@muz4now@mastodon.world2025-08-25 17:58:13
What Actually Makes You Resilient? https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_actually_makes_you_resilient?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine%2…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-08-25 23:27:54
Oh, Hacker News…FFS. Something got lost in the sad game of Popular Press Telephone between the actual study and this snotty post.
The actual study is here:
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-00577
It notes that:
1. Most research on air cleaning devices used air samples, not human health outcomes. (It’s far more difficult to conduct a study on the latter.)
2. Not many people are studying whether e.g. UV air purifiers create toxic byproducts.
3. The available studies sure do measure a whole bunch of different things, and wouldn’t it be nice if they had more consistent standards.
Their main recommendation is basically “scientists should do more studies where they measure infection in humans, not just germs in the air.” And that’s fair: It’s reasonable to •guess• that fewer germs in the air means less sickness, but it’s nice to actually •test• that!
However, AFAICT, nothing in the study warrants the “tinfoil hats” remark. Unlike a tinfoil hats, we have plenty good reason to think at least some of these devices actually work; the paper just wants the research to go deeper. It’s one giant “further study needed.” https://mastodon.social/@ngate/115091700894746240
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nl2025-10-25 07:26:01
Wat hiërarchie betekent in een autoritair systeem: zelfs de olicharchen die het helpen bouwen moeten buigen voor de leider. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/22/elon-musk-discovers-what-hierarchy-actually-means/
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster2025-08-25 18:29:02
@weddingweiser@berlin.social2025-09-25 05:30:02
Ausstellung macht koloniale Vergangenheit sichtbar https://weddingweiser.de/ausstellung-macht-koloniale-vergangenheit-sichtbar/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-08-25 03:03:00
@der_raddler@dresden.network2025-09-25 12:39:27
Ich halte eine Wahlbeteiligung von 47% zwar nicht für beachtlich, aber sonst gefällt mir das Ergebnis in #Neschwitz.
https://www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/neschwitz-verliert…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-26 05:04:52
I have never been more certain that I could *actually* sell someone the rights to the Brooklyn Bridge.
https://bsky.app/profile/usps.bsky.social/post/3m3vc7ttlx22m
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-08-26 19:03:00
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-24 05:10:07
Elon Musk is having a very bad week.
The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse
is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like when wielded by someone who understands dominance even better than he does.
Trump just stripped SpaceX of a government contract and handed it to Jeff Bezos.
Musk’s response?
Rage-tweeting at Trump officials, including the immortal question
“why are you gay”
—th…
