Posts tagged “influenza”

  • Who doesn’t love making paper airplanes? – via cassidoo
  • Cookie Monster: Conflict of InterestA “secret study” revealed that as the Florida insurance market was allegedly “failing” and companies were “losing money”, executives distributed $680M in dividends to shareholders while diverting billions more to affiliate companies, while Ron DeSantis focused on legal reforms making it harder to sue insurers.
  • The world’s best chess players burn more calories during a match than NBA players like Steph Curry do in a game. – via Links You’ll Love
  • Media
    • I am irrationally excited for the Andor season two premier on April 22, 2025.
    • So far White Lotus S3 has been just as great as the first two seasons.
    • I thought Kristen Bell did a fine job hosting the SAG Awards, but – as much as I love and respect Martin ShortHarrison Ford deserved the Best Actor in a Comedy Series win for his performance in Shrinking.
    • Believe the hype. Flow is a phenomenal movie.
  • Good News for People Who Love Bad News:
    • Climate change is shrinking glaciers faster than ever, with 7 trillion tons lost since 2000.
    • Flu hospitalizations this year have already surpassed the last “very bad” flu season in 2017-2018.
    • There’s a real-time Project 2025 Tracker that allows you to see just how much of the nefarious plot to destroy the United States has been successful.
  • This LA Times interactive map of the Southern California wildfires has been very handy. – via @dansinker.com
  • “Just a reminder that the French revolution started with a climate crisis-induced famine, an empire that had overexpanded into too many foreign wars, and parasitic nobility that funneled all the wealth upward while regular citizens suffered.” – via @chris.writes.books
  • Office SpaceIf you want to “follow” me somewhere (other than here, of course), you should use my verified account on bluesky. I adored Twitter when it launched, and for many years after. But I haven’t looked at that social network in months and deleted my account a while ago. I’ve been enjoying Threads, but it looks like it’s time to abandon that platform, too. I’m very, very glad I have my own personal website. (I hardly ever look at Instagram, and doubt I’ll keep my account there for much longer. If I didn’t feel obligated to remain on LinkedIn, I’d quit that site, too.)
  • In China, there are registries of haunted apartments. If you’re willing to live somewhere with a sinister history, you can get a discount of 30%. – via @tomwhitwell
  • I am starting to get concerned about the bird flu, H5N1. Paying attention to updates from Your Local Epidemiologist is a good way to be prepared.
  • A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover, climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell his family or friends. Then, in 2023, a ProPublica reporter received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of thousands of secret files. – via @propublica
  • “In species where males invest in weaponry (antlers, horns, tusks, etc.), female brains are bigger.” – via Kent Hendricks
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