Notices by jwz (jwz@mastodon.social), page 4

@aartaka You must be THIS TALL to ride The Internet.

@timomalum Buh bye *plonk*

I want to share your article, but if you embed posts from Twitter I won't do it.

@docpop @mekkaokereke And that's why I bumped up my monthly contribution to the Mastodon patreon, since that's the only thing I can do about that.

@riotnrrd @dangillmor I literally never saw that back and forth happening. As soon as a twit was embedded in a mainstream media article, the "discourse" turned into YouTube comments. That embed made that twit a sacrifice zone. A commentariat Superfund site.

@riotnrrd @dangillmor The way you "embed" a Mastodon post is by using the <a> and <blockquote> tags.

And that's how you should have done it with Twitter as well, but Blockchain Rasputin wanted to you serve back that tasty, tasty iframe surveillance data.

@texhewson Yeah they'd have to show a correlation with number of re-infections that was de-coupled from mere passage of time, and that sounds like tricky data.

But the study showing a possible loss of 3-10 IQ points per infection might cover it. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/11/ripley/

Dictionnaire Infernal, 1818.

Amduscias, to whose voice the trees bow, and who commands twenty-nine legions:
https://jwz.org/b/ykbv

In happier news, I got a really cool book today.

@genehack I implore you and everyone reading this to strike the phrase "post-pandemic" from your vocabulary because we are not.

Virus, take the wheel.

Have there been studies investigating whether repeated COVID infections lead to a reduced willingness to take basic precautions like wearing masks? Because it really feels like we've got a Cordyceps / Toxoplasmosis situation going on here.
https://jwz.org/b/ykdK

@onyxraven @dangillmor Yup. "Look at all this empty white space in this article" really drives home the low percentage of actual-words-written.

@galoisghost Once again, nobody claimed Bannon was a founder of Blockchain Capital. Your reading comprehension problems are a you problem not a me problem.

@dangillmor My experience is that any article with Twitter embeds isn't an article at all, it's a "some people are saying" listicle. I might as well be watching a local weatherman doing man-on-the-street interviews about how wet the rain is.

"Nothing of value was lost", in other words.

@galoisghost Nobody said otherwise. Also:

@mhanch Have a nice *plonk*

@wafflehabit Do they click links on your planet?

@flancian EA people are absolutely kookoopants apocalyptic eugenicists.

You know what another name for "soon-to-be-truly-federated" is? Non-federated.

@mattblaze Since my greatest fear was that this time around they would be *competent* Nazis, maybe this is a silver lining?

@infosec_jcp @Andrea As far as I can tell, the bridge has to be opted in to by people on the bluesky side, so it is useless fake federation.