New research shows that some cancer cells can fire a long nanotube projection into the T cell that, like a vampire’s fang, sucks energy-creating mitochondria from the immune cell, turning the predator into prey.

https://www.statnews.com/2023/10/13/cancer-immunotherapy-t-cells-mitochondria/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

Pardon the intrusion. Many thanks to those people who donate to support the fediverse instance(s) you use. Nearly all fediverse instances are free to join and use, but they are not free to run. Most instance operators donate tremendous personal time and money because we believe in a better, more privacy conscious social media and we love the growing community that exists here.

These are tough financial times for many. I believe it is important for people going through rough times to have an access to this social outlet. If you are in a position to do so, please consider setting up a monthly donation to support your instance. You can usually find information on how to do so on the About page of your instance. For example, https://infosec.exchange/about. In my experience, most donors contribute between $5 and $20 per month, with some less and some more.

The fediverse doesn’t sell your data or monetize your social activities, which is how nearly all other commercial social networks pay their bills. We generally are dependent on donations from ourselves and from the people using the instance.

For Infosec.exchange, the bills are about $3000US per month, between server rentals, storage providers, and content delivery services. (If you’re curious, that’s $2k to Hetzner for servers, $300 to Wasabi and Backblaze for storage and backups, and $400-$700 for Bunny and Fastly - and this includes all the various mastodon, peertube, pixelfed, lemmy, bookwyrm, firefish, and other servers). I am fortunate that our donations usually come close to covering the bills. Sometimes a bit more, sometimes less. That’s not the case for many instances, though.

Again, donating is voluntary and not required and there is zero problems with those who can’t afford it. At the same time, donations keep this thing called the fediverse alive, and without them, we won’t go far.

I sincerely appreciate being a part of this community and hope you have a great October.

If you have any questions about #Nigeria feel free to ask me.

My qualifications: I'm Nigerian - from the East, lived in the Middle Belt, the North, and in the West. I'm a Christian Igbo, grew up with Muslim Hausas, married to a Christian-Muslim Yoruba. I speak a bit of Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba.

I don't expect you to know much about Nigeria, so I won't consider anything you ask to be stupid, ignorant or racist.

#AMA

You can add record-breaking #heat in #Minneapolis to freak #flooding in NYC, #Maui's drought and catastrophic #wildfire and all the other bizarre and dangerous manifestations of the #ClimateCrisis this year. Everything is not okay.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/01/us/twin-cities-marathon-canceled-weather/index.html

#MAGA #republicans are trying to use the #1stAmendment to interfere with the scientific community and the government providing facts, that’s right folks, #facts, to the people of American.

They don’t want you to learn the truth about #covid or many things by spewing their lies and then crying #freespeech! “We have the right to lie!”

I dare say, not when it interferes with public or individual safety.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/23/online-misinformation-jim-jordan/