This was sent to me but one of my tech illiterate friends. Thoughts on this? Seems sketchy af. The video on TikTok is like, "It's fun. Add your person." Being that it's all federal offense to dox the ice nazis, I'm feeling like this shit is a honeypot?

Edit:turns out the picture uploaded to my cache on my browser but not to the server so this post looked dumb and empty. Put the picture below in the comment thread.

Discourse, Flarum, MyBB, phpBB, Simple Machines Fourm, and NodeBB are what I can find. Any yays or nays? More suggestions? Purpose of self hosting for friends, privately.

Scientists have attempted to map the human cell since the first microscope was invented more than 400 years ago. But many components of the cell still remain uncharted.

“ We know each of the proteins that exist in our cells, but how they fit together to then carry out the function of a cell still remains largely unknown across cell types,” said Leah Schaffer, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research scholar at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Now, Schaffer and her colleagues at UC San Diego — in collaboration with researchers at Stanford University, Harvard Medical School and the University of British Columbia — have created a comprehensive, interactive map of U2OS cells, which are associated with pediatric bone tumors. They combined high-resolution microscope imaging and biophysical interactions of proteins to map the subcellular architecture and protein assemblies in the cell. The map revealed previously unknown protein functions and will help the researchers understand how mutated proteins contribute to diseases such as childhood cancers. It will also serve as a reference for developing maps of other cell types. The study will be published on April 9, 2025 in Nature.

“Based on cell biology 101 and textbook pictures of cells, you might think that we understand everything about a cell. But what’s remarkable is that for no human cell type do we really have a proper parts catalog and assembly manual,” said co-senior author Trey Ideker, Ph.D., a professor of genetics in the Department of Medicine, an adjunct professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Computer Science and Engineering, and a member of Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego.

The mapping projects referenced in this story are really fucking cool:

https://www.proteinatlas.org/

https://musicmaps.ai/u2os-cellmap/

Financially motivated by salaries now, but what’s next?

For now, North Korean technical workers are focused on attaining employment, doing those jobs, and sending the money they earn back to Pyongyang.

North Korean technical workers generate hundreds of millions of dollars for the North Korean regime, according to Unit 42.

https://archive.ph/JYIE8

A spider species eat their siblings as soon as they die but tolerate each other when they are alive, suggesting a mysterious signal helps them to determine when to dine on a nest mate

Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy holds a solid lead in the primary — one that increased dramatically after President Donald Trump’s endorsement at the end of February, according to new internal polling conducted by longtime Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio.

The polling, conducted April 6-10 and shared first with Semafor, now shows Ramaswamy garnering 71% of the primary vote — representing a 60-point lead against his closest opponent, Jim Tressel. Fabrizio attributes the increase in part to Trump’s approval, writing that “an overwhelming majority” of Republican primary voters are aware Ramaswamy has been endorsed by the president.

Trump, according to Fabrizio, “has lent a ton of credence to Ramaswamy’s campaign and put him into a gigantic lead.”

https://archive.ph/sgNOd#selection-1157.0-1157.598

In recent years, many international scientists who travel to Greenland to conduct research had worked to form a tighter, more ethical bond with the communities and institutions there. It used to be that researchers would arrive and conduct ‘parachute science’ without partnering with anyone local, says Aurora Roth, a graduate student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, who studies fjords in Greenland. Trump’s play for Greenland has undermined those improvements, she says. “Now you have the current geopolitics, and it makes me embarrassed to be a US researcher.”

https://archive.ph/oSfqF

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Potential witnesses in the International Criminal Court (ICC) case against former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte are coming under immense pressure through online harassment and other intimidation to withdraw their testimony, according to lawyers representing them.

However, human rights attorneys told a news conference on Sunday in the Dutch city where the ICC is based and Duterte is being held that the court will not necessarily require witnesses to travel to The Hague. People will also be able to participate anonymously, they added. "Now, as accountability inches closer for Duterte, the same victims are being revictimized once again by the relentless misinformation and fake news machinery of the Duterte camp," said Kristina Conti of the National Union of Peoples' Lawyers (NUPL) in the Philippines and assistant counsel of victims of Duterte's drug war. "But instead of deterring them, these attacks are further emboldening the victims to speak louder and continue the call for justice for their loved ones."

"It is crucial for the ICC that the process continues without witness intimidation, witness killings, those are strictly prohibited, or the erasure or loss of evidence," Conti said.

"He is a flight risk, and it seems unlikely he would return for trial, which is a major reason for his detention," she added.

UN demands answers for deaths of first responders after bodies and mangled vehicles were found buried in sand

A Washington Post report on March 28 that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) forced the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) top vaccine official—Peter Marks, MD—to resign or be fired quickly caught the attention of some lawmakers, along with members of the scientific and business communities.

Marks submitted his resignation letter, with an effective date of April 5. The development comes amid a major change in focus under the leadership of new HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a long-time vaccine skeptic, which the agency spelled out in a March 27 announcement.

Marks: Kennedy wants support for misinformation, lies

Marks is a hematologist oncologist who has led the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) since 2016 after serving as its deputy director since 2012. He has widely been credited as playing a key role in Operation Warp Speed, a partnership between the federal government and the private sector that streamlined the development, production, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccine.

In his resignation letter, published by the Post and other media outlets, Marks raised concerns about efforts to undermine confidence in vaccines, especially against the backdrop of a multistate measles outbreak that is especially severe in Texas. Marks said he was willing to work with Kennedy to address his concerns over vaccine safety and transparency. Kennedy has minimized the outbreak and has suggested alternative treatments, including vitamin A, which some hospital officials said has been linked to cases of liver problems.

Under the ACA, insurance plans sold through the ACA marketplace are required to cover all EHBs as defined by the benchmarks of the state in which they operate. The rule, if enacted as proposed, would remove hormone replacement therapy, gender-affirming surgery, puberty blockers, and other forms of gender-affirming medical care from the list of valid EHBs. Insurers would still be allowed, but not required, to offer coverage for such care.

As justification for the new rule, CMS and HHS pointed to Trump’s executive orders calling for gender-affirming care to be banned for trans youth and demanding an “end to Federal funding of gender ideology.” But although it parrots Trump’s false definition of “biological sex” (that people are immutably male or female based on whether they have “the biological function to produce” sperm or eggs), the proposal claims that it is not subject to the injunctions blocking them, because it “does not rely on the enjoined sections” of those executive orders. Instead, the proposal further claims that gender-affirming care “is not typically included in employer-sponsored plans, and EHB must be equal in scope to a typical employer plan” — ergo, such care cannot be classed as an EHB.

In fact, it is not uncommon for employer-provided health plans in the U.S. to cover gender-affirming care, as KFF reported this week. Although coverage is uneven across the country, a 2024 KFF survey reported that about 24% of businesses with more than 200 employees cover gender-affirming care in their insurance policies. Among the country’s largest businesses — those that employ more than 5,000 people — 50% offered coverage for gender-affirming care in their largest plan.

Although the Trump administration has largely targeted trans people 19 years old and younger in its attacks on gender-affirming care, Republicans have signaled for at least a year that they would come for adult care soon after.

As we’ve reported previously, public comment can be an effective tool for voicing dissent: even if officials do adopt the rule, it will be challenged in court (Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s comments about dismantling certain courts notwithstanding), at which point lawyers will be able to draw on public comments as part of the official record to bolster their case.

At the time of writing, the proposal had received over 5,000 comments, many of them opposing the ban on gender-affirming care. The comment period will end on April 11.

Make public comment here: https://www.regulations.gov/document/CMS-2025-0020-0011/comment