🇳🇿"New Zealand is experiencing its highest peak in COVID-19 cases since December 2022, professor Michael Baker says."
"Despite the recommended isolation period now only being 5 days, Baker suggested people still getting a positive Covid-19 test wait to test again on day 6 or 7 before going back into society."
"The biology hasn't changed," Baker said, but there was more pressure for people to go back to work and school."
@nikink@DenisCOVIDinfoguy@auscovid19 I have been told, by someone both smarter and better informed than me, that this differential is dueto test tray showing an immune response and rather than presence of the virus, which is the contagious part
@thomasfuchs that's the way jury selection is. We can also not accept any juror who we suspect will ignore jury instructions given by the court. In short, we only want jurors who will decide the case the way the Court wants them to.
People: down by two at home halfway through the third period in a must-win game is not the time to throw the octopus onto the ice. Or is it? Who knows! #LGRW#Detroit#RedWings
I just found out X/Twitter unilaterally "verified" my old and dormant account there ("because you're an influential user"), now making me look like I'm an idiot who's voluntarily paying Musk eight bucks or whatever it is a month.
@mattblaze curious if you've gone back to look at it? I have not looked at any of the Twitter accounts I abandoned but did not delete, but I heard a rumor awhile ago that musk was threatening to delete unused accounts
Commuted via bicycle for the first time in a very long time (albeit... a short distance <1 mile, from my temporary residence back to home). But will still check it off as "commuted by bicycle to work" (albeit... work from home, LOL). #BikeTooter
You omitted the most ruinous SCOTUS outcome of them all. The one we don’t talk about much anymore because we’ve normalized an intolerable situation that changed everything and makes future change to our national character, laws and and norms exceedingly difficult going forward: the odious and completely ill-founded Citizens United ruling. We were all totally fucked the minute that came down. All because a few ideologues didn’t want to have a coronation.
@thomasfuchs None of our cassette decks are working anymore.... :( I don't have the same nostalgia for cassette that some do, but do have a rather large library of cassettes...
@georgetakei I don't know about that. She has seen a light, but not sure if it's "the" light. Yes, a reasonable Republican is better than most of them, but she makes no bones about her Conservative (with a capital C) politics. It's sad that the bar is so low that she has become something of a hero to Democratic voters.
@mattblaze I don't get the controversy unless it's something like toning Ansel Adams' photos. I don't use a one-size-fits all processing for anything but snapshots, so why would I treat black-and-white the same? (And speaking of Adams, his camera choice, lens, exposure, film stock, and dark room process were thoroughly customized to the photograph.
Reminder: using other people's work without consent or permission is something we as humans do all the time, and can be ethical in many contexts. Please don't buy into the copyright maximalist position that every use must require permission.
And yes, this is about AI, and no, I am unsure whether AI scraping is ethical. But we cannot let distaste for AI chip away at the small space we've painstakingly carved out for fair, ethical, permissionless use.
@luis_in_brief In music, at least in my awareness, there’s been a focus on intent of the composer/songwriter/producers, which is why no one with half a brain will ever write down “I wanted to use [specific song] in this spot, but we couldn’t afford it—can you do something like that?” That’s also tricky for an objective judgement (just ask any sports referee how they determine the intent of a player when deciding on a penalty), but not as tricky/impossible as it is to determine the intent of AI.
@GottaLaff I don't mean to be insensitive, but how is it possible he didn't die of a heart attack years ago? He must've actually been able to let that type A++ personality go when he retired.