herid @herid@qoto.org

Doctor's voices

'It's like there was a Zoom call of all global public health officers and the agenda was:

1. Let's gaslight the public into believing the pandemic is over.
and
2. How to collapse universal health care step-by-step.'

Dr. Karen Pinder - Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia @DrKarenPinder

JUST NOW: The new House rules would:

-enable the #GOP to defund a criminal investigation into #Trump.

-defund Office of Congressional Ethics.

-enable a #Republican being investigated by FBI to investigate the investigators investigating him.

I'm voting NO on the rules package.

We're seeing a massive spike in cases that are still climbing, and our politicians ignore science.

Public Health strategies tell us to increase tracking, mask up in indoor settings, provide cleaner air, provide free PCR testing etc..

This pandemic will not end just because politicians say so; in fact, it will make it far worse.

"Biden team preps for end to Covid's public health emergency — after one more extension"

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/10/biden-covid-public-health-emergency-extension-00077154

#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #PublicHealth

"...we now again face segregation into rival tribes: the short attention spans, COVID-19 revisionism and ‘move along, there’s nothing to see here’ attitude of our global leaders threatens the laser focus that the scientists will need if we are to avoid endemic bedding-in of massively elevated mortality along with a lasting worldwide burden of disability imposed by more than 150 million cases of long COVID. "

Brilliant stuff from Daniel Altmann. #COVID H/T @cyrilpedia

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-022-01393-x

You may be done with #COVID. but it's not done with us.

#GetVaxxed
#GetBoosted
#WearAMask
#OverTheNoseToo

Here's how masks work:

‘Last nail in the coffin’: Utah’s Great Salt Lake on verge of collapse.

It’s lost 73% of its water and is unable to sustain some wildlife – and could soon negatively affect human health.

#climate #climatechange
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/10/utah-great-salt-lake-collapse-imminent

The apocalyptic Christmas airline meltdown stranded thousands of Americans, ruining vacations and costing them a fortune. It wasn't just #SouthwestAirlines' meltdown, either - as stranded fliers sought alternatives, airlines like #AA raised the price of some domestic coach tickets to over $10,000.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the-courage-to-govern/#whos-in-charge

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On this day in 1947: 1st time polio virus isolated #ThisDayInBiotech

The learned helplessness of Pete Buttigieg: Section 41712(a) or bust.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109664900674136083

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Evan Rachel Wood - It Won't Be Long (From "Across The Universe" Soundtrack)

Love her cover of this Beatles classic. Across The Universe is great btw and is full of Beatles songs.

https://youtu.be/TDcKkMvMVvs

#SongOfTheDay
#FavoriteMusic 54/

Before the violent attacks on Brazil's Congress, Elon Musk fired nearly all of Twitter's staff in Brazil, including all the workers in São Paulo who enforced rules around incitement to violence and misinformation. There are no teams actively moderating rule-breaking Twitter content in the entire country

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/08/brazil-bolsanaro-twitter-facebook/

Wow! I just learned an objective reason why sets and vector spaces are special!

Of course we all know math relies heavily on set theory and linear algebra. And if you know category theory, you can say various things about why the categories Set and Vect are particularly convenient frameworks for calculation. But I'd never known a *theorem* that picks out these categories, and a few others.

Briefly: these are categories where all objects are 'free'.

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Something perfect about the Stop the Steal organizer being welcomed back onto Twitter a day after the Brazil insurrection https://twitter.com/lukeobrien/status/1612480421417177088?s=61&t=vlD_fauB0jIh7CbMWDS66g

1/ Russia is reported to be considering forcing soldiers who are refusing to fight to serve in penal-style battalions under the command of the Wagner Group, which is desperate for new blood to replace its calamitous losses in the fighting in eastern Ukraine. ⬇️

My PhD supervisor Yuri Manin passed away yesterday.

He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the last 60 years. But for me, he was simultaneously my diploma and PhD supervisor, one of the kindest persons I have ever met, and one of the most intellectually curious.

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