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HEALTH – LONG COVID

Rob Wüst @RobWust
Long COVID symptoms include fatigue, brain fog, myalgia, and post-exertional malaise (#PEM). This thread dives into our newest literature review exploring skeletal muscle dysfunction as a key factor in reduced exercise capacity for #LongCovid . https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1869409724581728666.html

TECH

“In generative A.I. there’s no intelligence. It’s great at regurgitating the contents of the internet but it gives you wrong answers. It gives you hallucinations.” ` Fred Hickey

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US Government Issues Cloud Security Requirements for Federal Agencies
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cloud-security-federal-agencies/
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published Binding Operational Directive 25-01: Implementing Secure Practices for Cloud Services on December 17, which sets out actions federal agencies must take to identify and secure all production or operational cloud tenants in their environments.

GOVERNMENT

The Silent Generation knew how to retire at 65 then  receive their gold watch or string of beautiful pearls then leave.

The Electoral College meeting for Pennsylvania is underway in Harrisburg….
5 of the state’s 19 Trump electors this year were “fake electors” in 2020, who signed a phony certificate falsely proclaiming that Trump won the state that year. more here –>
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/politics/2020-fake-electors-electoral-college-2024/index.html

Why Won’t Boomers Retire?

AOC defeated by Connolly in battle for Oversight role
Like her or hate her, a lot of young people respect and look up
@AOC. Her loss to a 74 year old battling cancer does not inspire the belief that democratic leadership is learning or listening, young people don’t want geriatric establishment leadership.
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/17/aoc-loses-gerry-connolly-democrats-oversight

Pelosi and the old guard’s continued opposition to younger talent seems breathtakingly counterproductive in the face of the Democratic Party’s numerous challenges right now.
Pelosi Won. The Democratic Party Lost.
In sabotaging Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bid for leadership of the Oversight Committee, party elders have doubled down on a failed strategy.
https://newrepublic.com/article/189500/pelosi-aoc-oversight-committee-democrats

Jamie Raskin elected Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee for the 119th Congress.

Kennedy must be defeated. This is a redline.
Any Democrat who votes to confirm him will deserve a primary loss. This moron thinks vaccines cause autism, HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, raw milk is good for you… Oh, and also, why does he eat rotten food like roadkill and develop parasites in his brain?
RFK Jr. claims that the polio vaccine “killed far more people” than the polio virus itself. Send a letter to your senators urging a NO vote on Kennedy here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-senators-oppose-kennedy-for-health-and-human-services-secretary

  • “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”— John F. Kennedy
  • “Do your best, history will do the rest.”— Harry S. Truman
  • “They’re eating the dogs!”— Donald Trump

#TrumpIsARapist
“MR. TRUMP SLAPPED ME AND TOLD ME TO SHUT UP AND THEN HE RIPPED MY PANTIES OFF. ”
– Interview with Epstein victim Katie Johnson.
The Daily Mail, Nov 4, 2016.
Katie’s lawyer Lisa Bloom sat in on the interview.
This incident was CONFIRMED by Katie’s Handler ‘Tiffany Doe’ in a follow up interview Katie was a 13 year old virgin when she met Trump.

Jeff Bezos is now in the process of convincing Donald Trump to eliminate the USPS.
Get ready to pay $15 to send a letter through Amazon.
This is a government of billionaires, by billionaires, and for billionaires.

Wow. Elon Musk’s lawyers have advised him not to seek a higher security clearance because “Musk would have had to answer questions from the government about his contacts with foreign nationals and drug use.”
He’s hiding his conversations with Putin.

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ECP NetHappenigs #LongCovid

ECP NetHappenigs #LongCovid

I can start with an uncomfortable question: Why is a ‘respiratory virus’ replicating inside the large intestine 676 days post-COVID-19 infection? #LongCovid
https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/03/long-covid-ucsf-study-finds-virus-presence-years-post-infection/

New research shows COVID’s impact is more prolonged than previously thought, with signs of inflammation and traces of virus detectable years after infection.

The results raise uncomfortable questions about long-term health implications that we are only beginning to understand.

Science Translational Medicine
Current Issue
a RESEARCH ARTICLE CORONAVIRUS
First release papers
Tissue-based T cell activation and viral RNA persist for
up to 2 years after SARS-CoV-2 infection
MICHAEL J. PELUSO O, DYLAN RYDER O, ROBERT R. FLAVELL O, YINGBING WANG, JELENA LEVI O, BRIAN H. LAFRANCHI O, TYLER-MARIE DE-VEAU O,
AMANDA M. BUCK O, SADIE E. MUNTER, […1, AND TIMOTHY J. HENRICH +25 authors Authors Info & Affiliations
SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
• 3 Jul 2024 • Vol 16, Issue 754 •
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adk3295
https://www.smartquantai.com/
Control
Pt 22 (676 days post-COVID-19)
SARS-CoV-2 S RNA
SARS-eoV-2 ,DÄPÉ.
10 PM
Fig. 6. SARS-CoV-2 single-stranded spike protein—encoding RNA was identified in rectosigmoid tissue of
individuals with LC months to years after acute infection.

Long Covid

59% of long Covid patients had organ damage a year later
Organ damage persisted in 59% of long Covid patients a year after initial symptoms, even in those not severely affected when first diagnosed with the virus, according to a comprehensive new study co-led by a UCL researcher.

Risk of Long Covid after reinfection by Omicron is almost 20%. The results of this study were widely reported but seem to have had little impact on policy or public attitudes.

Major media outlets somehow have a near complete blackout on #COVID and #LongCovid issues recently. The effects on our society are palpable but near invisible when media is contributing to a blackout of coverage. It should make us ask why.

More than 70% of US household COVID spread started with a child, study suggests

Much More

Disinfo, AI, and Long Covid

The people that wear good masks in public, despite the immense pressure not to, are the true heroes of our time.

Healthcare workers: Children’s hospitals are bursting at the seams. ICUs are full, and emergency department wait times are inhumane.
Everyone is sick. Please help!
Government: Nothing to see here.

14% of Americans have Long Covid. 46,000,000 people.

How severe is #LongCovid for the up to 1 in 5 infected?

We now know:
• 75% experience limitations in their daily activities
• 25% experience severe limitations
• 25% experience no limitations
This means up to 1 in 7 infected experience some disability from infection.

This is also 100% consistent with employment data that shows 3/4 of #LongCovid patients can’t work at same levels prior infection & 1/4 can’t work at all. It’s the same numbers every time.

https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-5370%2821%2900299-6

Misinformed New World

The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite

Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort, but artificial intelligence will take them to a whole new level.

@GaryMarcus
“the supply of misinformation will soon be infinite”—incredibly prescient Sept 2020 piece by @noUpside @TheAtlantic

Alice Donovan was a “persona account”—a fictitious figure—created by the Main Directorate, the Russian military-intelligence agency commonly known as the GU.

Then: #GPT-3 was expensive & private Now: Any troll farm can build a custom version trained on their own favorite lies, for $450k
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/future-propaganda-will-be-computer-generated/616400/

The world of neuroscience speaks of “repeating stereotypical microcircuits composed of different neuron subtypes” and “ensembles”.

In software engineering, we call such things “design patterns”. ~ Grady Booch
The Laboratory of Neural Microcircuitry (LNMC), headed by Professor Henry Markram, is dedicated to understanding the structure, function and plasticity of the neural microcircuits, with emphasis on the neocortex.

Meta does not directly sell user data.
Does Meta misuse data? Has it violated a number of national laws? Has it lost track of the data it does hold? All of these are well documented.
The world of artificial intelligence in general and machine learning in particular is still on a journey to rediscover the basic principles of software engineering.