughly modern-day Turkey) followed the initial spread of humans into Europe. The Yamnaya population from what we now know as the Russian steppe migrated west into Europe between 3,000 and 5,000 years ago. In fact, little genetic trace remains of the first human inhabitants of Europe, as they were continually supplanted by others.

Even the Roman civilisation, considered to be one of the historical foundations of European identity, was home to great genetic variety. A recent study looked at the genomes of 127 people from 29 sites across the past 10,000 years. It found an initial wave of hunter-gatherers had been supplanted by an Anatolian population, and during the age of Imperial Rome (27 BC to 300 AD) there were significant introductions of genes from what is now Iran and the eastern Mediterranean.

© Muhammad Asghar

#archaeohistories

[Matthew Gertz @MattGertz]

The sort of image which, if you predicted it would come to pass last October, people would have accused you of having Trump Derangement Syndrome.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Donald Trump LOSES big time in court.

Would be very terrible if this went viral!

[Mike Hall @mikehall]

@elonmusk That's literally what a democracy is. Checks and balances. What you're advocating for is a dictatorship.

[Mike Hall @mikehall]

@elonmusk Yours was no still photo. Take responsibility.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Who made this. 🤣

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump: Most people don't have any idea what the hell a phone app is

[Mike Hall @mikehall]

@googledevs Can you verify your developer organization with just a DBA (doing business as) or do you have to have an LLC? I've been trying with a DBA, but it isn't working.