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36 years ago today was the Max Headroom TV STL hijacking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking

I regard this incident as the best and purest hacking prank in modern history. The combination of sophisticated, meticulous technical planning and execution, utterly juvenile content, essential harmlessness, lack of financial motive, and never getting caught or identified (or later taking credit) remains, in my opinion, unmatched to this day.

Pure art.

Max Headroom signal hijacking - Wikipedia

Cool study out of Sweden, published in BMJ, finding that the more doses of covid vaccine someone has received, the less likely they are to get long covid if they do get covid.

https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-076990

Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness against post-covid-19 condition among 589 722 individuals in Sweden: population based cohort study

Objective To investigate the effectiveness of primary covid-19 vaccination (first two doses and first booster dose within the recommended schedule) against post-covid-19 condition (PCC). Design Population based cohort study. Setting Swedish Covid-19 Investigation for Future Insights—a Population Epidemiology Approach using Register Linkage (SCIFI-PEARL) project, a register based cohort study in Sweden. Participants All adults (≥18 years) with covid-19 first registered between 27 December 2020 and 9 February 2022 (n=589 722) in the two largest regions of Sweden. Individuals were followed from a first infection until death, emigration, vaccination, reinfection, a PCC diagnosis (ICD-10 diagnosis code U09.9), or end of follow-up (30 November 2022), whichever came first. Individuals who had received at least one dose of a covid-19 vaccine before infection were considered vaccinated. Main outcome measure The primary outcome was a clinical diagnosis of PCC. Vaccine effectiveness against PCC was estimated using Cox regressions adjusted for age, sex, comorbidities (diabetes and cardiovascular, respiratory, and psychiatric disease), number of healthcare contacts during 2019, socioeconomic factors, and dominant virus variant at time of infection. Results Of 299 692 vaccinated individuals with covid-19, 1201 (0.4%) had a diagnosis of PCC during follow-up, compared with 4118 (1.4%) of 290 030 unvaccinated individuals. Covid-19 vaccination with any number of doses before infection was associated with a reduced risk of PCC (adjusted hazard ratio 0.42, 95% confidence interval 0.38 to 0.46), with a vaccine effectiveness of 58%. Of the vaccinated individuals, 21 111 received one dose only, 205 650 received two doses, and 72 931 received three or more doses. Vaccine effectiveness against PCC for one dose, two doses, and three or more doses was 21%, 59%, and 73%, respectively. Conclusions The results of this study suggest a strong association between covid-19 vaccination before infection and reduced risk of receiving a diagnosis of PCC. The findings highlight the importance of primary vaccination against covid-19 to reduce the population burden of PCC.

The BMJ

This pattern is both ludicrous and brilliant. It had to be done!

For the friend who found it for me.

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/snail-tea-cosy

#knitting #silly #snail #TeaCosy

Snail tea cosy pattern by Anke Klempner

This pattern is knitted in the round on double-pointed needles.

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Nice try, wile e coyote

So there I was, teaching class. My Divine Madness was course discussing the history of Victorian hysteria and the witch panics that came before it. And one of my students, in the midst of asking a question, says, in complete seriousness, "....but because they were expecting the Spanish Inquisition..."

And, of course, I say: "Anna. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition."

Friends. Colleagues. Kinfolk.

There was only silence.

Deafening silence....

Catholic priest sentenced today to life in prison for sex trafficking boys in Ohio. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/priest-sentenced-life-prison-sex-trafficking-three-victims-northern-ohio
Priest Sentenced to Life in Prison for Sex Trafficking Three Victims in Northern Ohio

A priest was sentenced today to life in prison for sex trafficking in northern Ohio.

Board of OpenAI fires Sam Altman and replaces him with a very small shell script
@eleland @GottaLaff
Multiple types of sanctions are possible revoking bail, pretrial detention, I did a piece where I talked to 3 experts about what is possible & the steps that have to be taken before #LockHimUp
Story here:
https://www.spockosbrain.com/2023/08/13/what-happens-when-trump-violates-his-protective-order-or-pretrial-conditions/
What happens when Trump violates his protective order or pretrial conditions?

“What will happen next WHEN Trump violates the protective order or his pretrial conditions?”I asked Lisa Graves, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, this question on the Nicole Sa…

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