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bentomn, 7 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

“We conclude that long Covid is a real condition,” committee chair Paul Volberding, a professor emeritus of medicine at UCSF, said in a video conference Wednesday. “People suffering from it have to be listened to and have to be believed and deserve the best access possible to the management strategies.”

#LongCovid

Report captures long Covid’s disabling effects and policy challenges
https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/06/long-covid-disability-national-academy-of-sciences/

bentomn, 7 days ago to random

NIH deserves criticism for bungling their studies with bad group controls that produce muddy statistical results.

Let your reps know this is a transparent failure in government, and a science org should do better work.

Why Is NIH Perpetuating Long COVID Denial? - The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/health/2024-06-06-nih-perpetuating-long-covid-denial/

bentomn, 7 days ago to random

A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/06/a-social-app-for-creatives-cara-grew-from-40k-to-650k-users-in-a-week-because-artists-are-fed-up-with-metas-ai-policies/

bentomn, 7 days ago to random

“The most mind-blowing moment [..] came when they managed to actually record the sounds that she heard in her ears. [..] “The NHS definition is that [tinnitus is] a phantom sound that your brain is creating, that it isn’t something ‘real’, so you should try to ignore it.”

Uneasy on the Ear: An Interview with Lola De La Mata
https://thequietus.com/interviews/lola-de-la-mata-oceans-on-azimuth-tinnitus-interview/

bentomn, 8 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

National Academies of Science report on Long Covid arrived before summer.

What I pulled from the report is the recovery trajectory for non-hospitalized unrecovered. At one year, about 65-50% of the people studied still had fatigue and/or shortness of breath, and a 40-30% sized group still had muscle pain, headache, and/or chest pain.

For those unlucky to get a big hit, it may be a multi year recovery of function.

Be careful out there.

https://doi.org/10.17226/27756

bentomn, 14 days ago to running

“I had this whole theory. You know how Norwegian threshold training is so ‘in’? I was like, this basically is threshold training because the only thing [the doctors] tell you is, ‘don't get your heart rate over 85%.’ [..] I'm glad I kind of tempered it. I didn't actually do double threshold, but we did a lot of threshold work…”

#running

Kate Grace's Comeback From Long COVID, Having A Baby, Injuries And Becoming Self-Coached To Give Herself A Shot - CITIUS Mag
https://citiusmag.com/podcast/citius-mag-podcast-kate-grace-2024

bentomn, 15 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to random

“There's no denying the cursed allure of doomscrolling and shitposting, but in her upcoming book, writer Katherine Cross asks: what is posting really all about? What, if anything, is it good for?

Below is the introduction to Cross' book Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix, coming out June 4” - Aftermath

https://aftermath.site/log-off-cross-intro

bentomn, 15 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to random

“I had a stack of great games I’d wanted to dig into before the end of the year. [..] Restless scrolling through my Steam library brought They Are Billions back to my attention. Five minutes later, I was launching into my first game. “I’ll just mess around in there until I figure out what I really want to play,” I told myself.

For months, I found myself playing it whenever I had a few loose minutes.”

Billions and Billions Served, Hundreds of Hours Burned - Remap
https://remapradio.com/articles/they-are-billions-burning-hundreds-hours/

bentomn, 15 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to random

“INR’s small size means that analyses are written by individuals, not by committee, and analysts have fewer editors and managers separating them from the policymakers they’re advising. That means less groupthink, and clearer individual perspectives.”

Why the State Department's intelligence agency may be the best in DC - Vox

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/351638/the-obscure-federal-intelligence-bureau-that-got-vietnam-iraq-and-ukraine-right

bentomn, 22 days ago to random

Nobody Has The Time To Play All These Excellent Video Games - Aftermath
https://aftermath.site/indie-games-pc-2024-may-hades-2-little-kitty-1000xresist-manor-lords

bentomn, 1 month ago to random

Too many LED streetlights lighting up the water vapor in Oakland. Caught a few planes and satellites. It would take a dark and dry location. Might try the top of the ridge later.

bentomn, 1 month ago to random

Rain two years in a row, and the grass grows quickly. Probably looking at a few more cuts before the hot and dry season arrives to blast furnace what remains.

bentomn, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

“Western automakers are cooked.”

A trip to the Beijing Auto Show reveals just how advanced China's EVs are. So what are the so-called "foreign" automakers doing about it?

I Went To China And Drove A Dozen Electric Cars.

https://insideevs.com/features/719015/china-is-ahead-of-west/

bentomn, 1 month ago to random

Researchers pooling data from medical records, activity trackers as outreach.

“Solve Together will [..] connect researchers with individuals interested in participating in clinical research studies.

Any U.S. adult can join Solve Together, whether they have ME/CFS, Long Covid, other post-viral fatigue-related illnesses, or none of these conditions (serving as “Control” participants). Joining is free, voluntary, and participants can opt out anytime.”

Via @curelongcovid

https://solvecfs.org/research/solve-together/

bentomn, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Steve Albini. Fond memories of the many times #Shellac was in town. When there was time in the tour schedule, they would invite everyone back for pancakes on Sunday, and a morning show. It’s nice to see the letters, kranky takes, and tales of Bob Weston saving the day by salvaging a power supply to continue recording as scheduled. Guy was punk, and like many aging punks, needs more rest than they know. Fuck heart attacks. #SteveAlbini

bentomn, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Reading about the process Postgres uses for core development was a big turn off.

(They do patches over email, then Tom Lane commits the change, obscuring change authors in the web views. Or at least that’s what I thought based on what I could find to read at the time.)

bentomn, 2 months ago to random

“
Why should an upper-crust British interlocutor, clearly disdainful of our country’s policy decisions, be considered a credible figure to tell Americans how to handle our next election? Wasn’t the whole point of the American Revolution to escape these sorts of people unduly meddling in our country’s affairs?
“

The In-Flight Magazine for Corporate Jets - The American Prospect https://prospect.org/politics/2024-04-02-in-flight-magazine-for-corporate-jets/

bentomn, 2 months ago to random

If you enjoy watching a motivated team binary analysis, there is one going on here.

https://gist.github.com/smx-smx/a6112d54777845d389bd7126d6e9f504

bentomn, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

This is a good, clear note regarding the #xz incident.
What is known, what is unknown.
It distills earlier notes, offers context.

#cve20243094

https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27

bentomn, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Fell down a rabbit hole last night reading about the Jolt single board computer. It was a 6502 based platform, that was a key part of the Atari Video Computer System (VCS) prototype. Design of Jolt started in 1974.

There is a nice collection of photos regarding Jolt here:
http://retro.hansotten.nl/6502-sbc/jolt-and-super-jolt/jolt/

1/7

bentomn, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

“Adderall’s reputation as a cure for ADHD, and its popularity among the Professional Managerial Class, has helped obscure what a strange and deleterious drug it can be. Adderall is highly addictive, the returns it delivers are steadily diminishing, and the risks of heart disease and psychosis increase by the year. In the meantime, it just makes you kind of annoying.” -The Editors

Via ZachWritesStuff

Writers on Adderall

https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/club-med-adderall

bentomn, 3 months ago to random

“ “Our claims processing goes through [Change], so all of a sudden there was no money coming in,” [..] On Thursday the shareholders explained that they weren’t sure they would be able to open the doors Monday without an emergency cash injection. ”They’re praying that the sale’s going to go through and that Optum will front them the money.” “

UnitedHealth Exploits an “Emergency” It Created - The American Prospect https://prospect.org/health/2024-03-10-unitedhealth-exploits-emergency-change-ransomware-oregon/

bentomn, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

“Recent studies have shown that in patients with long COVID, the SARS-CoV-2 virus may not fully clear after the initial infection. Instead, the virus remains in what scientists have termed “viral reservoirs,” identified in patient tissue months or even years later. These reservoirs are now believed to be a primary driver of long COVID”

First Tissue Bank May Help Solve Mystery of Long COVID Misery | UC San Francisco https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/02/427136/first-tissue-bank-may-help-solve-mystery-long-covid-misery

bentomn, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

“Immediacy is what Kornbluh proposes as the signature effect of our period, her candidate to replace postmodernism as the key to what’s wrong with our very bad times. The meaning of the word is not self-evident. Immediacy, Kornbluh tells us, means the denial of mediation.” 1/

Everything Everywhere All at Once All of the Time | Bruce Robbins https://thebaffler.com/latest/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-all-of-the-time-robbins

bentomn, 3 months ago to random

“The next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration will drive the next era of growth, wealth, and human flourishing. It’s a scary metaphor. Throughout American history, the drive for expansion and the very concept of terrain up for grabs — land grabs, gold rushes, new frontiers — have provided a permission structure for imperialism and exploitation. This could easily hold true for AI.”

How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI https://jacobin.com/2024/02/artificial-intelligence-frontier-colonialism?trk=public_post_comment-text