jetton

jetton, 11 months ago to random

There seems to be a lot of misconceptions about how to set up Mastodon.

1. You do not have to sacrifice a duck. Any waterfowl will do.
2. The bit about dancing around naked in a forest glade? While dancing is fun, you may just walk.
3. When the demon appears, you needn’t chant in Latin. It is fluent in all languages.

The rest of the guide is correct.

N.B. If while searching for the glade you come to a boiling river of blood, you have gone too far.
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jetton, 6 months ago to random

23andMe was hacked and DNA records of 7 million people were compromised. Originally they said it was 14,000.

They just sent out an innocuous sounding email about change in Terms of Service.

If you do not respond rejecting the change, you will give up the ability to be part of the class action lawsuits that are being filed, or take action in court against them.

They sent this out before they are notifying those whose data were breached.

Strongly recommend you opt out of the change.

#23andMe

jetton, 1 year ago to random

First they came for the journalists, who were very surprised to find themselves in a giant warehouse filled with minorities, immigrants, disabled, trans, and gay people.

jetton, 7 months ago to random

Been perusing late 17th and early 18th century texts, as one is wont to do, when I came across this pronoun rant.

jetton, 7 months ago to mastodon

Looking for people to follow?
Use this one weird trick to find kindred folk.

See a post that speaks to you, or at least you strongly agree with? Besides boosting the post and following them, click on the post.

At the bottom it shows the number of boosts. Click on the icon and you’ll get a list of others that have boosted the post. Same with favorite icon. Ta-dah!

Only took me 11 months to figure this out.

This is on the web. Not sure if it works on them new-fangled brainy phones.

#Mastodon

jetton, 5 months ago to random

There is this misconception that people in the Middle Ages only lived to their thirties.

This is of course misleading, since this is the mean age at death.

About half died as infants.

Using the median instead gives a clearer picture of #medieval lifespan.

Median age at death was 1.

jetton, 16 days ago to random

Google search is getting so good now. I'm always learning new things.

jetton, 6 months ago to random

TIL that the famous ornithologist Edward Jenner, who was the first to prove birds migrate

and

Edward Jenner, the physician who developed vaccination against smallpox

are the same person.

jetton, 12 days ago to random

Why was this never mentioned in school?

jetton, 28 days ago to random

My Mother, in 1980:

“You know, I’ve always said, if you can’t think of anything nice to say about someone, you should say nothing at all.”

“What was the question? Oh yes, what do I think about Reagan.”

She then sipped her coffee in complete silence.

Miss you Mom.

jetton, 7 months ago to random

[US] FDA warns that 26 types of OTC eye drops marketed under 6 brands may be contaminated.
If you have any of these you should discard them.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-warns-consumers-not-purchase-or-use-certain-eye-drops-several-major-brands-due-risk-eye#eyedrops

jetton, 7 months ago to random

Count Dracula may have shed tears of blood.
Mass spectrometry of letters he wrote shows that Vlad the Impaler may have had hemolacria.
And you thought chemistry was boring.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.3c01461

futurebird, 2 months ago to random

The fediverse is bigger than Truth Social and most of it isn't even a company... just a bunch of nerds running their own social network on pocket change (as it should be) and the content here is chefs kiss so much nicer.

Maybe we should "go public" too LMAO.

jetton, 6 months ago to random

Huh. The Chair of the Florida Republican Party is being investigated for rape. His wife is the co-founder of Moms for Liberty.
They've both been active trying to "protect kids" from such horrors as Critical Race Theory, discussion of LGBTQ in schools, and health care for those pesky Trans folk who dare live in their state.

[free link]

https://wapo.st/47TvAG4

jetton, 7 months ago to Medicine

A new treatment for postpartum depression (Zurzuvae) is considered a major improvement partly because it helps within a few days.

Pharmaceutical capitalism results in another breakthrough! System is working!

What's that? Oh, cost?

$16,000 for 14 day treatment.

#medicine #depression

jetton, 7 months ago to mecfs

Healthcare in America. A Rant For a Tuesday Morning.

After a 7 month wait, finally saw a neurologist.
Had he read the referral letter and history from my internist? No.
Had he read the pages of paperwork I’d filled out? No.
Had he looked at the MRIs I’d dropped off? No.
He spent about 3 minutes doing a very cursory exam. Popped out for 2 minutes to look at the MRIs.

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jetton, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Ah halloween. Just went to the store to get candy and some beer, and the cashier insisted on seeing my ID.
He was very embarrassed when he saw I was 70.
For a few seconds I thought I must look a lot younger than I am.
Then he said "I just thought you had this great costume of a very old guy".
Ouch.

jetton, 1 year ago to art

Woo-hoo first post. #introduction. Old guy trying to figure out what the heck this is. All too many interests, so little time.

In no particular order #Art #Books #BookHistory #EvolutionaryBiology #Science #Cytogenetics #Dogs #History #HistoryOfScience #Reading #DataVisualization #Genetics #Neurobiology #Comics #Videogames #SciFi #Fantasy #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #Statistics #Epidemiology #Medicine #Quaker #Humor #Astronomy

Leaving some extra # here so I don’t lose them: ############

jetton, 5 months ago to fallout

John Mastodon's laboratory sometime in the mid-1950s. The photo is of James "Pip" Boyer, testing an early Mastodon interface on a portable phone prototype.

#JohnMastodon #Fallout

jetton, 5 months ago to maps

You can download the History of Cartography from the University of Chicago Press, vols. 1-4 and 6 (a total of 8 books).
The project is nearing completion after 40 years (volume 5 is still in preparation).
You do have to download the pdfs by chapter (about 200 total) but do you have anything better to do today?

#Maps #Cartography

https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html

jetton, 3 months ago to random

Swimming and floating lungs from the 18th to the 21st centuries.

In 1728, in Musselburgh Scotland, Margaret Dickson gave birth to a child she stated was stillborn. A surgeon examined the body and concluded that the child had been born alive based on the infants lungs “swimming” when placed in water. Based on this result, and despite the doubt of other members of the faculty, she was charged with murder, and sentenced to die by hanging.

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jetton, 1 month ago to journalism

The only time I’ve been beaten by police was in NYC in 1969.

I was at a peace rally at a field near the edge of Central Park and was one of the volunteers on the perimeter. A van pulled up on the path. A group, in full Nazi attire and carrying Swastika flags, jumped out right next to the rally. They ended up running away, chased by some from the crowd. Several of us ran alongside yelling at people to turn back, to little avail.
Two blocks away they turned a corner and…

#press #news

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