The connection between the internet and People's Park. // On October 31 1969, the Strategic Anarchy Command (SAC) celebrated Halloween by holding mock "war games" in Berkeley. The games turned into real street fighting with police after the crowd spontaneously ripped down the People's Park fence and destroyed its alarm system.

The SAC organized the games in order to demonstrate the advantages of decentralized organization in a "street fighting situation". One of the radicals who organized the games, Lee Felsenstein, would later play a major role in the development of personal computers and the internet.

Originally posted 10/31/2023 on twitter by @leftinthebay

Alert! People’s Park in Berkeley is being raided. The raid began 12:02am January 4th, 2024. There will be a large police presence to meet defenders. 1400 expected for breakfast later today per this article at Berkeleyside. https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/01/03/uc-berkeley-planning-construct-new-fencing-peoples-park-documents-show

Follow @SupriyaYelimeli on Twitter for on the ground details by clicking here: https://x.com/SupriyaYelimeli/status/1742823908330684897?s=20

TL/DR (Too long/ didn't read): Wear a mask.

This started as a short critical post but I don't know all of you from the bird site so here goes:

Basically, the New York originating COVID variant XBB.1.5 is the product of unmitigated evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It binds better to host cells (us). The difference between where it was and where it is is like elmer's basic glue vs. rubber cement. Or more appropriately a spear vs. a harpoon with a barbed tip. Bot'll stick. One will stick significantly better.

It's evolutionary trajectory specialized to infect ("become more virulent and immune evasive"). Viruses are -whether they have will as we understand it or not- are propelled to propagate: To persist. Unless stopped.

Its evolution cannot outpace physical barriers. Are they 100% effective? No. Nothing is. But even a surgical mask will limit exposure. n95 that fits yer face is significantly better.

(Want to try various masks out before buying a ton all at once? Try the sampler packs!

Various packs for USA: https://shop.evidencebased.ca/collections/all?filter.p.m.custom.ships_to_countries=%F0%9F%87%BA%F0%9F%87%B8+USA

For Canada: https://twitter.com/DonateMask/status/1608576661636939776?s=20&t=PxymrkeGEcx57J51OrbXxg

When you know your preferred best sealing fit and want to buy in bulk: https://www.projectn95.org/collections/respirators/
Thanks @donatemask !)

A vaccine is nice. Encouraged even. But the virus outpaces their development. And they still do nothing to protect from COVID related illness after acute infection. In October the White House warned (in a timidly low key way: a background prop) 1400 deaths a day by April if the bivalant (sometimes called bivariant- ya'know, the latest one Pfizer and Moderna put out) booster was administered at the then current rate. Uh, well, about that. Uptake sucks. https://twitter.com/amorvincitomnia/status/1609946619734298624?s=20&t=PxymrkeGEcx57J51OrbXxg The October projections didn't account for XBB.1.5. It hadn't been identified yet.

The thing about this virus is: it's constantly coming in to contact with other variants of itself. Far more variants than the news ever covers exist. They all swap genetic material with one another. (See attached image from here: https://twitter.com/RajlabN/status/1607193262527504385/photo/1) They evolve and converge. There are 46(!) variants listed on the side from most prevalent to least. XBB.1.5 accounted for 16% back then. Now it's closer to 50% of circulating virus. This jump in prevalence is roughly 1 week.

If any of you have moshed: this evolutionary process is a moshpit, and the music sucks. Here's a visual aid of those mosh pits comparing the original strain to the others from June 2022: https://twitter.com/amorvincitomnia/status/1541824445978800128?s=20&t=PxymrkeGEcx57J51OrbXxg

I'll link to some technical threads regarding XBB.1.5 and COVIDs impact on us, worth a skim even if you aren't familiar with the technical stuff.

But the simple take away is always going to be ridiculously- marvelously- simple: Wear a mask.

Please protect yourself and your community. There is NO cure nor all-in-one treatment for long COVID related issues.

Basic 5 minute overview on Long COVID: https://longcovid.physio/long-covid-video-series/impact-on-day-to-day-life

SARS-CoV-2 is worse to the immune system than SARS-CoV-1 (2003)

After mild SARS2, vitally critical immune cells (plasmacytoid dendritic cells) do not come back even after 7 months.

In SARS 1 they come back in 7 weeks

For comparison: In HIV they are also gone irreversibly.https://twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1608301676535943168?s=20&t=k0GGLpwHJjKLNlv3qLNxaQ

Thread on how COVID reprograms the immune system (Hot off the presses news and it sucks! For all of us! Wear a mask!): https://twitter.com/WesElyMD/status/1610257204090896385?s=20&t=PxymrkeGEcx57J51OrbXxg

Thread with an approachable TikTok regarding COVIDS impact on the brain: https://twitter.com/amorvincitomnia/status/1606175448672583681?s=20&t=PxymrkeGEcx57J51OrbXxg

Thread on bloodclots related to COVID: https://twitter.com/WesElyMD/status/1610626121996931075?s=20&t=PxymrkeGEcx57J51OrbXxg

Plus, masks are cool. ARE WE NOT ANARCHISTS!? This is like our whole thing (+ everything else. Obviously.)

Suggested Musical Accompaniment: Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over https://youtube.com/watch?v=-5QA0Y3Yjlc

There is freedom within
There is freedom without
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
There's a battle ahead
Many battles are lost Hey now, hey now
Don't dream it's over
Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in
They come, they come
To build a wall between us
We know they won't win

Wrote a thread on the bird ap about a suspicious Forbes article involving Opal Family funded Sunetra Gupta from the Great Barrington Declaration... seems kinda proto-Immunity Debt to me. https://twitter.com/amorvincitomnia/status/1603979622953414657?s=20&t=qmX0C9F8gyQfvq5HrvA0UA

Here's the thread reader version: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1603979622953414657.html

Immunity debt is a grift btw: https://counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/immunity-debt-established-2021

And here's a thread re: Sunetra & the Opal Family. Bet you will Not See that significance coming at ya fast: https://twitter.com/amorvincitomnia/status/1437816808866648064?s=20&t=qmX0C9F8gyQfvq5HrvA0UA