Left from #PyConUS about 33 hrs ago. Had a scratchy throat this morning w/ a negative test and just now have a positive test.
I went out with various groups, unmasked, throughout the weekend. This was a risk I was willing to take. Still, I'm glad I was wearing a mask in the convention center around folks who did not choose to take that same risk.
@tylerdave Going out with a group anywhere without a mask is taking a risk on other people's lives. You have most likely endangered everyone you encountered on your way home after getting infected and contributed to the spread of COVID. Some of those people could die or be disabled for life.
@offby1 If someone is discouraged from sharing their test results when it is pointed out to them that all thay had to do to protect themselves and others from death is wear a mask it is because they are experiencing the shame of knowing they did the wrong thing. I assure you it gives me no pleasure whatsoever to let people know that their actions could be killing people. All I feel is sadness.
Not sharing their results is not hurting anyone. At this stage it is a billion percent obvious that anyone who attended a group event maskless should get tested.
@glyph@offby1 I use these masks https://www.detmoldmedical.com/detmed/n95-surgical-respirator-masks/w247m9001/ which come in six sizes. I got fit tested the first time I bought them and so I know which size to buy. I read, and watched the video, on that page of the manufacturers instructions on how to correctly put on and take off a mask and on how to do a fit test check, and adjust the mask appropriately each time one puts it on. I have not left my house without wearing one of these since covid started.
It wasn't a lot of effort. And now it is a transparent part of my daily life. To my knowledge I have not had covid yet.
Wow idk when they did this... I went to search (with google!?!?) to see if #duckduckgo had a blog or something for news about their outage, and ofc they just have a twitter page. But if you look at it from the browser while not logged in you dont see their most recent posts, but posts ranked mostly by number of likes but also in random order.
Have any good investigative journalists done pieces on how the slant of donors, the power of large universities "strategic communications" departments, and the evisceration of newsrooms have affected how the public gets access to reliable scientific research and information in the public interest? #Science#Newstodon#Journalism@academicchatter
@thomasfuchs This reminds me of a talk I gave about ethics in software development in which (in 2019!) I pointed out the evils of FB and Google and a question actually was "For those of us who don't have the privilege of leaving these firms what other things can we do to improve ethics?" Turns out "not have the privilege" meant that they couldn't make as much money anywhere else. To paraphrase myself from that talk, if you want an ethical outcome you have to make ethics your highest priority every single time. There is a link to the talk in my profile fyi.
Did another thrift store visit today. Grabbed 49 CDs for $1 each. It's such a great time to grab physical media before people realize streaming platforms aren't the answer.
“In religion and politics, on the contrary, though there is as yet nothing approaching scientific knowledge, everybody considers it de rigueur to have a dogmatic opinion, to be backed up by inflicting starvation, prison, and war, and to be carefully guarded from argumentative competition with any different opinion.”
Bertrand Russell, “Free Thought and Official Propaganda”, March 24th, 1922.
"The gas giants won’t have to explore for new gas fields themselves. Santos, Woodside, Origin, Chevron, BP and Shell won’t have to spend a cent looking for new deposits — you’ll be paying for it instead.
Right. It has happened. My institution now wants to develop teaching materials for a course by literally just running my papers through an LLM to "simplify" them. Have told the person requesting this my opinions on this idea.
@jimbob What's the NTEU like these days? When I was in it no one was even interested in standing up for the things that were already in the award, and if one got the union involved one was a pariah. For me it was unpaid marking.