I really like these UFW tweets because they state the most amazing facts in unemotional language.
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Weird old book finder by Clive Thompson
Well… here’s a rabbit hole.
https://twitter.com/pomeranian99/status/1484366811961323520?s=20
Clive Thompson (@pomeranian99) Tweeted: I dig reading old public-domain books from the 19th/18th centuries. So I made a little search tool *specifically* for that You type a query, it finds you one book that matches it — and presents it for instant reading Behold the “Weird Old Book Finder”: https://t.co/Yd23Lv7rk3 https://t.co/mI16dqaiuk
Tweet from It’s Going Down (@IGD_News)
https://twitter.com/IGD_News/status/1484857721660719105?s=20
This was a fun read: https://itsgoingdown.org/antifascist-action-against-pf-dc-communique/
It’s Going Down (@IGD_News) Tweeted: Last month, the world laughed as Patriot Front neo-Nazis were stranded in DC. While many blamed disorganization or being lost – a new anonymous antifascist report – corroborated by PFs own leaked footage, shows the real reason: mass antifascist sabotage. https://t.co/Pzek3yLhps
(Also, see? They blog!)
On “natural immunity”
So, we’re hearing about this new study that shows natural immunity is stronger than the vaccine.
I’m guessing the Infection Fatality Rate in the U.S. is around 1%. The VAERS number for vaccinations, which is a sketchy worst case (see below), is 0.0022%. So, given the vaccine is plenty effective, which procedure would you gamble on? (Not choosing is picking the 1% option, obviously.)
(Not to mention getting vaccinated reduces your personal IFR number way below 1%.)
«Many sources of false information will often cite the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
VAERS was established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1990 as an early warning system to detect potential safety issues with vaccines. It allows anyone to report adverse effects experienced after receiving any vaccine, including the COVID-19 vaccines.
According to VAERS, more than 520 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines were administered in the United States from December 14, 2020 through January 10, 2022. During this time, VAERS received 11,225 reports of death (0.0022%) among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine.
However, this does not mean the vaccine caused these deaths.
“VAERS is unique in that it’s a system that accepts reports from anyone,” Morris said. “It can be a doctor or a hospital or a health department that reports a death that is timed after a vaccine, or it can be a patient or a family member of someone who had an adverse reaction or just had a reaction.”
“So it can be that deaths are reported that are completely unrelated,” she continued. “Deaths can also be reported that are actually false or that are clearly unrelated, but are reported based on timing or even based on malicious intent.”
Therefore, these statistics offer no insight into the actual cause of death in these cases.
The death of a 90-year-old nursing patient a few days after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, for example, would be reported to VAERS. However, there are a number of other causes this person could have died from.»
IFR numbers: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/31/e2103272118/tab-article-info
People on airplanes
Do these people just get drunk and lose their self-control?
«In May, a California woman on a Southwest Airlines flight repeatedly punched a flight attendant, bloodying her face and chipping three teeth, after she was asked to buckle her seatbelt, put up her tray table and “wear her face mask properly.”»
Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft Weave a Fiber-Optic Web of Power – WSJ
Imagine trying to compete with a new cloud patform (like Digital Ocean does?):
The ability of these companies to vertically integrate all the way down to the level of the physical infrastructure of the internet itself reduces their cost for delivering everything from Google Search and Facebook’s social networking services to Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud services. It also widens the moat between themselves and any potential competitors.
CSS Grid Layout Module Level 1
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-grid-1/#auto-repeat
Can’t defend why I find this cool, but I do:
«For the purpose of finding the number of auto-repeated tracks, the UA must floor the track size to a UA-specified value to avoid division by zero. It is suggested that this floor be 1px.»
“We’re just writing a spec here, but we think implementors, like we are in our day jobs, would like this hint. But y’all can do what you want. Who knows? Maybe you’ll find a better algorithm! Also, we’re thinking about implementation as we write the spec.”
On the suicide of a loved one
Lots of really good replies to this tweet.
https://twitter.com/OliviaLittle/status/1477656943820869634?s=20
Olivia Little (@OliviaLittle) Tweeted: Yesterday my dad unexpectedly took his own life. He was the best. Worked in public education his whole life (was going to retire this year), fixed anything and everything, and always supported me. If anyone has grief advice or recommendations I’d really appreciate it. I miss him. https://t.co/A6rsP3QKZk
Thinking of you, old friend
We two have run about the hills,
and picked the daisies fine;
But we’ve wandered many a weary foot,
since auld lang syne.
We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since auld lang syne.
Tweet from A.R. Moxon, If You Can Keep It (@JuliusGoat)
https://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/1476898197889064967?s=20
Seems about right.
A.R. Moxon, If You Can Keep It (@JuliusGoat) Tweeted: What is meant by “we’ve never been so polarized as a country,” anyway? What if instead we said “It’s been a long time since the moral demands caused by the injustice suffered by marginalized people have been made so unavoidably present to so many otherwise comfortable people”?
