@spladayum @Spladayum@qoto.org

From the Dept. of Unconscionable Stupidity, parents refuse vaccinated blood to save their baby ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/30/new-zealand-parents-refuse-use-of-vaccinated-blood-in-life-saving-surgery-on-baby

'It’s this kind of libertarianism—the you-do-you ethos of American culture that sees the “public” in public health as anathema, clinging to a medical model of private risk and private cures—that dropped us down to the 40s in global life expectancy rankings before the pandemic, and will land us below the 60s by 2040. “Give me liberty and give me death” is the reigning mantra of America today.'
@gregggonsalves

#PublicHealth

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/public-health-covid-pandemic/

Really cool work in #Immunity by Annika Frede, Eduardo Villablanca et al. using a mouse DSS model of intestinal damage

"Although neutrophils and monocytes expanded transiently during the inflammatory process, B cells continued to expand during the recovery phase, becoming the most dominant cell type within the colon LP. Using flow cytometry, single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), immunofluorescence, and RNAscope, we identified an interferon (IFN)-induced B cell subtype that accumulates in damaged areas of the regenerating colon. B cell depletion (BCD) during the recovery phase enhanced tissue repair and a transcriptomic program associated with the extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling. "

#MucosalImmunology #Immunology #TissueRepair #IBD #Colitis

https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(22)00592-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS1074761322005921%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Okay... this is *not good.*. AO3 being scraped by Open AI...?! https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/z9apih/sudowrites_scraping_and_mining_ao3_for_its/

Hey Minneapolis, if your car is parked on a snow emergency route you need to move it RIGHT NOW! St. Paul, if your car is parked on a night plow route you need to move it RIGHT NOW! Restrictions start in both cities at 9 p.m.!!! Don't get towed!

Wow it turns out that Elon Musk owning twitter and allowing all the nazis and shitheads back on has... driven a huge rise in hate speech! Couldn't have seen this one coming. https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/2/23489808/elon-musk-twitter-hate-speech-increase-content-moderation

I'm really, really, really more than a little sick of non-Jews discussing the whole thing with Kanye et al and talking about how there's a "reemergence" of antisemitism .

Please allow me as someone who is Jewish to spell this out for you: antisemitism 100% has never, ever left. We deal with it on a regular basis. I actively avoid large amounts of the witch/pagan/occult communities due to it and stick to much smaller circles as a result.

Most synagogues actively hire armed security for services

...on Talk Like a Pirate Day, we like to celebrate Talk Like Stephen Maturin, Cook Like Preserved Killick Day...

#PatrickO'Brian #AubreyMaturin

WTF... it’s #CyberMonday, and I may as well get this over with. :)

It's #CyberMonday, and for 24 hours (...or actually until local midnight on November 30th, because there’s always somebody finding out about this kind of thing a bit late...), get our whole #DRMfree Ebooks Direct# Ebook store (35 novels & short works!) for USD $44! The info's here:

https://bit.ly/WholeStore44ForCyberMonday

(...And then I can sit back and stop worrying about the fecking Marketing Season, and get back to writing and cooking.)

(yawning) Status report, Website Work dep't: Getting ready for the complete restructuring of our European Cuisines site by doing some much-needed replacement photography. Today's work: reshooting Peter's Mum's soda bread... (http://www.europeancuisines.com/Peters-Mums-Soda-Bread-Recipe).

Dawn, County Wicklow, Ireland. Peter took the picture. (He was up early waiting for the postie to deliver something. The something didn't arrive, but the dawn did...

One of the big mistakes people make, over and over again, is relying on technological determinism.

That is, thinking the architecture of the technology will preserve the topology of the network.

Mastodon is Open Source. It's built with open standards.

This is necessary but not sufficient to keep the network decentralized.

We're going to need social and legal structures, plus cultural norms, that counterbalance Metcalfe's law, which pushes the network towards centralization.

Whether you’re a Black Friday deal-shopper or boycotting consumption today, please support our speculative fiction authors and communities this holiday season.

Buy a book, support an artist, or donate to our crowdfunding campaign. Thank you!

Some extraordinary photos of the Everest expeditions.

Hey everyone, the single-use molecular covid tests (that are nearly as accurate as a PCR, way more so than a rapid) are on sale at amazon for only $30! They're usually like $75. Great for peace of mind around holiday visitor cooties.

https://smile.amazon.com/Lucira-COVID-19-Single-use-Quality-Molecular/dp/B092KGQT2Y/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3EL8O9K3S8LLY&keywords=molecular+test+covid+19&qid=1669244092&sprefix=molecular+test%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-3

Disturbed by reports of Black Mastodon users—Black women in particular—having negative experiences on this app, including being randomly banned for discussions of racism. Some of these users will not come back. All will share their experiences. The answer is not to condescendingly lecture them on “how the fediverse works,” as if their experiences are inevitable, nor to swear to do better next time. (There may not be one.) It’s to do better now lest the reputation of this app be cemented.

🫡 Elon Musk suspended me.

What were Elon Musk’s lenders thinking? Surprisingly, perhaps, there are actual answers to that question, @JamesSurowiecki writes. http://on.theatln.tc/N55zlmE

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1595533423820406785