Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I have a new way of responding when people ask me why I’m still wearing a mask. “I learned this habit when the C-19 pandemic started. What did you learn from it?”

The NZ health care system (like many) is failing Long Covid patients. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Children and young people have higher risks of rare vascular and inflammatory diseases 12 months after a first COVID-19 diagnosis, according to a Lancet study using English health records. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"I want no advantage over my fellow man, and if he is weaker than I, all the more is it my duty to help him." - Eugene Debs

I found this discussion illuminating on the risks of American Caesarism. know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/bre...

Thinking about how people just ignore invisible disabilities, as I decline yet another invitation to go rock climbing

#COVID vaccination cuts risk of long-term symptoms in teens by over a third, data suggest The vaccine is unique in having this effect on progression to a chronic condition, despite infection, the researchers say. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

We're kicking off our biggest fundraiser of the year by participating in NewsMatch, a national campaign to support newsrooms across the US run by the Institute for Nonprofit News. We need your help to keep telling #LongCOVID stories. Will you donate today? the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

The rapid development of Covid vaccines was an incredible achievement. But a vaccine given annually cannot be our only line of defence when 20 weeks after vaccination it has only 16.7% effectiveness against infection, 39.1% against ED visits, and 34% against death. sph.unc.edu/sph-news/new...

Happy Halloween! We have a some last-minute #LongCOVID themed costume ideas for you! 👻

Covid infection during pregnancy is linked to a higher risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children. www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/new...

This is a fun piece tracing the historical intersections of literacy, education and media with class. thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

More reason to wear a respirator and avoid infections.

Welcome to Emerge Australia’s #mecfs and #longCOVID Action Forum event in Parliament House, Canberra, today. Our event, “From stigma to science: educating for change” is live streamed. You can register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... We will be live posting on this thread. 🧵

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other. It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

🚨 ANSWERED: Does COVID-19 Impact the Immune System? A compilation of 45+ research studies showing the potential harms of COVID-19 on the immune system. Finally, we can put absurd claims of "immunity debt" to rest. 👇 READ, SUBSCRIBE, SHARE: www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-d...

Spending on data centres was 92% of US GDP growth in the first half of the year, just to fuel the bullshitting machines. Soviet central planners could only dream of such a profound misallocation of resources.

Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

“Under the cover of secrecy, the Australian government is pulling people out of the community, locking them in detention, and smuggling them out of the country,” It's inhumane when the Americans do it, and equally inhumane when we do it.

💯 Masking is a good litmus test for many things you'd want in a partner -science literacy -intelligence -empathy -community minded -values health > conformity -weirdly super cool

💯 And this goes for the ongoing pandemic, the multiple genocides, the ecocides happening world over. The pandemic could have helped us come into healthier relation with the preciousness of life, but we memory holed it, forgot the dead, ostracized the walking wounded

I wrote about how RFK Jr is making health worse for millions of Americans. He's slashed research and healthcare, and replaced them with "hAvE yOu TrIeD YoGa?" Link & free link in thread. There are impeachment/removal proposals in both the House and Senate. Tell your electeds to boot this guy out!

do you think cigarette companies are SO MAD that they got regulated before people in power stopped caring about kids dying

It’s POTS awareness day—a blood flow problem common after Covid. POTS can be subtle—I often wonder how many people who feel rundown, anxious or distracted have this treatable condition. Main criteria is heart rate going up >30bpm when going from laying down to standing—smthg you can check at home!

"Wearing a mask is just so simple ... it doesn't take a lot when it's a kindness to other people."

Everything I hear about Windows 11 makes me more and more Linux-pilled.

A good time to remind everyone that Chan-Zuckerberg funded Emily Oster’s school data hub.

Cochicine isn't effective in treating Long Covid, according to a new double blind randomised clinical trial from India. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/onc...

Pretends to be shocked www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

UK: Covid Inquiry reveals ‘forgotten’ children left disabled by Long Covid. "Long Covid Kids supports over 11,000 children whose parents say they have been 'gas lit' by NHS, schools and social services, as the inquiry uncovered pandemic-era advice against diagnosing the condition" archive.li/YNcmY

X is a Nazi bar. No amount of clout you might think you have is worth remaining on there.

We don't have the money to support the NDIS, raise jobseeker, provide RSV vaccines or research Long Covid. But there's apparently billions available to shovel into mining companies. Because Australia is just 3 mining companies in a trenchcoat pretending to be a country. www.pm.gov.au/media/histor...

COVID19 mRNA vaccines may improve response to some cancer treatments. It’s a shame that the Trump administration cut funding for mRNA vaccine research and that RFK Jr. and his minions keep lying about them.

“Don’t expect the world to take care of you” what fascists and capitalists want you to think. If you don’t believe you owe care to others in your community, you don’t have a community, and that’s where fascism and overconsumption thrive by filling the void. Community care is radical and subversive

I set up Linux Mint on my desktop and, look, I'm not going to pretend the set up was easy. But now that it's working, it's neat, I could definitely get used to this as my daily driver. No ads, no exhortations to use OneDrive, no LLMs, and stuff mostly just works.

#NEISvoid inside baseball— The NIH team’s response to this (the Davenport et al comment) is awful. It’s here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

It's always good to see mainstream publications like @rollingstone.com cover Long COVID, and this focus on children (and particularly school accommodations) is much needed. But I was disappointed to see a huge factual error in the piece... (1/4) www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

This is why I'm staying on Win 10 until the extended support runs out. Then investigating Linux if there isn't a no-LLM option by then.

Brutal truth: having a relationship with a person with ME requires a paradigm shift. - we will not meet you halfway, bc we can’t. I give what I can, when I can, and the other party must close the gap. It’s unfair and obnoxious. - we will often not back up our words with actions. Ex: I care

Finally some media is connecting school absenteeism with the virus that makes kids sick (instead of, as is common, inventing theories about the impacts of a few months of remote schooling years ago). www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

ATAGI have released their Annual Statement on Immunisation. And boy, those are some dismal numbers. www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...

Fascinating new paper: higher levels of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater correlate with higher health-related absences from work. "COVID-19 may have created a new year-round baseline for work absences that is similar to influenza season conditions before the pandemic," the authors write.

How the new fusionists brought race "science" and eugenics back into mainstream conservatism. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

COVID-19 Risks for Patients with Chronic Liver Disease. People with chronic liver disease (CLD) face higher risks from COVID-19. Studies show 20–65% develop liver test abnormalities during infection — linked to more severe illness and poorer recovery.

The last time I checked the definition of solidarity in terms of justice was listening to a marginalized group and doing what they say they need of you, not finding a way to keep doing what you’re already doing and still getting a gold star.

Australia is not unique, despite our solid efforts in 2020 and 2021. reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/...

It is always about their feelings. Not our deaths.