beadsland

inquiline, 11 hours ago to random

Everyone who is worried about being replaced by AI has it all wrong

beadsland, 14 hours ago to random

A dairy farm worker starts showing symptoms March 27.

On May 3, we get confirmation that they did, in fact, get H5N1 from cows.

A round of applause for Usian #PublicHealth everyone!

Couldn't confirm before then, y'see, 'cause no one bothered to collect serology data from the cows.

But then, what do we expect, when scientists have to sleuth data via yubtub:

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112357048787070395

And CDC has to resort to percentiles in lieu of longitudinal baseline:

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112447778023501564

#BirdFluBegins

beadsland, 15 hours ago to random

Just had occasion to walk through the single block Chelsea campus of FIT.

In addition to the usual heavy presence of campus security, there were easily a dozen NYPD standing around. Plus a police wagon parked on the corner, lights idly flashing.

Those in authority really are fucking terrified of students.

beadsland, 17 hours ago to random

For anyone who may have missed the memo:

That anti-disability law is also an anti-sedition law…

Coming soon to a state legislature near you…

Just as those anti-homeless laws are also anti-protest laws.

Beginning to see a pattern?

#disaccommodation #classposture

beadsland, 21 hours ago to random

Frankly, surprised it took as long as it did.

Expected mask ban hammer to come down in 2022.

Here's the thing about Democrats in North Carolina's senate trying to amend the law to make it only a pretext for arresting protestors…

To wear a mask is to protest.

Hell, no, I will not willfully participate in the preventable harm of myself and others!

Hell, no, we won't go quietly into the pandemic night!

The idea that one can separate medical masking from protest masking is height of privilege.

beadsland, 1 day ago to random

Insubordination.

That is, not just following orders.

That is, not being a fascist.

Insubordination.

beadsland, 1 day ago to random

"[Democrats] Batch and Grafstein each proposed amending the bill in ways they said would still give police the power that Republicans have said they want, to crack down on masked protesters, but to add back in legal protections for people who wear masks for public health reasons."

https://www.wral.com/story/nc-senate-votes-to-ban-people-from-wearing-masks-in-public-for-health-reasons/21433199/

Ya'll convinced yet?

Policing, the fifth estate, is why we can't have safe things.

They ain't want you protest safely. Ain't want protest.

#KayfabePanto electoralism ain't gonna fix this.

beadsland, 5 days ago to history

A People's History of #Gender Ideology

#AlexanderAvila #CassReport #history #philosophy #STS #eugenics

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QLWKYTxLYT4

inquiline, 6 days ago to random

I've only seen aurora once, in downtown Minneapolis ca. 1994? It was so amazing that it was visible in such a light-polluted space. Hope to see it again before I die (but tonight is not that night, super cloudy plus unfavorable latitude)

beadsland, 13 days ago to random

"Sequence data from the farm where the infected dairy farm worker was exposed to presumably infected cattle was not available."

'Nuff said.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/we-still-dont-understand-how-one-human-apparently-got-bird-flu-from-a-cow/

#PublicHealth #BirdFluBegins

beadsland, 15 days ago to random

Vibe'n will sign it into law.

Anyone who has paid attention to who he was for half a century before being inaugurated to the highest office in the land will tell you...

Vibe'n will sign the anti-sedition act (masquerading as an anti-discrimination act) into law.

inquiline, 16 days ago to random

I may have just threatened to shank one of my closest colleagues if they release our text message history to anyone

beadsland, 16 days ago to random

On the subject of new words: #BonkBonk

beadsland, 16 days ago to Columbia

WKCR reporting riot police activity on campus:

https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/wkcr-news-coverage-cuad-students-occupying-columbia

All caps notice just went out at #Columbia:

"SHELTER IN PLACE FOR YOUR SAFETY...NONCOMPLIANCE MAY BE MET WITH DISCIPLINARY ACTION."

Dept of Corrections buses are reported moving down 115th.

#compliancism

beadsland, 17 days ago to random

TIL that the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID), this being the database used by bioinfomatics folks for genomic epidemiology, was originally launched in 2008 as the global initiative on sharing...

Avian influenza data.

What goes around, comes around.

#CovidIsNotOver #BirdFluBegins

inquiline, 17 days ago to california

"According to some of the more outlandish theories, other survivors of sunken Lemuria turned to the sea, and became whales, dolphins, and mermaids. Others have walked among humans as shamans and prophets ever since, explaining why many religions are so similar. Sadly, there is no word on whether some Lemurians actually transformed into lemurs"

(Doing some regularly-scheduled posting, for a change)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lost-continent-lemuria

#Lemuria #California

inquiline, 17 days ago to random

The postings will continue until morale improves

(sorry, everyone)

inquiline, 17 days ago to random

If #Northwestern can issue this statement--when AFAIK they are basically owned by General Dynamics, or something to that effect--it really puts the lie to other institutions' administrators' inability to do anything other than roll around in their own shit while calling the cops. Pardon my French.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24626716/agreement-april-29-2024.pdf

#Divest #HigherEd

beadsland, 21 days ago to random

Listening in, as my roommate participates in virtual seder hosted by Jewish Voices for Peace, as organizers, each introducing themselves by describing their physical appearance for blind participants, reminisce about struggling only years ago to figure out virtual community, as context for acknowledgement that covid is not over, that it still is not safe, then turn the mic over to the sign language interpreters, to likewise describe and introduce themselves.

This is what solidarity sounds like.

beadsland, 22 days ago to random

Anti-homeless ordinances being used against student protests, you say?

Instruments of #compliancism being employed to suppress dissent, you say?

Whodda thunk?

#Classposture—unlike categorical class—is about relations to power as a matter of praxis, a matter of habit, a matter of habitus.

#Disaccommodation classposture is a lumpen relation: to camp in protest is to inhabit relations not by #perquisitive nor #conveyancée postures claimed by workerists, but as the unaccommodated, the nuisance.

beadsland, 22 days ago to random

Racists ain't "stupid".

They just like power.

Racists don't do "stupid" things.

They just like power.

Intellectual ableism is also a power trip.