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Tom Radcliffe
@tjradcliffe.bsky.social
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Physicist, Breakthrough Prize Laureate (SNO), poet, engineer, writer, actor, sailor, canoeist, kayaker, boat-builder, businessman, philosopher (Bayesian), executive, entrepreneur (unsuccessful), consulting scientist, inventor, husband, father, grandfather.
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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · Dec 12
My latest book, a sword-cell-phone novel-in-verse that riffs on "Romeo and Juliet", but Romeo's friends aren't all idiots. Nobody dies, lots of people end up in bed. "A fabulous modern take on Romeo and Juliet set in a gritty urban backdrop"-Emily Thompson, ReedsyDiscovery siduri.net/books/capule...
Capuleft and Montaright
A sword-and-cell-phone nove-in-verse!
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d
Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.
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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 8h
He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa
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naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 10h
Five and half years since we’ve known covid is transmitted by aerosols and a provicial health authority has released an AI chat bot that disseminates droplet disinformation.
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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 17h
Asking NS’s official health AI about airborne transmission, aerosols, etc #NSPoli
Screenshot of asking NS health AI if Covid is airborne. Is Covid airborne? Wednesday, 10:02 a.m. 0 COPY • Nova Wednesday, 10:02 a.m. The primary method of COVID-19 transmission is through droplets, which quickly settle on surfaces within two meters. However, airborne precautions are used during aerosol-generating medical procedures (AGMPs) to minimize the risk of transmission. More information on AGMPs can be found here. Screenshot of asking NS health AI about aerosol transmission. Tell me about aerosol transmission Nova Wednesday, 10:02 a.m. Airborne transmission occurs when airborne particles remain suspended in the air, travel on air currents, and are inhaled by others nearby or some distance away from the source. Control of airborne transmission requires control of airflow through special ventilation systems and the use of respiratory protection. An aerosol-generating medical procedure (AGMP) is any procedy production of + Go to bottom aerosols of va roplet nuclei. Examples of AGMPs include bronchoscopy Screenshot of asking NS health AI if breathing generates aerosols You Wednesday, 10:03 a.m. Does breathing generate aerosols? •Nova Wednesday, 10:03 a.m. While normal breathing does produce some droplets, activities like talking, screaming, coughing, or sneezing produce larger droplets. Labour and delivery are also not considered aerosolized events. Aerosol Generating Medical Procedures (AGMPs) are specific medical procedures that generate aerosols. The AI claimed that breathing generates fewer aerosols than AGMPs so I tried asking for more info. How many aerosols are generated by breathing compared to an AGMP? 0 coPY Nova Wednesday, 10:04 a.m. To best answer your question, could you clarify what context you're interested in? For example, are you concerned about a specific medical setting or a particular activity? #NSPoli
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Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 2h
Excellent article.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 4h
The fight about the BC ostrich farm is not really about the ostriches. It’s about far more important things than that. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Bruce Arthur: The B.C. ostrich affair is not about the birds
This isn’t really about the ostriches, but rather it's about basic biosecurity in the age of viruses, and whether a government can make and enforce laws and policy.
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Aster Vérité @aster-verite.bsky.social · 2h
Also not taking any chances because I have a few appointments to take nonagenarian numero uno to over then next week and some chores to do for them....

Masking not only isn't it a burden, it pretty much keeps you illness free if you want to be.
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Dr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · 7h
The average fit factor FF for a surgical mask is 3. Many score 300 on an Aura N95. Which makes it two orders of magnitude better. Yes this is predictive of real world outcomes
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3h
If we had responded to Covid by normalizing masking, providing respirators in healthcare & adopting clean air standards…we could have beaten the virus.

We would also be seeing less measles, colds & flu.

We would all be healthier.

I believe history will see it as one of our greatest failures.
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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 1d
LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 9h
Tactical Technical Communication as Expert Communication: Strategic Ethos in Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes

"Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO and CDC incorrectly [🤬] made safety recommendations based on droplet transmission ..."

so REAL experts & better-educated citizens stepped in.
ABSTRACT Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) incorrectly made safety recommendations based on droplet transmission instead of scientifically accurate aerosol transmission. Therefore, experts in the Clean Air Movement moved fluidly between strategies and tactics to produce tactical technical communication that promotes Corsi-Rosenthal boxes as do-it-yourself air f iltration. Thus, the Clean Air Movement demonstrates how experts use tactics to produce instructional documents that democratize health information, building coalitions during times of public health crisis
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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 1h
Unlike Canada, Congo has actually competent public health people, who know how to deal effectively with deadly diseases quickly and efficiently and in far more difficult circumstances than our overpaid seat-warmers do.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1h
Ebola outbreak in Congo shows signs of containment https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-congo-who-9.6932065

More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
The logo of the World Health Organization is seen at its headquarters in Geneva, on Nov. 22, 2017.
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 3h
This is public health.

A few good people are desperately trying to keep the ship afloat, and carry their overpaid colleagues who are too busy looking out for #1 to live up to their responsibilities, but the silence from the field as a whole is deafening.

Step the 🤬 up or stop taking the cheques.
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naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 10h
Five and half years since we’ve known covid is transmitted by aerosols and a provicial health authority has released an AI chat bot that disseminates droplet disinformation.
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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 17h
Asking NS’s official health AI about airborne transmission, aerosols, etc #NSPoli
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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 5h
Rub-strip/keel on, and second coat of varnish. One more and she'll be ready for a sea trial!
Photo of a skin-on-frame boat in a very cluttered outdoor covered space with a wet coat of varnish on.
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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 8h
"We took the freedom of speech away..." OK, they've stopped pretending, so maybe NOW the mainstream pro-Trump non-MAGA prezzie can stop pretending to oppose them, and just come out in open support of the dictatorship they've always wanted?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h
This is the President not only purporting to arrogate unto himself the ability to “take away free speech rights,” but also to do so for speech because it “aggravates and irritates.”

The bottom line is these people running our country are literally foreigners to the concept of democracy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 13h
Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.
Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 14h
Kristi Noem praised for ‘staring down’ Antifa. It was a dozen reporters and a guy in a chicken suit
Kristi Noem ‘stares down’ Antifa. It was reporters and a guy in a chicken costume
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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h
Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."
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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 12h
These are not "hallucinations" but programmed answers within the expected domain of use for this LLM, which means the people who programmed it are either inexcusably ignorant--most likely--or simply liars.

Medicine *ignores science when it is inconvenient to the powerful* and we have to stop that.
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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 17h
Asking NS’s official health AI about airborne transmission, aerosols, etc #NSPoli
Screenshot of asking NS health AI if Covid is airborne. Is Covid airborne? Wednesday, 10:02 a.m. 0 COPY • Nova Wednesday, 10:02 a.m. The primary method of COVID-19 transmission is through droplets, which quickly settle on surfaces within two meters. However, airborne precautions are used during aerosol-generating medical procedures (AGMPs) to minimize the risk of transmission. More information on AGMPs can be found here. Screenshot of asking NS health AI about aerosol transmission. Tell me about aerosol transmission Nova Wednesday, 10:02 a.m. Airborne transmission occurs when airborne particles remain suspended in the air, travel on air currents, and are inhaled by others nearby or some distance away from the source. Control of airborne transmission requires control of airflow through special ventilation systems and the use of respiratory protection. An aerosol-generating medical procedure (AGMP) is any procedy production of + Go to bottom aerosols of va roplet nuclei. Examples of AGMPs include bronchoscopy Screenshot of asking NS health AI if breathing generates aerosols You Wednesday, 10:03 a.m. Does breathing generate aerosols? •Nova Wednesday, 10:03 a.m. While normal breathing does produce some droplets, activities like talking, screaming, coughing, or sneezing produce larger droplets. Labour and delivery are also not considered aerosolized events. Aerosol Generating Medical Procedures (AGMPs) are specific medical procedures that generate aerosols. The AI claimed that breathing generates fewer aerosols than AGMPs so I tried asking for more info. How many aerosols are generated by breathing compared to an AGMP? 0 coPY Nova Wednesday, 10:04 a.m. To best answer your question, could you clarify what context you're interested in? For example, are you concerned about a specific medical setting or a particular activity? #NSPoli
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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 14h
I’m thinking of the fire safety demo that took place in my ICU last winter where the unmasked Occ Health worker made sure to emphasize that using a fire extinguisher is an AGMP. In an ICU where everyone had Flu A and no one was masking.
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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 17h
Asking NS’s official health AI about airborne transmission, aerosols, etc #NSPoli
Screenshot of asking NS health AI if Covid is airborne. Is Covid airborne? Wednesday, 10:02 a.m. 0 COPY • Nova Wednesday, 10:02 a.m. The primary method of COVID-19 transmission is through droplets, which quickly settle on surfaces within two meters. However, airborne precautions are used during aerosol-generating medical procedures (AGMPs) to minimize the risk of transmission. More information on AGMPs can be found here. Screenshot of asking NS health AI about aerosol transmission. Tell me about aerosol transmission Nova Wednesday, 10:02 a.m. Airborne transmission occurs when airborne particles remain suspended in the air, travel on air currents, and are inhaled by others nearby or some distance away from the source. Control of airborne transmission requires control of airflow through special ventilation systems and the use of respiratory protection. An aerosol-generating medical procedure (AGMP) is any procedy production of + Go to bottom aerosols of va roplet nuclei. Examples of AGMPs include bronchoscopy Screenshot of asking NS health AI if breathing generates aerosols You Wednesday, 10:03 a.m. Does breathing generate aerosols? •Nova Wednesday, 10:03 a.m. While normal breathing does produce some droplets, activities like talking, screaming, coughing, or sneezing produce larger droplets. Labour and delivery are also not considered aerosolized events. Aerosol Generating Medical Procedures (AGMPs) are specific medical procedures that generate aerosols. The AI claimed that breathing generates fewer aerosols than AGMPs so I tried asking for more info. How many aerosols are generated by breathing compared to an AGMP? 0 coPY Nova Wednesday, 10:04 a.m. To best answer your question, could you clarify what context you're interested in? For example, are you concerned about a specific medical setting or a particular activity? #NSPoli
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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 12h
But they aren't "hallucinations": this is a custom-trained LLM being asked a question it has been programmed to answer, and it is giving a false answer because the people who programmed it are either inexcusably ignorant or liars. This is a different problem from hallucinations, which make it worse.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 13h
Free trade worked basically as advertised - the problem is that anti-traders get to argue from an imaginary world of 1920s ads and free traders have to defend the real world
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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 12h
While some of these recommendations are quite good--and several of them I own--I'm also struck by the amount of specialist gear--especially kitchen stuff--that could be replaced by a pot (philistine, me). Even my trusty slow cooker could be retired in favour of a pot and an induction cooktop, I bet.
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Julia Forbes @juliaforbes.bsky.social · 15h
Durability and longevity are crucial to me when I buy something—like many of you, I conduct intensive research into seemingly the most mundane things. With this in mind, here’s our “Buy It For Life” product guide on products that impressed my team and me. www.wired.com/story/buy-it...
The Best 'Buy It for Life' Products, From Essential Cookware to Tough-as-Nails Clothing
From cast-iron pans to mechanical watches, we’ve rounded up products that are made to last for decades.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h
anyways
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 14h
When medical influencers get after me for saying things like "medicine has no meaningful standards of competence for leadership", "COVID is the Dunning-Kruger pandemic", or "public health policy is routinely based on pseudoscience", this is why I am right.

It's a 🤬 gong show.

#StandUpForScience
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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 17h
Asking NS’s official health AI about airborne transmission, aerosols, etc #NSPoli
Screenshot of asking NS health AI if Covid is airborne. Is Covid airborne? Wednesday, 10:02 a.m. 0 COPY • Nova Wednesday, 10:02 a.m. The primary method of COVID-19 transmission is through droplets, which quickly settle on surfaces within two meters. However, airborne precautions are used during aerosol-generating medical procedures (AGMPs) to minimize the risk of transmission. More information on AGMPs can be found here. Screenshot of asking NS health AI about aerosol transmission. Tell me about aerosol transmission Nova Wednesday, 10:02 a.m. Airborne transmission occurs when airborne particles remain suspended in the air, travel on air currents, and are inhaled by others nearby or some distance away from the source. Control of airborne transmission requires control of airflow through special ventilation systems and the use of respiratory protection. An aerosol-generating medical procedure (AGMP) is any procedy production of + Go to bottom aerosols of va roplet nuclei. Examples of AGMPs include bronchoscopy Screenshot of asking NS health AI if breathing generates aerosols You Wednesday, 10:03 a.m. Does breathing generate aerosols? •Nova Wednesday, 10:03 a.m. While normal breathing does produce some droplets, activities like talking, screaming, coughing, or sneezing produce larger droplets. Labour and delivery are also not considered aerosolized events. Aerosol Generating Medical Procedures (AGMPs) are specific medical procedures that generate aerosols. The AI claimed that breathing generates fewer aerosols than AGMPs so I tried asking for more info. How many aerosols are generated by breathing compared to an AGMP? 0 coPY Nova Wednesday, 10:04 a.m. To best answer your question, could you clarify what context you're interested in? For example, are you concerned about a specific medical setting or a particular activity? #NSPoli
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d
Here’s video of the incident
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