Don't forget that links are fine to include on bsky posts ^-^
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WELL NOW, would you look at that?

A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

If you don't know this if from 2018 and you share it, you need to put your phone down, maybe find a movie to watch or something. If you can't stop and contextualize what you share you are just a cog in some other person's campaign. First rule of sharing media: know where and when. Or don't share.

Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

The scale and scope of what we're seeing is unprecedented, yes, but many previous pushes were also unprecedented for their time! The fact that there's a big private and/or public push to diffuse a technology is not itself unusual.

- COVID exposure notification tech
- COVID vaccine development and rollout
- COVID unemployment extensions and economic impact payments
- mRNA vaccine development

And more I've forgotten no doubt.

- Personal Computers
- CFC replacement
- Y2K mitigation
- H1N1 vaccine rollout
- Heat pumps
- Cleaner electricity generation (coal went from 53.8% of US electricity to under 20% from 1997 – 2022! Deaths decreased by an order of magnitude.)
(3/?)

- 20th century vaccines and antibiotics
- Systems to promote clean air, water, food, and drugs
- Systems to assess environmental impacts
- Anesthetics
- Seatbelts, airbags, electronic brakes, backup cameras
- Air conditioning
- Fluoride toothpaste
- Space exploration
- Unleaded gasoline
(2/?)

But if we're talking about big private and/or public pushes to develop or diffuse technology more generally over the past ~150 years, then:

- Public libraries
- Rural electrification
- Indoor plumbing
- Telephone
- Transit systems
- Cars and refueling infrastructure
(1/?)

Two relatively recent analogues I can think of are:

- Getting on the Internet: AOL used between 50–100% of global CD manufacturing capacity for marketing

- NAND flash in the 00s: Apple used a significant chunk of capacity for iPods and had to sign long-term supply agreements to secure supply

now seeing takes from haters that it's still vibe coding's fault, if for no other reason than that they like the vibe of blaming vibe coding

one of the biggest tells of trustworthiness or untrustworthiness, to me, is willingness to retract an interpretation that turns out to be unsupported by facts

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

WELL NOW, would you look at that?

A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

Yay WarioWare!

Though tbh, any game that has an animated cutscene where a flip phone opens up to show nothing except the word "FEVER" in all caps will probably get my attention ^^;

It’s been frustrating to see a kind of orthodoxy emerge from spaces that were originally founded in part to subvert different orthodoxies.

Shaming disabled folks in a (futile) attempt to protect one‘s own source of income is not a path toward solidarity.

This reminds me of the media focusing on autism only when auteur superpowers are involved.

And yet acquaintances who are aware of the above fallacy will condemn the use of LLMs by unironically citing outlier examples of disabled folks making art through extreme effort and external human assistance.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

portland commute

Ran into one of my old college buddies today

dude was one of the most cracked devs I knew. like reverse engineer a os from binary cracked

found out she transitioned.

I asked her why, and this hit me like a ton of bricks,

"kiran, a computer contains no techbros, but millions of trans sisters"

another data point for “fandom is bad”

For some reason my friend and I saw this in a theater when we were like 13, and all we could do was laugh at how Harrison Ford’s tie somehow Did Not Get Ruffled until the very end of the movie ^^;

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

As a trans engineer who left the space industry in order to feel safe enough to transition: oof.

When you share your trans joy, you remind others that transitioning is about gaining a fuller, happier life, not just leaving the closet behind.

For @aftermath.site, I wrote about 3D printers, being a part of a hacking space, PC case fans, Corsi-Rosenthal boxes, and the process of slowly making an air purifier piece by piece. aftermath.site/3d-printing-...

After asking this, I remembered that some N64 decomp projects have found success using LLMs to help decipher things, so yeah, this makes sense ^^

Will this asymmetrically impact open-source projects more than closed-source ones? Or is it not a significant additional obstacle for these models to analyze a compiled binary for vulnerabilities?

I originally added your blog to my RSS reader during the federated wiki days — good ideas never go out of style I guess ^^

Recently, I have been getting a fair amount of questions regarding a COVID variant known as BA.3.2 that has made landfall in the United States (it was first identified in November 2024 and likely emerged earlier) so I figured an FAQ thread would be helpful!

Here’s what you need to know. 🧪🧵⬇️