@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2024-03-11 21:30:31
“I also don’t think we’ve mourned the loss of the more than seven million lives—that we know of. [The figure is] probably three times higher. This virus has touched every single person and family, and it’s changed the trajectory of people’s lives. People who were forced to remain home and in violent situations, children who were out of school, some of whom will never go back, especially young girls who were married off or have children now—this has changed futures. People are resilient, but …
@servelan@newsie.social2024-03-11 23:36:26
Biden’s budget proposal prioritizes free preschool, college affordability, student mental health
https://19thnews.org/2024/03/biden-budget-proposal-free-preschool-college-affordability-mental-health/
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-12 02:06:26
@kerstinsailer@sciences.social2024-04-12 10:40:29
Tomorrow I'll set off on my first conference travel since 2019 to Switzerland.
In the 2010s I went to 3-4 conferences a year (and greatly enjoyed it) then the pandemic and #LongCovid put things to a grinding halt.
Hoping my energy management and pacing regime will work but also excited to see old conference buddies again and learn about new research.
Also excited about th…
@ckent@urbanists.social2024-04-11 03:48:10
Time for a #Covid stats update! Aussie actuarials just dropped their annual update last week — big thanks to @… — your approach is a gold standard.
Link here:
@kontrafiktion@hachyderm.io2024-05-11 13:57:13
“Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting. But we are very far from reaching that state. We remain incorrigibly verbal creatures who love to explain things, to form opinions, to argue. Put us in front of a picture and we chatter, each in our different way. Proust, when going round an art gallery, liked to comment on who the people in the pictures reminded him of in real life; … “
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Julian Barnes: Keeping an eye open
@JorgeStolfi@mas.to2024-04-10 13:57:00
A decentralized communications technology that does not depend on routing digital packets through a physical network of towers, gateways, microwave beams, and optical fibers. The text to be transmitted is encoded with a multiband frequency/amplitude modulation scheme, transmitted by molecular density waves, and decoded with a pair of miniaturized spectral filter banks implanted under the receiver's skull. Range up to tens of meters.
@graham_freeman@mastodon.social2024-03-09 21:41:36
Earlier this week, I rode on the BART train (light rail in the San Francisco Bay Area) for the first time since 2019. I've avoided it throughout the pandemic so far because I don't want to get sick, but thanks to their air quality upgrades and my extremely effective PAPR, I decided to give it a try.
I'm glad I did!
Compared to driving:
* much less stressful,
* same total travel time,
* lower climate impact,
* much cheaper - saving me $35 for the d…
@malwaremedusa@social.linux.pizza2024-05-10 20:00:01
Also, we're the closest to nuclear war than we've been since the 1960s, the worst genocide since the 20th century is underway, we just had the first pandemic since 1915, and the global economy has crashed almost as hard as it did in the 1930s 2 times in the last 16 years.
@graham_freeman@mastodon.social2024-03-09 21:41:36
Earlier this week, I rode on the BART train (light rail in the San Francisco Bay Area) for the first time since 2019. I've avoided it throughout the pandemic so far because I don't want to get sick, but thanks to their air quality upgrades and my extremely effective PAPR, I decided to give it a try.
I'm glad I did!
Compared to driving:
* much less stressful,
* same total travel time,
* lower climate impact,
* much cheaper - saving me $35 for the d…