Notices by Jorge Caballero, MD (datadrivenmd@fedified.com), page 2

Happy #LeapDay to all who celebrate 😉

First time that I've noticed threads federating replies 👀👇🏽

It's 11:10pm, and I'm enjoying cereal with oat milk. #Adulting

@willoremus Just checked on Threads, and it does not appear there. Also, Threads users' replies to his posts don't federate either, which I suppose makes sense at this stage

I recognize that I'm probably 24 hours late to this, but this article is a brutally honest, fact-based demolition of Walter Isaacson's hagiography of Elon Musk

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-biography-musk-review

NASA has an interactive widget on their site that allows visitors to track the progress of today's annular eclipse

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2023/where-when

One day we will have an informed conversation about the Middle East on a social media platform. Today is not that day. Tomorrow will not be that day either. The day after tomorrow is also looking doubtful.

#uspol

Just took another look at the terms that ended the writers' strike and what stands out to me is that the total value of the deal is $233 million/year. To put that into perspective: Disney's streaming revenues were $5.5 billion *last quarter* and Netflix's profit was $1.5 billion *last quarter*

Upshot: the studios and streamers shut down production over a friggin rounding error on their accounting spreadsheet. smdh.

@com Interesting. I had 3 out of 4 devices revert to "on" but one device remain "off" — curious if you started with Siri *completely* off, if so that may be the difference

Pro-tip for the privacy-conscious community: Apple enables "Listen for" Siri by default with the iOS 17 update— regardless of your existing preference. Moreover, the onboarding modal that informs users that this feature is (re-)enabled is automatically skipped because there's no call-to-action button. This means that most users will have to go out of their way to a) read the notice and to b) disable the microphone-is-always-on version of Siri

#iOS17 #privacy

Just so we're all on the same page: it is *illegal* for insurance companies to deny coverage of the new COVID-19 booster. Furthermore, CVS, Walgreens, and eTrueNorth are *contractually obligated* to provide free COVID-19 testing and vaccines to uninsured persons. It's all right here:

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/bridge/index.html

It ain't the flu, folks: flu test positivity is currently at 0.87% but COVID test positivity is currently at 13.4%. If you have symptoms of a respiratory infection, kindly test yourself for COVID and wear a mask at least until the symptoms resolve. Please and thank you.

"Lord of the Flies" is playing out on Xitter— but I can't tell if James Woods or Catturd2 is playing the role of Piggy. Also, it seems that whomever was supposed to play Ralph hasn't been seen for weeks

And for the record, there's no real debate among reasonable experts: multiple COVID infections are bad. To the extent that there's *any* reasonable disagreement among experts it's over a very narrow range of extreme badness— from more likely to suffer permanent damage to vital organs (lungs, heart, kidneys, brain) ➡️ more likely to end up dead. I wouldn't want anyone to get the impression that "you'll be perfectly fine" is part of the debate because it most definitely is not.

The great thing about being the self-appointed "paper of record" is that you get to write your own revisionist history that completely ignores the role your editors and reporters played in minimizing the threat of COVID— time, and time, and time, and time again

I'll never forget how, in July-ish 2020 a (different) NYT reporter publicly admonished me on Twitter for suggesting that her article was misinforming the public by arguing that COVID reinfections were improbable. I pushed back w/ evidence showing COVID reinfections were already taking place but that the CDC wasn't tracking on the data. She doubled-down. A few months later, I was proven right. She won some kind of journalism prize for her COVID stuff. Anywho, better late than never, NYT ⤵️

@mike That's a strong endorsement. how's the display's peak brightness at the highest non-native resolution?

Footage of Apple, Twitter's biggest advertiser, waiting for Elon to distract the tech press while they push patches for 0-days

The moral of the Oppenheimer story is that you can secretly expose communities to nuclear radiation and set humanity on a path toward self-annihilation, but so long as one studio executive thinks they can make money by cherry-picking facts to sell a story of moral redemption, then you should absolutely keep doing the evil things you're doing, and trust that everything will work out in the end ☺️