Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

https://theconversation.com/hepatitis-cases-are-increasing-among-children-in-the-uk-could-covid-have-a-role-to-play-181303?

There has been a sharp increase in severe hepatitis cases among children under ten in the UK over recent months

Most AIs seem to combine a whole lot of "A" with very little "I".

Postal votes are available to anyone eligible to vote in the elections who knows they will not be able to get to a polling station in person https://nation.cymru/news/deadline-looms-to-apply-for-a-postal-vote-for-mays-elections/

Pretty happy with the official Mastodon Android app so far. I desperately need support for lists, but it's a snappy experience and looks clean. Nice job!

Did you know there are centralized alternatives to the #Fediverse?

They are great!
Instead of being developed by volunteers for the community they are developed for millionaires with the sole purpose of getting them more money and influence over the "users".

They contain ads and algorithms, so you don't have to decide, what you want to see, but you get to see what makes you addicted, so you view more ads, buy more stuff and thereby support the capitalist system that we all love.

Instead of anonymity you get to enter your phone number and other form of identification, which totally helps against hate speech, right?

I could go on with advantages, but I think it's best you check them out for yourselves.

Today’s a holiday in the #UK (Bank Holiday), an extra weekday off for Easter. My wife wanted to go on a slightly longer #bike trip and also somewhere new. So I chose #BictonPark. The total trip was just over a Marathon distance (it was 42.8 km) and mostly over some rural roads without a huge volume of traffic. The destination is quite nice though perhaps a bit too manicured. I’ll post a few interesting #photographs.

Lastly, there was a #museum in the park all about #rural life during the 19th century, including aspects of #agriculture but also other things such as how people entertained themselves.

Here are a couple of #Steam #Traction #Engines. The light wasn’t very good in there and so the photograph is a bit fuzzy.

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Spring #BictonPark

"Can Omicron evade detection from PCR and lateral flow tests for Covid-19?"

Daughters family have been ill for 5 days. Continuous new cough, high temperature and generally unwell.
My daughter and her 6 week old baby are ok.
They have been doing lateral flow tests every day on each of them, it's a nasal test they got from school, they are teachers
All the tests are negative but, can we trust them and are there any updates proving that Omicron's new variants could evade LFT and/or PCR tests?

You want to know the value of Mastodon over Insta? Posted this on Instagram to the 15k followers I have there, properly tagged. 29 likes, no comments.

Masto? *So* much engagement. So much fun discussion. So much more community.

Numbers don't mean squat if you don't have the follow through. I've never sold a single piece of art through Insta. People on Insta like passively browsing through images and tapping the heart. For an artist, it's a useless audience.

#Microfossils may be evidence #life began ‘very quickly’ after #Earth formed | #Fossils | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/13/microfossils-may-be-evidence-life-began-very-quickly-after-earth-formed

#Science #Biology #Evolution #OriginOfLife #Palaeontology

"A British-Polish firm has been selling implantable payment microchips for the past year."

https://reclaimthenet.org/microchipping-humans-is-already-a-thing/

#Putin logics

Which part of “everything is for sale” and “profit is all that matters” did you think excluded human rights and democracy?

You cannot fix this within a system that worships at the altars of billionaires and sees human pain and suffering as merely an inconvenient externality.

This.

And it’s not just Putin.

Exploiting greed is the cornerstone of every modern autocrat and wannabe autocrat’s playbook.

When we say capitalism is the slippery slope to fascism this is what we mean.

This is where you end up if your compass has profit as its true north.

https://nitter.net/YudinGreg/status/1512108258248601612

@freemo Since many chips are leveraging quantum effects now...you're saying quantum mechanics is the assembly language of assembly language. And if the hidden variables hypothesis is true, there's assembly for QM! By induction we claim it's turtles all the way down; this is left as an exercise for the reader.

Here’s a nice #sunset shot this evening. I like the #collage of miscellaneous shapes that from the horizon, natural and artificial and the deep #red and #orange #colours capture in the rest of the frame.

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Spring

Quantum Mechanics is just Assembly language for chemistry...

#chemistry #Physics #QM #QuantumMechanics

#BenJennings on #RishiSunak and #AkshataMurty’s morning-after bill – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2022/apr/10/ben-jennings-rishi-sunak-akshata-murty-tax-cartoon

#UK #Politics #Satire