Former science reporter at The Washington Post and elsewhere. Disabled by complex chronic post-viral illness. Living on #Kauai#Hawaii. Grew up in Wisconsin. Occasional SCUBA diver.
What the fruck? New icon appears on my windows taskbar when I boot up just now. I frantically start running antivirus/antimalware stuff. Oh, it's just microsoft infecting my system with some #AI bullshit that's stolen words from many of my author friends and art from many of my artist friends. Fuck off, #microsoft.
@box464 I use plex to watch priated content & some stuff I own like ripped music. Plex staff know this is how it is used. I have never paid for it. Maybe they should charge for basic features (I'd pay) instead of integrating a rental store, but they need to stay afloat somehow. Everyone knows it's a piracy interface...just seems weird to complain about them needing to stay in business. You don't have to rent anything from them so yes you can opt out of it.
"Like me, my friend is in his 30s and was fit and healthy when he got Long COVID. Like me, he had the much-vaunted 'hybrid immunity' of all the vaccines plus previous infection.
Like me, he has been abandoned by the leaders of our government, from the most progressive politicians to the most conservative, who seem intent on maintaining the façade that COVID is 'over' and that things are back to 'normal.'
The problem is, it’s not true. We are not back to normal." https://48hills.org/2024/01/i-have-long-covid-and-sen-scott-wiener-wouldnt-help/
Over 1,000 people watched yesterday's memorial service for Beth Mazur in-person & online. So many people had so many wonderful things to say about her, and being with her people filled me up and helped to start the healing process. Thank you to everyone who showed up. We will keep it available on youtube for a week or so.
A memorial service for patient advocate Beth Mazur will be livestreamed tomorrow, Jan. 13, at 2pm PST/5pm EST at the link below.
There's also an obituary at the link. It was a privilege to write it.
Beth never wanted credit or acclaim for her advocacy for people with the neglected & disabling illness known as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).
Whole lotta chatter out there in the #exoplanet community about an upcoming paper from the James Webb Space Telescope claiming detection of a biosignature somewhere out there, possibly on a planet called K2-18b.
I haven't been a working science reporter in a decade & I'm hearing this stuff from people who would have insight. If I'm hearing it, a lot of people are hearing it. Gonna be nteresting...
If I were still working, I wouldn't rumor-monger. But I'm not.
A memorial service for Beth Mazur will be held on Jan. 13 in San Francisco. Anyone who feels that their life was touched by hers in any way is invited. We will also stream it. If you want to attend as an #MEcfs or #LongCovid patient or ally, you are welcome to, just please add your name to this evite. You'll receive details as they become available.
With all of these Apple Watches and other wearables with pulse-ox sensors, shouldn't we have collectively lots of data on what fentanyl overdoses look like to a wearable?
I wonder fentanyl OD looks distinctive enough to a wearable to enable a safety feature or an app to alert friends?
@chadloder The heart will slow and pulse-ox will decrease but by the time it drops significantly the time to death is going to be very short. But if anyone had real data it'd be interesting to look at.
"Oxygen extraction by the body’s tissues was compromised in patients who had symptoms of #exerciseIntolerance after #COVID"
"Patients are told that their symptoms are a result of deconditioning, or decline from lack of physical activity.
Our findings contradict that hypothesis."
Christ, imagine being so deranged that you'd post negative reviews of books of fellow new authors you perceived as rivals. Goodreads is turning into the YouTube of the literary world (no that's not a compliment).
‘It’s totally unhinged’: is the book world turning against Goodreads? | Books | The Guardian
@timrichards@joannaholman@bookstodon@NarrelleMHarris Any online platform that gains influence in the world eventually gets eaten by bad actors. Over and over and over. The cost of gaming platforms is so low that just about anyone with motivation can do it, and because it looks like engagement, the platforms have almost no (short-term) incentive to root it out.
Rumors of Zuckerberg's underground Bond villain lair have been circulating Kauai for a while now...I know someone married to a carpenter who's been going there for years to work on NDAed shit.
Yeah, he's an asshole neighbor and nobody should own that much of this island.
When Zman started building his compound on Kauai, the local agents he hired bought the county planning office some lunches and his plans got approved pretty quickly.
Someone gave him good advice on local government culture.
I took this photo in July 2020 of the Zuckerberg+Chan compound. They have since added "no stopping" signs along the wall, which is literally ONE MILE long. This is what all of your likes and posts bought this guy. (This is just one corner of the vast property.)
COOL! The spicy article I wrote about satellite pollution is FINALLY published! "Bright satellites are disrupting astronomy research worldwide" in Nature News & Views.
This article required weeks of back-and-forth with the editor, the editor-in-chief, and Nature's lawyers, so I hope that means it's a good one.
During this process, I learned that satellite companies are so powerful and litigious that even giant publishers like Nature are terrified of getting sued. Which is...rather worrying.
