bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

Dear web developers and admins,
please stop embedding Google's hideous #ReCaptcha into your websites. Its algorithm is faulty, forcing regular users to click dozens or even hundreds of fire hydrants, bicycles, or traffic lights each day. It puts a 'suspicious activity' flag on users who won't obey to Google's business model - such as people who don't sign into Chrome, use anonymity VPNs, or use browser extensions to suppress common tracking mechanisms. Enough is enough. Stop it.

I see the covid truthers have discovered "well, actually, nobody has ever died of aids" levels of very smartness.

"cultured pork and poultry meat have nearly the same greenhouse gas emissions as eating their animal equivalents"

https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-12-21/singapore-s-approval-lab-grown-meat-win-climate

Incredibly thankful to have grown up in the weird era just before computers really became household appliances

@Science

Lets take a quick look at what experts have been saying about COVID vaccines throughout their development:

http://www.icmra.info/drupal/covid-19/statement_on_continuation_of_vaccine_trials

and

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/global-regulators-urge-continuation-covid-19-vaccine-trials-longer-term-safety-efficacy-follow

"EMA has endorsed a statement by the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA) that urges all stakeholders, including vaccines researchers and investigators, academia, regulators and the pharmaceutical industry, to continue COVID-19 vaccine trials"

"This can provide important additional and more precise information on longer-term safety and efficacy of a vaccine against COVID-19."

"The development of a joint statement on continuation of vaccine trials followed a series of meetings and discussions among ICMRA members on regulatory requirements to enable rapid assessment and authorisation of vaccines against COVID-19."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7291183/

" To shorten the time and for the larger interest of humanity, some routine yet essetial processes like animal trials are bypassed in the process of development of vaccine and drug development."

"Moreover, agencies like WHO and FDA have already given a green signal for clinical trials of vaccines bypassing the regular process of animal trials."

"the decision of bypassing the animal model needs to be taken with utmost caution. "

"Further, saving time should not cost a large number of human lives as a failure of the drug/vaccine could have devastating consequences."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766651

" Operation Warp Speed, the vaccine development project announced by President Trump, has advocated for a vaccine to be made available in the US by the beginning of 2021.1 But for scientists and physicians, the term “warp speed” should trigger concern."

"But what cannot and must not be allowed is for desperation to result in the suspension of scientific principles and ethical research values. Physicians should not administer inadequately vetted vaccines; researchers should not endorse them without sufficient data. The scientific community has only one chance at winning public acceptance of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. The likelihood of achieving that goal will depend on convincing evidence of vaccine safety and efficacy."

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/what-are-the-risks-of-fast-tracking-a-covid-19-vaccine/4012130.article

"The accelerated speed of development has public health experts concerned that vaccines might be approved with incomplete data and analysis." (yup I'm one of them)

"At least one candidate has skipped animal testing, for example."

"The concern intensifies when no vaccine against a coronavirus has ever been approved before, while many of the vaccine platforms in development against Covid-19 are unproven new technologies. ‘Developing a vaccine in about a year is unprecedented,’ says Byram Bridle, a viral immunologist at the University of Guelph in Canada, who has received Covid-focused funding to develop a new vaccine platform. ‘As a scientist with expertise in the field I am personally concerned that conducting science too fast could risk compromising the rigour needed to properly assess vaccines. A vaccine that is ineffective and/or unsafe will not be useful.’"

"Among the top concerns is the potential that a fast-tracked vaccine will have unintended side-effects. No vaccine is 100% safe, but if a billion people are vaccinated, a one in 10,000 serious adverse event will affect 100,000 of those people."

"In May, it was revealed that four out of 45 people in Moderna’s Phase 1 vaccine trial experienced ‘medically significant’ adverse events."

"One potential adverse event is antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), a type of immune reaction where vaccination makes subsequent exposure to the virus more dangerous. "

"According to Bridle: ‘There is definitely a risk of ADE; how much of a risk cannot be stated with any certainty though.’ Yet the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) Vaccine Research Centre, which is collaborating on Moderna’s vaccine, has downplayed the possibility of ADE in a Covid-19 vaccine.

#COVID #Coronavirus #COVID19 #Vaccine #COVIDVaccine #Corona #CoronaVaccine #medical #medicine #biology

the whole "average person eats 8 spiders per year in their sleep" thing is skewed by people like me, who eat 30,000 spiders in their sleep

it's more important to look at the median in this case

@funny

I slightly suspect this may not be the actual dialogue.

#StarTrek #TNG #STTNG #scifi #funny #humour #humor #joke #jokes #meme

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Madam curie is such a bad ass! It saddens me she isnt farther towards the top of role models on the feminist agenda. She is such an amazing example.

SimAnt (1991)

Bell pepper take: the problem is SAML not golang stdlib.

earlier this week, Elon announced he's moved from California to Texas.

today, Oracle Corp announced it's moved its headquarters from California to Texas.

the reasons for nuking Texas keep going up.

Jingle bells for 2020

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xc2HRnNnK8o