"Ford's argument is basically that corruption is okay if it gets houses built."
very good news.
Oh, the search feature is coming to Mastodon after all: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26344
This clearly seems to follow up the VyrCrossont's idea of the extended search feature that finds public posts.
Gargron: "It is my decision to unite all discovery features in one setting, because all of this stuff is an expected part of a social network and splitting it up into different settings that everyone has to opt-into one by one just to get the same behaviour they get by default on other social media seems like a bad user experience. Also, discoverable is already a federated attribute." #Mastodon #Search #OpenSource
Just came back from the dentist (cleaning). They used to be highly COVID conscious until recently. But today I was greeted with this sign in the waiting room. 🤦♂️
#CovidIsNotOver
Another nail in the #lk99 coffin: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110
It looks more and more likely that there was never any superconductivity, at room temperature or otherwise, in these samples 🤷🏻♂️
It is now possible to block #chatgpt from crawling your website going forward
https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot
won't affect the past of course.
Sudden DECREASE IN AIR POLLUTION improves HEALTH immediately & over 3 yrs
Pittsburgh: a highly polluting coke plant is suddenly closed
- Emergency visits for cardiovascular disease decreased 42% immediately, continued over 3 yrs
- No change in control
as a total nonexpert I found this Ars article to be the best general science article on the matter
#lk99 ##superconductivity
Yep. I don't know how many times I tried to get people to realize that in Canada the LOWS for a year post-Omicron were higher than the PEAK during Delta.
Twelve Quick Facts About Gun Ownership in America:
1) The US has about 120 guns per 100 people.
2) No other nation on Earth has even 110 guns per 100 people.
3) Or 100 per 100 people.
4) Or 90 per 100.
5) Or 80 per 100.
6) Or 70 per 100.
7) Or 60 per 100.
8) There is one nation that has about 50 guns per 100 people.
9) That nation is Yemen.
13) Fucking YEMEN.
10) Yemen hasn't had a mass shooting since 2013's Sana'a Attack.
11) That attack was committed by armed members of al-Quaida.
12) They committed it using American guns.
I'm sure none of these facts are at all connected.
Everyone must work for the victory, for the protection of people and Ukraine - address by Volodymyr #Zelenskyy President of #Ukraine 03/08/23
Extracts
The battles are tough, the occupiers are trying their best to stop our guys. The assaults are very fierce.......... It is difficult everywhere. But no matter what the enemy does, it is the Ukrainian force that dominates. And I am grateful to everyone on the frontline for this!
Full address🔗https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/usi-povinni-pracyuvati-na-peremogu-na-zahist-lyudej-i-ukrayi-84713
(ATLANTA) – People exposed to a wildfire within a year after having lung cancer surgery have significantly lower chances of survival compared to lung cancer patients who are not exposed to wildfires, researchers from Emory University, the American Cancer Society and Yale University found
https://www.miragenews.com/research-wildfire-exposure-reduces-survival-1057419/
#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #climate #health
Hey, remember when Canadian Blood Services dropped mask mandates in an effort to get more people to donate, and (surprise!) it didn't work?
Anyway, in the UK now you can't donate blood if you have long COVID.
There are excellent non-profits making COVID tools and information accessible. For example:
What have I missed?
Does your local library have a CO2 monitor lending program?
Musk’s rebranded Twitter is offering extremely hefty discounts to advertisers while simultaneously threatening them that if they don’t spend at least $1k on ads in the next 30 days their brand will lose its checkmark and they won’t police impersonation https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-rebranded-twitter-cuts-ad-prices-d2615d8f
“Watching as professional crybabies like Ben Shapiro tried to get people to boycott “Barbie” because one of the actresses in the film (Hari Nef, who played Doctor Barbie) is trans, and seeing that has absolutely no effect on the film’s success demonstrates that the Bud Light and Target controversies and capitulations only became big deals because Bud Light and Target responded to the outrage as though it were genuine.”
#Barbie
Remember that abysmal attempt at creating a fake paper detector that #Science magazine trumpeted? The one that just looked to see if you used your institutional email address, had international collaborators, and were (not) affiliated with a hospital?
The one that instantiated the authors biases and then they turned around and used as evidence for those biases?
Science has just published the letter that Brandon Ogbunugafor and I wrote.
Refugee from twitter. I am into math, tech, clean energy, EVs, COVID info, books, movies, music.
Based in Toronto. Support Ukraine.
Boosts=endorsements twitter:https://twitter.com/heridfan