Ever wonder about the basis for fear-mongering & conspiracy theories about mRNA vaccine? Wish you had a place to go when someone cites "proof"?

I've got you covered! In my latest post @PLOS, I buckle up for the waves of anti-vax claims likely to come at us in 2025 :

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2024/12/28/getting-ready-for-more-mrna-vaccine-fear-mongering-a-compendium/

#Vaccines #Covid

I wrote this about this terrible week, dark times ahead, and how we can best oppose fascists by doing all the many things fascists can't.

https://www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-the-dark/

This piece from @heydon details his system for using the new features of #CSS to test HTML for proper semantics and structure. Just incredible what’s going on in some of these selectors.

#WebDev

https://heydonworks.com/article/testing-html-with-modern-css/

Another banger by @pluralistic.

“an AI-supported radiologist should spend exactly the same amount of time considering your X-ray, and then see if the AI agrees with their judgment, and, if not, they should take a closer look. AI should make radiology more expensive, in order to make it more accurate.”

We knew this back in 2011-12 when I worked at IBM. AI is a support tool, not a replacement for human beings.

https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/