Hey look at that, Pfizer doing a blog post mentioning immune dysregulation

Studies looking at immune dysregulation, which occurs when the body can’t control an immune response, in individuals with long COVID have found T-cell alterations, including exhausted T cells and reduced CD4+ central memory cells. Studies have also reported "highly activated innate immune cells," but a lack of naive T and B cells. These cells all play an important role in helping the immune system fight off current and future infections

I wonder when the “oopsie” moment is gonna come for all this

Thanks comrade It’s a cliche, but my kid and her disability have made me a better parent and person, and have helped unravel so many of the brainworms capitalism gave me.

I love my disabled comrades, and want nothing more than the just society that communism would bring them.

From The Guardian:

A person who was part of the same tour group as King told CBS they had just visited a building then “this man gives out a loud, ‘Ha ha ha’, and just runs in between some buildings.” CBS cited the witness as saying military personnel reacted quickly but initially there was confusion.

being the parent of a disabled kid really is an eye opener for seeing how broken and ableist education is. Just endlessly having to advocate for my kid’s rights, with a wide cast of folks shrugging their shoulders and passing the buck on making sure that she gets the services she needs. I even had a school principal try to imply that my kid couldn’t attend their school because of her disability, which is very illegal. I wonder how many times that’s worked in the past for them.

I’ll have to give TrueAnon another go to listen to this. The notion of AI being a thought terminating device (excellent thread btw) resonates deeply with me - from playing with GPT4 at work, I find myself thinking less about what is right, to what I should be prompting the model to generate that feels right. And given the model can’t reason - it can only ever produce believable looking text - I’m trapped in a loop of trying to refine nonsense. Even using it as a sounding board to try and spark ideas from, it distracts from effectively writing cohesive, well reasoned prose for technical documentation.

When you consider the deleterious effects of GPS navigation on the hippocampus/spatial memory, the mind boggles as to what technology under capitalism is going to do to everyone’s brains in the next 30 years.

I thought “nice, a movie about birds and gardens, is this going to be like The Big Year” and then saw it was supposed to be horror and from me

Password is refusing to change (I just get a spinner), but I’ll sign out anyway.

Fuck. I don’t think I’ve ever browsed lemmygrad, let alone posted there.

Is there anything I should be doing? I’ve tried resetting my password but the form seems broken. I guess this might be a sign it’s time for me to retire this account?

These books really helped me begin to confront my ableism and broaden my understanding:

Demystifying Disability - Emily Ladau

Sitting Pretty - Rebekah Taussig

A Disability History of the United States - Kim E. Nielsen

Capitalism and Disability - Marta Russell

Ole ole - ole ole / Ole ole - ole ole

EE-Yessa Ha-ha
Ee-yes girls

Me mind on fire - Me soul on fire - Feeling hot hot hot
Party people - All around me feeling hot hot hot
What to do - On a night like this
Music sweet - I can't resist
We need a party song - A fundamental jam

So we go rum-b-b-b
Yeah we rum-b-b-b
Feeling hot hot hot - Feeling hot hot hot - oh Lord

(me la la la lum b b)

See people rocking - Hear people chanting - Feeling hot hot hot
Keep up this spirit - Come on let's do it - Feeling hot hot hot
It's in the air - Celebration time
Music sweet - captivate your mind
We have this party song - This fundamental jam

So we go rum-b-b-b
Yeah we rum-b-b-b
Feeling hot hot hot - Feeling hot hot hot - Oh Lord

Ha-ha

Ole ole - ole ole / Ole ole - ole ole
Ole ole - ole ole / Ole ole - ole ole

EE-yes girls

People in the party - hot hot hot
People in the party - hot hot hot
They come to the party know what they got
They come to the party know what they got
I'm hot - You're hot - He's hot - She's hot
I'm hot - You're hot - He's hot - She's hot
(Real hot) - (Real hot) - (Real hot) - (Real hot)H
a-ha-ha - Oh Lord

How you feeling? (Hot hot hot)
How you feeling? (Hot hot hot)
How you feeling? (Hot hot hot)
How you feeling? (Hot hot hot)

(Hot hot hot)(Hot hot hot)
(Hot hot hot)(Hot hot hot)

mantis shrimp are cool

The species Gonodactylus smithii is the only organism known to simultaneously detect the four linear and two circular polarisation components required to measure all four Stokes parameters, which yield a full description of polarisation. It is thus believed to have optimal polarisation vision. It is the only animal known to have dynamic polarisation vision. This is achieved by rotational eye movements to maximise the polarisation contrast between the object in focus and its background.

Looking into it

The lightning bolt behind the phrase “The Harry Potter Alliance” is giving British Union of Fascists vibes

Folks, I had no idea that George Michael was a communist in his youth, 2 years before he wrote Careless Whisper

The Foo Fighters are so mind numbingly mid, one can only imagine the speed at which Kurt is rotating in his grave as Dave Grohl joins Guns N’ Roses on stage at Glastonbury

Mu mu land

Mu mu land

Looking forward to the days of a Notes app screenshot war

Takes me back to playing F-19 Stealth Fighter and starting out at Rhein-Main AFB

In hindsight I wish I could have operated an S-125 battery and shot down the F-19

There’s five hours between those tweets too

Fun fact: Virginia class attack submarines ($2.8bn per boat) use an XBox controller to control their periscopes