Anyone who wants to can pay me $250K to be kept completely safe from deep underwater disasters!
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Lola @LolaCan you imagine paying a guy who thinks safety regulations are lame $250,000 to possibly die when you can look at pictures of the Titanic wreckage on the internet with a cat who is trying to murder you for free?08:42 PM - Jun 21, 2023
05:23 PM - Jun 22, 2023
Would it help if migrants traveled by submarine so their plight would sometimes end in ticking-clock horror movie scenarios rather than just everyday life horror?
01:27 AM - Jun 22, 2023
@Anonymous has exposed the secret crypto wallets of Russian intelligence agencies & donated the stolen bitcoins to Ukrainian volunteers. Accessed 986 wallets belonging to the GRU, SVR, & FSB & left messagesn accusing them of hiring hackers to attack Ukraine!! 💃💃💃
01:30 PM - Jun 13, 2023
Why scientists should not debate charlatans: science is not theatre. Debate is theatre. I'm a reasonably experienced improv performer and actor, and wouldn't touch a debate with a charlatan without working for weeks to figure out how to beat them at their own game, which isn't science.
07:04 PM - Jun 21, 2023
Code used in Canadian hospitalization analysis: decompose the data into individual Gaussian peaks, and fit those peaks with a SEIR model of viral spread.
github.com
GitHub - tjradcliffe/canadian_covid_peaks: Analysis of Canadian covid hospitalization data: extraction of Gaussians and fitting them to SEIR model
Analysis of Canadian covid hospitalization data: extraction of Gaussians and fitting them to SEIR model - GitHub - tjradcliffe/canadian_covid_peaks: Analysis of Canadian covid hospitalization data: extraction of Gaussians and fitting them to SEIR model
01:39 PM - Jun 02, 2023
My updated look at Canadian covid hospitalization data in terms of Gaussian peaks and a SEIR model fit to individual peaks.
Slight decrease in infectiousness, 4x increase in risk of hospitalization if you get it, consistent with all-cause hospitalization rise in VA data after a few covid infections
Slight decrease in infectiousness, 4x increase in risk of hospitalization if you get it, consistent with all-cause hospitalization rise in VA data after a few covid infections
01:38 PM - Jun 02, 2023
19 Threaded Spouts
For this #ThreadChallenge I want to write about Baruch de Spinoza's Ethics (1677) and why it is so great. Why did the book by an excommunicated Sephardic Jew in The Netherlands get banned, why were people so shocked by it?
02:47 PM - May 15, 2023
Brilliant, clear, compelling distillation of what's wrong with physicians and medical researchers applying inappropriate research methods to effective, well-understood engineering interventions that save lives.
01:13 PM - May 05, 2023
"This is not like the flu, or a cold. It just isn't. No matter that you had it once and were fine, or your friend had it twice and was fine. Data tell us how the world is. Anecdotes tell us about the psychological needs of the person relating them, and nothing else."
12:23 PM - May 05, 2023
And remember: whoever is vulnerable is then deemed inessential or undesirable. The narrative that "if only this affected old white men THEY would do something about" it is false. Old white men are dying in droves. Nobody cares. White celebrities are dying. Nobody cares. Vulnerable equals disposable.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytranSpot on: "Since it seemed to only impact groups that society already deemed undesirable there was no urgency to develop effective testing, treatments or vaccines (for HIV/AIDS). Jade Elektra says she’s seeing the same thing being done with COVID using misinformation."04:39 PM - May 03, 2023
04:51 PM - May 03, 2023
"Attendees said many people at the gathering did not mask, socially distance or take other precautions that the CDC had recommended earlier in the pandemic."
CDC: HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN???
CDC: HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN???
06:02 PM - May 02, 2023
This graph making the rounds today is a lie. I support worker's rights. I don't support lies. The union membership data have been shifted and compressed to make the decline seem steeper and more recent than it actually was.
12:42 AM - May 02, 2023
AND: any union that hasn't been fighting for these protections over the past several years is a UINO. Union In Name Only. Which would be every public and private sector union in Canada: nurses, teachers, auto-workers, the lot.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytranOn May Day, a reminder that fighting for workers' rights also means fighting for workplace #COVID protections like sick pay, ventilation, free PPE, and more.02:13 PM - May 01, 2023
02:24 PM - May 01, 2023
There's a minimizer paper out today that presents an analysis done last fall of risk as a function of infections, which presents the data on a poorly labelled log plot. Putting the risk on a linear scale is pretty horrifying. It's an old (60 yo median), white (70%), male (90%) population, but still.
12:03 AM - Apr 27, 2023
There was a group at Guelph working on similar tech, which they called the "RePoopUlator", if anyone needed more evidence that scientists should not name things.
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Klobby L @Klobby_lU.S. health officials have approved the first pill that uses healthy bacteria from human waste to prevent dangerous gut infections — an easier way of performing so-called fecal transplants
https://abcnews.go.com/Pol...10:33 PM - Apr 26, 2023
11:10 PM - Apr 26, 2023
The bird app now gives me cylical nothing on the login page. "Mission Accomplished" moment for Elbert, I think.
04:38 PM - Apr 26, 2023
Thinking about writing a long series on Bayesian updating and how to do it. It's clear that most highly-paid "professionals" are incapable of it, in part because they don't practice it regularly. Ideas, ideas...
05:15 PM - Apr 25, 2023
A publicaly stated desire to bring the war in Ukraine to a rapid end, but not a rapid *victory for Ukraine*, is a pretty good tell that you're a Russian quisling.
10:10 PM - Apr 21, 2023
Man, that long ago he was probably recording it on BetaMax!
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Miranda Allen @1MirandaAllenOn this day in 1611 First known performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth at the Globe Theatre, London, recorded by Simon Forman08:56 PM - Apr 20, 2023
11:21 PM - Apr 20, 2023
Building new things is hard. People who laugh at the inevitable and highly educational stuff that we learn from during integration testing are outing themselves as utterly uncreative, boring, people who've never done anything genuinely new and difficult.
07:19 PM - Apr 20, 2023
Great to see the left-leaning press rushing to explain why Fox getting CRUSHED by the courts in the Dominion case is really a win for the forces of darkness. With "friends" like that who needs enemies? Clicking on stories that desperately try to spin an enormous victory into a defeat is wrong.
01:24 AM - Apr 19, 2023
Curiously, when I tried to share this on FB I had to do a little processing on the image (overlay with 1 pixel shifted 50% transparent copy and save as .png) before it would all me to post. It's from the Moriarty Lab at U of T, a highly respected infectious disease research centre.
02:09 PM - Apr 18, 2023
There's organized activity to test the limits of various platforms. I'm on substack and the picture there is murky to say the least, and not enormously promising. On Spoutible it's a lot better, with immediate response to attacks.
05:17 PM - Apr 17, 2023
Maybe it's time to write on my own (self-hosted) blog again. I've been on substack for two years, and its a good platform in a lot of ways, but the CEO had a train-wreck of an interview on moderation, and I've heard from creators being harassed on the platform.
10:12 PM - Apr 14, 2023
The only reason people use violence is because they want to hurt people and smash things. Violence is *ineffective* compared to non-violence. Anyone advocating for it is saying nothing but, "I am an enormous asshole." Be part of a unified, peaceful 3.5% and change will (slowly but surely) happen!
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Klobby L @Klobby_lLet's go, 3.5%!!
Thanks for the article, @CaroleTyler 👋10:02 PM - Apr 11, 2023
11:49 PM - Apr 11, 2023
Well, for one, masks work, duhhhh
nature.com
A global analysis of the effectiveness of policy responses to COVID-19 | Scientific Reports
Governments implemented many non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to suppress the spread of COVID-19 with varying results. In this paper, country-level daily time series from Our World in Data facilitates a global analysis of the propagation of the virus, policy responses and human mobility patte..
10:25 AM - Apr 10, 2023
The media wants you to believe Republicans are some unstoppable juggernaut and Trump is some kind of trickster god.
Don't you fucking believe it. They've lost big in every election since that shithead slimed his way into power, and they lost big again today.
p.s. Happy Arraignment Day
Don't you fucking believe it. They've lost big in every election since that shithead slimed his way into power, and they lost big again today.
p.s. Happy Arraignment Day
11:09 PM - Apr 04, 2023
I take a day off and Donald Trump SURRENDERS himself to authorities. What a loser. I like ex-presidents who don't get indicted on 34 felony charges. https://www.politico.com/n...
12:35 AM - Apr 05, 2023
