Hey Blueskians, if you don't like having all your stuff shoveled into a big corporate crypto VC AI, you can always come over to the Fediverse. 🙋‍♂️

And... we are actually really decentralized, and we can edit posts.

You may have been put off by Mastodon a few years ago, but much has improved.

Come give public social media a try.

#Bluesky

In February 2021, a town in Brazil showed up for a groundbreaking whole-of-town randomized Covid vaccine trial, providing evidence of population effects of mass vaccination in a pandemic.

My latest @PLOS post digs into this exciting precedent, and why it matters so much:

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/03/28/a-unique-pandemic-control-trial/

#Covid #Covid19 #Vaccines

I'm really loving how Mastodon has become a refuge for all the grizzled seafarers on the ocean of the internet. They pop up in my feed and their bios all say something like

"I've been online for longer than the internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 56k modems on fire in the light of Usenet. I watched IRC forks glitter in the dark near the Gateway 3000. All those moments will be lost in slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify."

Project N.O.M.A.D. is an open-source offline survival computer. Everything runs locally on your hardware.

* Full Wikipedia archives via Kiwix
* Offline maps via OpenStreetMap
* Calculators, reference tools, resource libraries
* Local AI models via Ollama
* A management UI

Runs headless as a server so any device on your local network can access it.
Minimum specs to run the base system: dual-core processor, 4GB RAM, 5GB storage.

https://github.com/Crosstalk-Solutions/project-nomad

#technology #linux