Jesus, media fails again and again.
RT @TasneemN@twitter.com
NBC News temporarily suspended tech reporter Ben Collins from NBC and MSNBC airwaves, saying his Musk criticism was not editorially appropriate: @maxwelltani@twitter.com reports https://www.semafor.com/article/12/16/2022/newsrooms-are-scrambling-to-counter-elon-musks-bans
A senior says she ended up in the ER after being denied Paxlovid
"Canada's abundant supply of Paxlovid, the potentially life-saving COVID-19 treatment, has largely gone unused — an oversight that experts say has likely caused a number of unnecessary deaths."
https://ca.yahoo.com/news/senior-says-she-ended-er-090000014.html
News(!): The Jan. 6 select committee is preparing to vote on urging the Justice Department to pursue at least three criminal charges against former President Donald Trump, including insurrection.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/16/jan-6-committee-trump-criminal-referral-00074411
Berkeley Earth is a tiny non-profit operating on a shoestring budget that has an outsized impact on climate science communication. Donations will help us maintain this dataset and develop new ones going forward:
https://t.me/United24media/1768 ⚡️🇺🇸 In connection with a possible Russian attack on Kyiv, the United States may provide Ukraine with new weapons. The administration is considering the possibility of transferring to Ukraine:
▫️Patriot systems;
▫️Direct-guided munitions kits that turn unguided aircraft munitions into "smart" bombs;
▫️Earth bombs of small diameter, which will significantly increase the range of destruction. #Ukraine #News #War #Russia
Big announcement: The next generation of Berkeley Earth's instrumental temperature analysis will be in high definition!
Early in 2023, we will be launching a beta version of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature data set that moves to a 0.25° x 0.25° latitude-longitude resolution, four times more detailed than the current product.
A quick preview 🧵
Musk's new round of dumbassery has clearly given a boost to #mastodonmigration but not nearly as big as in the past waves. Then there were days with 5-10k news users per hour. But we'll take it.
RT @polinaivanovva@twitter.com
Some super data visualisation from the team on foreign companies in Russia. Each bar represents a country; the colours show the percentage of companies from that country that have chosen to leave (dark red), plan to leave (pink), are waiting (light blue), are staying (blue)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/polinaivanovva/status/1603748226968031238
New post at terribleminds --
THE BIRD SITE IS FUCKED
"Twitter right now is a live camera feed watching a highway in an ice storm — you tune in and watch car crash after car crash, the constant shriek of metal, the spinning out of vehicles, carfires burning effulgent in the whiteout blizzard, and when you get a clear moment, when you squint, you realize every last one of those burning cars is a fucking Tesla."
https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2022/12/16/the-bird-site-is-fucked/
Good piece on the importance of upgrading local transmission lines. This is the unsexy, (and expensive) work that has to get done if the U.S. is going to meaningfully reduce emissions:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/opinion/solar-wind-electricity.html
Woah. Watching Twitter abuse our research by putting warnings on links to Mastodon.
In a study led by Ben Kaiser at Princeton, we tested the effect of interstitial warnings on user behavior.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/warnings-work-combating-misinformation-without-deplatforming
"If repeated Covid infections are damaging the immune system in a manner that makes other infectious pathogens cause more severe disease, and we have zero plan to stop people - stop kids - getting infected over and over again, then we are in deep, deep trouble." @brownecfm
#Covid #Kids #WearAMaskForMe
#CovidISNotOver
#MaskUp #Mitigate
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