Arturo Portnoy

@portna.bsky.social

Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez / The pandemic ends when infections end, not when your attention span ends.

Your 'doom quote' for today: “It is the biggest threat humanity has faced, with the potential to wreck our social fabric and way of life. It has the potential to kill millions, if not billions, through starvation, war over resources, displacement." www.nmn.com/news/living-...

Living Longer May Be Pointless, Experts Predict It’s Too Late

Long-ignored climate experts predict a global catastrophe due to a 2.5 C° temperature increase, potentially making attempts at living longer a fruitless endeavor.

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I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

The backlash at Fauci is a confirmation that the warnings about COVID and reinfections even when vaccinated, were true. Millions are sick, now they blame the vaccines. The alternative is too painful. Fauci did make mistakes: overselling the power of the vaccines, and unmasking.

According to MAGA Fauci created and released a gain of function research virus. Not content with that, he locked people down to destroy the economy and smothered them with masks to asphixiate them. But the real killer came later: vaccines, the coup de grace. Brainless imbeciles.

As an educator, I'm both worried and curious to see what ends up happening with education and AI. Are we really curious creatures who actually want to know, understand, create? Or are we driven purely by necessity? Do we actually love learning? Is this the rule or the exception?

Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.

Telegraph article: John Cleese: I trust Rupert Lowe more than any other leader
Monty Python star backs the Restore Britain founder in a series of social media posts