Notices by Matthew Loxton (mloxton@med-mastodon.com)

@unclesam
A little Murc's Law going on there bud?

@unclesam
Suit yourself, tosser
Murc all the way

Friends don't let friends ...

- drive drunk
- operate machinery when high
- believe QAnon or other toxic bullshit
- go unvaxed
- vote for the fascist party

@dj
LOL
You say that as though virtue signaling is a bad thing

@dj
I would advise you to stop referring to whatever source you used to get that load of womble poo.

Virtue signaling is an inherent part of human society and in the socialization and formation of groups. The fact that it is *sometimes* less beneficial in no way changes a simple fact that all of us virtue signal and echo virtue signaling almost constantly. It is used to communicate "these are the things we believe as a group" and "I am complying with the social norms"

So yes, of course I am

@dj
Ah ... so you switch to personal insults. Cool, I like the exchange of amusing insults.

Firstly, you broken pencil, I write both fiction and non-fiction, and my fiction is used to "virtue signal" everything from medical and industrial quality & safety, to social hazards. Dismissing what I said because I *also* write fiction in addition to research results and methodology, is dumb.

Secondly, having pronouns is a good thing. It underlines a social hazard.

Lastly, you are a boring twat

@skinnylatte
wait, you smelled something in a dream?

When my mother was pregnant with me, she got bad morning sickness. A friend who traveled regularly from Germany offered her this new amazing drug.

It was made by Chemie Grünenthal, under the brand name Contergan. She refused it, because it was not licensed in our country.

That was a somewhat fortuitous decision because that drug later became rather famous under the brand name of Thalidomide

"Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham had ordered his staff to stop engaging in media campaigns and community health fairs to encourage vaccinations"

https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-vaccination-surgeon-general-8e2eecde047648e6fb62c4b44edd6566

@luckytran
With a ton of material vanishing off PubMed and government sites, I wanted to give you some alternatives to find research materials, reports, and data.

Europe PMC: https://europepmc.org/
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/
MedRXiv: https://www.medrxiv.org/
Wayback Machine: https://archive.org/

The future in perspectives.

My furry friends from Kollectiva and I agree on many things, but not on what a future would be like if there was a revolution that overturned Capitalism.

Their view: Happy people living free and using barter and cryptocurrencies for getting their eggs and avocados. Everyone is smiling, and lives a long and fruitful life
My view: Miserable people eking out a bare existence in the ruins, and selling body parts to rich people to buy basics. Everyone is sick and dying

Senator Britt: yeah, cut that bloated federal government. Cut all that woke stuff! Cut it all! Woohoo, we rule! Yay us!
Admin cuts NIH funding, including billions to Alabama
Senator Britt: no! no! not MY funding! Cut in targeted ways so only THOSE people get hurt

@paninid
The ones that dislike him most.
He would sell CA to Russia or China in a heartbeat

@StillIRise1963

Who are you betting on for the Superb Owl?

I have this expectation that Musk's Boy Wonders are going to heave tons of really sensitive data into an unsecured LLM, and then ask it to suggest things to cut. They will neither know nor care that the LLM will make shit up and has zero ability to do that kind of analysis.

I would put money on a bet that says this is the extent of Elon's skill at actual cost-cutting

@Jain
Thanks

"I don't really care how the process went, it's not about how the process went, but rather about whether the security clearance is in place or not."

Here we differ. Process is actually more important, because process is the repeatable and documented way things work. If Trump just handed them clearance, that is something worth digging into, but isn't the point. The point is that the process of getting clearance is a risk-reduction mechanism. These LostBoys are risks

@Jain
Thanks for the explanation

Fundamentalism - The law still partially works under total fascism, and we are not yet at a complete fascist takeover. So mechanisms are still in place, still operating, and I am pointing out that the DOGE crowd are circumventing it and people are complying in a way that is outside law. There is still time to point that out, make people realize that this is breaking rules, and to mobilize against it getting worse. People often assume that things are lawful.
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@Jain
Security: I point it out for two reasons. One, is that the lack of security vetting highlights the risk and the abnormality of the situation, and secondly, that if Trump himself granted security clearance, that in itself is noteworthy and signals where we are headed. People need to be reminded that this is abnormal, breaks precedent and practice, and that good practice is being skirted.

"maybe you like them having power"
That makes fuckall sense. I suggest you reconsider

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@Jain
"I linked a trustworthy article"

My dude, I am following reputable infosec sources, I get security briefings, I have lived in places where authoritarianism was a feature, I know how the gov security vetting works. So again, I have not seen anything that suggested that they "went through the government security vetting". Trump simply granting clearance is not going though "government security vetting", nor is getting an email account from some compliant local IT guy.

@Jain
"fundamentalist ideological wishful thinking"

Sorry what now?
Explain how doubting that these guys went through the right channels and had normal security vetting is "fundamentalist ideological wishful thinking".
Fundamentalist with what?
What ideology?
Wishful, how?