Stuff I find interesting
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This is insane footage of Starship breaking up, if it proves legit
Just saw the most insane #spacedebris #meteorshower right now in Turks and Caicos @elonmusk what is it??
That's Interesting retweeted
Universal masking and social distancing at the start of the pandemic were so effective that they eliminated a strain of flu, and now annual flu vaccines have been redesigned because that strain no longer needs to be included in the shot. Amazing.
ALT This year’s flu shot will be missing a strain of influenza it’s protected against for more than a decade. That’s because there have been no confirmed flu cases caused by the Influenza B/Yamagata lineage since spring 2020. And the Food and Drug Administration decided this year that the strain now poses little to no threat to human health. Scientists have concluded that widespread physical distancing and masking practiced during the early days of COVID-19 appear to have pushed B/Yamagata into oblivion. This surprised many who study influenza, as it would be the first documented instance of a virus going extinct due to changes in human behavior, said Dr. Rebecca Wurtz, an infectious disease physician and epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
Never ever take out a Formula 1 subscription. Cancelling is on par with Adobe, or WSJ. They can be added to the list of villains.
Are you a Brave Browser user having issues right now? Something is seriously up and it seems it may be related to YouTube. If your Brave browser is crashing on open or crashes when visiting YouTube, please reply. Also the @brave support forums are down. What is Google doing?
April Fool's Day is becoming redundant. We are at the point where it's hard to distinguish between what is real and isn't. Perhaps in a few years, when deepfakes have destroyed all trust in everything, we'll have April Beliefs Day, the only day when things are actually true.
Car companies are selling your driving data to insurers. What a surprise.
This is precisely why I’ll never own a modern (connected) car.
nytimes.com/2024/03/11/techn…
The top trending question on Google during the Super Bowl was.... "How many quarters in the Super Bowl?"
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Baffled to report that I was just blocked by the excellent Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) for pointing out an exceedingly rare inaccuracy in a recent post. My correction was valid, sincere, and Massimo deleted the offending post, doubtless because I was correct. But why block me? 😢
This is the kind of high profile media reporting we need to see 100x more of. It's a shame it's taken a high profile anchor to become a sufferer of long covid to get to this point, but this is where we are. #longcovid
I have been struggling with a cold for over a month - is hard to bounce back from illnesses more now due to “long covid” - have you experienced it? Dr. Li answered many questions I had tonight and we’re going to be doing this as a series, because I know a lot of you have reached out with your own experiences.
That's Interesting retweeted
Important new report on the long-term risk of #LongCovid vs flu after hospitalization
—50% post-Covid higher death rate
—Worse outcomes for all organ systems and disability except lung
thelancet.com/journals/lanin… @zalaly @Biostayan
Getting serious Jan 2020 vibes here. This is footage from Beijing's Children's hospital. Seeing multiple reports on this.
And a video purporting to be from the children's hospital in Vietnam.
teapawt.net/trongnhan9500/status/1…
They are re-releasing the Atari 2600. HDMI port, plays the original cartridges. atari.com/products/atari-260…
1st impressions on Threads...
1. Surprisingly it doesn't matter that you don't have the people who you followed before. The irony is that because Twitter switched to an algorithmic 'For You' tab, this is trivial for Facebook to replicate. Simply search out a half dozen people or organizations you followed previously, and the rest 'fills in'.
2. The experience is obviously near identical to Twitter. And the psychologically interesting thing about this is how the 'text scrolling addiction' of Twitter, is kind of all that matters when making the move to Threads. It's remarkably easy to switch. You almost forget you are on a different app.
3. It's busy. The same well known Twitter peeps and organizations that are cross-posting to Threads are getting thousands of likes, and hundreds of comments. This does not feel like a party with just a handful of people.
4. Creating a 'clean' account on Instagram to use on Threads (new email address, no phone number, no contacts upload) means you start with a clean slate - Threads knows nothing about you. This is a delightfully simple way to avert the privacy concerns of Threads. I'm effectively downgrading from 32,000 followers to zero, but it surprisingly doesn't bother me. Hardly anybody was seeing my Tweets anymore on Twitter anyway, due to whatever 'black box shadow ban' my previously covid-centric account had attracted from Musk.
5. No trolls, bots or outrage, so far... And this feels a welcome change. Twitter had devolved to the point where even the most innocent and non-contentious of comments was attracting thumb (and dumb) rage.
6. So far I'm spending 50-50 time between the two apps. Have a feeling this ratio will rise in favor of Threads over time.
Incidentally if you do want to join my nascent 5 followers on Threads, I'm using the same handle as here.