Eric Carroll
@ericcarroll.bsky.social
Postcards from from the edge of Toronto... Via gigabit fibre.
My whole home solar battery just rode out its first grid interruption! #powerfail #bess #weather
“.. an Nvidia-backed AI developer is renting computing capacity from an Nvidia-backed cloud provider, using an Nvidia-leased data center that will be filled with Nvidia’s hardware.” @barrons.com $NVDA www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
"Research Shows Extended PAXLOVID No Help for Long COVID" "The antiviral drug, PAXLOVID, commonly prescribed to treat acute COVID-19, does not have an impact on Long COVID symptoms when compared to placebo." #Paxlovid #LongCOVID
Research Shows Extended PAXLOVID No Help for Long COVID
Results from a clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published today in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases show
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Heterogeneity of Airborne Virus Transmission in the Built Environment: A Narrative Review This is the best explainer I've seen wrt the engineering parameters of airborne transmission And a must read for anyone involved in healthcare design 👏👏👏 paijournal.com/index.php/pa...
Heterogeneity of Airborne Virus Transmission in the Built Environment: A Narrative Review | Pathogens and Immunity
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I’m really sorry to say this but institutions are people, my friend, and if you elect people of poor virtue and limited emotional regulation then you get a government of vice that operates rashly
Middle powers can absolutely afford to provide public informational goods that wreck hegemonic choke points
Blayne Haggart@bhaggart.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is a good example of what @ntusikov.bsky.social and I have been warning about for years: US tech companies are uniquely susceptible to extra-legal US government pressure (Google isn’t compelled to change Lake Ontario’s name.) Because of this, they represent a direct threat to Canadian autonomy.
Why did the beaver cross the road? To cut down trees on the other side.
Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · 4d agoCredit to tidaltreasurescanada Beaver jam 🦫 🍁🇨🇦🍁🤣😏
Another beautiful sunset over the waters of Lake Ontario. #sunset #GreatLakes #LakeOntatio #photography
It's really upsetting that people still think that this is how any of this works.
I have avoided the Orange Site since its beginning.
Amy Hoy@amyhoy.bsky.social · 6d agoi dumped a bunch of thoughts about this in 2017 but the Hacker Newsification of the tech world obviously began much earlier paul graham was whispering to young white men that they were the rightful kings starting circa 2006-7
…that means that YOU CANNOT PROMPT ENGINEERING YOUR WAY OUT OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ARCHITECTURE OF THESE SYSTEMS. They are GOING to output bullshit, because they are Bullshit Engines.
Yikes! An entire Texas school district has had to cancel classes "after what officials described as the 'rapid spread' of COVID-19." I hadn't even processed that kids were back in school yet. Well, everything's bigger in Texas, as they say. www.newsweek.com/map-shows-ra...
Map shows 'rapid spread’ of covid cases as school classes canceled
A Texas district canceled classes amid a COVID spread as cases rise in 47 states and outbreaks continue disrupting schools.
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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
What really chaps my hide about this is that I was maskless in a room with other people *exactly once* in the relevant time period. But once it all it takes.
#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with August 16 data - Kingston, Peel, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario - Also updated: AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, PEI, QC, SK, YT wwater.ca Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/
Canada is on the front line of the defense of liberalism
Tyrell Corp Testing Lead@professormusgrave.bsky.social · last wk.Solidarity with my Canadian friends, acquaintances, and enemies
“Increased risk of pulmonary embolism following SARS-CoV-2 activity in Ontario, Canada”, out today in Public Health with Clara Eunyoung Lee and Natalie J Wilson. COVID-19 raises pulmonary embolism risk — here’s the Ontario data: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Monday evening #MentalPalateCleanse Binx just making sure biscuits and purring and purring! Sound up! #cats #becurious