David Rasmussen, aka Rasamoto @Bertrecords@qoto.org

More and more indications that more people are wearing masks.

Spread the word that this is happening.

Apparently people are getting tired of being sick.

Suggest HEPA purifiers and remote meetings.

#Covid #science

If you’re new to #Mastodon you will encounter words you don’t know.

Here’s the summary:

The #Fediverse : our Mastodon universe.

The Fediverse has planets (known as servers/instances). >Your handle< @ mastdn.social means your “planet” is mastdn.social.

Your posts = your broadcast signal.
People from other planets can hear your signal and follow you.

Planet gets too crowded = lag (it moves slowly.

You can change your planet and also keep your followers.

Follow and 🔁 repost for daily tips.

How can a tumultuous crowd-sourced unpaid open free-for-all—Wikipedia—handle the most controversial history in the making and get it, mostly, right?

Fine essay by Heather Ford. (And I was there, too, in Alexandria, 2008.)

https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-shaping-history-why-i-spent-ten-years-studying-one-wikipedia-article-192602

“Here we all are, watching things fall apart. And yet, deep down, we don’t believe it.”

You know about climate change, you’ve read plenty about climate change, you’re tired of climate change, you’re in despair. Never mind. Read this anyway. By @elizkolbert.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/28/climate-change-from-a-to-z

@tamtuck if your Minneapolis Twitter is/was anything like mine, here are a few places to start (not all accounts are very active right now; would love more suggestions!): @Dbrauer, @WedgeLIVE, @YourQueeringTherapist, @naomikritzer, @MNUAF, @amityf, @UnicornRiot, @ziibiing, @tony

My not-so-bold prediction is that the bird site ends up with Facebook vibes: a legacy user base which doesn’t understand the magnitude of misinformation being spread. Will become an place where misinformation is laundered to seem like normal discourse.

“Years ago, when I was writing my first book, I found myself in the main branch of New York City’s public library not because I needed to do research — the book was a memoir — but because the space itself seemed most aligned with the task of writing. It was like going to church to pray.” #Libraries #CharlesBlow https://www.nytimes.com/by/charles-m-blow https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/opinion/thankful-libraries-books.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

New preprint dropped to ruin Thanksgiving with more novel SARSr-CoVs
https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1595750984915247105?s=46&t=uHCP5fH5Q_PXi6z-mdN8rQ

This Illinois feed mill is cutting costs while fattening pigs thanks to its new 3 MW solar array, built with federal and state incentives:
https://energynews.us/2022/11/21/state-federal-solar-incentives-help-illinois-feed-mill-slash-energy-costs/

This is the binary black hole animation I made for Black Hole Week 2021 and the reason I joined twitter at the time. So I guess it is fitting to start with it here.

Months ago @VirusesImmunity@twitter.com and I laid out the strong case for nasal vaccines to achieve containment of the virus, breaking the chain of transmission at the individual and population level
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.add9947 @SciImmunology@twitter.com

This is one way to cross post on Twitter and Mastadon.

(Except if you’re Trump, go to the 4 Seasons’ Landscaping and await instructions.) https://universeodon.com/@ASlavitt/109373106527965311