Tavo @tavoglc@qoto.org

A lot of the research and publicity claiming that pets make people healthier was funded by ... Big Pet https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-pets-really-good-for-health/

Fresh air once again! Yesterday the peak CO2 was 550ppm on the stage sensor when somebody was setting up their laptop. Excluding that, we never crossed 500!

We continue gathering data to better understand the venue, inform attendees, and continue dialing in our approach to indoor air quality: today we've moved a sensor from the green room to audience right, which we suspect might be a relative hotspot.

#NBPy #HealthAndSafety #IAQ

Parthenogenesis includes respiratory for all the pox viruses.

"Poxvirus infections evolve either as a localized, fairly benign skin infection or as a systemic infection.

Systemic infection results in viral dissemina- tion, with the formation of generalized skin lesions, and usually involves some degree of morbidity and mortality. The pathogenesis of human systemic orthopoxvirus infections is largely extrapolated and modeled from studies of the ...

"... pathogenesis of the related orthopoxvirus infections in animals: mousepox (ectromelia) in mice, rabbitpox in rabbits, and monkeypox in nonhuman primates and prairie dogs.18–23

In addition, extensive literature exists on animal models used to examine the role of virally encoded proteins predicted to be involved in viral pathogenesis or used to examine the effect of therapeutic methods or both.24–27
... "

...The general paradigm for systemic orthopoxvirus pathogenesis is that the virus enters the host through a respiratory route, a mucosal surface, or a break in the skin and replicates locally. The virus then spreads through local lymphatics, causing a primary viremia, and subsequently spreads to the reticuloendothelial system. Replication in these organs results in the secondary viremia, usually associated with fever. The virus then ultimately seeds skin, causing a characteristic pock rash."

#IDMastodon #Publichealth Finally someone waking up !
As a summer wave of #COVID infections rolls across the country, 🇺🇸 . health officials have recommended that all Americans over the age of 6 months get one of the updated #COVIDvaccines when they become available this fall.

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2024-06-28/cdc-advises-updated-covid-vaccine-for-everyone-over-6-months-of-age?src=usn_tw

AI is a toxic industry created by toxic people with toxic ideals

Unpopular opinion:

The term “prompt engineering” is both nonsense and misleading. You send your prompt to the chatbot which then calls an LLM with a version of your filtered and processed prompt. So *you* do never prompt the LLM, but you try “optimizing” how to talk to a chatbot. Current chatbot interfaces to LLM (and image generators, etc.) do *not* allow you to configure how to access the LLM in any sense the term “engineering” suggests

#ProveMeWrong

Our ✨ new ✨ mobile app is open source and AGPL licensed!

This is a big step up from our previous non-open-source apps.

We’re doing it right this time! 😎

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed-rn

#pixelfed #openSource #mobileApp