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With @ModernVintageG's video about Doom on the NeoGeo, I think it's a good time to share an old and very silly project related to putting gory stuff in a cartridge and using the console as a video pass-through:
https://t.co/7zbmk4EHU6
In 🇫🇷 but any autotranslate works well enough
Artist Gillian Levine recently wrote and illustrated a comic sharing reasons to continue masking in 2026. She kindly gave us permission to republish it.
😷 Read the full comic at The Sick Times: https://t.co/IFRyg41WyQ
It's quite disgusting that Epic Games and Tim Sweeney are STILL buying developers and then proceed to delist their already existing games from Steam
This vindicates my very strong thoughts regarding Epic Games being very hypocritically anti-consumer and anti-competition.
"I've got a flu, a rather traditional flu-like syndrome, a bit out of season, but given it isn't going away .."
Italy's superstar singer Claudio Baglioni, 75, moves his tour to 2027 after coming down with reported interstitial pneumonia
https://t.co/n4Afzqv1LA
Here's a link to the full book, a newer edition than what I own. The information on defense mechanisms begins on textbook page 100.
Please let me know if there's a more accessible alt-text solution that you would prefer so I can do better next time.
https://t.co/WQ7YcXEWEO
Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on subclinical myocardial injury in the general population: the Trøndelag Health Study
🚨NORWEGIAN CONFIRMATION BOMBSHELL:
COVID infection leaves lasting, hidden scars on the heart muscle, even years later.
"An elevated cardiac troponin I (cTnI) level indicates the presence of heart damage!"
➡️Study:
- This was a prospective longitudinal cohort study within the Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT), a large population-based survey in Norway,
- Researchers measured high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI), a sensitive blood marker of subclinical myocardial (heart muscle) injury, at baseline before the COVID-19 pandemic (2017–2019) in 37,823 general-population adults,
- The same marker was then re-measured after the pandemic wave (2021–2023) in the 19,550 participants who returned for follow-up,
- SARSCoV2 infection status was rigorously determined at follow-up via spike and nucleocapsid IgG antibody tests in blood, combined with self-reported infection history and any available laboratory confirmation of prior infection,
- Infection was defined using nucleocapsid IgG (specific to natural infection, not vaccination) plus spike IgG, self-report, and lab confirmation, precisely to capture true infections regardless of vaccination,
➡️Pre-infection result:
- Higher baseline hs-cTnI was associated with a lower risk of subsequent SARSCoV2 infection,
➡️Post-infection result:
- Confirmed SARSCoV2 infection (any definition) was independently linked to higher post-pandemic hs-cTnI concentrations and a significantly greater probability of an increase in hs-cTnI from pre- to post-pandemic levels, after full adjustment for confounders and baseline troponin,
➡️Vaccination:
- Study reports that 98.9% of participants were vaccinated and explain(in Methods) why they used nucleocapsid IgG (not spike) to avoid vaccine confounding,
➡️Limitations:
- Correctly sited and commented,
- No data on symptoms, asymptomatic/mild/severe cases, or hospitalization, but one may rightfully assume that the majority were mild SarsCoV2 cases,
➡️Conclusion:
“SARSCoV2 infection is associated with increased risk of developing chronic subclinical myocardial injury in the general population, but pre-existing chronic subclinical myocardial injury is not associated with increased risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2.”
‼️To all minimiser still shrugging off SARS-CoV-2 as “just a cold” or “over”: this Norwegian study proves every infection silently scars hearts across the general public with lasting subclinical damage, and with the now-established cumulative cardiac injury from reinfections, your denial is quietly killing many! WAKE-UP!
#AvoidSars2 #AvoidReinfections
https://t.co/7CwdsPsslD
“It’s just allergies”
“Ive never had allergies before this!”
“New allergies”
“I keep breaking out in hives, I have no idea why!”
“I have asthma now 😓”
“Constant red bumps, not sure why” “my skin is so itchy”
“I can’t drink alcohol anymore….”
https://t.co/nInbm0RPpS
The California State Assembly has passed the Protect Our Games Act, a bill to protect user rights after a game's service ends
Under this, games shutting down would need to provide at least 60 days notice to consumers, while also ensuring that purchasers will still have access to the game via an alt version or patch that allows it to be played offline. And if not, they must offer refunds
The bill must still be passed by the California Senate
Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.
Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.
The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."
An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.
Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.
The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.
No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.
Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.
Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·
BREAKING: MSI has unveiled a 32" 4K 360Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor ahead of #Computex2026, which can be switched to 520Hz at 1440p or 680Hz at 1080p via its Triple Mode feature.
Other features include RGB-stripe subpixel layout & VESA DisplayHDR True Black 600 certification.