@AlisonB916@johnoconnell836 When I was about 10 Nana explained that this place would be falling apart by my 50th year, "return of pluto", mathematical parallels to other fallen empires (b4 she was pianist, she was a math prodigy). I kind of wish she was still here, because folks would roll their eyes /3
@AlisonB916@johnoconnell836 But mom's OB was doing a tall ships thing so I was extracted in June. I had a cranky time every afternoon from about 2-6, until Nana moved me on a blanket with the transits & became a babbling fat happy baby. My grandma thought it was dark, my mom was just happy to have quiet/2
The thing I think people don't realise is that anyone who is 'healthy' can become immunocompromised from one covid infection. It may be the next time you get infected, it may be the sixth time. There are so many sequelae that come from covid, impacting on your quality of life
@broadwaybabyto Good friend is a primary care doc in 🇩🇪, his timeline this morning was all about, "what doctors are seeing them & writing these notes? And when they get our whole staff ill, who's going to see the people who need to be seen?"
Anyone who can't see what is happening is blind.
1) Banning of the ability to have privacy with a cellphone
2) Banning of the ability to own a foreign router (which may not "comply" with future "required" legislation )
3) Identity checks at the OS, App Store and Service provider levels.
4) Ability to restrict individuals access to the internet, to given types of content, etc
5) Forced front and center "official" news media forced into online services.
6) Control over AI algorithms
7) Control over algorithms for visibility/sharing of content
8) Control over peoples cars (remote kill switches, embedded biometrics, automated reporting to LEO, inebriation checks).
9) Forced biometrics to login to computers, phones, etc
10) Digital ID to replace physical ID.
11) Digital cash to replace physical cash
12) Millions of biometrics and license place cameras + millions of "gun shot detection" systems
13) Banning of mobile applications and endpoint software the government deems wrong, dangerous, or incorrect, etc. (Tiktok, Kaspersky, etc)
14) AI being embedded in every processor, mobile device, desktop OS, etc.
15) Laws demanding "backdoored" encryption.
16) Laws demanding client side scanning.
17) Laws demanding control over speech deemed harmful, violent, dangerous, upsetting, etc
18) Charges and convictions against anyone releasing privacy focused software (tornado cash).
19) AI predictive policing and predictive dissent detection
20) Centralizing of all healthcare, psychological, financial, online, offline, travel and government records.
21) Forced biometrics collection to travel, attend public events, etc
@cdtwriter Yeah the moms groups are alight with sick kids (lots of pneumonia), moms & partners. Now I just say, "in the summer? How odd". I've been a mom of school aged kids for 30 years; summer was the not sick break for 24 of those.
Reminder that NY-10 is *the most Jewish district in America*, and voters still rejected pro-Israel incumbent Dan Goldman by 30+ points for Brad Lander, who called Gaza a genocide and wants to cut off all weapons to Israel.
Jewish people aren’t falling for rabid Zionism
Covid killed the pope. And the queen. And Pele. It’s the reason Biden dropped out. It’s why your favourite artist is sick, stopped touring or has come down with serious health complications. It’s why the kids are failing at school, it’s why the schools are failing. It’s all Covid
@davidsirota@harveyjkaye The interesting thing is, the people I've heard noting how gauche this was in real life are primarily boomers, ranging from the silent end to X.
They seem to have the memory that things like that should not be done more solidly than Xers and beyond
everyone needs regular cognitive assessments if we’re gonna “live with covid” bc wdym i’ve explained 5 times to a coworker already that they should correct typos they made in a document and they still can’t see the error even in screenshots