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• Post #4335954

  Even if a complete neuron doesn't die, if a huge chunk of the synapses are destroyed, whatever that neuron was doing before, it's doing a fraction afterwards: a measurable, consistent, and symptom-correlated loss of dopamine nerve terminals averaging 18 percent across the long COVID group. with localized damage to areas that match Long COVID symptoms: “In other illnesses this magnitude of loss is associated with symptoms: loss in one region is associated with trouble with motivational...

• Post #4322882

  When a foggy mind makes it impossible to read papers about Long COVID and brain fog, that's, uh

• Post #4252683

  Thinking about @giflian@techhub.social 's "Run the dishwasher twice" and there are no rules. Peel the veggies lying on a couch. Hell, peel the veggies while lying on the floor if you want! Set the slow cooker to low with enough water to last days and leave it until you need it. Sleep anywhere if a crash hits and a bed is too far away. Wash white clothes with dark clothes (in cold water). Conserving spoons is real, social conventions are not. Better to do what works than to do wha...

• Post #4140438

  Oooh - normally I'd rather use an RSS feed directly but this is one of those rare times that a fedi bot is on the side of good,I think. http://www.democracynow.org/2026/7/27/fires_europe_heat was just shared by @DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss@burn.capital which, yeah, kind of important to be forthright about this? Just a little? And corporate media isn't doing a great job of that. A third of a million climate evacuees this week! among the largest peacetime evacuations in France since Wor...

• Post #4026946

  @JEmphatically@mstdn.ca I know none of this is likely to be new to you but David Suzuki is a voice that Canadians trust and maybe you want to know about this excellent and heavily cited piece from him: https://rabble.ca/environment/clean-power-pathways-beat-carbon-capture/

• Post #3951364

  Researchers tested undergrads while measuring brain blood flows. Their brain scans looked like people in their 60s: previously infected students exhibited distinct prefrontal haemodynamic patterns during cognitive engagement, reminiscent of those observed in adults four decades older, and this appeared to be especially true if they reported experiencing brain fog due to COVID-19. Over a third of them showed objective cognitive impairment: 37.33 % of participants who reported previously havin...

• Post #3839214

  Without comment: https://infogram.com/reasons-americans-would-delete-their-social-media-accounts-are-topped-by-privacy-and-security-1h1749wjx0z1l2z #SocialMedia

• Post #3826464

  Famous Tech Writer: "A Large Language Model (LLM) is like a small zip file that contains all human knowledge. It [...] compress[es] all of human writing into a small working model that could run on one single GPU chip. [...] In a strange but real way the resulting tiny file contains all the information that is on the internet and in our libraries." :kermit_shout: Without ANY irony, two headlines down on the page is "The hoaxter who claimed he could fit a whole movie in one kilob...

• Post #3722095

  RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thenarwhal/116892280647989537 Wow, @thenarwhal@mstdn.ca 's framing here is :chef_kiss: If [pipelines a]re such an economic boon, why are taxpayers footing the bill? Why indeed? Why are Canadians paying to subsidize exports? If the world market can't afford to pay for fossil fuels, why should we cover the cost? https://thenarwhal.ca/three-pipeline-announcements-2026/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=grassroots #CDNPoli #Canada #Politics #FossilFuels #OilA...

• Post #3702244

  @thetyee@mstdn.ca explains another bailout for the wealthy: yesterday’s speculators now see their positions secured, paid for, in effect, by the public And if we wanted affordable housing, maybe we'd keep a requirement for it? Burnaby and Vancouver are removing another powerful lever for maintaining affordability by removing inclusionary zoning, which requires some percentage of below market units within projects. Imperfect as it’s been, this was one of the few mechanisms that required ne...

• Post #3701028

  RE: https://mstdn.ca/@Sanderde/116890839280813082 2,500 beds for $3,000,000,000 is more than $1m per bed! Imagine if we funded homeless shelters like that! Meanwhile, for the same $, Mincome for 250,000 people would mean 3500 fewer crimes, AND a quarter of a million people lifted out of poverty: Canada’s Mincome: ○ Associated with a change in violent crimes that amounts to 350 fewer violent crimes per 100,000 people compared to other towns. (https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_20...

• Post #3653496

  Fedizen @EmmettMacfarlane@mastodon.social "advised the Trudeau PMO on their proposed ‘merit-based, non-partisan’ appointments process to the Senate" and is not bullshitting: the Carney government is opening the door to more partisan appointments in the future. And let’s be clear about the muddy phrasing here. The government misrepresents the reform. A history of partisan service was never meant to be an explicit disqualifier for appointment to the Senate. The non-partisan, merit-based...

• Post #3621039

  "Age verification" means that everyone who does anything online will have to submit to fine-grained tracking and recording of all their online activities. This nightmare is the surveillance advertising industry's fondest dream, a world where it's literally illegal to avoid their tracking, all in the name of saving kids…from them! @pluralistic@mamot.fr at https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/destroy-the-village/ #AgeVerification #Surveillance

• Post #3606424

  RE: https://mstdn.ca/@CanadiansOrg/116856025293516580 This whole series by @thetyee@mstdn.ca (https://thetyee.ca/Series/2026/06/24/PM-and-Broligarchs/) is basically telling us what is coming down the, er, pipeline The Carney Liberals’ approach to AI, including its rapid incorporation into government, is just one of nearly 20 government policy decisions that can be traced back to Build Canada’s policy memos, including: slashing public spending, eliminating tens of thousands of public sector wor...

• Post #3539482

  RE: https://mstdn.ca/@atomicker/116851537233896233 Excellent reporting from APTN. These two opening paragraphs: With Alberta’s promise to fully respect “Canada’s duty to consult with Indigenous Peoples,” as part of its promised July 1 submission on a new bitumen pipeline to the Major Projects Office, the province isn’t revealing which First Nations have been consulted. Information provided by Alberta’s Ministry of Indigenous Relations said it’s not providing a list of specific communities in...

• Post #3515170

  RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116841848684568048 bad internet bills are being proposed across the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK. They're using the usual tactics: they claim they're fighting for kids or fighting security risks, but in general, that's what surveillance and censorship bills have always claimed. Here in Canada the Carney Liberals are shoving through this legislation without even giving it full debate in parliamentary committee! #CDNPoli #internet #politics

• Post #3383743

  People are stealing from stores. Government is allocating $16M towards this. Option A) give each and every one of them $16,000 in rent and food and diapers and and clothing vouchers, and another $650/month to spend however they want. Option B) spend the same amount on an "anti theft task force" that has no firm success criteria, and will surely want an expanded budget next cycle. 🤵 "But Datum, it surely can't be so simple" :mastorespirator: actually they say they'v...

• Post #3339931

  Bowman and colleagues have been following the disease since its emergence on dairy farms, reporting early this year on detection of the virus in retail milk supplies – at that time, 36.3% of samples tested were positive for H5N1 particles 36%! and once a cow's infected, they produce high-viral-titer milk for a week-plus So that raw milk, hmm? Hmm. THey found: Bottle-feeding calves high-viral-titer milk collected from infected cows led to minimal virus detection and inflammatory signs in...

• Post #3240283

  Hey what should we call the LLM / "AI" glyphs that kinda look like ✨ ? Shitstars? Stainstars? Lieblazes? Fool's sparkle (after fool's gold)? Matrix markers? Junkbursts? Bullbursts? Starbullshit? StarBS? Slopstars? Slopbursts? Éclat de merde? I think my favourite is Éclat de merde but I hail from Canada where bilingualism is a virtue. Then again, there's something really visceral about "Éclat de merde"! #neologism #language

• Post #3240282

  You know what I'd like better than acceptance of the things I can't change? The power to do more. This post brought to you by yet another instance of energy limits that preclude success, frustration, and the letter C.

• Post #3240281

  In better news: BUTTERFLY! 🦋 Cherish them while we have them. Someone's got to tell the coming generations about the fantastic beings that used to flit about in springtime.

• Post #3240280

  RE: https://disabled.social/@tomkindlon/116717085328668673 This study used a self-report for primary outcome, and found Some secondary outcomes did have high posterior probabilities of efficacy, including 0.98 for symptom burden on day 120 and 0.96 for clinician diagnosis of long COVID on day 180. So I think the real result from this study is "the study was underpowered" and not "metformin doesn't work for LC" because their results also cannot be distinguished from &qu...

• Post #2500718

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/calgary-s2m5l3ffz/-/a-6z7MOTYuQGO_fc57hwpkdA%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 Hey @OpenMediaOrg this seems like a big deal We don't need a nanny state in our communications services. We do need young people to be raised competently enough, and explained the dangers of excessive social media, of mis- and disinformation, and of jumping off bridges. We don't need a law saying no young person can walk across a bridge, or use social media. It's fine and good to...

• Post #2423533

  I just noticed on The Maple's website, they have a footer: The Big Tech companies should be broken up. Until then, you can follow us on their websites. https://www.readthemaple.com/

• Post #2414276

  hey tech journalists - this person is begging for coverage and it seems serious: https://old.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/1qi1ic2/mayday_from_belarus_licensed_operators_facing/ external verification through the global HAM network is easy @Em0nM4stodon @taylorlorenz @briankrebs @robsonfletcher

• Post #2330917

  I feel like this https://archive.ph/lqwKA should be required reading tor anyone in the USA who wants to avoid escalating catastrophes. In 2023 alone, the transfer to the morbidly rich was $3.9 trillion, enough to give every working American a $32,000/year raise and how do they set the conditions for this transfer? By controlling the narratives, as the rest of that article explains. Because right now a Trump insider. Ashley St. Clair — [...] one of MAGA’s most visible young women — has spent...

• Post #2144043

  Would you wish cancer upon a child? No? Would you wish cancer upon a child, if the odds were below a full 100% - say, "with most studies reporting a range of 13% to 25%"[1]? Pediatric patients with long-COVID report high symptom burden, which appears to meet or exceed that of other chronic health conditions (eg, cancer, type 1 diabetes, asthma, and sickle cell disease)[1] Do you ask your child to wear an uncomfortable seat belt so that, in the unlikely event of a crash, they are les...

• Post #2139791

  Dynamic pricing seems to ask: “What are the conditions right now?” Surveillance pricing asks: “Who are you, and how much can we extract from you?” https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/05/05/Browsing-History-Grocery-Bill/ I feel like this piece in @thetyee is close to @pluralistic 's heart #CDNPoli #Canada #surveillance #surveillancePricing

• Post #2118444

  RE: https://disabled.social/@tomkindlon/116507994559423741 Estimates of long-COVID prevalence among children infected with SARS-CoV-2 have been highly variable, ranging from as low as 1.6% to as high as 70% in some studies, with most studies reporting a range of 13% to 25% Even the very lowest estimate of 1.6% is dramatically high for a debilitating condition. Imagine if 1.6% of kids were losing the use of their legs from Polio! But assuming 13%-25% is more accurate than 1.6% or 70%: Common...

• Post #2101394

  I appreciate a good demonstration. This one's in language: Our parents packed their homes with asbestos. They heated their homes with coal. They packed their Big Macs in styrofoam. Making mistakes will always be cheaper than fixing them. But nothing is more expensive than ignoring them. https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-smoke/ #writing #communication #mistakes