nostr:npub1r4kgw4scugzmmgxwyt59344kuae9ztthvhh6dxrjn4xqf046tkhs2u6r6r Same, same. I really, really need to avoid covid, both for me and so I can be well enough to parent. My kid needs to avoid covid AND be a human among humans. It’s so much.
To get this into the open so whoever needs to block me can do it:
Covid-cautious advice that offers families with small children + people who have to work face to face nothing but scolding/sneering/“the system should work better” is bullshit. Of course the fucking system should work better, but here we are in this world.
If you’ve made talking to people about this your ministry, it’s on you to find ways to actually help them. 😤
Worth noting that it seems to be v possible to transmit the virus at lower viral load levels than a RAT detects, so they’re *okay* for single-moment-in-time but nowhere near a certainty. And definitely not predictive of where you’ll be in three or four days.
If you’re going to be indoors for a few days with people you really don’t want to infect, take a RAT every day or two for a week—or a PCR day-of hangout start—*while also sharply reducing your exposure* for at least a week. Then hang out.
If you take a test every day while also continuing to be out indoors with people taking no precautions, your new-exposure clock resets to zero every day, making your test results much less meaningful, bc again RATs don’t pop on day 1, or often even day 5.
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Hey look it’s summer and people are getting a lot of covid so let’s recap: Rapid antigen tests (RATs) are *much* more likely to detect an infection once viral load gets high. That’s what they’re for.
If you take one a couple days after an exposure, it probably won’t go positive even if you have covid, unless you got it before the known exposure. But most people are now potentially exposed every day, so…what’s the plan?
con’t ->
nostr:npub12emrvhn3t535930jzuwm9ay06gvqfft0d0af3m59605rwsdpwt2qxh4fcu One of my tasks for today is font-picking for a new project, so your timing remains flawless 💎
nostr:npub12emrvhn3t535930jzuwm9ay06gvqfft0d0af3m59605rwsdpwt2qxh4fcu Jason! This is incredible!
nostr:npub1ej68dzernetvgqh3gpk006eh509jnmyzptwqcsr7y772vtf3j2dqpxpvaa Ahahha I had no idea this was even happening, how funny to see it randomly. (CTP was my life for a year.)
nostr:npub156mfmp9vs8965fg3g33fnt9dw83ze3vuze75km5mhxm0zzrhvz0s3avn4g It's what newspapers call a special link from a subscriber that lets non-subscribers read a paywalled article for free—and I should probably switch to a clearer term!
nostr:npub1ktdh86nfrwgpdm237w9v40gndp3yj0jmp2yhzxsuhlkqtpw958nshcppf7 ugh, those goobers 👹
The Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement is raising funds here: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui
And the Hawai‘i Community Foundation is raising funds here: https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong
If you work at a big organization, it's maybe worth looking into matching donations.
Like so many other climate-change-fueled phenomena, the Hawai'i wildfires are so horrifying in their immediate reality + terrifying in what they suggest about our futures. This from 2021 is the best explainer I've found about what's made the islands so susceptible to devastating fires.
(Tl;dr: It's not just climate change, it's also introduced grasses and other ecological meddling.)
nostr:npub1e6pc5kkdw39efjsupx6t0chmsmzgjm69vr9r93yyu3490n7k6x2qd9k2gj The publishing industry remains troubled and imperfect, news at 10.
99.whatever% of books through trad publishers have zero price accommodations, and IIRC this (non political, technical) press has never done one before. I was glad to see it.
nostr:npub1almz26yhzkxvmg5053wg5msjfarnwztmp4ml54l60nr5ddndrxvqjk57vz Honestly, the pandemic isn’t over for anyone, so I’m glad they changed the hed. The new one hits harder IMO, and the first one felt dismissive and less personal.
Hey friends, nostr:npub1xl7h4pw0s4q2xsrfdvmum39nazwv049aaew47taahaqtcnx76ydsh3ss7c's exceptionally good, concise primer on unionizing your tech workplace, You Deserve a Tech Union, is ALMOST HERE.
I've read it and it's *excellent* and of course Ethan's the best.
You can pre-order it here, and there's even a link to email the publisher if you need a pricing accommodation. https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union
Or there are lots of other ways to support the book: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/street-team/
#union #YDATUbook
nostr:npub1z0tnfqskt0843g9ze5n4z8w5d7lrn2xjgwuauuqv89f4ugwywvrs8cech3 augh she is the BEST the best the best, I gotta get some of those out
nostr:npub1z0tnfqskt0843g9ze5n4z8w5d7lrn2xjgwuauuqv89f4ugwywvrs8cech3 Yeah, I don't even think that formulation is *wrong* so much as entirely beside the point, which comes down to really simple human things like hubris.
(I have no theory about Zuckerberg's personal knowledge of Facebook's role in the genocide, and I don't care. I do think he and all his executives are criminally negligent at best, but that's going to be a whole blog post.)
Anybody here reading this?
https://networked-leviathan.com
maybe if I put the hashtags at the verrrrry bottom I will hate them less
#meta #governance
The book opens with the assumption that Facebook's complicity in the genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar came as a big shock to Zuckerberg without mentioning the literal *years* of clear and explicit warnings the company received about exactly that, so my eyebrows are already up by my hairline, but I want to know the core argument, at least.