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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 20h ago

I worked with—and deeply admired—Helen for almost 30 years. She was hands down *the best source* about emerging infectious diseases that I've ever known. My first warning of COVID was when on Dec 28, 2019 she reposted a ProMED mail report of an atypical pneumonia cluster: "This doesn't look good."

Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69

Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.

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Rob Pegoraro @robpegoraro.com · 5d ago

The competition for passkeys increasingly is not username + password (where a password manager makes that UX about as seamless as a passkey login) but username + password + inconveniently-delivered two-factor authentication code (where the passkey UX is soooo much better). (gift link)

Analysis | We don’t have to live with the nightmare of passwords. There is a better way.

Passkeys really do work. They’re silent and swift, and they eliminate the need for remembering and typing passwords.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · last wk.

fun fact: The Treaty of Tripoli, 1796, Signed by Prez John Adams, includes: "As the government of the United States of America is *not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion*, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of [Muslims].." Just saying.

Katie Martin@katie0martin.ft.com · 3w ago

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

@chrisvls.bsky.social · 3w ago

If the bill prevents officers from taking second jobs as security officers from *anyone* he shouldn’t. Many neighborhood associations in SF (when Newsom was mayor) hired them to ramp down crime flare ups. It was effective.

Bruce Little@brucedlittle.bsky.social · 3w ago

Will Newsom sign the bill? Lawmakers are joining immigrant rights groups in urging Governor Newsom to sign a bill that, if implemented, would ban California police, sheriffs and other law enforcement from taking on second jobs that involve “arresting, detaining, transporting, or deporting” people.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last mo.

Finally getting around to reading Bill Bryson’s At Home (only 16 years after it was published) and learned that after the British started using chimneys everywhere and people no longer sat around a fire, there were people complaining about missing the good old days of inhaling smoke constantly.

Meanwhile, not everyone was happy with the loss of open hearths. Many people missed the drifting smoke and were convinced they had been healthier when kept "well kippered in wood smoke," as one observer put it. As late as 1577, a William Harrison insisted that in the days of open fires "our heads did never ake." Smoke in the roof space discouraged nesting birds and was believed to strengthen timbers. Above all, people complained that they weren't nearly as warm as before, which was true. Because fireplaces were so inefficient, they were constantly enlarged. Some became so enormous that they were built with benches in them, letting people sit inside the fireplace, almost the only place in the house where they could be really warm.