SandyCat
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Don’t forget you can also get a reusable elastometric like the @flomask.bsky.social if disposables aren’t your thing!
For more on respirators including how to choose one, how to fit test and how they work…
Check out my guide to all things masks!
www.disabledginger.com/p/were-witne...
For more on respirators including how to choose one, how to fit test and how they work…
Check out my guide to all things masks!
www.disabledginger.com/p/were-witne...
We’re Witnessing the Fall of Public Health… and Your Best Tool is a Mask
Measles in Texas, bird flu in Louisiana, tuberculosis in Kansas and Covid everywhere. Public health has been dying a slow death for years, we can’t count on it anymore. What can we count on? A mask!
www.disabledginger.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Don’t forget you can also get a reusable elastometric like the @flomask.bsky.social if disposables aren’t your thing!
For more on respirators including how to choose one, how to fit test and how they work…
Check out my guide to all things masks!
www.disabledginger.com/p/were-witne...
For more on respirators including how to choose one, how to fit test and how they work…
Check out my guide to all things masks!
www.disabledginger.com/p/were-witne...
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Another email to Bhattacharya about his interview and his continued statements that NIH's gain of function research caused the COVID pandemic and killed millions of people.
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August 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Another email to Bhattacharya about his interview and his continued statements that NIH's gain of function research caused the COVID pandemic and killed millions of people.
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Rates of infection with other pathogens after a positive COVID-19 test versus a negative test in US veterans (November, 2021, to December, 2023): a retrospective cohort study - The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Rates of infection with other pathogens after a positive COVID-19 test versus a negative test in US veterans (November, 2021, to December, 2023): a retrospective cohort study
Our results suggest that a positive test for COVID-19 (vs a negative test) was associated
with increased rates of diagnosis of various infections in the 12 months following
an acute SARS-CoV-2 infecti...
www.thelancet.com
July 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Rates of infection with other pathogens after a positive COVID-19 test versus a negative test in US veterans (November, 2021, to December, 2023): a retrospective cohort study - The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Why do elite athletes—who train relentlessly for a mental & physical edge—ignore a virus that literally destroys both?
SARS-CoV-2 impairs cognition, damages the heart, shrinks gray matter, and attacks mitochondria.
So why the denial?
Let’s talk psychology. 🧵
SARS-CoV-2 impairs cognition, damages the heart, shrinks gray matter, and attacks mitochondria.
So why the denial?
Let’s talk psychology. 🧵
July 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Why do elite athletes—who train relentlessly for a mental & physical edge—ignore a virus that literally destroys both?
SARS-CoV-2 impairs cognition, damages the heart, shrinks gray matter, and attacks mitochondria.
So why the denial?
Let’s talk psychology. 🧵
SARS-CoV-2 impairs cognition, damages the heart, shrinks gray matter, and attacks mitochondria.
So why the denial?
Let’s talk psychology. 🧵
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"The psychology of death, at least as conceived by terror management theory, is dead. We killed it." www.speakandregret.michaelinzlicht.com/p/psychologi...
Psychologists Have Been Wrong About Death For 40 Years
Smart people are sometimes the last to realize that the cognitive ship they are captaining is about to sink.
www.speakandregret.michaelinzlicht.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"The psychology of death, at least as conceived by terror management theory, is dead. We killed it." www.speakandregret.michaelinzlicht.com/p/psychologi...
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I was searching for info about a conference I attended and had forgotten about this interview.
www.clinician.com/articles/110...
www.clinician.com/articles/110...
Ethics during epidemics: Old lessons get new look | 2004-05-01 | AHC…
Last years worldwide outbreak of a deadly new virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), made health systems around the world re-examine their…
www.clinician.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I was searching for info about a conference I attended and had forgotten about this interview.
www.clinician.com/articles/110...
www.clinician.com/articles/110...
I used to love playing with neural networks when I had access to such a program. Which is probably why I have no wish to waste time on anything called “AI”.
So simple yet we need to keep saying it over and over again ismaelkherroubigarcia.substack.com/p/please-don...
Please don't cite chatbot outputs at me
Like, pretty please?
ismaelkherroubigarcia.substack.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I used to love playing with neural networks when I had access to such a program. Which is probably why I have no wish to waste time on anything called “AI”.
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Do not let any LLM serve as a form of epistemic grounding for society.
New Trump EO: "when ideological biases or social agendas are built into AI models, they can distort the quality and accuracy of the output"
...so henceforth the US government won't do business with you unless your LLM is built to echo our ideological bias and promote our social agenda.
...so henceforth the US government won't do business with you unless your LLM is built to echo our ideological bias and promote our social agenda.
Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
July 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Do not let any LLM serve as a form of epistemic grounding for society.
“The suppression of factual information about race”
There is only one human race. There are no races. Which makes the above statement utterly insane. Isn’t it hard enough to make sane, usable AI without it having to include the invention of human races?
There is only one human race. There are no races. Which makes the above statement utterly insane. Isn’t it hard enough to make sane, usable AI without it having to include the invention of human races?
Trump's new executive order about AI states that companies' models must not incorporate the idea that trans people exist as a concept. Seems bad.
July 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
“The suppression of factual information about race”
There is only one human race. There are no races. Which makes the above statement utterly insane. Isn’t it hard enough to make sane, usable AI without it having to include the invention of human races?
There is only one human race. There are no races. Which makes the above statement utterly insane. Isn’t it hard enough to make sane, usable AI without it having to include the invention of human races?
This is not a bright future for humanity.
Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid... @juliadoubleday.bsky.social
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
June 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This is not a bright future for humanity.
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Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
June 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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If Greta Thunberg isn't doing anything why is Israel, Piers Morgan and the rest of the Media so angry about it?
Surely they would just ignore it like they ignore Genocide?
Surely they would just ignore it like they ignore Genocide?
June 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If Greta Thunberg isn't doing anything why is Israel, Piers Morgan and the rest of the Media so angry about it?
Surely they would just ignore it like they ignore Genocide?
Surely they would just ignore it like they ignore Genocide?
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Meet "Nimbus", aka SARS-CoV-2 variant NB.1.8.1.
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May 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Meet "Nimbus", aka SARS-CoV-2 variant NB.1.8.1.
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"Doing nothing about the real issues behind people's struggles, politicians like Starmer create & trap us on an 'island of strangers' – a place not only of 'alien foreigners' but of Brits alienated from themselves & a political system of no use"
My long read on how complexity/humanity is missing 👇
My long read on how complexity/humanity is missing 👇
How Our Politicians Created an ‘Island of Strangers’ So They Don’t Have to Make Our Lives Any Better
By presenting tougher immigration as a solution to people’s discontent, Keir Starmer and others sidestep the real reasons why people feel estranged in their lives – it’s a cynical and simplistic polit...
bylinetimes.com
May 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"Doing nothing about the real issues behind people's struggles, politicians like Starmer create & trap us on an 'island of strangers' – a place not only of 'alien foreigners' but of Brits alienated from themselves & a political system of no use"
My long read on how complexity/humanity is missing 👇
My long read on how complexity/humanity is missing 👇
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Europe's Gaza Exception: When Human Rights Don't Apply - wtih Ireti Bakare-Yusuf on #Borderlines Nigeria Info FM www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7aI...
#Borderlines: Europe's Gaza Exception: When Human Rights Don't Apply with Yanis Varoufakis
YouTube video by Nigeria Info FM
www.youtube.com
May 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Europe's Gaza Exception: When Human Rights Don't Apply - wtih Ireti Bakare-Yusuf on #Borderlines Nigeria Info FM www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7aI...
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I am still so proud of our election campaign in Islington North last summer.
Why? Because it was made up of people of all backgrounds, languages and faiths.
This was no group of strangers. This was a community, campaigning for a better society for all.
Why? Because it was made up of people of all backgrounds, languages and faiths.
This was no group of strangers. This was a community, campaigning for a better society for all.
May 16, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I am still so proud of our election campaign in Islington North last summer.
Why? Because it was made up of people of all backgrounds, languages and faiths.
This was no group of strangers. This was a community, campaigning for a better society for all.
Why? Because it was made up of people of all backgrounds, languages and faiths.
This was no group of strangers. This was a community, campaigning for a better society for all.
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May 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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One caveat: Usually, advisors meet to determine which strains are circulating most in the U.S. That might be different from what's circulating in the rest of the world.
In the U.S., LP.8.1 overwhelmingly dominates right now. But it did evolve from KP.1: covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
In the U.S., LP.8.1 overwhelmingly dominates right now. But it did evolve from KP.1: covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
COVID Data Tracker
CDC’s home for COVID-19 data. Visualizations, graphs, and data in one easy-to-use website.
covid.cdc.gov
May 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
One caveat: Usually, advisors meet to determine which strains are circulating most in the U.S. That might be different from what's circulating in the rest of the world.
In the U.S., LP.8.1 overwhelmingly dominates right now. But it did evolve from KP.1: covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
In the U.S., LP.8.1 overwhelmingly dominates right now. But it did evolve from KP.1: covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
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tldr: Air cleaner showed an effective reduction of air viral load, reaching 98.1 %.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“SARS-CoV-2 airborne detection within different departments of a COVID-19 hospital building and evaluation of air cleaners in air viral load reduction”
The pandemic of COVID-19 has brought in light the necessity for the development of novel detection methods for airborne transmitted pathogens, and the…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
tldr: Air cleaner showed an effective reduction of air viral load, reaching 98.1 %.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The most unskilled worker of all is the billionaire.
They don't even work, they just leech off everyone else.
They don't even work, they just leech off everyone else.
May 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The most unskilled worker of all is the billionaire.
They don't even work, they just leech off everyone else.
They don't even work, they just leech off everyone else.
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Well, look who abandoned his principles on his first day of having real world responsibility.
May 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Well, look who abandoned his principles on his first day of having real world responsibility.
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The work that we do in my lab - measuring the number of people that greenhouse gas emissions kill - is now forbidden by NIH. A real delight, particularly six months into starting a lab that does this. Got some cash? Want to support this work? Drop us a line. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: documents reveal how NIH will axe climate studies
US agency guidelines nix funding for studies on climate anxiety and more but allow it for those on extreme weather and health.
www.nature.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The work that we do in my lab - measuring the number of people that greenhouse gas emissions kill - is now forbidden by NIH. A real delight, particularly six months into starting a lab that does this. Got some cash? Want to support this work? Drop us a line. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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My presentation with @davidjoffe64.bsky.social on COVID's impacts on the brain is already the most watched video on the @thewhn.bsky.social platform 🤯! Thank you to everyone who supports our research! We are now writing a physician's guide for #NeuroCovid #LongCovid 🤓
www.youtube.com/watch?v=soJX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=soJX...
How COVID Impacts the Brain: Danielle Beckman and David Joffe
YouTube video by World Health Network
www.youtube.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
My presentation with @davidjoffe64.bsky.social on COVID's impacts on the brain is already the most watched video on the @thewhn.bsky.social platform 🤯! Thank you to everyone who supports our research! We are now writing a physician's guide for #NeuroCovid #LongCovid 🤓
www.youtube.com/watch?v=soJX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=soJX...