Notices by simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jan-2022 14:55:43 UTC 
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Linda Geddes, "Covid loses 90% of ability to infect within five minutes in air – study" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/11/covid-loses-90-of-ability-to-infect-within-five-minutes-in-air-study
« Coronavirus loses 90% of its ability to infect us within five minutes of becoming airborne, the world’s first simulations of how the virus survives in exhaled air suggest.
The findings re-emphasise the importance of short-range Covid transmission, with physical distancing and mask-wearing likely to be the most effective means of preventing infection. Ventilation, though still worthwhile, is likely to have a lesser impact. »
Nice further specification of how aerosol dissemination and ventilation in closed rooms contribute to spread of virus. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jan-2022 07:43:41 UTC
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Today marks day 1,000 of Julian Assange being held at Belmarsh, UK, most of the day in isolation. This torture needs to stop and Assange duly compensated for the human rights abuse by the judicial system of the UK. #freeassange -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 23-Dec-2021 02:52:11 UTC
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German magazine "Der Spiegel" reports that one million people have died in Russia (population 143 million) due to Covid-19. https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/corona-tote-russland-bricht-traurigen-rekord-a-c5703d88-691d-4ec9-9745-3befb11e1161 (paywalled) Compare this to 800,000 deaths in the U.S. (population 329 million) and 109,000 deaths in Germany (population 83 million people). Gruesome. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Dec-2021 02:56:59 UTC
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Tara Copp, "US Army Creates Single Vaccine Effective Against All COVID & SARS Variants, Researchers Say" https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/12/us-army-creates-single-vaccine-effective-against-all-covid-sars-variants/360089/
« Walter Reed’s Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle COVID-19 vaccine, or SpFN, completed animal trials earlier this year with positive results. Phase 1 of human trials, which tested the vaccine against Omicron and the other variants, wrapped up this month, again with positive results that are undergoing final review, Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad, director of Walter Reed’s infectious diseases branch, said in an exclusive interview with Defense One.
Unlike existing vaccines, Walter Reed’s SpFN uses a soccer ball-shaped protein with 24 faces for its vaccine, which allows scientists to attach the spikes of multiple coronavirus strains on different faces of the protein. » -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 10-Dec-2021 00:09:29 UTC
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Oscar Archer, "Something Happened At GE Hitachi" https://medium.com/generation-atomic/something-happened-at-ge-hitachi-832996f4a998
« BWRX-300 is a mini version of a currently licensed reactor design, requiring a fraction of the concrete and steel, 26 months to build, on a 0.026 square km site, using proven reactor components and off-the-shelf balance of plant, based on real world operating experience for similar size and coolant circulation.
[...] Not only are loss of coolant accidents eliminated by design, the smaller nuclear core leads to significantly limited source term, the inventory of radioactives which need to be kept in the reactor. A small source term justifies a small site boundary, which should be no more than a 1 km radius. Passive coolant circulation takes care of any risk of overheating.
GE Hitachi are already working with Dominion in the US and OPG in Canada, targeting operation in 2028 and a cost of $1 billion USD (all in, not overnight capital cost). »
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neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 04-Nov-2021 21:15:54 UTC 
neil 🍄
> If [the Luddites] had their way we wouldn’t be living in a world with ‘no technology’, we’d be living in a world where communities have a say in the technological decisions that will impact them.
– Why the Luddites Matter | LibrarianShipwreck
Why the Luddites Matter
(via Harold Jarche https://twitter.com/hjarche/status/1455264342174273550)
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Oct-2021 22:14:12 UTC
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Bernd Riegert, "Antisemitismus in der EU weit verbreitet" https://www.dw.com/de/antisemitismus-in-der-eu-weit-verbreitet/a-59482132
Anti-Semitism is ubiquitous in Europe. The younger generation of Jews in particular ponders whether to leave the European countries and emigrate to Israel or the U.S. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 10-Oct-2021 01:12:33 UTC
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This content spamming of his is a scourge. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Oct-2021 23:17:57 UTC
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Sergiy Makogon, "Europe is under attack from Putin’s energy weapon" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/europe-is-under-attack-from-putins-energy-weapon/
« [E]veryone agrees that transit through Ukraine must continue. But now that Turk Stream has come online [transporting gas from Gazprom to Hungary], a significant portion of gas flows has already been diverted. If another alternative route is available, Gazprom will be free to weaponize supply volatility against Ukraine. »
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 01-Oct-2021 13:59:27 UTC
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Nicholas Sargen, "Global supply chain disruptions are spreading, and nobody knows what to do about it" https://thehill.com/opinion/international/574861-global-supply-chain-disruptions-are-spreading-and-nobody-knows-what-to
Matt Stoller, "America faces supply-chain disruption and shortages. Here’s why" https://www.theguardian.com/world/all
As international supply chains are optimsed and rely on routes and chains served by just-in-time deliveries, broken chains cause cascading interruptions across the net. The result is rising prices and productions coming to a halt at unforseen places. The breakdown of industrial civilisation won't come by natural disasters or environmental threats, but by the breakdown of supply chains that are too optimised to be resilient.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 30-Sep-2021 00:46:08 UTC
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Fiona Harvey, "Cutting methane should be a key Cop26 aim, research suggests" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/30/cutting-methane-should-be-a-key-cop26-aim-research-suggests
« Cutting global emissions of methane by 40% by 2030 is achievable, with most cuts possible at low cost or even at a profit for companies such as oil and gas producers. It would make up for much of the shortfall in emissions reductions plans from national governments, according to the Energy Transitions Commission thinktank. [...]
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, about 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in warming the planet. It is the biggest component of natural gas, used for fuel, and leaks can be caused by poorly constructed conventional drilling operations, shale gas wells, gas pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure. Methane is also flared from some oil production sites. »
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 30-Sep-2021 00:03:52 UTC
simsa04
There are in fact two ways to deal with the problem of not being able to interact with notices on mastodon servers from gs.net. One is the already mentioned way of copying the notice's url into the search box of gs.net and, if it shows up, interact with it from there.
The other one is a kind of dirty workaround:
Create an account on a mastodon server. Subscribe to it from your account in gs.net. If a notice on a mastodon server you want to interact with cannot be found via its url in the search box of gs.net, reply to it with your mastodon account. As you're subscribed to your mastodon account from your account on gs.net, the mastodon notice and your mastodon reply will occur both in your gs.net Home timeline. Interact from gs.net with the mastodon notice (boost, like, reply). You may then delete your mastodon (!) reply to the mastodon notice. Your gs.net interaction ensures the mastodon notice stays in gs.net. Plus the mastodon account is now accessible in gs.net.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Sep-2021 14:36:55 UTC
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Peter Beaumont, "China hit by power cuts and factory closures as energy crisis bites" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/29/china-hit-by-power-cuts-and-factory-closures-as-energy-crisis-bites
China increases coal transports to counter power cuts and failures in electricity supplies. Similiar dangers to electricity supplies and grid stability happened in California in August and seems to be about to occur in Europe should natural gas supplies stay low. Which is to be expected when you heavily invest in RE and phase-out nuclear and coal.
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 27-Sep-2021 00:20:14 UTC
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Harry Howard, "Dawning of Britain's 'new nuclear age': Gas crisis prompts ministers to 'change focus' with Kwasi Kwarteng poised to approve 16 mini-reactors in bid to hit 2050 net zero target" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10029709/Kwasi-Kwarteng-poised-approve-16-mini-nuclear-reactors-bid-hit-2050-net-zero-target.html
« Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is poised to approve funding for British engineering giant Rolls-Royce to create a fleet of mini-reactors. [...]
According to the Sunday Times, a consortium led by the engineering firm has secured the necessary £210million to get matching funding from the taxpayer.
It comes amid news that Chinese investment in Britain's next generation of nuclear power stations is set to be banned on security grounds. »
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 24-Sep-2021 20:19:59 UTC
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Megan E. Trostle et al., "High antibody levels in cord blood from pregnant women vaccinated against COVID-19" https://www.ajogmfm.org/article/S2589-9333(21)00176-2/fulltext
« These findings demonstrate transplacental antibody transfer following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy with 100% of cord blood specimens having high levels of anti-S antibodies. » -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Sep-2021 00:50:56 UTC
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So what's the point of still using this mail provider then? I'm relieved I never used my account there much and didn't fall for the fake promises of purported "security". -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 26-Aug-2021 14:27:58 UTC
simsa04
A helpful thing to immediately brighten your mood about yourself and the world: Stop playing Jesus.
Stop assuming you're responsible for the state and fate of the world. You are not. Stop declaring yourself responsible to change it either. Pressure and depression will recede.
And no, you won't let go the world to hell (flip side of the same manic coin).
You'll become grateful, attentive, appreciative... which nourishes the world (in case you need that assurance of "relevance").
And stay open for being changed.
Playing Jesus yields a sugar high of moral superiority ("Garden of Gethsemane for none but me!"), only to be followed by a swing to the depressive phase ("the world is doomed, nobody is listenting! To me!")
You become a moralising entitlement queen whilst you won't change things to the better. You become an unpleasant, awful contemporary. In fact, a snob with regard to pain. (Been there, done that.)
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Aug-2021 02:38:31 UTC
simsa04
The simple answer seems to me: Join the biggest instances. Their amount of users have the best chance of reaching more accounts of other instances than smaller or more nice instances.
Also, it is because bigger instances with more poeple raise the likelihood that most notices of one conversation thread are actually covered/displayed that bigger instances turn out to grow even more whereas smaller ones rather stay small or perish. This is centralisation that kind of mimicks the centralised commercial platforms. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Aug-2021 15:40:56 UTC
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Sam Sabin & Heidi Vogt, "‘An enormously valuable trove’: America’s race against Afghan data" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/24/taliban-afghan-data-target-allies-506638
« The U.S. helped create some of the data through funding and efforts to modernize the government. The former Afghan government started collecting biometric data about Afghan citizens, including military personnel, in 2006, and the U.S. government helped the country set up the ability to wiretap and monitor phone calls for surveillance purposes. Afghan citizens’ ethnicity information can also be found in databases supporting the national ID system and voter registration. »
This is so awful. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 22-Aug-2021 06:48:00 UTC
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Darrell Proctor, "California Will Add Gas-Fired Units to Increase Power Supply" https://www.powermag.com/california-will-add-gas-fired-units-to-increase-power-supply/
[As California shuts down its last nuclear power plant (Diablo Canyon power plant) it is forced add natural gas fired power plants to meet demnads and grid stability. Which will lead to a steep rise in CO₂ emissions.]
#energy #infrastructure
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