Unsere Kolumnistin @margaowski.bsky.social interessiert sich nicht für #Medizin – dennoch fühlt sie sich bei #LongCovid informierter als mancher Mediziner. Warum das so ist, lest ihr hier:
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Unsere Kolumnistin @margaowski.bsky.social interessiert sich nicht für #Medizin – dennoch fühlt sie sich bei #LongCovid informierter als mancher Mediziner. Warum das so ist, lest ihr hier:
The best part of that article about AI music is how hard it is to find the actual music on the article. All the links about the tools just go to *other* articles about the tools. There is a video of people *listening* to the AI music, which is something I guess.
Death after the acute phase has ended is very much an option (via e.g. CVEs), it's just stretched out over time and not compressed into a single infection wave, hence less ICU/morgue overload. The total count might still be the same or even higher.
We're sadly very much still "during Covid"
Depends on whether you only consider deaths during the acute infection as the only relevant negative outcome. Lifelong disability or highly increased risk of cardiovascular events for years are sadly very much a thing even with current vaccine tech. I lost multiple friends in their 40s to CVE
It's not a sterilizing vaccine. I'm severely disabled by long Covid since 2022, despite always getting my booster shots.
I’m an urgent care provider. I had 5 + tests in clinic just yesterday. I cannot tell you how many pts say “COVID is still a thing?” And I want to scream “YES! And it’s going to be a thing for the foreseeable future!” It blows my mind.
I will die on this hill: it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
the big 4 sewing pattern brands are being sold off for parts. if you want patterns, get them *now*. (if you're secretly a zillionaire who likes sewing patterns, call the liquidator immediately with your chequebook) craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...
If you’ve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, you’ve seen the former are more likely to die.
If you do #embedded #Rust on the #rp2040 with elf2uf2-rs, and you struggle with the recent "Unrecognized ABI" error due to a change in Rust's elf header for `thumbv6m-none-eabi`, I've landed StripedMonkey's patch in both Arch Linux and Homebrew, so if you use those packages, things should work […]
The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.
Reminds me of the Pioneer plaque. If anyone out there finds it, the first thing they are going to think is “this couple sent me unsolicited nudes and directions to their house”
That's a bit too much nitrous
The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
“I don’t want to hear these people talk. Spin the wheel.” - my 5 yo daughter watching the first few minutes of Wheel of Fortune
We love line
Oliver (or is it Mario 🤔) is nonstop concern trolling about trans issues, often with identical text snippets. Probably a bot - or just enormously obsessed with denial
Establishment democrats and you have a lot in common, for example nobody likes you
Found Jesse's alt
You're either incredibly gullible or enormously evil; maybe even both
Singal is among the most intellectually dishonest people so...
People really can't do personal space at concerts/clubs, it's infuriating
standing first row i caused the singer of das ich to stop mid-song due to laughing because i'd taken my shoe off and hit someone who kept stepping on the back of my legs in the head with it
It has already happened
That’s two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Meta’s chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting All going really well
"during the pandemic" as if it ended
The new head of the CDC, Jim O’Neill, has no degree in science or medicine, and has pushed unproven treatments for COVID like ivermectin. This is so incredibly dangerous.
When a top CDC scientist resigns citing eugenicist rhetoric from federal health agencies, everyone should absolutely be paying attention.
Anything for a net positive am I right guys?
the estimable @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social says the sure tell a bubble is heading to a close is a sudden burst of short term contracts for tech writers, to document the shitpile to be sold off for parts. and look what's this coreweave.com/careers/job?...
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
i'm thinking about how the fuck to write about the chatgpt lawsuit. one question i have to answer: people don't resort to chatgpt as their confidante because they see other options. what to offer them? (also please note any other issues something good would have to cover.)
I don't know who coined the phrase "Poe's law event horizon" but oh boy have I been getting a lot of use out of it lately
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.
The only thing that this AI garbage has accomplished in my field is making the internet almost unusable as a classroom resource & digital assignments almost totally impossible.
I'm not here to defend openai, to be clear - but what you're saying is just not true. We currently have no clue how to reliably parse any kind of sentiment with "just code".
bait used to be believable
anthropologists in 1000 years: "it seems like there was cult which believed in sacrificing grain silos to Poseidon"
rawr
living exclusively on raw kale is SO BACK
The recent Nature study on ultra-processed foods really shows to me how ridiculous the term "hyper-palatable" is. It's just...nonsense. Fearmongering. It really does not connect to a real experience of foods, whether processed or otherwise.
disgusting
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
recalling one of the most evil, inhuman phrases ever printed
The problem is that chatbots don't know what self harm is. They literally have zero knowledge of facts: all they do is fancy autocomplete (same reason they can't count the r's in blueberry). Yes you can filter with a curated list of keywords but it'll never get better than that w/ current technology
The "practicing unlicensed psychotherapy" part needs to be enforced in a big way. Insurance companies and startups are champing at the bit to force people into "AI therapists."
The plaintiffs are asserting products liability, negligence, wrongful death, and finally they’re asserting a violation of California Unfair Competition Law The UCL theory is GPT 4o violated Cal. criminal code by deliberately aiding & encouraging suicide, was practicing unlicensed psychotherapy,
Besser als QANON
There goes our collective knowledge...
This farm also *chose* to sell it in stores that promote raw milk as a health food, and stock it in their "dairy for humans" case. That's not a real mistake. As a farm selling directly to a local retailer, you have a say in how they class & sell your products. That's "lose your business" stupid.
Die SZ berichtet heute über einen klimapolitischen Wahnsinnsmove der Bundesregierung. Sie will möglich machen, europäische Strafzahlungen wegen zu wenig Klimaschutz aus dem Topf zu bezahlen, der Klimaschutz finanzieren soll. Wodurch weniger Geld für Klimaschutz da wäre.
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This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.
last winter I did a thing on here where I said "if cost is holding you back from getting a vaccine, tell us and I bet someone on here will help you get one" and we got quite a few people vaccinated b/c generous folks on bluesky said "let's fuckin' go" I will do it again if we need it!
Assuming a spherical Mark Cuban in a vacuum, my favorite part is that he's in a vacuum
anyone respectable got a good blocklist for Newsom bots
the very idea of chasing the polls and focus groups on the question of APC carriers and miniguns at public parks is so fucking disgusting. believing in things, advocating for your beliefs, inspiring, effecting change -- what the fuck happened to all of that!!!
“the technical folks who understand the technology all hate it” seems like a giant red flag for a technology being implemented
i mean don't get me wrong, watching the uk government beg people to not use vpns is very funny but i feel it's worth mentioning that this guy voted to keep the benefit cap and as a result over 400,000 children are pushed further into poverty i am sure not using vpns will fix that
Meanwhile... "Wikipedia's founder said he used ChatGPT in the review process for an article and thought it could be helpful. Editors replied to point out it was full of mistakes." www.404media.co/jimmy-wales-...
it's amazing what you can do if you just put in a big number with a $ in front
this is precisely why i put it at 2027 there is SO MUCH investment cash that needs to Enron furiously as long as it possibly can the AI bubble is not a market phenomenon. (If it was, it would have popped long ago.) It's a VC scam that we've seen before. Those go on *way* longer than they should.
dude you're in way too deep, why tf are you following me, I hate everything you stand for
sure buddy
Media outlets seem to have soured on the AI hype machine.
the summaries are only useful if manually fact checked because otherwise you still get plausible-sounding nonsense that fundamentally can't be evolved away in LLMs (technological dead end). It's at least debatable if that kind of summarizing actually saves time considering mental fatigue slips
I'm still extremely salty that the Helium wifi crypto nonsense people (seemingly?) got away with it all
I feel like there’s going to be a lot of white collar crime that will become apparent when it becomes harder for AI firms to raise additional rounds of funding
here's my controversial take: i’m finding some sensational predictions about when the AI bubble will burst as unhelpful and unrealistic as some of the AGI predictions. hear me out 1/
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20 Aug 25 -- Bluesky has suspended multiple trans users for anti-J.K. Rowling posts even when they didn't mention threats or violence. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
No Thanks Computer
They might be thinking "that email account? Yeah it's clearly James Munn's"
Do you want lower rates of "crime"? Do you want increased childhood development and well-being? Do you want lower rates of homelessness? Do you want to reduce overdose deaths? Do you want these things cheaper than ever? Then give people housing, food, schooling, medicine, and support, for free.
I would like to once again state for the record that building an entire sociomaterial culture— especially regarding housing, healthcare, and food— out of a combination of "caveat emptor," "fuck you I got mine," and "YOLO" actually really fucking sucks
There's "chronically online" and "into homestuck" "chronically online".
tired: using water as coolant inspired: nitrous oxide
I'm probably going to post this a couple times, but if you are a Rust dev, who cares about messaging between tasks/threads/process/devices, and would be willing to do me a personal solid, I want YOU to help me put Ergot through its paces: github.com/jamesmunns/e... I need your help!
Directly into the sun would also not exactly be a bad option
Just think - if one million people turned off their wifi for one hour it would save enough electricity to run one ChatGPT data center for ten seconds
This is a nontrivial problem in education, especially with math, where one of your first tasks is to convince students they can learn. I curse who ever came up with “math person.”
It’s a well-known thing that “Alberta sovereignty” is a fake issue leveraged by American corporate interests and various other political vandals, but it’ll be nice to see a number put to the issue when one of said vandals is the Premiere.
jfc. so i made YPP (paid creator) in 3 months, but that was 3 months of daily videos i fucking made myself in several hours a day 7 days/week i would say fuck these people but looks like they're doing the job themselves
Ugh FINE I'll show up to work "sober" to lead the department of defense. YES without "sexually assaulting" everyone, christ anything else?
Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.
yo, i think i've accidentally discovered something new - pwy.io/posts/marchi...
Pretty tangential but have you seen this? Absolutely wild www.youtube.com/watch?v=et8R...
i'm seeing "human language can be syntheszed without a theory of mind what gives" and my dude: that's the basis of a bunch of board games and children's wordplay activities not that it matters, but "people think a computer is talking to them" (1964-67) is twice as old as "the web" (1993)
Guys is anyone else using the right mouse button??
"Von Maßstab und Menschlichkeit" von Sebastian Seiffert @sci-ffert.bsky.social, geht gerade viral 💪 Schaut es euch an, — und teilt es, auch gerade außerhalb "unserer Bubble" 🙏 ▶️ youtube.com/shorts/1AfHg... 🧵⬇️ Text im Thread ⬇️🧵
In Kurz: wenn nicht jetzt mit einem beispiellosen technologischen Wandel oder einer erheblichen Schrumpfung der Weltwirtschaft auf Klimakrise reagiert wird, dann werden die globalen durchschnittlichen Oberflächentemperaturen bis 2050 um mehr als 3 °C ansteigen. Und damit guten Morgen.
Do you know who still masks? Celebrities like Selena Gomez.
Meanwhile in savage engineering: using staples as a strain relief 🧠
Girl on the Net wrote about it eloquently: www.girlonthenet.com/blog/please-...
Whey Standard 