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Snowglobe of Doom posted:A Youtube crafter I follow just posted a video where he explains that this update is much later than usual because an "unmentionable virus" took him out of commission for several weeks. He never says the word c*vid out loud but he incorporates parts of old rapid test kits into the project and at one point a graphic of a familiar virion zooms across the screen. 
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fosborb posted:why not both?
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lol a perfect product quote:I wasn’t keen on wearing the visor indoors away from home. This doesn’t filter viruses, the specter of covid-19 still looms large, and I didn’t want to make anyone uncomfortable by blowing my breath around the office.
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Zugzwang posted:The company is trying to cover as many routes of transmission as they can, I guess they sold 10,000 ventilators to the UK March 2020 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52043767 posted:The firm, headed by British inventor Sir James Dyson, said it had designed a new type of ventilator in response to a call on behalf of the NHS. the deal was spiked within a month when they realized Dyson had absolutely no experience designing and building ventilators and was highly unlikely to pass any sort of certification to do it not as funny as Musk shipping in thousands of CPAP machines but lol the billionaires really saw Spring 2020 as their chance to save humanity
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fosborb posted:they sold 10,000 ventilators to the UK March 2020 quote:not as funny as Musk shipping in thousands of CPAP machines
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Steve Yun posted:https://twitter.com/denise_dewald/status/1652304643647569920?s=46&t=Kzmv5HsyFqNWsBcA-dIRLA LMAO https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1652423626531151872?s=46&t=O_6ihmc-D7Z9EEE42NYBYQ theworstpersonyouknow.jpeg
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fosborb posted:lmao Dyson hit The Verge, GQ, Toms Hardware and CNET last week what fukkin year is it this thing has already been roundly mocked and dismissed
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"The reverse bear trap from Saw will protect me from covid" - tech nerds
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Dyson has not made a single good invention since getting rid of vacuum bags
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if you have a sip valve, keep a spare in your pocket
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nexous posted:what’s it like being a crazy person feels a lot more healthy than everyone around me tbh I'm like the only person at my work who hasn't been out sick since I started working there. Most were only gone for a day or two so decent chances those were common illnesses but more than a handful have been out for 1-3 weeks at one point or another. But also I stopped giving a poo poo about what other people think of me in like elementary school and never picked that quality back up since so, understandably, ymmv.
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Youtube does nearly all of its content moderation via algorithm, and videos about covid could not be monetized, so youtubers specifically avoid saying covid. While it is unclear whether this is still the case, it probably is. I have definitely seen an automated disclaimer about referring to the CDC for accurate Covid information, on youtube, in this, TYOL 2023. See also the fact that many youtubers avoid saying certain words such as synonyms for children in order to avoid being listed as child content and having their engagement and monetization stripped out, or how many use abstruse synonyms for 'kill' or 'die' or, especially, 'suicide' to avoid having videos mature-content-gated and demonitized. The platform is a hilarious opaque dystopian cybertech minefield, and that's really the only way it ever could be in our current reality where they're trying to balance billions of hours of content against advertiser dollars. The reality-straining absurdity of this is all heightened that much further in that I still encounter people mentioning that they're currently or recently sick with some unmentioned disease that's kicking their rear end and making them tired, unfocused, and hurting their voices. It never stops. The plan writ large, to the extent that there's anything resembling a 'plan' at a full-society level here, really is just to soldier on this way with everyone getting sick way more often and being afraid to talk about it the same way people don't talk about their salaries at work for Mysterious Reasons Unrelated To The Contradictions of Capital until life expectancy plateaus. Whether that ends up settling on 75 or 0 is yet unknown; normally I'd be cautiously optimistic and say it'd be somewhere in the upper half, but uh you still got climate change and fascism ramping up too soooooo... Also, I wanted to say, I like the Work Stoppage podcast, I'm glad for the thread recommendation there, but please God someone let them know audio balancing is a field that exists. I know this is a common problem. I know audio is a mysterious topic, and I personally know very little about it. But please, I only have half a working ear and I'd like to preserve it's limited function in spite of their intro/outro volume.  (Normally, I know that even complaining about such a thing half-jokingly would prompt an immediate response of even louder music drops and quieter vocals out of spite, but these gits do seem to actually, like, care about things and stuff, so I will toss my small gripe to the void to be mercifully ignored)
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Steve Yun posted:if you have a sip valve, keep a spare in your pocket of all the covid rules, the residual scorn/fear over exhaust valves is the funniest to me like do they think that the valves turn fresh breath into covid "no valves" was an approach that made sense for approximately five minutes in mid-2020
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Mola Yam posted:of all the covid rules, the residual scorn/fear over exhaust valves is the funniest to me I too remember the brief period of time liberals were criticizing valved masks I also remember them calling respirators "privileged" as if a $40 mask you never replace is a ridiculous expense but buying hundreds of disposable masks is working class, I guess
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My favorite early pandemic mask bullshit was "If you buy n95s you are taking them from healthcare workers!!!!!! HOW DARE YOU"
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The initial messaging on masks was incredibly confused and it produced a lot of really hilarious examples of liberals angrily yelling about completely nonsensical bullshit. Twitter slapfights over "medical masks" (ie, N95s that were well stocked at Home loving Depot at every point before 2020) were just... so loving dumb.
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Drake no: Valved N95s Drake yes: Cloth masks
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There were like a solid 6 months where I had to be like "Im using these masks THAT I ALREADY OWNED BECAUSE IM AN ARTIST WHO NEEDS RESPIRATORS ANYWAY" just so i wouldn't get any weird flack
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and speaking of masks, not a one to be seen! https://twitter.com/jimmyoutsold/status/1652737696450609154?s=20 concerts AND public transit! a superspreader combo for the ages!
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Shady Amish Terror posted:Youtube does nearly all of its content moderation via algorithm, and videos about covid could not be monetized, this is the first I’ve heard of this!
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:the transformation from Fuddruckers to Buttfuckers has begun. [COVID] the transformation from Fuddruckers to Buttfuckers has begun.
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Steve Yun posted:this is the first I’ve heard of this! Sources just to make sure I'm not misremembering. https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/4/21164553/youtube-coronavirus-demonetization-sensitive-subjects-advertising-guidelines-revenue The Verge, Mar 4, 2020 posted:YouTube has demonetized videos about sensitive subjects in the past. The company’s advertising guidelines state that sensitive topics — usually a recent event with a “loss of life, typically as a result of a pre-planned malicious attack” — are normally not suitable for advertising. These videos are allowed to stay on the platform; they just can’t make money from YouTube’s built-in ad service. And on algorithmic moderation: https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-moderators-sent-home-pandemic-uptick-2020-2020-8 Business Insider, Aug 26, 2020 posted:YouTube on Tuesday said it took down a record 11 million videos from the start of April to the end of June, almost twice as many as in the previous quarter. Very recently, they've supposedly brought more human content moderators back, but this is also somewhat at odds with how creators have stated they interact with youtube and its content moderation, ie, the changes to youtube rules about swearing that mass-demonetized videos retroactively. https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/youtube-brings-back-human-moderators-after-ai-algorithms-fail-to-deliver-71600749070541.html I have also heard interviews with former Google and Youtube tech personnel lamenting the companies' over-reliance on algorithmic content moderation and machine learning, especially in the context of how youtube's algorithm keeps promoting hate speech, but for those I'd have to dig up old half-remembered podcasts so I hope you'll understand I'm not as readily able to pull up links lol
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blatman posted:if the choice is to die of plague, or die of embarassment for wearing a helmet from a straight-to-vhs sci fi idk what i'd pick 
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Also just to be clear for full disclosure, I think most of the sources I used are poo poo, but only in the ineffectual neoliberal sense in which fact-checker orgs argue against their own userbase by trying to claim national rags are vaguely left-leaning instead of vaguely right-leaning (this is an actual thing that came up in google results when I checked the Hindustan Times just because I wasn't familiar with them lol)
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Status update: Nobody visibly or audibly ill at the stupid game night, so if any Covid there it was asymptomatic. I might get lucky and not get got. I'll find out in a couple days. Still feel like a dumbass for caving in the first place.
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hey how’s that schnoz vaxxx coming along? i want it. i need it.
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Steve Yun posted:https://twitter.com/themckenziest/status/1652849354993192960?s=46&t=Kzmv5HsyFqNWsBcA-dIRLA Maybe she fancies herself as Samson.
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Yeah my elderly friend who caught covid at a local nerd convention recently is still not 100% (he's reportedly "coughing up a lung") but he's testing negative and he immediately started posting photos from out and about. His wife is now showing symptoms but still testing negative (they didn't isolate from each other at all and slept in the same bed every night) but she's at least staying home
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I was basically living in an ICU/cancer ward for 3 months last summer and never caught COVID, your kids are getting infected on purpose
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Nominally cases in India have been dropping for the past week.https://www.bqprime.com/coronavirus-outbreak/covid-cases-12 posted:Covid-19 Updates: India Reports 4,282 New Coronavirus Cases These numbers cannot be true, as it cannot be down due to having gone through everyone susceptible, unless the numbers are off by a factor of 10k. I tried to see if testing was still free in India and couldn't find any thing saying "yes it is", so I think the data here are for an extremely narrow (and well off) cohort. Essentially we are flying blind 
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Stinky Wizzleteats posted:what is the difference between flying and falling Z component of the vector.
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Speaking of flying blind. Nominally this article is about the need to build data gathering capabilities, but I found the current status of tracking overview much more interesting:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/30/opinion/pandemic-virus-response.html posted:Our Covid Data Project Is Over, but the Need for Timely Data Is Not Archive link: https://archive.md/nn0ge
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This is an interesting article to me, because I have no doubt that Dr. Nuzzo believes that masks work, but as a lib cannot help herself both-sides'ing the issue and not questioning the motivations of an authority she trusts (e.g. Cochrane). It is sad to see, because she believes this is doing good, but it is actually actively harmful.https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/30/opinion/masks-pandemic.html posted:How Well Does Masking Work? And Other Pandemic Questions We Need to Answer. Consider that the piece is nominally on the side of masking and pandemic control, consider the way this is argued and that her final conclusion is that rigorous study should be conducted. How would you communicate that? Then consider that the following is all anyone not reading the piece will see: 
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