Nate
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Long COVID and the concealment of pandemic harm
As COVID completes its sixth year, official statistics obscure the scale of harm, while Long COVID and excess deaths reveal the pandemic’s continuing public health consequences as well as the impact o...
www.wsws.org
“COVID infections, deaths and long-term disability have fallen disproportionately on the working class…Life expectancy losses, elevated mortality from cardiovascular and respiratory disease and the burden of Long COVID have tracked closely with income, occupation and access to care.”
Fantastic piece on Wikipedia and AI, made me think of both @molly.wiki and @hagenblix.bsky.social
"But the social dimensions of knowledge reveal the fundamental difference between encyclopedias and AI chatbots: namely, the complete vacuum of any corresponding intellectual culture in the latter."
"But the social dimensions of knowledge reveal the fundamental difference between encyclopedias and AI chatbots: namely, the complete vacuum of any corresponding intellectual culture in the latter."
Half the Battle | Thom Sliwowski
Wikipedia is one of a few bazaars of open-source internet idealism left, and LLMs mean it might not be left standing for long.
thebaffler.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Fantastic piece on Wikipedia and AI, made me think of both @molly.wiki and @hagenblix.bsky.social
"But the social dimensions of knowledge reveal the fundamental difference between encyclopedias and AI chatbots: namely, the complete vacuum of any corresponding intellectual culture in the latter."
"But the social dimensions of knowledge reveal the fundamental difference between encyclopedias and AI chatbots: namely, the complete vacuum of any corresponding intellectual culture in the latter."
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ICE just showed up at our house for the second day in a row. Four cars yesterday, today five. They rolled up slow, then got out to taunt us, and take pictures of the house. They want fear to overwhelm us, to project a fantasy of power meant to intimidate, isolate, produce obedience—not happening.
January 27, 2026 at 10:20 PM
ICE just showed up at our house for the second day in a row. Four cars yesterday, today five. They rolled up slow, then got out to taunt us, and take pictures of the house. They want fear to overwhelm us, to project a fantasy of power meant to intimidate, isolate, produce obedience—not happening.
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I personally don't tell people who have been fighting their hearts out daily for weeks not to celebrate wins of any size. I certainly don't do that when I've been nowhere near the place where the fight has been happening and have done little more than make some donations from miles away.
January 27, 2026 at 3:37 AM
I personally don't tell people who have been fighting their hearts out daily for weeks not to celebrate wins of any size. I certainly don't do that when I've been nowhere near the place where the fight has been happening and have done little more than make some donations from miles away.
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Radical Optimism is not "hope", it is knowing that every action towards a better world will eventually see it come to fruition. If not for me, then for those that come after me.
Just as we proved able to remain revolutionaries, proved able to work under terrible conditions and emerge from them, so shall we emerge now because it is not our whim, it is objective inevitability that has arisen in an utterly ruined country
January 24, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Radical Optimism is not "hope", it is knowing that every action towards a better world will eventually see it come to fruition. If not for me, then for those that come after me.
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This kind of community care is supposed to be categorically impossible in America and they know it and it infuriates them. It is our greatest weapon
January 25, 2026 at 2:55 AM
This kind of community care is supposed to be categorically impossible in America and they know it and it infuriates them. It is our greatest weapon
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I have had that feeling before where in the middle of an action you feel how tangibly another world is possible, but this time I feel it across an entire city. So many here are seeing what life could be like if it were organized around different principles, if the rhythm were completely different
January 25, 2026 at 2:13 AM
I have had that feeling before where in the middle of an action you feel how tangibly another world is possible, but this time I feel it across an entire city. So many here are seeing what life could be like if it were organized around different principles, if the rhythm were completely different
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Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.
January 8, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.
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It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
January 24, 2026 at 7:05 PM
It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
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“Untrained” offers legitimacy. It’s saying they’d be fine if they were better equipped, professionalized killers with same agenda.
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM
“Untrained” offers legitimacy. It’s saying they’d be fine if they were better equipped, professionalized killers with same agenda.
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in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
January 24, 2026 at 5:30 PM
in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
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I'm sorry for the person who was beat to death and killed. My sincere condolences to their loved ones. ICE is going to continue to kill people because the purpose of a system is what it does. It is not what it says it does or what you hope it does. Maybe USians will finally confront this truth.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I'm sorry for the person who was beat to death and killed. My sincere condolences to their loved ones. ICE is going to continue to kill people because the purpose of a system is what it does. It is not what it says it does or what you hope it does. Maybe USians will finally confront this truth.
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“They want violence” no they very explicitly want compliance and acquiescence and if you don’t give it to them they will fucking murder you
January 24, 2026 at 4:11 PM
“They want violence” no they very explicitly want compliance and acquiescence and if you don’t give it to them they will fucking murder you
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They are fucking murderers
January 24, 2026 at 3:46 PM
They are fucking murderers
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ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.
January 24, 2026 at 3:46 PM
ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.
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I don’t think they’re misreading them so much as they are terrified of the implications because it means the status quo has to break. there’s no incrementalism for this. mass radicalization of this scale scares Democrats more than anything Republicans could do and I mean that literally.
Kind of feel like a lot of politicians, even in Minnesota, are misreading the implications of this moment. I feel like the past three days have been tremendously radicalizing for so many people. I have witnessed it even in my own small communities, it goes beyond just incandescent rage.
January 10, 2026 at 4:13 PM
I don’t think they’re misreading them so much as they are terrified of the implications because it means the status quo has to break. there’s no incrementalism for this. mass radicalization of this scale scares Democrats more than anything Republicans could do and I mean that literally.
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I think we won’t really free up the space to imagine a way out of American fascism until people grasp this: most of what the “opposition party” has to offer them is their preferred actors for state violence
January 10, 2026 at 4:38 PM
I think we won’t really free up the space to imagine a way out of American fascism until people grasp this: most of what the “opposition party” has to offer them is their preferred actors for state violence
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There is nobody who can accurately describe how an LLM works who can explain how that model will lead to AGI.
Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
January 2, 2026 at 3:08 PM
There is nobody who can accurately describe how an LLM works who can explain how that model will lead to AGI.
“COVID infections, deaths and long-term disability have fallen disproportionately on the working class…Life expectancy losses, elevated mortality from cardiovascular and respiratory disease and the burden of Long COVID have tracked closely with income, occupation and access to care.”
Long COVID and the concealment of pandemic harm
As COVID completes its sixth year, official statistics obscure the scale of harm, while Long COVID and excess deaths reveal the pandemic’s continuing public health consequences as well as the impact o...
www.wsws.org
December 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
“COVID infections, deaths and long-term disability have fallen disproportionately on the working class…Life expectancy losses, elevated mortality from cardiovascular and respiratory disease and the burden of Long COVID have tracked closely with income, occupation and access to care.”
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This is great but really think any talk about this has to exist alongside Long COVID.
Deaths from the acute disease have been decreasing for a while and those of us who have stayed informed have said this for years.
Deaths from the acute disease have been decreasing for a while and those of us who have stayed informed have said this for years.
It's remarkable how low COVID deaths have fallen in the last year. The 2024 summer wave peaked at 1,358 deaths per week; the 2025 summer wave peaked at 466 deaths per week.
www.cdc.gov/covid/php/su...
www.cdc.gov/covid/php/su...
December 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is great but really think any talk about this has to exist alongside Long COVID.
Deaths from the acute disease have been decreasing for a while and those of us who have stayed informed have said this for years.
Deaths from the acute disease have been decreasing for a while and those of us who have stayed informed have said this for years.
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Something people will tell you, and be believed (!), is that in the past, poor people had it much worse and that therefore, no matter how much you are struggling, at least you aren’t starving to death or whatever, and so you shouldn’t complain about your situation or try to improve it in any way
December 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Something people will tell you, and be believed (!), is that in the past, poor people had it much worse and that therefore, no matter how much you are struggling, at least you aren’t starving to death or whatever, and so you shouldn’t complain about your situation or try to improve it in any way
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I have worn a mask in public for over 5 years. My husband has had profound, life-changing long Covid for over 4 years, and now our kid does as well. I can’t imagine I will stop masking unless their circumstances change. And for what it’s worth I haven’t had even a cold for the last four+ years.
always strange to talk about but when i see everyone around me accepting sickness when i have been doing just one thing different while attending movies parties bars concerts flights…….i feel morally obligated to occasionally mention that wearing a mask has been a game changer. simple as that
December 28, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I have worn a mask in public for over 5 years. My husband has had profound, life-changing long Covid for over 4 years, and now our kid does as well. I can’t imagine I will stop masking unless their circumstances change. And for what it’s worth I haven’t had even a cold for the last four+ years.
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Funny what happens when an entire society decides that social murder is super OK actually, & that "you do you" is a fine approach to public health. Almost like it gives eugenicists a leg up & another to stand on, or something.
blindarchive.substack.com/p/structural... h/t @reallandsend.bsky.social
blindarchive.substack.com/p/structural... h/t @reallandsend.bsky.social
Structural Violence and the Pandemic: An Update on Our Collective Reality
How to (still) give a fuck about Covid (even if you already gave up)
blindarchive.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Funny what happens when an entire society decides that social murder is super OK actually, & that "you do you" is a fine approach to public health. Almost like it gives eugenicists a leg up & another to stand on, or something.
blindarchive.substack.com/p/structural... h/t @reallandsend.bsky.social
blindarchive.substack.com/p/structural... h/t @reallandsend.bsky.social
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In our latest, we look back at 2025, a year where normalization slipped into naturalization, as a cadre of villains who rose to prominence on the back of covid denial took the reins of the federal government to play out their revenge fantasies.
It’s Covid Year Six.
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It’s Covid Year Six.
www.patreon.com/posts/145947...
Covid Year Six (12/15/25) | The Death Panel
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December 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In our latest, we look back at 2025, a year where normalization slipped into naturalization, as a cadre of villains who rose to prominence on the back of covid denial took the reins of the federal government to play out their revenge fantasies.
It’s Covid Year Six.
www.patreon.com/posts/145947...
It’s Covid Year Six.
www.patreon.com/posts/145947...
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SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System
johnsnowproject.org/primers/sars...
johnsnowproject.org/primers/sars...
SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System
A landmark new study shows COVID-19 isn’t ‘just a cold’: One infection left people with long-lasting immune damage, and those with heart disease lost up to 70% of key immune cells. Reinfections may wo...
johnsnowproject.org
December 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System
johnsnowproject.org/primers/sars...
johnsnowproject.org/primers/sars...
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The ebook version of Why We Fear AI is currently on sale for just $5 directly at the publisher! @commonnotions.bsky.social
Why We Fear AI — Common Notions Press
Fears about AI tell us more about capitalism today than the technology of the future.
www.commonnotions.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The ebook version of Why We Fear AI is currently on sale for just $5 directly at the publisher! @commonnotions.bsky.social