herid @herid@social.cleverlibre.org

„The idea that a child born today could contract COVID 40 times before college and live a normal, healthy lifespan, is completely unsupported by what we know about this disease.”

#Corona #COVID

https://thegauntlet.substack.com/p/with-immunity-debt-democrats-are?sd=pf

India's population will surpass that of China in mid-April.

Wow.. I just read that pawoo has been taken over by the Mask Group that also runs mstdn.jp and mastodon.cloud 🤔

So.. they own now 3 of the largest instances

https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/109550858784792605

George Hotz is an experienced coder / "lone wolf" type of hacker who joined Twitter to "fix search" in 12 weeks. 4 weeks later, he's thrown in the towel, with nothing of real impact shipped.

To me, this shows the difference between software engineering - aka working with complexity - and how "just" being good at coding is not what is needed at a place like Twitter, to succeed.

And yet, New Twitter has incentives set to only reward coding, not software engineering.

#Happy #Solstice tootlers! It only gets lighter from here on. 😊

If you’re going to leave Twitter, please don’t
a) delete your account, because someone bad will steal your handle
b) delete your Tweets, because their existence doesn’t help Elon and it’s like burning the Library of Alexandria.

Twitter captures a real-time historical record of a couple of decades and the billions of individuals’ snapshots are irreplaceable.

The thought of all those tweets being erased makes me feel physically sick.

[please pass on if you agree.]

I have #Covid and I'm in isolation with my husband. All the days have merged into one, and I've just realised we're going to be isolating on Christmas Day. :(

The kids have sellotaped us into one part of the house so we don't infect them; they have the kitchen, we have the laundry, and they fling food to us below our window.

Idk if an #ActuallyAutistic 'Lord of the Flies' scenario is playing out, but nothing I can do about it!

I'm immunocompromised, please wear a mask!!

@actuallyautistic

Don McLean - American Pie

https://youtu.be/PRpiBpDy7MQ

#FavoriteMusic 37/

Large, real-world study finds COVID-19 vaccination more effective than natural immunity in protecting against all causes of death, hospitalization and emergency department visits #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDIsntOver #GetVaccinated #GetVaccinatedAndBoosted #GetBoosted
https://www.regenstrief.org/article/real-world-study-finds-covid-19-vaccination-more-effective-than-natural-immunity/

Granted that not all projects in the queue will be built, but is becoming increasingly clear that the biggest barrier to electricity decarbonization today is not the cost of clean energy, but rather our ability to build the transmission to accommodate it.

This stat from @shannonosaka@twitter.com in the WaPo today is nuts: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/12/20/clean-energy-bottleneck-transmission-lines/

"At the end of 2021, there were 8,100 projects sitting in line, waiting for permission to get connected. Together, they represent more than the combined power capacity of all U.S. electricity plants"

This is absolutely insane. A mom was prevented from taking her daughter to a Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall because she works for a law firm litigating against the venue's parent company. They spotted her with facial recognition technology according to this report: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/face-recognition-tech-gets-girl-scout-mom-booted-from-rockettes-show-due-to-her-employer/4004677/

#BBC just ran an interview with someone modeling #China #Covid in the next few months, and it is pretty ugly. 1.7MM dead by Summer. 200MM+ cases.