This is #LongCovidAwarenessMonth btw. And yes even vacinated kids get long covid. Vaccinated people of all ages are far less likely to die or be hospitalized from acute covid but anyone can get long covid. Even previously healthy kids.
This article doesn’t mention long covid. Long covid has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children.
A thread ...
Utterly depressing.
It is understandable
if on this occasion
(six years
since the WHO
declared Covid
a pandemic)
you find yourself
reflecting on
all you lost
in this pandemic,
but do not forget
the 7.1 million reported
(the 18.2-33.5 million estimated)
who lost all
in this pandemic.
Imagine a world where Americans were smarter and didn’t applaud when reactionary idiot Ronald Reagan made a show out of removing the solar panels Jimmy Carter had installed on the White House. We wouldn’t now have to worry about affording to fill gas tanks next month.
There's a tendon that runs along the base of a cat's foot, just between the toe beans, the 'digital flexor tendon'. Contracting it causes the claws to extend, but notice that the motion isn't "forward", it's "rotational".
Let's look at the remarkable claws of the cat!
Yeah, my local county one is smallish, but living in PA lets me join the Philadelphia Free Library, which has a lot more.
Not gonna lie, I would shop that sale. I'm still peeved they closed the closest thrift-by-the-pound location, because I got some deeply astonishing stuff there.
Gotcha. I mostly can't cope with audiobooks, so I don't have a good sense of how many Libby has.
Iranian hackers threatening to hack into the top 3 credit bureaus and wiping Americans debt… and I just wanna know who I gotta speak to in order to expedite this.
That sucks.
Can you use the Libby app to connect with your library for the audiobooks?
holy shit
Last summer (or was it the one before) Mr Vesey and I canned tomato soup. Tonight we cracked one open, heated it up, and added a bit of cream. I added avocado to mine, then added some greens powder I made last summer from dehydrated leafy greens.
It's delightful and extra nutritious!
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño
We are insane.
Our species is insane.
I offer you the fistbump of solidarity on tween parenting.
Disturbingly, the tyranny of linear time means I'm about to "graduate" to teen parenting and this does not feel like a W.
An unexpected benefit of taking a late-night train on a Saturday is that the coughing and the sneezing combined with the drunken roaring and predictably unpleasant sounds coming from the toilet is a powerful reminder that avoiding Covid and staying sober are wise life choices.
Six years ago
had I known
what was about to happen
I would have looked around
so I could appreciate
(all things considered)
how good I had it.
Six years from now
I just hope
that I do not find myself
looking back at today
and (all things considered)
thinking the same thing.
We are at rising unemployment rates. This is a rule that would just render a lot of people unhoused.
I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.
There is a specific type of demoralizing fascism where people lose rights they had, in their lifetime, fought to get recognized.
Not *just* losing rights, but seeing decades of hard effort dissolve.
Reconstruction, Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute, Dobbs, the coming overturning of Obergefell, etc
Our beauty standards are set by pedophiles
We've seen this with LLMs and any kind of "AI" for decades now: bias in, bias out. And all our data inputs are biased.
The techbros see that as a *feature* - putting it through the black box of "AI" gives the illusion of objectivity while preserving white supremacy/ patriarchy.
The fucking ACCURACY.
A graphic with two vertical halves. The left half, with green background and check marks, says: "A safer internet IS MADE BY Encryption, Privacy, and Open Source"; the right half, with red background and crosses, says "A safer internet is NOT MADE BY Age verification, Scanning communication, or Tracking & data collection." #saferinternetday
Reposting this with alt text.
Once again I'm ruminating on the certainty of someday being assumed I was a "good American" and okay with the fascism, no matter what I say against it or do to resist it.
I remind myself that an unknown number of Nazi-era Germans also spoke against it and silently resisted, to the same assumptions.
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Sigh. 'We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization ... Our results show that the practical obscurity protecting pseudonymous users online no longer holds and that threat models for online privacy need to be reconsidered.'
Photo of a grey catbird sitting on a white fence post in front of some ivy
Post a pic you took, no context, and bring some chill to your feed.
More footage- Student led peaceful protest in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. The police chief showed up in plain clothing and assaulted two students.
Which is why Congress is looking to pass a bill that overturns Section 230, which is going to go far beyond "chilling" dissent and straight up into removing it completely.
