@dz I hope that we are both wrong either way, but I reckon the wealthy have enough technology to find a way to survive the next few centuries. A toast to not finding out either way!

I posted several negative things, but here is a hospital in Nepal that is pioneering an innovative treatment for leprosy and diabetes: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/20/nepal-hospital-trials-life-changing-treatment-for-leprosy-wounds #leprosy #diabetes #medicalresearch #nepal

@dz The super-rich will survive and they will want to preserve some narrative of high culture. :/

A sixth mass extinction event may have already begun: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdg4z/scientists-warn-that-sixth-mass-extinction-has-probably-started #extinction #death #climatechange

This is a long, discursive piece on Russia that features a bit of shaky writing and I am too ignorant to provide any genuine assessment on the commentary, but the author provides an interesting perspective on Russian foreign reserves and how that makes it a strategic petrostate: https://adamtooze.com/2022/01/12/chartbook-68-putins-challenge-to-western-hegemony-the-2022-edition/ #russia #oil #foreignrelations #nato #ukraine

COVID deaths may be underreported by four-fifths: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00104-8 #covid #mortality #demography #nature

@Flexi Marry me.

Florida Department of Health sacks a high-level official for doing his job: https://www.wmfe.org/pino-put-on-leave-for-encouraging-orange-county-department-of-health-employees-to-get-vaccinated/195298 Be clear: this is vice signalling for 2024 and beyond. #vicesignalling #vice #covidiots #florida #covid19 #covid #publichealth #regulatorycapture #deathcults

@Flexi Yeah, the nocebo effect is a little more subtle and even more confusing than the placebo effect. But in general, literacy and reporting about science needs to be higher.

@Beanc <3 Thank you for this. I needed it today.

The nocebo effect explains most COVID-19 vaccine side effects (in addition to lying to VAERS, etc.): https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/18/nocebo-effect-two-thirds-of-covid-jab-reactions-not-caused-by-vaccine-study-suggests #covid #covid19 #covid19vaccine #vaccines #nocebo #noceboeffect

If you want to celebrate MLK Day: https://paydayreport.com/help-honor-mlks-legacy-track-the-strike-wave/ #strike #labor #mlk #martinlutherkingjr #martinlutherkingjunior #martinlutherkingjrday #martinlutherkingjuniorday #mlkday

@insomniacviolin Agreed. I have no idea whose idea this whole thing was, but I strongly dislike it.

New methods in archaeology for sexing skeletons is leading to revisions of the historical record: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/16/archaeology-sexual-revolution-bones-sex-dna-birka-lovers #osteology #dna #archaeology

@insomniacviolin Oh boss, hello fellow Indianapolitan!

COVID (or more accurately, the capitalist world around COVID) created 20 billionaires and 140 million poor persons: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/14/covid-created-20-new-pandemic-billionaires-in-asia-says-oxfam #inequality #poverty #latestagecapitalism #capitalism #covid

To the shock of no one, the previous American administration interfered with the census: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/15/1073338121/2020-census-interference-trump #census #fascism #racism #thievery

@insomniacviolin Companies make goods and provide services that consumers use for meaningful purposes. Cryptocurrencies are almost entirely dumb scams.

Cryptocurrency trades on the same impulses as gambling addiction: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/15/trading-is-gambling-no-doubt-about-it-how-cryptocurrency-dealing-fuels-addiction (Note that I have some hesitancy about “addiction” as and how loaded it is, so if that is causing a sticking point, just replace it with “unhealthy, habituated behavior”.) #gambling #addiction #cryptocurrency #scams #mentalhealth

Global warming is harming the unborn and the health effects last for life: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/15/global-heating-linked-early-birth-damage-babies-health (popular) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13653016/2022/36/1 (academic) Tell all your pro-family politicians. #publichealth #unborn #children #globalwarming #climatechange #oppression