Apparently if you want to read it *really* slowly, you can follow @samuelpepys.bsky.social

But are you interested?

Well, yes, but the Latin is not the problem. The problem is that the kerning makes it appear as FR A NSCICVS. Much of the rest of the kerning is also bad, but that's the most egregious.

Happily, the original is available in all its elegance www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

You are inspiring. But don't be discouraged: the person who wrote that message comes across as heartsick about it. Change will come.

Oh FFS

same

But in that case Ed saw it happen, and had the broken mirror in his possession. There wasn't another, much more plausible, explanation staring him in the face.

Improbable events do happen. I often think of a question posed by Ed Egelman when I was in grad school: "What's the probability of a runaway horse from the New Haven Police Dept. knocking the side view mirror off of my car when galloping down Whitney Avenue?" It's very low, but it happened. 4/

The scenario is an infected lab worker starting a lone super-spreader event at a non-crowded place on the other side of town in a city of 13M people, where that super-spreader location is *also* the place where a natural spillover would happen. It's an implausible scenario that demands evidence 3/

Not at their workplace, nor even on the same side of the river as their workplace, nor along public transit between their workplace and the market. No other lab worker not living near the market would have been infected and transmitted that infection elsewhere. 2/

It's not just a series of events for which there is no evidence (a lab worker living near the market). That lab worker would have to have been infected *and* to have transmitted that infection at (and only at) exactly the location where a natural spillover would be most likely to occur. 1/