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@Npars01 Billionaires prepping for the apocalypse in NZ should read @pluralistic 's recent adaptation of Poe's *The Masque of the Red Death*: "It’s the story of a plute who brings his pals to his luxury bunker during civilizational collapse in the expectation of emerging once others have rebuilt. They discover that humanity has a shared microbial destiny and that you can’t shoot germs. That every catastrophe must be answered with solidarity, not selfishness, if it is to be survived."

I bought the book in 2019, read the story and wondered why it hadn't happened yet. I read the story again when the news broke last week, and now I'm waiting for it to happen again. *Radicalized* by @pluralistic is excellent, and it's accompanying stories are equally so. Support you local writer!

https://craphound.com/category/radicalized-full/

"Americans may not care about hypocrisy, but they *really* care about being stolen from. No one wants to be a sucker."

This from @pluralistic should have been the Democrats' slogan for the last election:

"You have a right not to be cheated."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/04/its-not-a-lie/#its-a-premature-truth

This passage from @pluralistic 's novel "Attack Surface" sums up how the technology we depend on has been turned against us:

@pluralistic : "Trump is a scab, Dems need unions, Dems are not faithful to unions, unions make the Dems better, workers want unions, the public loves unions, and union membership is falling."

"We've got four years. Join a union. Take over its leadership. Create solidarity with your fellow workers and your community. Bargain for a contract. Make it expire in 2028. Get ready.

Because in 2028, we're having a general strike."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/11/rip-jane-mcalevey/#organize

With the election drawing near, it's good to recall Ed Yong's perfect précis of the incoherent man who again desires to drag the U.S. back into the pit of his fears, hatreds, delusions, and demons.

The Sentence.

#voteblue

"Who's laughing now?"

https://mastodon.social/@jwz/113330895244892964

@violetblue 's Pandemic Roundup is a compendium of the sublime & the ridiculous:

-US President Biden announces 3rd infection
-Australia, New Zealand Olympic teams taking precautions
-Canada’s new long covid tool
-Violet Affleck leads the way
-Masks back at Tour de France after multiple cyclists withdraw from covid
-Tour de France cyclist refuses to drop out after contracting covid

Support your pandemic correspondent!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/108356962

#covidsafety #covidisnotover #maskup

@violetblue 's Pandemic Roundup this week:

-LA’s mask ban mayor has covid now
-WSJ: mild infections can cause strokes, other problems 3 years later
-Incredible video of experimental long covid body scan
-Disturbing new data on covid’s persistence in the body
-US NIH opens nasal vaccine trial
-US surge accelerates in 2nd month, only 34% of hospitals provide data

Plus ultra-fabulous Flo Mask designs to bling out your protection!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/107445124

#covidsafety #covidisnotover #maskup

@violetblue : "infections are up pretty much everywhere, so mask up that cute face. It’s great to see more celebs telling people to mask ...Violet Affleck, Kevin Bacon’s rad kids ... Hope, we have it."

-FDA changes Fall booster to current covid strain
-New York officials want to ban masks
-France urges masking, isolation
-Finland beats H5N1

https://www.patreon.com/posts/106544413

The Covid Safety Handbook Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/violetblue/the-covid-sanity-handbook) has three days left!

#covidsafety #covidisnotover #maskup

@violetblue gives me my homework for the day:

"I hope you'll share this Kickstarter far and wide (especially to help us overcome the limitations of algorithms that limit sharing). Here's the campaign's short URL:"

https://kck.st/3KhdUdS

I always complete my homework. Keep Going, Violet! 😷✌🏻

#covidsafety #covidisnotover #maskup

@violetblue 's Pandemic Roundup this week:

-The global covid surge intensifies
-The CDC says covid infections "likely" growing
-Biobot stops sharing data
-New gold standard review of 100 studies: Masks work
-Study: repeated vaccination creates 'breadth of antibodies'

Stay safe -- cover up where it counts: 😷

https://www.patreon.com/posts/104782141

#covidisnotover #maskup

If it feels right
Just drive for the light
That's the groovessential fact
Someday we'll all meet at the end of the street
At the Teahouse on the Tracks

#DonaldFagen #Kamakiriad

I submit that this phrase by @pluralistic should be above the fold in Mark Zuckerberg's epitaph:

"Facebook is a company that was founded to nonconsensually rate the fuckability of Harvard undergrads, and it only got worse after that."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/#ich-bin-ein-bratapfel

"The virus is out of control, evolving into... something, rapidly. Again.

Year four.

It's easy to despair, but join me in not doing that."

@violetblue always encourages us to "Stay apart, stand together, mask up, and stay strong" -- this is the essence of combating covid. Stay smart and read this week's Pandemic Roundup:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-93389863

Trusted Computing and Remote Attestation are 1984-worthy doublespeak for computing that *you* can't trust, computing that will rat *you* out. @pluralistic : "As I wrote last week, giving manufacturers the power to decide how your computer is configured, overriding your own choices, is a bad tradeoff – the *worst* tradeoff, a greased slide into terminal enshittification"

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/02/self-incrimination/#wei-bai-bai

"Let the Platforms Burn"

https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic