Yolo Swaggins

Co-Owner @artofthefloat. Engineer. I also make documentary films. Guitarist, vegan, runner, resource. Outdoor enthusiast.

[Isaac French @isaacfrench_]

hang it in the louvre, immediately

[Mike Mariani @mikesmariani]

My longform piece for @SmithsonianMag, on the science of Long COVID, the progress researchers have made in shedding light on it, and the many lives profoundly diminished by this condition. Scientists still have a lot to learn, yes, but they're also farther along than many think: https://t.co/IvDHAqhqyN

[Keith @keetmuise]

"Covid is mild".... Zero publications to prove it.

"Covid is dangerous".... 492,027 publications to prove it.

There is no debate.

https://t.co/0vBU7PuwPf

[Yolo Swaggins @bvp663]

@0xsubugatai Downloaded the app and didn’t see an option to select different wallet types. Am I missing something?

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

If I were president and I wanted to tank the dollar and get rich off it, here is exactly what I would do.

I would hire a Treasury Secretary who already made $3.5 billion crashing another country's currency. I would put my guy in charge of the agency that approves bank charters. I would install a crypto czar with $200M in crypto holdings and give him an ethics waiver so nobody could challenge it.

Then I would sign an executive order banning the government from ever creating a digital dollar so there was no competition.

Then I would have my family launch their own private digital dollar. My family takes 75% of net profits. I would grow it to $4.6 billion in circulation and route a $2 billion Abu Dhabi sovereign fund deal through it to prove it works.

Then I would get Congress to pass a law requiring every stablecoin in the country to hold short-term Treasury bills. Now every dollar of my digital currency is a forced buyer of government debt. Brookings projects $2.3 trillion in captive demand by 2030.

Then I would have my OCC guy grant my family's company a federal bank charter. Now I can issue my digital dollar with federal authority.

Then I would have my Treasury Secretary weaken the actual dollar. Bond buybacks that suppress yields but tank the currency. Build a $950 billion war chest for more. Let the debt hit $40 trillion. Dollar index drops to 99. Gold goes to highest point ever.

Then I would kill the Corporate Transparency Act and delete the FinCEN beneficial ownership database. That was the one law that required every shell company in America to report who actually owns it. Without it, nobody can trace who is buying my stablecoin, who is routing money through it, or where the profits land.

Then I would let the loop run. Weaker dollar drives demand for "stable" digital alternatives. The law I passed forces those alternatives to buy T-bills. That funds the government's debt. My family takes profit on every transaction. Foreign central banks walking away from Treasuries get replaced by legally mandated stablecoin reserves my family controls.

Then I would use sanctions to start cutting countries off from the dollar system entirely. And when those countries need a new way to transact in dollars, the only federally chartered private digital dollar in existence is mine. They can buy it through shell companies nobody can trace because I deleted the ownership database.

I just built a toll booth on the global financial system. I take a cut every time someone uses the dollar. And I made it so nobody can see who is paying.

And every single step I just described has already happened.

So what does that mean for you and I?

The reason the United States can borrow at low rates and keep your mortgage and your car payment and your import prices stable is because foreign central banks hold trillions in dollar reserves. That system has always been public. The benefit went to everyone. Lower borrowing costs, cheaper goods , and the single biggest economic advantage any country has ever had.

What I just described is the privatization of that function. The entity buying the debt is no longer a central bank acting in the public interest. It is a private company taking 75% of net profits for one family. The reserve function used to generate a public benefit. Now it generates a private fee.

Your purchasing power shrinks every time the dollar weakens. Your 401k buys less in real terms. Everything you import costs more. And every time the dollar drops, demand for the private digital alternative goes up. The one the president's family owns. The one that by law must buy government debt.

You absorb the cost of a weakening dollar. His family collects the profit. That is the trade.

The enforcement mechanism to stop a sitting president from doing this? There isn't one. Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter says it would be a violation for literally any other federal employee, but not the president.

Nobody voted for this. No one was asked. There was no debate. There is no enforcement mechanism. There is no one investigating it. The Senate tried and it was blocked.

This is the largest conflict of interest in American history happening in broad daylight while everyone argues about something else.

So what do you do? Share this. Make it impossible to ignore. Send it to your representative, your senator, every journalist you follow. We make them answer for it.
Because the only thing protecting this scheme right now is the fact that not enough people understand it yet.

[Michael | APC Injury @internetuserf12]

I designed https://t.co/C8mWm8lD3O because I feel there is a serious lack of FREE research-based Long Covid synthesis happening in tech while so many are suffering. I feel as though the mountains of Long Covid research at our disposal are being sorely under utilized. Ultimately, however, it's a temporary project because once and after I have pushed it to its limit I may no longer be able to justify its use ethically or financially. The goal is to get answers, to catalyze research and understanding, not to operate redundantly. I'm optimistic that I will be able to shut it down in ten months.

[࿐࿐Alba ࿐ @AlbaDocherty]

Had Covid? Have you had these things ruled out? No?

This is a *short* list of clinically-provable conditions in Long Covid that some orgs and other interests want you to think is (not-biomedically validated in Long Covid) MECFS instead. Many of these issues demand medical attention. Many of them have viable treatments that could help ppl right now. Many of them cause sudden death...we haven't seen any of that, have we?

Dementia & Vascular Dementia - If you've had Covid, you have a 41% higher risk of dementia and a 77% higher risk of vascular dementia. This is anything but MECFS "cognitive PEM".

Thrombotic microangiopathy - Microclots throughout small blood vessels severely limit oxygen and nutrient delivery to tissues. When you exert yourself, tissues cannot get enough oxygen to meet even minimal increased demands. This creates oxygen debt and toxic metabolite buildup that triggers a systemic crash - the delayed, prolonged exhaustion and multi-system symptoms can resemble MECFS.

With organs already barely functioning due to poor blood flow, any extra activity pushes the whole system over the edge, causing a collapse that takes days or weeks to recover from.

Heart failure (including HFpEF) - Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction is particularly insidious. Standard echos can look "normal" but the heart can't properly relax and fill. Causes exercise intolerance, shortness of breath, and fatigue that worsens with activity. Sound familiar?

Interstitial lung disease/fibrosis - Scarring of lung tissue causing progressive breathing difficulty and exercise limitation that can seem like PEM.

Chronic thromboembolic disease - Clots organizing in lungs, causing progressive right heart strain. The "PEM-like Sx" are driven by the heart-lung unit hitting a wall - any exertion beyond minimal activity causes systemic oxygen starvation and cardiac strain that takes days to recover from. Unlike deconditioning, rest doesn't improve capacity because the structural blockages remain.

Diaphragmatic dysfunction - Nerve or muscle damage to breathing muscles, causing "air hunger" and exercise limitation that can seem like PEM.

Pulmonary hypertension - High blood pressure in lung arteries causes severe fatigue and breathlessness with exertion that can be misdiagnosed as PEM. Often missed without right heart catheterization.

Silent myocardial ischemia - Reduced blood flow to heart muscle without typical chest pain. Can present as fatigue, exercise intolerance, PEM.

Aortic stenosis or other valve disease - Can develop from Covid infection and cause exercise intolerance that is often dismissed as deconditioning and/or PEM.

Microvascular dysfunction - Covid can cause small vessel disease affecting coronary, cerebral, or peripheral circulation can cause fatigue, exercise intolerance, and cognitive issues that worsen with exertion.

Pulmonary embolism (including microemboli) - Covid can cause blood clots in lungs, especially smaller chronic ones, that can cause progressive exercise intolerance and fatigue.

Myocarditis or pericarditis - Post-viral heart inflammation can cause exercise intolerance, fatigue, and chest symptoms that worsen with activity. This requires proper cardiac imaging and biomarker testing to diagnose, but can be mistaken as PEM.

POTS and dysautonomia - Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome and other autonomic dysfunctions can cause profound fatigue and post-exertional symptoms, but require specific testing and treatment, quite contrary to how Yale's Akiko Iwasaki & Harlan Krumholz run POTS "studies".

Cerebral hypoperfusion - Reduced blood flow to the brain can cause cognitive dysfunction, fatigue, and exercise intolerance that is misclassed as PEM. This can result from Covid vascular damage, autonomic dysfunction, or other mechanisms that result in symptoms that sound a lot like PEM.

Small vessel cerebrovascular disease - Microinfarcts or white matter changes from vascular damage could cause cognitive impacts and fatigue that can be mislabeled as MECFS.

Neuroinflammation - Direct viral invasion or immune-mediated inflammation in the nervous system could cause symptoms attributed to PEM: Hypersensitivity to noise, light, and temperature; memory problems, difficulty with attention, persistent forgetfulness, difficulty focusing, slowed information processing, etc. that appear similar to "cognitive PEM".

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis - Blood clots in brain's drainage system. Can cause headaches, cognitive issues, and fatigue that can be misdiagnosed as MECFS, before catastrophic events occur.

Progressive atherosclerosis - Covid accelerates plaque formation. Carotid or coronary artery disease developing years faster than normal. This Covid-induced condition present with MECFS-like symptoms through a mechanism of exertion-triggered ischemia and delayed recovery.

Vasculitis - Covid can cause blood vessel inflammation throughout body. Can affect any organ system and progress to organ failure if untreated. Patients experience malaise, fatigue, and generalized weakness. Covid-induced systemic vasculitis can produce MECFS-like symptoms through multi-organ hypoperfusion and inflammatory exhaustion that worsen with exertion.

COVID-19 causes brain and neurological damages that produce symptoms remarkably similar to the generic Dx checklist MECFS, isn't that convenient? Especially when doctors & ins companies won't cover the scans required to prove your brain damages, vascular damages, dementias, etc. Insurance companies LOVE the medical-care-ending-zero-treatment MECFS Dx. It's so much cheaper to tell 400M ppl to pace than to develop targeted treatments for them, isn't it?

This is a short list conditions that can be caused by Covid, are found in Long Covid, and that require medical treatment, not to be written off as MECFS.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

brain-rot videos literally suppress activity in the parts of your brain responsible for cognitive control, the systems that help you resist impulses

fascinating

if used properly, short-form video seems almost perfectly designed as a cyberweapon: capture attention, weaken cognitive control, then control what millions of people see next and what they will impulsively act on

good thing nobody would ever build something like that lol

[Bloomberg @business]

The immune systems of people with long Covid may remain locked in a prolonged battle with remnants of the coronavirus, producing inflammation while failing to effectively eliminate its source, new research suggests. https://t.co/2WCbrAZ9EF

[🎒Joanna Teglund✊😷🍉Human life is sacred @JoannaTeglund]

In the 7th year of the pandemic there are 490,861 publications on Covid your doctor won't read.
https://t.co/eXTIqGDJBE
Like this comprehensive review of 49 MRI studies
https://t.co/AkhIZuQtjP
showing brain damage after acute and long term infection.
Billions affected. 275 views.

[Star💫 @Starseeker1986]

14 year old Hayden has been bedbound for 2 years since contracting #Covid

His mum describes and compares his neurological symptoms as being similar to vascular dementia 💔🥲

Absolutely devastating that children are being harmed by an airborne virus which could be prevented!

[Yolo Swaggins @bvp663]

@internetuserf12 Is there an MCP server I could connect to by chance?

[Yolo Swaggins @bvp663]

@ahandvanish Just started on a 1000mg dose to hopefully help with PEM and mitochondrial dysfunction. Too early to have any feedback at the moment.

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

This is the kind of stuff Americans think happens in Russia, China and Iran

[ThePOTSPostman @ThePOTSPostman]

Imagine the sickest, weakest moment of the flu.

Now remove the fever, cough and anything else people can see.

Leave only the poisoned feeling, the crushing weakness and the expectation that you should still function normally.

That’s how fatigue with chronic illness feels.

[Kyle @klmatter]

@MatthewHalma This is a good comparison and I agree long COVID should learn from chronic Lyme. Lyme has made some significant progress lately though: https://t.co/vdXMNY8Yoe . Moreover, direct detection is currently commercially available w/ Lyme via Galaxy Diagnostics & TLab.

[Michael | APC Injury @internetuserf12]

One of the biggest misconceptions about Long Covid is that it only persists if the virus persists. In reality, SARS-CoV-2 can establish multiple self-sustaining "perpetuating lesions" - immune dysfunction, vascular injury, autoimmunity, autonomic dysfunction, microclots, gut dysbiosis, and mitochondrial dysfunction - that can continue driving disease long after the initial infection. That said, tissue reservoirs have very high explanatory power even when antigenemia is absent.

[Vipin M. Vashishtha @vipintukur]

One of the strongest pieces of evidence yet that SARS-CoV-2 may persist in the human heart.

➡️ Researchers detected actively replicating virus (reverse-strand RNA) in the hearts of patients months after COVID-19—up to nearly 2 years after infection.

➡️ Those with viral persistence were more than twice as likely to have cardiac #LongCOVID, with symptoms such as palpitations, chest pain, breathlessness, and fatigue. 1/

[Christopher David @Tazerface16]

Trump is so fucking dumb that when he heard that semiconductors use "transistors," he thought they said "transgenders."

That's how fucking stupid our President is.

[Michael | APC Injury @internetuserf12]

EU Academy of Neurology urges preparation for an "increase in the incidence of neurodegenerative diseases in the upcoming years" due to SARS2.
https://t.co/Iy6FiJMnSO