Working to condense facts from the vapor of nuance.
| Confirmation of Prophecy by Proxy: Audience Anticipation and Reception of the 2014 Movie Left Behind and its Relevance to the Dispensational Premillennialist Worldview | https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2019/ |
| Localized Syndemic Assemblages | https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/8/8/245.abstract |
| Getting Jumped in Vacationland | https://tinyurl.com/33mn7yz9 |
| From Medicine to Poison | https://www.stanrzeczy.edu.pl/index.php/srz/article/view/450 |
People try to sell some wild things on Facebook.
Back in January 2020, Facebook allowed these ads (to my knowledge, they were never taken down).
For reference (and since I cannot find the ALT TEXT button); these were ads for dimethocaine and melatonin peptides. They were also advertising steroids, and a precursor to methamphetamine. I did not include images of a modular home that they were also advertising for $450. #drugs #advertisements #facebook
Who among the #fediverse is:
1. on #NextDoor
2. regularly sees anti-poor and anti-homeless #hate on NextDoor,
3. hasn't wrote a dozen rage-filled abstracts about same?
This is some #research I don't have time for, but I absolutely have rage enough for it. So, anyway, send me your papers if you write about online vilification of poor folks so I can share links to some vile neighbors.
How's things in Twittsylvania, you ask?
Well, I never deleted my account, but I did "promote" #Mastodon via my handle. I didn't get shadow banned, per se, but
I appear to have been logged out by admin on their end. Then they seem to have initiated #2FA without telling me. #Twitter's tech support email is no longer monitored, so that's fun.
I started a twitter account because I thought I had to for professional reasons. If I can ever log back in, maybe I should delete my account.
I'm excited to be able to share a recent publication (like, today recent) from @katalbrecht and I - addressing the #syndemic impact of COVID-19 and overdose on small towns in America. The localized syndemic assemblage is a way of thinking locally about global #PublicHealth threats and will hopefully lead to improved anticipation of synergistic public health crises.
Pandemics do not exist in isolation and COVID-19 is no exception. We argue that existing health crises, notably substance use disorder (SUD), developed syndemic relationships with COVID-19 that produced compounding deleterious effects. Combining Merrill Singer’s theory of syndemics and assemblage theory, we analyze the combinatory impact of overdose and COVID-19 within a localized context. We focus on Sandusky, Ohio, where we combine police reports, in-depth interviews with area residents, and ethnographic data to compare conditions before and after the emergence of COVID-19. We find dramatic shifts in relevant local contexts due to COVID-19, inhibiting existing systems of law and public policy aimed at overdose prevention and SUD treatment. Further, our findings provide evidence of complications in the COVID-19 response originating from the overdose epidemic.
I want to start a conversation about the relationship between #biopsychosocial factors, #information pathways, and perceptual experience.
Also, I need to clear my white board.
Let me know what you think, ask for clarification, send help, etc.
I was too busy to see the news of Glorifi's founding, but apparently I am right on time to see them fall.
