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What the XBB.1.5 variant is telling us.
And what we can do about it.
My oped in today's Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/08/xbb-covid-variant-immune-evasive-pandemic/
The coronavirus is speaking. It’s saying it’s not done with us.

The newest dominant strain of covid shows that it's a mistake to let down our guard.

The Washington Post
Twitter down or not working? Current status and problems

Real-time overview of problems with Twitter. Can't log in or send tweets? We'll tell you what is going on.

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There is strong evidence that #COVID19 mutations will continue to cause more waves of infection, China's enormous surge will be a problem for the rest of the world in 2023, and repeat infections can leave chronic damage to bodies. Call me alarmist, panicky, or pessimistic--I'm used to it by now--but I wish more people would listen. Please have a safe start to 2023 and a healthy new year, but that won't happen by accident.
Never have to check Twitter mentions again, hell yeah 😎

for the next day or so, i will be streaming my annual Joe Pesci Christmas Yule Log on loop

enjoy! https://youtu.be/6K4ym4ugN4U

Joe Pesci Home Alone Christmas Yule Log 2022

YouTube

I see some folks asking for a quote style button on #Mastodon. Let’s not do that.

Quote tweeting on #Twitter incentivized snark, promoted outrage & rewarded cruelty. It brought out our worst by further gamifying interactions in a kind of race for 🔁 & ❤️ - which are delightfully less obvious here.

I love that Mastodon has a community feel & hope it stays that way.

ElonJet is back on Twitter but as @ElonJetNextDay lol It will still be live here though.
https://twitter.com/ElonJetNextDay
ElonJet but Delayed (@ElonJetNextDay) / Twitter

ElonJet but the delayed version by 24 hours. By Ground Control | Jack Sweeney Contact [email protected]

Twitter
That @drewharwell is cool as hell: "Hell, no. I’m not deleting a tweet that contained factual information and didn’t violate anyone’s rules,” he said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/23/musk-twitter-journalists-suspended-elonjet/
Journalists who won’t delete Musk tweets remain locked out of Twitter

Musk suspended reporters from Twitter and later reinstated them, with a catch: They must delete tweets related to the account @ElonJet, which has tracked Musk’s plane using public data.

The Washington Post