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Europe—not US—first to authorize Moderna's combo mRNA flu-COVID vaccine
Amid RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda, Moderna withdrew its FDA application last year.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/04/europe-not-us-first-to-authorize-modernas-combo-mrna-flu-covid-vaccine/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

"It's called vibe plumbing. I'm not even a plumber. Soon, all swimming pools will be done this way! Get onboard or get left behind."

(a real life version of the 'vibe construction' comic from https://mandatoryrollercoaster.com/). Photo taken from plumbers fails)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/116461768263929100

> "Where people live also seemed to make a difference. Higher risks were observed in studies from Asia, Africa, and North America, while studies from Europe and South America actually showed a lower risk.“

This close to realising that yet again scientists have involuntary rediscovered an indirect socio-economic indicator.

Yup, once again: "correlation doesn't imply causation", and here we're probably witnessing the "hidden variable" subvariant.

EU will respond to ‘stop killing games’ initiative in June

The Commission will officially react to “Stop Killing Games” – an initiative that’s pressing for better consumer rights for video gamers – on 16 June, according to a preliminary agenda published on Wednesday.

https://www.euractiv.com/news/eu-will-respond-to-stop-killing-games-initiative-in-june/

When you are the first to boost something that goes viral (for fediverse standards...) 🥹

🎤 We are delighted to welcome Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas (University of Lausanne, CH) as a keynote speaker at ECCB 2026! She will present “Tracing human migrations with ancient DNA" on 2 Sept.

Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas is a leading evolutionary geneticist whose work combines computational biology and genomics to uncover the history of human populations.

👉 Want to attend? Register: https://eccb2026.org/registration-information

This is interesting. In my blogposts analyzing ATproto I had compared the shared heap vs message passing from a CS perspective

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/

Ian Preston of Peergos did the actual formal mathematical proof of the incentive structure: https://peergos.net/secret/z59vuwzfFDp45jmsA6Wj2jc9hemCjB4JJHB81iosJsA9GAVRtkbrqBs/1024927538#%7B%22app%22:%22markup%22%2c%22path%22:%22ianopolous/docs%22%2c%22args%22:%7B%22filename%22:%22social-scaling.note%22%7D%2c%22writable%22:false%2c%22secretLink%22:true%2c%22linkpassword%22:%22UfAQURKSTTmM%22%2c%22open%22:true%7D

> It is interesting that this is independent of N. Let's say you have 1000 servers, and 1000 followers per user. Then the shared heap model uses about the same network bandwidth. With a small number of servers SH can be better, with many servers AP is better.

> The conclusion is that the shared-heap model builds in a structural incentive to keep M small, and thus has a natural centralizing force. Conversely there is an incentive in AP to keep F small.

Ie, there is a mathematical incentive in ATproto to only have a few large players.

How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

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