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If it's more contagious and binds to the ACE2 better (a feature of prior virulent variants), then one may want not to gamble being less dangerous. A vaxx only strategy is infeasible under the Kraken XBB 1.5 variant right now so one may consider N95 masking up.
BUT YOU DO YOU 😎
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"As you watch the playoffs, remember ... the injury rate in the #NFL is 100 percent. They all get hurt.
"Fully one in four of the league’s retirees will need a joint replacement. They suffer arthritis at five times the rate of their peers. And they are four times as likely to suffer neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s or ALS.
"Yet, the NFL’s health insurance program lasts five years after retirement — if they qualify for it."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/01/12/nfl-physics-violence/
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@Popehat did you hear about the purging of this racist taint?
https://t.co/YDjHcfLTDO
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Talked to a colleague today who is #immunocompromised after a #HeartTransplant. They've been having inexplicable fatigue and muscle/joint pain for 6-8 weeks that gets worse with exercise instead of better. They were #COVIDPositive 12 weeks ago.
I mentioned #LongCOVID & they had not heard of it.
Three years into the pandemic, the recipient of an organ transplant - w/ multiple medical teams in multiple states - was unaware that COVID could cause long-term disability. No one told her.
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The Watch Frameworks team is growing, and we're looking for another SwiftUI Frameworks Engineer! This position is working on SwiftUI itself, so Swift and UIKit skills are more useful than experience building apps with SwiftUI. :-) https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200452190/swiftui-frameworks-engineer-apple-watch?team=SFTWR
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"P@s$w0rds at the U.S. Department of the Interior: Easily Cracked Passwords, Lack of Multifactor Authentication, and Other Failures Put Critical DOI Systems at Risk"
Look at this summary posted by
Roger Grimes!
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*Stunning* composite image of the Tarantula Nebula produced by JWST and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
About 170,000 light-years away, in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
X-ray data (Chandra) is royal blue and purple. IR data (JWST) is red, orange, green, and light blue.
X-ray credit: NASA/CXC/Penn State Univ./L. Townsley et al.;
IR credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/JWST ERO Production Team
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"Earth’s oceans are hotter and saltier than ever before in human history" | Laura Baisas of @popsci on our new ocean heat study: https://www.popsci.com/environment/earths-oceans-heat-salt/
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RT @EladNehorai@twitter.com
Reminder that none of this should be surprising since Musk himself engages in antisemitic tropes quite often. He has also reinstated multiple neo-Nazis and other antisemites.
This is part of a pattern. And it’s incredibly dangerous. https://twitter.com/eladnehorai/status/1605270518415757312
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EladNehorai/status/1611143787702808576
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RT @Scholar_Melinda
🌻🚨Excited to share I’ve joined the Geography & Atmospheric Science & Indigenous Studies Department @KUIndigenous at @UnivOfKansas where I’ll have my own lab to continue Indigenous environmental science research as a tenured track Prof! #AcademicTwitter #NativeTwitter #academia
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RT @19joho@twitter.com
Nearly 2,000 kids dead of covid. About 30 studies, including 6 RCTs of 35K total kids, all find the vaccine makes a huge difference for some children.
What term applies to doctors who find it a “catastrophe” that too many children might be vaccinated?
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REMINDER: Steve Scalise’s life was saved by a Black lesbian Capitol cop who covered his body with her own while she was shot in the process. Then Scalise voted against the #EqualityAct. TWICE. That is all you need to know about him. #SteveScaliseIsTrash #NeverSteveScalise
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Well this seems like a big deal. Quantum algorithm to factor integers using resources (both qubit # and gate depth) that scale sub-linearly! For comparison Shor's algorithm requires O(n) qubits and a gate depth of O(n³).
So claim is RSA-2048 can be broken with 372 qubits and a gate depth of ~1000
@lindyli It's at least mildly amusing to see Kevin (not) get "his." OTOH, it's sobering to realize the same damn Chucklehead Caucus will be in charge of not bankrupting the country, and making sure the little details work, like keeping Social Security checks coming.
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“In #Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment and counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Make sure everyone understands this — It’s costing us far too much to NOT provide housing and supports to those who are homeless.
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A quick reminder that law enforcement *responds* to crime, but a living wage, food and water security, accessible healthcare, and public education *prevent* crime.
If you want safer communities, invest in people, not punishments.
@lindyli The anti-vax BS might not even be worth dignifying with a response, since I doubt reasonable requests to STFU will work.
@lexfri I'd like to see you go on to do a great podcast after someone at the recording venue has a heart attack and is taken to the hospital. This is way beyond what they have ever been called on to deal with.
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Take the time today to read this powerful piece by @UChicago Physics PhD student Katrina Miller. We need to listen to stories like this, to even begin to understand the always uphill road some of our colleagues face 1/2 RT (thanks to Thiago for the pointer)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-unwritten-laws-of-physics/
