jud @jud@qoto.org

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.

#MaskUp

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

"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!

*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

"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/

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

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12372

“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.

https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/

#homelessness #cities #housing #HousingFirst

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.

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/

I'm glad insulin is capped at $35 for people on Medicare. It's a bill Democrats unanimously vote for, and so-called "pro life" Republicans unanimously opposed.

But here's the thing.

Insulin needs to be free & accessible to all people. Healthcare is a human right & there's no reason why corporations should profit billions off a life saving drug, the patent for which was sold for $3.

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no person should struggle with insulin access. #MakeInsulinFree

This is going under the radar, but looks like the CDC guidelines for masking are switching back to COVID-19 Community *TRANSMISSION* levels instead of "Community levels."

That means the CDC now recommends universal masking for **71%** of counties in the US, instead of only 9%.

#COVID #COVID19

The NYT had to change the first line from “She made a mean beef stroganoff…” to “She was a brilliant rocket scientist…”

This was only nine years ago!

Yvonne Madelaine Brill studied Chemistry and Math at the University of Manitoba. She wanted to study engineering, but women weren't allowed at the time.

She initially worked at Douglass Aircraft. By the mid-40s, she was believed to be the only woman in the US working as a rocket scientist. (At least, that’s the claim in this 2013 obituary in the Toronto Sun.)

https://torontosun.com/2013/03/30/pioneer-canadian-rocket-scientist-dead-at-age-88

Brill took time off to raise her children, then returned to work in 1966, when she joined RCA Astro Electronics in Princeton.

In an interview with the Society of Women Engineers she recalled many of the challenges she faced.

https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Yvonne_Brill

Yvonne Brill passed away in 2013.

The NYT ran an obituary that was roundly criticized as sexist. It mentioned her beef stroganoff, following her husband, and raising her children before acknowledging her work as a rocket scientist.

Look at these edits:
http://www.newsdiffs.org/diff/192021/192137/www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/science/space/yvonne-brill-rocket-scientist-dies-at-88.html