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~ J. M. Keynes & A. C. Kinsey ~

大好きな食い物：
hosomaki，onigiri，shrimps（♡えびフィレオ♡），crispy fries，white meat，smoked salmon，sauced herring，proper（ドイツ語圏風）bread．

[Twincast 🇺🇦🇹🇼🌎🏳️‍🌈🌍🏳️‍🌈🌏🇭🇰🇵🇸 @twincast2005]

#TheLegendOfAang #AvatarAang #TheLastAirbender #ATLA

phenomenal animation

engaging story

ending isn't entirely satisfying. had to keep continuity with Korra. works well enough

only unvoiced cameos for Suki is sad

100% deserved theatrical release
Paramount were mad to pull it

[Twincast 🇺🇦🇹🇼🌎🏳️‍🌈🌍🏳️‍🌈🌏🇭🇰🇵🇸 @twincast2005]

@derspiegel Homers Werke sind nicht moderne westeuropäische Fantasy, sondern antike griechische Historiographie.

[DER SPIEGEL @derspiegel]

»Psychologische, emotionale, politische und ethische Tiefe«? Laut der Altphilologin Emily Wilson Fehlanzeige. Dabei ließ sich Christopher Nolan bei seiner »Odyssee« doch gerade von ihrer Übersetzung inspirieren. https://t.co/16ER4vYUDv

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

New this week: The US federal government used keyword searches to target topics of research grants to defund.

COVlD was among the highest-priority banned topics.

(Link next)

[Prognostic Chats @PrognosticChats]

Covid proven to suppress p53 (tumour suppressor)…

Covid living in the gut…

Increasing number of 20-30 year olds being diagnosed with early onset bowel cancer…

Must be an entirely new disease say “experts” who have entirely forgotten a pandemic started in 2020.

[Jess @MeetJess]

It’s year 6

📌No data
📌Waning vaccine immunity
📌No antibodies/treatments
📌No treatment and no plan for those suffering from Lc
📌No masks anywhere (including all health facilities
📌No improved air
📌Unsafe schools/businesses

Now what

[Prognostic Chats @PrognosticChats]

Covid causes direct beta cell pancreatic damage & increases your insulin resistance, worsened by the inflammatory process post infection. There will be lots of people diagnosed with diabetes (type 1 & 2) the longer this goes on. Most doctors I’ve met are unaware of this fact.

[Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) @Yash25571056]

From a study of 1,064 participants aged 16 to over 85 years, including 39% with long COVID,
"Participants with long COVID performed significantly worse on the working memory quiz than non-long COVID controls, with the lowest scores observed in the clinically diagnosed group..
working memory scores declined with age, particularly among those aged 35 and older, and decreased with multiple COVID-19 infections within the diagnosed group.
Individuals in the diagnosed group reported the most severe brain fog and the greatest life impact, both of which strongly correlated with lower memory scores.
longer long COVID duration was associated with lower memory performance..
[In conclusion,] long COVID is associated with objective working memory impairment, particularly among individuals with a clinical diagnosis."

Do you remember that COVID-19 causes a memory impairment?

'Long COVID affects working memory: assessment using a single rapid online test'
https://t.co/bga7BL6cFN

[tern @1goodtern]

Whenever I see one of these studies, what actually leaps out at me is the list of things that they record the covid infections doing to people.

In the placebo group, acute covid caused fatigue in 87%, cough in 87%, headache in 64%, breathlessness in 60%, concentration problems in 49%, fever in 46%, memory problems in 26%, sleep disturbance in 23%, dizziness in 22%, nausea or vomiting in 10%, chest pain in 12% and palpitations in 13%.

Three months later, 43% still had worse-than-usual fatigue, breathlessness, memory problems or concentration problems.

These were mostly vaccinated, previously infected, non-hospitalised adults who were not considered at high risk of severe disease.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

We don’t need AI for mass psychosis

[Freedom of the Press Foundation @FreedomofPress]

MSG’s new lawsuit against @Wired isn’t just about defamation. It’s an attack on the newsgathering process itself.

If journalists can be sued for talking to sources with NDAs, powerful institutions have another way to keep their secrets.

https://t.co/tKOc2orF2N

[Zara Stone @AlmostZara]

For weeks, I wondered who was behind San Francisco’s “AI Dread” hotline.

Call it and a soothing voice invites you to set aside “the nagging worry that AI can do our jobs” and reconnect with the human side of work.

Plot twist: it’s an AI company.

I tracked down the people behind it—and why they made it.

https://t.co/mcKbBxYsSU

[Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung]

This is such a dumb tweet. She's not being edgy or bold, she's bullying one of the most marginalized and endangered populations in the world which is trans children. It's disgusting, ignorant, bigoted and dangerous but go off complex

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Every time I do something on camera in an N95 hundreds of men start hurling abuse and ranting about masks. It’s very sad. I hope these ppl get treatment for their anxiety bc getting irrationally upset over seeing an immunocompromised person in a video is not a healthy way to live

[Astead @AsteadWH]

!! Congressman Jim Clyburn of South Carolina says he’s never heard of ChatGPT until last week

[Max Spero @max_spero_]

Cognitive offloading final boss

[Evan Hill @evanhill]

The EU is censoring open source satellite imagery of the Strait of Hormuz at the request of the US

[Mike Stabile @mikestabile]

And this was to see "romantic movies." Imagine what it's like for more stigmatized content, like LGBTQ+ resources or porn.

You don't have to imagine. It's less than 5%.

This is a freedom of speech issue.

[ludwig @LudwigAhgren]

This is a flashy course name that’s sparking a lot of discourse but it’s basically ASU’s communications degree repackaged with a few content creator courses sprinkled in

Having said that @ASU if you need a real professor hmu

[jasmine sun @jasminewsun]

data center road trip // day 6-7

I don't think the data center backlash is about AI being evil or risky — but it does reflect people finding AI uniquely useless

for example: is the data center backlash just like the backlash to solar farms? @nicholas_bagley observed that both movements use classic NIMBY playbooks: Facebook groups, FOIA requests, packing city council. both also involve land use tensions between rural towns and state directives.

yet the Saline, MI activists I met were pro-solar farms and anti-data center. first, data center deals are more secretive with more NDAs and bigger $$ amounts. second, solar was supported by environmentalists even if hated by farmers: it generates power instead of consuming it

it seems pretty clear that AI lacks a strong pro faction or positive case. plenty of folks are agnostic on data centers, and plenty hate them, but the only people truly *excited* are tech billionaires and utility companies — the least sympathetic entities you could have on your side

[En(during COVID) @DEC0L0NIZE]

actually it’s the consequence of steadily sacrificing the masses to covid for capitalism for over half a decade now, we’ve been enduring this post public health crisis all along. anti-intellectualism/anti-science rooted in societal covid denialism will ensure our collective doom