joseph osmundson (all pronouns)
@reluctantlyjoe
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scientist, writer. VIROLOGY (Norton, 2022) "dazzling... love essays" -NYTimes Book Review, NBCC & Lambda Literary Finalist.
New York, NY
Joined November 2013
Well! I wrote a book. I've been pretty quiet about it. I'm generally open to a fault: depression, breakups, body issues. But this book charts a part of my life very VERY few people know about. I almost had a kid. And then I didn't have a kid. https://t.co/lI5On9VolX
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And relief came through writing. Through turning something negative—loss, a not-child I could not hold in my hands—into an object with a spine. Not fingers, but pages. And she can speak.
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I recently spoke about having the courage to do work that matters at the @thinq__media conference in Nashville. Ironically, I needed my own courage to deliver that 9-minute talk. I was feeling nervous and unqualified to speak at an event with such a large audience, where people
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I get so many questions about what made me really obsessed with cooking. The answer I never say because it's not something people in casual conversation want to hear: I lost a child.
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What is your single favorite Thankstaking food item? Mine: TURKEY GRAVY, and – yes – the stock you make with the carcass (which is probably technically a post-Thankstaking food item).
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This year, I published an essay on pet cloning, Barbra Streisand, and the lengths we will go to in order to forestall grief – the essential pain of life. https://t.co/3rLzqHa2qp
orionmagazine.org
Will cloning my pet delay the grief of outliving him?
Tom Brady reveals his current dog Junie is a clone of his late dog, Lua, who passed away in 2023: “I love my animals. They mean the world to me and my family. A few years ago, I worked with Colossal Biosciences and leveraged their non-invasive cloning technology through a simple
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Of course, a generation experiencing identity formation in a time of rising fascism and unmitigated climate disaster would have a nihilistic sense of humor, in this Essay in 67 lines, I will...
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We’ve now helped 500+ real businesses take their first real steps into AI. Not theory. Not demos. Actual day-to-day use. And no, it hasn’t all worked perfectly. We’ve seen what doesn’t help Main Street. We’ve watched tools overpromise. We’ve learned where AI actually saves
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I don’t know what any of my exes are doing. I don’t know what any of my former friends are doing. and you’re not supposed to! there was a time when you just never saw a person again. I’m nostalgic for those times. disappear like a ghost! woooo!
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every time someone asks me about my dislike and refusal to use AI, i send them this.
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PostgreSQL tuning is complex — and mostly manual. At AI DBA, Luigi Nardi (DBtune) shows how agentic AI can automatically tune PostgreSQL server parameters in real-world environments. Jan 23 • Free virtual conference Register for free
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Sorry I can’t talk rn, it’s loud here outside the vegan anti-cancer drum line performance.
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Hot Honey is bad actually, and I do not want it anywhere near my pepperoni pizza.
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The number of times re rewound and watched this sequence was REMARKABLE just pure joy that I have not felt in months. Need @iamjohnoliver's thoughts immediately.
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Hey man nice signifier. Does its meaning depend on a system of arbitrary differences?
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NEW MINING POD w/ @coinbase: "Your hashrate is producing Bitcoin. All your ASICS & containers are producing Bitcoin. If you're assets are denominated in a currency, your liabilities might what to be in a similar currency." Presented by @cleanspark_inc
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she does not
“The governor has one vote. Let’s be clear on that,” Mayor Eric Adams says of Gov. Kathy Hochul endorsing Zohran Mamdani for mayor. Says it’s politics and that Hochul called him before she announced the endorsement.
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Kurt Vonnegut on buying an envelope
order your groceries. saves an extra 1-2 hours a week. compounded, thats 50-100 hours a year. a whole week work of work you gain. i promise that time is more important then the $10 delivery fee
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Last year, this piece moored me. For more than 9 months— and it still does. I get dizzy when I look at it.
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Did you know Adrienne Rich wrote a poem about Artificial Intelligence in **1961** and it's absolutely prophetic?
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Today we announced positive Phase 1b/2 results from our ongoing TUPELO trial evaluating REC-4881 in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) – a rare, inherited disease with no approved pharmacologic treatments. Treatment with REC-4881 demonstrated rapid and durable
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