main interests: #programming, #music, #cooperatives
more specifically: #rust, #elm, #nixos, #guitar, #oldtime, #fiddle, #banjo, #cooperative, #linux, #musician
main interests: #programming, #music, #cooperatives
more specifically: #rust, #elm, #nixos, #guitar, #oldtime, #fiddle, #banjo, #cooperative, #linux, #musician
Pfizer just announced that its Lyme disease vaccine reduced the number of tick-borne infections by over 70% in a phase 3 trial.
Warning: GSK pulled a Lyme vaccine in 2002 despite studies showing it posed no serious safety risks.
Any new Lyme vaccine is going to be a huge target for antivaxxers.
My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC
RE: https://mastodon.social/@BigBoppa/116253010413719460
This exhibit A in why we need to ban corporate money in politics.
"'We’re not going to let it pass. We’re going to fight it tooth and nail,' Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said in a press conference Tuesday. 'We’re prepared to stay here all day and all night…and even multiple weeks if necessary to make sure the SAVE [America] Act suffers the death it deserves.'"
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/democrats-trump-anti-voting-save-america-act-senate/
The Trump regime detained Leqaa Kordia, a young woman from New Jersey, for an entire year for using her constitutional right to protest Israel's genocide in Gaza.
At a hearing Friday, the judge said "I’ve heard testimony. I’ve seen thousands of pages of evidence presented by the respondent, and very little evidence presented by the government in any of this."
Monday she was released.