My wife: hey Tom the Internet is REALLY slow. Me: oh let me reset the router [Goes to gaming PC and hits pause on 200gb download] Me: Try it now! Wife: thanks whatever you did fixed it

European Medical Journal (EMJ): 'Genetic Clues Link Clots To Long COVID' 'New genetic evidence suggests that people with an inherited tendency towards blood clots may be at higher risk of developing long COVID' www.emjreviews.com/hematology/n...

May you have a kale free holidays.

Your android TV box that you bought as a bargain is an IT and possibly national security threat. blog.xlab.qianxin.com/kimwolf-botn... Also follow Brian Krebs at the infosec server for deeper coverage infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/...

From #feditips There's a website that makes it as easy as possible to join Mastodon (and other Fedi platforms): ➡️ fedi.garden The general server changes regularly, and for people who want choice there's a full list of over 100 servers sorted into categories.

New, by me: Is your Android TV streaming box part of a botnet? "On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a steal: They offer unlimited access to more than 2,200 pay-per-view and […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Dropped my thoughts in the replies, but hope to hear from other researchers what’s amiss for them on Bluesky! 🧪 I know some people have mostly moved to LinkedIn even after trying here and would like to know why. (I cant stand the constant ads and irrelevant content on LinkedIn, so)

Amazing qual methods exercise lying in wait here. Assign a pile of texts/set of transcripts; have students & LLM concurrently code &analyze, w/ instructions to iterate halfway thru, based on a fundamentally reframing prompt that emerges inductively. Compare.Then write that nonsense up for pub!pls.🧪

China now dominates global production of renewable energy technologies. It makes 80% of the world’s solar cells, 70% of its wind turbines, and 70% of its lithium batteries, at prices no competitor can match. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Ötzi and a 45,000-year-old Siberian were both infected with a cancer-causing strain of HPV. This is fascinating, and a reminder that we have a vaccine that *prevents cancer* and everyone eligible should get it.

This #infosec #medtech post is nuts. The FDA should really regulate medical devices, not pretend that it does www.reddit.com/r/linux/s/oQ... ➡️ kernel 3.18 / Android Marshmallow EOL 7 years ago ie no security updates ☠️ form of partition verification at all 🔜 upload kill codes

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Making your specific aims independent of one another to satisfy the reviewer that doesn't have anything else to say

The pundit class is an abject failure. It just doesn't work. I'd argue that people should have limits to the number of articles/editorials they can publish in a year. #medsky **number include quasi-research outputs.

Scientists are generating more slop than ever!

Inbox on January 5

The solution is right above us. Solar panels on existing buildings, car parks, and along highways generate clean power without sacrificing farmland or wild spaces. Let's use our built world first. #Renewables #Innovation

An online catalogue of biases in epidemiological and medical research catalogofbias.org/biases/

Chief Gigavaxx from outta New Mexico, he talk too big.

What did we learn about #COVID in 2020? A thread on studies from the first year 👇 skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl... by bsky.app/profile/itsm... Summary: 💨 , asymptomatic transmission, starts at the 👃 😷 🛑 cases 💩 Systemic ☠️ disease, not limited to the 🫁

What did we learn about COVID in 2020? A thread on studies from the first year..

Some further thoughts about the reappearance of chronological ordering of posts in #twitter / #X mastodon.social/@ChristosArg...

So the "following" tab on #X / #Twitter has the option of chronological ordering. Interesting , we are back in 2013 or 2014 and the "timeline" in all platforms (X/Twitter, #Mastodon , #bsky #bluesky) can now be viewed chronologically #fediverse

#Hyperuricaemia is strongly associated with the metabolic syndrome (MetS). It is assumed that increased uric acid may be both cause and consequence of #MetS and its components (obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and impaired glucose homeostasis, including type 2 diabetes) 1/2 🧪 🩺 #MedSky

My neighbor is cooked

@gregory.levonian.net 👇

This paper link.springer.com/article/10.1... Proves the Ingenia Theorem, which basically brackets the AI learning problem as NP hard. NP hard means that one needs exponentially growing resources to learn more and more things. Scaling is a chimera and we should stop wasting resources on this.

The clock is ticking for the "AI will solve science" delusion/scam open.substack.com/pub/christos... #nonnuanced

It is somewhat amusing to spot people who think of themselves as highly cultivated physician scientists in fields dear to one's heart going about on X when they clearly failed chromatography during their formative years.

Post #Dialysis Syndrome - a narrative review #nephrology #meded Conflicted since family members, mentors, boss, former cofellows & researchers in the division I lead are coauthors, but since they excluded me, I can vouch for the quality of the work journals.lww.com/kidney360/ab...

#MedEd trivia by Paul Milovanov (@wooglooskr on Twitter/X) "Back to sinus through your anus"

Sometime in 2028: This mofo had his own computer rather than a dumb terminal and a mandatory $400 per month subscription to use the cloud. Enemies of the state beware!

This is very nice by #perlhacks : An automation solution to publishing your own ebook. No #Latex , only #markdown perlhacks.com/2025/12/behi...

This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm” www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...

Current tims: women cannot code. Wilkes, Wheeler and Gill (1957), "The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer" : hold my beer archive.org/details/prog...

This is an amazing read, tracking Lucira's journey from innovation to bankruptcy . "From startup to shutdown: the dramatic rise and fall of the first at-home combo test for flu and COVID-19 " Full text pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

So chicken farms have started spending millions of dollars putting in state of the art air filtration and circulation systems - because culling whole flocks to mitigate avian flu is expensive - but we have done zero to improve air quality in schools - because kids are expendable I guess.

Sounds accurate ...

The rule is to retweet the paper whenever it appears

Burgers with extra protein

#USRDS 2025 is out , here is what I see at the macro level. > The death of dialysis is premature as I pointed out to some of you at ASN that we confused defeat (covid CKD/ESRD deaths) with victory (new therapies) > Vaccines worked to reduce mortality > Go transplant!!!

OpenAI has generously given Disney the opportunity to lose a billion dollars while selling out every artist that's ever lived

I don't get the rise of the medical paternalism. Remember one of the cardinal rules in the House of God , "The patient is the one with the disease"? If the patient does not want to take the advice offered, so be it: #UDoU, #FAFO, caveat emptor are parts of adult life & death.

Win11 pro took down yet another Bitlocked device during a critical update (i think it was firmware this time). Thankfully it is the 8 y/o BYOD laptop (so a hardware failure coincidental to the update is in the differential) but this is just ridiculous.

This cycle, this useless garbage technology, is so cooked. I have never, in my many years in tech, seen a more comprehensively useless technology.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/... NHS has issued a UK wide stay at home alert and advised people to stay away from others and ‘cover noses and mouths’. UKHSA are incapable of saying wear a respirator & clean the air.

Why?

The transformative power of data and AI

I am being killed at eBay right now .... 🤣🤣🤣 This is relaxing