Night sky 10 years ago: “look, a shooting star!”

Night sky tonight: “look more Starlink junk burning up and rapidly seeding aluminium into our upper atmosphere with unknown consequences.”

RE: https://mastodon.energy/@AndrewHenry/116302888547364624

My wife cried filling out the federal forms necessary to prove our kid''s disability. It was a daunting task.

That was a while ago and we have since had to prove they are still disabled, which was mostly just insulting.

And for those reasons I did enjoy reading this.

From @WeirdWriter

My group had to peel off the No Kings 3 march a little early for physical and transit reasons, so didn't quite make it to the end festivities.

However, my favorite three shirts/signs were:
1) "The current state of affairs is not to my liking" (I'd wear that shirt every day if I had one)

2) "You can't spell Iran without the Epstein Files" (Perhaps not *literally* true, but willing to go with it...)

3) The attached image (alt text included)

#uspol #nokings #protest

In February 2021, a town in Brazil showed up for a groundbreaking whole-of-town randomized Covid vaccine trial, providing evidence of population effects of mass vaccination in a pandemic.

My latest @PLOS post digs into this exciting precedent, and why it matters so much:

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/03/28/a-unique-pandemic-control-trial/

#Covid #Covid19 #Vaccines

Something a bit worrying to note about using Ai in healthcare.

I’ve had two specialist appointments recently, both using ai to transcribe. Both sent report letters with inaccuracies about my diagnoses and past medical history. Even my GP was like, “huh, that directly contradicts what I put in the referrals.”

I have followed up both and requested amendments (which were done) but if I hadn’t, these inaccuracies could have significantly damaged ongoing care, further treatment or insurance claims.

Human error has always been a factor, but both doctors were clearly using the ai software and assuming what it spat out was correct. They made no other notes during the appointments to cross-reference and double check. This is how Very Bad Things can happen.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@flexghost/116303107724512442

The way to tell them apart is that Beaker displays emotions.