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@pbloem@sigmoid.social
2025-07-05 12:05:47

This is the sort of crap that sounds smart until you think about it for five minutes.
Was the solution to COVID really ultimately technological? What about the social measures that got us to the point where the vaccine was ready? What about the different vaccination rates between Europe and the US? No social aspects to getting a population vaccinated? What about the emergence of Omicron: maybe luck was part of it?
The same goes for Ozempic, and the same will be true of Climate ch…

A tweet from Noah Smith saying:

The solution to obesity was ultimately technological, not social. 

The solution to Covid was ultimately technological, not social.

The solution to climate change will ultimately be technological, not social. 

Why do we think the solution to low fertility has to be social?
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2025-07-27 03:23:04

Diarycast - End of Year Roundup (2021-12-28) - Omicron, a rant about bad people, and more shy Eurasian footwear... #podcast #lockdown -

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-08-29 18:20:28

C11 - Moloch
TARRANT: [O.O.V.] Listen, I need to come up. It should be possible if you adjust the teleport to omicron pulse length. - Cally, are you hearing me? I need teleport now.
[Scene shifts back to Tarrant. The guards are aiming a weapon at him.]
blake.torpidity.net/m/311/298

Claude Sonnet 4.0 describes the image as: "I can see this is a black and white photograph showing someone working at what appears to be a control console or technical equipment. The person has curly hair and is wearing what looks like a light-colored top or vest. They appear to be focused on operating or examining some kind of electronic device or control panel, holding what might be a tool or instrument. The setting appears to be inside some kind of technical or futuristic environment, consist…
@arXiv_qbioPE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-22 09:00:11

Modelling the transmission and impact of Omicron variants of Covid-19 in different ethnicity groups in Aotearoa New Zealand
Samik Datta, Vincent X Lomas, Nicole Satherley, Andrew Sporle, Michael J Plank
arxiv.org/abs/2508.15077