Good evening, Everybun!
We're doing well; we're trying to catch up on naps. As expected, no bunny got any sleep last night. Misguided unfortunates kept blowing up stuff ad infinitum.
Possibly tangential to that is another article from a recent issue of the Science magazine that borders on bunfiction, titled "Toward life with a 19-amino acid alphabet through generative artificial intelligence design." It's a very short, human-readable piece about creating synthetic life using 1 fewer building block than the 20 canonical ones used by all life forms on Earth.
The article describes how that was accomplished but does not elaborate on whether that's a good idea. We are deeply concerned with this type of "hold my nannerini and watch this" messin' about in a petri dish.
If you need a concrete example of "life engineering" gone sideways, consider what last night sounded like.
Are those cases of pyromania short an amino acid of a full set of building blocks? We urge the authors of the article to go out into their neighborhoods and have a good look around. Of course, any self-respecting Science Officer for the Devil would argue that it was just bound to be discovered sooner or later. Just like someone had to split the atom.
And to add insult to injury, calling such a chimera any kind of "toward life" is a next-level twist of the shiv.
That said, last night we tried to help our hoomin in his never-ending quest to "capture" us with the fewest pen strokes on paper. Here's to another boring bunday, and more arting tonight.
Good night and good luck!
- Gus
P.S.: Here's the article if you wish to get your eye dirty: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeb5171
