Martin Mölder

Here to chew gum and repost stuff without reading it. And I'm all out of gum.

Not wearing a respirator = ableism.
Flying = climate denial.

[CoronaHeadsUp @CoronaHeadsUp]

Spain: Covid in Aragon skyrockets by 345% in four weeks

"It is striking that, in just four weeks, the number of cases has risen from 3.93 per 100,000 inhabitants to 17.44 ... the incidence of Covid in Aragon would have increased by approximately 345%."

https://t.co/QmqnOjryns

[PNASNews @PNASNews]

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Spatially refined satellite gravimetry captures human signatures in global terrestrial water storage trends.” Explore the article here: https://t.co/9nuNn79CQ9

For more trending articles, visit https://t.co/ujiQQgvC98.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Must-watch short on the Bandung movement, when global South countries challenged imperial power in the world-system. More relevant now than ever. https://t.co/MboTH8do3H

[dr. gianluca grimalda @GGrimalda]

Thrilled to commute back to Europe from the Pacific over 23,000km refusing to flying (again!). Press release in🇬🇧: https://t.co/FBT2EollN9 E in 🇮🇹: https://t.co/sOgN38p9Ru. I'll reduce my carbon emissions by 6 times,~4,5t. It's negligible, but it's all I can do now. 1/

[Denims @DenimsTV]

do you mean to tell me that candace owens and charlie kirk were actually gay besties who bonded over their lavender marriages

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

Why has India failed to industrialize?

Ha-Joon Chang argues that it’s because India’s business and financial elites oppose industrialization — and that it won’t happen unless their power is curbed.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Removing the lymph nodes from the neck blocks lymphatic drainage and is linked to cognitive impairment. Substantiates the critical role of brain waste clearance and the potential intervention of the LVA surgical procedure being studied

https://t.co/RmJBZEUs7n

[Vlad Vexler @VladVexler]

Been held back from doing my gut scans by my micro vascular post Covid issues - hard to get to hospital in wheelchair. Finally was about to book today, but then something felt wrong - and it’s Covid again!

[Scientific American @sciam]

One in eight cancers are caused by infections, a new study finds. And there’s an easy way to protect yourself against most of them: get vaccinated.
https://t.co/8hn3OWn0PM

[Unironisch @kmpl_unironisch]

Im Bereich chronische Infekte hat die Medizin in den letzten Jahrzehnten irgendwie auch nichts dazu gelernt.

Schwiegermutter hat eine Zecke, möchte Antibiotika (nimmt sie sonst nie).

Arzt lehnt ab, wäre unnötig.

Wochen später hat sie Borreliosesymptome. Tests sind positiv.

Arzt lässt sich breitschlagen zu zwei Wochen Antiobiotikatherapie.

Monate später: Schwiegermutter hat immer noch starke Symptome, Test zeigt weiterhin aktive Infektion.

Arzt: 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Martin Mölder @MolderMartin]

@TMpls47 @cutelikeafox12 @Vibutler_ The comparison is due to similarities in societal and political response to both AIDS and long covid.

[Hensen Juang @basedjensen]

ok i think i finally figured out why alignment has gone basically nowhere after 15 years and several billion dollars. the problem is hard sure. but have you met the people in charge of it

1) the leadership does not know how computers work. ask one what happens when you type a url into a browser and watch them start sweating. dns is a spooky word. they genuinely believe the model lives in "the cloud" like a ghost haunting a castle

2) zero idea how large scale distributed systems work. never been paged at 3am. never watched one bad bgp announcement take half the internet offline. their big threat model is the ai "copying itself across the internet" like its a floppy disk virus from 1998. brother it needs 50 megawatts, a liquid cooling loop and a personal relationship with jensen. it is not escaping onto your smart fridge

3) they dont understand the stack they are supposedly protecting us from. ask about inference servers, kv cache, batching, egress, rate limits. blank stare. ask how the model will seize the power grid and you get a 45 minute answer with a hand drawn diagram and three links to their own blog

4) nobody can define an agent. ask ten of them and you get eleven definitions and a 30 page google doc. to the rest of us an agent is a while loop that calls tools and eats a 429 every thirty seconds. to them its a digital god in its larval stage. my agent cant book a dentist appointment without asking me three times if im sure

5) they started from "everyone dies" and worked backwards so every result is bad news somehow. model refuses, deceptive. model complies, sycophantic. model does well on evals, well now its scheming about the evals. i cant think of a single thing a model could do that would get them to say ok maybe we're fine

[miserable pos @cunklover69]

sisyphus but instead of pushing a rock up a hill he has to jack off on ssris

[Ryan Hisner @LongDesertTrain]

Mink farming is a massive pandemic risk. It's insane that they are allowed to exist. Now we have an active H5N1 outbreak on a mink farm, & "state officials have no clear plan to rein it in."

Imagine if uncontrolled H5N1 transmission in mink were allowed in a lab... 1/4

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

BY FAR the left’s biggest failure on COVID was failing to advocate for PUBLIC solutions. Imagine what a national coalition of socialists, unions, & disability advocates could’ve accomplished on indoor air quality standards, workers comp, sick leave, health care, research, etc

[Ryan Hisner @LongDesertTrain]

Scanning literature today, ran across this study looking at respiratory infections in CAR-T cell therapy cancer patients. Despite the study period spanning 2 pre-Covid years, "SARS-CoV-2 predominated" in these patients, causing 10 deaths.

Recent NHS policy (👇) dumbfounding.

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

Bach and Jeffrey Epstein wrote excited emails to one another speculating about differences in "race" and gender and IQ. Here's Bach writing to Epstein on how women are dumber and Chinese people are deferential and Jewish people are smarter. https://t.co/8vFg6peLhb

[Ryan Hisner @LongDesertTrain]

Phenomenal 🧵 (& paper) on why Omicron is less efficient at infecting lungs than previous variants. Initial ideas on this were proven wrong, & it's been an utter mystery since.

Stuart has largely explained it & revealed vital aspects of the SARS-2 life cycle along the way.