Notices by Sharon Machlis (smach@masto.machlis.com), page 2

Covid can now look like food poisoning - no cough, fever, sore throat, sneezing.

“Many of us associate Covid with respiratory issues. But some people who get sick with the virus never experience a sore throat, coughing or body aches, said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. Certain people end up feeling more like they have food poisoning than anything else.“
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/well/covid-symptoms-stomach-pain-diarrhea.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E0.v2R_.VAILnYXYO11i&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

#COVID19 #COVIDisNotOver #GiftLink

Tornado *watch* for most of Massachusetts

https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=MAZ005&warncounty=MAC017&firewxzone=MAZ005&local_place1=Framingham%20MA&product1=Tornado+Watch&lat=42.3168&lon=-71.429

6 tips on how you - and everyone else - can see more interesting posts on Mastodon.

For ex., did you know you're probably not seeing all public posts with hashtags when you search? There are ways to see more!
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3701292/6-ways-to-find-better-content-on-mastodon.html

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastodonMigration #FediTips #InfoWorld
@feditips@mstdn.social @mastodonmigration @feditips@a.gup.pe

@obviousdwest @bmacDonald94 @asbestos It has never made sense to me that moving leaves around should be so much louder than moving people around.

#Climate threat not often discussed:
“Pound for pound, gallon for gallon, hour-for-hour, the two-stroke gas powered engines in leaf blowers and similar equipment are vastly the dirtiest and most polluting kind of machinery still in legal use.

“According to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the two-stroke leaf blowers and similar equipment in the state produce more ozone pollution than all of California’s tens of millions of cars, combined.”
- James Fallows

https://fallows.substack.com/p/gas-powered-leaf-blowers-the-end

I cannot overstress how envious I am of democracies that have election campaigns of 6 weeks instead of 2 years

What happens when you mandate masks at a conference now that most people no longer wear them but medically vulnerable people are still at risk because #CovidIsNotOver? In the case of #PyConUS, the conference sells out.

Why a masking policy? “Many of us and our fellow community members can’t attend without health and safety guidelines in place. We want PyCon US to be an event that everyone feels safe attending,” organizers explained.

Well done @pycon https://fosstodon.org/@pycon/112445571644276379

WHY DO PEOPLE PUT SPACES IN FILE NAMES

@eliocamp "You should fundamentally change the way you write scientific papers *so that people don't have to bother reading your paper* and instead can ask an LLM to summarize it" is an interesting take.

I've noticed that many people who publicly tout the benefit of open office plans for “collaboration” have offices with doors that close for themselves.

Former Amazon VP Ben Smith on admitting he was wrong to push for workers to return to the office several days a week: “As someone once asked me, ‘Have you ever noticed the only people in favor of RTO are people with large admin staffs and grown children?’ I had not, because that was me. Touche.”

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn🇱🇮activity:7127027218362335232/

GitHub is working on a version of Copilot that will propose solutions to GitHub issues and even build and run tests for you to review. (Just announced at GitHub Universe ) Expected next year.
#GitHub

“Between long COVID, ME/CFS, and other energy-limiting chronic illnesses, millions of people in the U.S. alone experience debilitating fatigue. But American society tends to equate inactivity with immorality, and productivity with worth. Faced with a condition that simply doesn’t allow people to move—even one whose deficits can be measured and explained—many doctors and loved ones default to disbelief.” By Ed Yong

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/07/chronic-fatigue-long-covid-symptoms/674834/

#LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #Covid19 #MECSF