David Metcalf
dlmetcalf.bsky.social
David Metcalf
@dlmetcalf.bsky.social
infosec, risk management, software/enterprise arch/design, climate, tech, AI/ML, health security, pandemics, clean air, novid.
Well, yeah, kind of. But not the discrete predicate logic or procedural logic of traditional programming. For instance, getting these large language models to even handle maths has been enormously hard.

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June 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Relative risk of cholangitis at 541-720 days post-COVID is 2.89 [CI: 1.66, 5.02].

(Bowe, Xie, Al-Aly. Postacute sequelae of COVID-19 at 2 years. Nat Med 29, 2347–2357 (2023))

Half of cholangiocarcinomas are diagnosed at the same time or within a year of cholangitis.

Good reason to avoid COVID.
May 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The very reason that you even *HAVE* a Nazi problem in Australia today, is because of such tolerance of their intolerant movement.

There always was only one way to deal with Nazis.

With the only language that their kind understands. Normalise that again, or you'll lose the whole country.
February 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Instead of a glorified seagull, we also have real eagles (wedge tails) that roam the entire continent can take down kangaroos, people, parachutes, paragliders, drones, goannas, etc.

As you can see, this is why America is trying to gain global AI control and censorship:
February 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
🙄. You might like to do some reading about 16ᵗʰC Mexico & Cocoliztli, Black Death (⅓ to ½ of Europe died), 735–737 Japan (⅓ of population), Plague of Justinian (⅓-½ of known world died). HIV in Zimbabwe & Botswana, Spanish Flu, etc.

wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AID...
January 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It doesn't actually bother me. It's amusing, watching him dig his own hole. We know where public's opinion lies, with nearly 50k laughs on this post. Only hitting Osama bin Laden made Americans happier. UHC has 440,000 employees, yet still couldn't get 5k reactions on their post that weren't "😂".
December 10, 2024 at 4:08 AM
Did you see the size of the climate protests in Australia in 2019/2020? The biggest political protests in our country's history.

So how's that working out, apart from going backwards? Did 3.5% of population change it? Government emitted FASTER and MORE afterwards.

www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/defaul...
December 10, 2024 at 1:01 AM
I would say though, if you work directly across the road from Wuhan seafood market or otherwise, & you're sampling live horseshoe bats inside caves, then you should learn what PPE & biosafety are. Not be wearing wide gaping open leaky baggy blue ear-loop masks, no googles, around airborne pathogens.
December 7, 2024 at 3:00 AM
How long before estimated cumulative excess deaths during COVID-19 in Australia reach double the number of WW2 deaths?

For context, 27073 Australians died in WW2. 16820 KIA (& my great uncle), 1957 of wounds, 8296 as POWs

Still no Royal Commission into COVID-19.

ourworldindata.org/grapher/exce...
December 5, 2024 at 3:01 AM
It's actually really not, when CCDC were directly across the road from the seafood market and were sampling bats in caves with no airborne PPE and gaping wide open leaky baggy blue droplet masks.

Bhattachayra however, remains an absolute public menace and a chaos agent of death and destruction.
December 2, 2024 at 2:14 PM
You call this emissions reduction?

Reductions have flatlined under fossil fuel industry captive petrostate ALP. It was very hard to imagine that anyone could be worse for climate than the horrific LNP, that in 2019/20 resulted in largest political protests in Australia's history. Yet here we are!
November 28, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Disgusting of him, more like it.

You call this moving in the right direction!?!

You're nauseating filthy liars, spreading disinformation and pushing the world into climate hell.

www.dcceew.gov.au/climate-chan...
November 28, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Okay, but regardless, if working across the road from Wuhan seafood market or otherwise, when sampling horseshoe bats in caves, people should still learn something about PPE, instead of using gaping wide open leaky baggy blue ear-loop masks and no googles. Full face, fit-tested respirators, please.
November 28, 2024 at 5:51 AM
If I were running ATAGI/TGA, I'd be looking at this mutational profile and early epidemiology and negotiating procurement options for LP.8.1 vaccines from manufacturers for delivery before Australia's next winter. Can almost guarantee they won't be doing anything proactive though.
November 28, 2024 at 2:26 AM
UK is doing about as well. H/T @1goodtern.bsky.social for graphs.

But, definitely no immunocompromise happening there!! It must be the deadly lockdowns. Lack of TB exposure now a serious public health hazard & causing doubling. Little 'Netflix & chill' staycations years ago were absolutely DEADLY!
November 27, 2024 at 1:17 PM
This winter was the biggest wave since Dec 2022 and led to another round of hospital collapses.

So let's see if The Illustrious Grand Poobahs of Health can set another record for their "rich hybrid immunity by mass infection" plan.

"Resident cases in aged care homes, 01 Jan 2022 to 06 Nov 2024":
November 27, 2024 at 12:36 PM
The latter was reasonable to recommend too. Throat swabbing bats, scratching & pooping on ppl in underground caves wearing gaping open leaky baggy blue ear-loop droplet masks (not fit-tested airborne PPE & googles), with staff likely working @ CCDC over the road from seafood market, is... concerning
November 21, 2024 at 2:11 AM
If you throat swab bats, scratching & pooping on you in underground caves, while wearing gaping open leaky baggy blue ear-loop droplet masks (not fit-tested airborne PPE), & you likely work at CCDC offices (maybe low security lab?) over the road from the seafood market anyway, does it really matter?
November 21, 2024 at 1:38 AM