Stan van Kol 🇳🇱🇪🇺
@stanvankol.bsky.social
architecture, history, geopolitics, Europe, evolution, baroque, AI, cycling, longcovid stanvankol.nl
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In 1995, astronomers pointed Hubble at a patch of sky so dark it looked empty and held it there for ten days. The image that came back contained roughly 3,000 galaxies — not stars, but galaxies — many...
In December 1995, Hubble did something that sounded almost like a misuse of a great telescope. It stared at a patch of sky chosen because it looked empty.
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AI companies are racing to build AIs that are smarter than humans in every way. In AI 2027, we predicted that this would result in either extinction or irreversible concentration of power. Plan A is our positive vision for what should happen instead. substack.com/redirect/5ee...
AI 2040: Plan A
A detailed forecast and recommendation for how the US, China and the rest of the world should navigate superintelligence.
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#A-Schubert-A-Day starts today. I am attempting to listen through the complete Hyperion Schubert Song edition, one song per day until there are no more. I have no idea how sustainable this will be, but I am going to give it a try.
Today @longcovidch.bsky.social posted its position on the limited role of biopsychosocial and neuroplastic approaches in the management of long covid. On the whole these models do more harm than good. Recovery narratives and testimonials are no scientific evidence. long-covid-info.ch/news/positio...
Positionierung zu biopsychosozialen und neuroplastischen Modellen bei Long Covid - Long Covid Schweiz
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For our new readers: A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator Norwegian Consumer Council #Digital #products and #services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into #enshittification & how to resist it.
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Braeden Charlton, Associate Professor Rob Wüst and the team compared exercise responses and skeletal muscle alterations in 24 healthy individuals who observed 60 days of strict bed rest to 26 people with #ME/CFS, 25 people with #LongCOVID, and 30 healthy controls who had fully recovered from COVID.
Skeletal muscle properties in long COVID and ME/CFS differ from those induced by bed rest
Patients with long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) suffer from a reduced exercise capacity, skeletal muscle abnormalities and post-exertional malaise (PEM), where...
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You want to know who’s running this relationship now? Xi already told you. Constructive, strategic, stable. Those are his four words. Not Trump’s. That’s the contract. Beijing wrote it. We signed it. And the signing pen was a compliment about some kids. open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
Video: Trump Surrenders To China In The Most Embarrassing Diplomatic Display In US History. It's Over.
Watch The most humiliating on-camera surrender in the history of American diplomacy, as Trump grovelled to XI on Camera for two hours
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Sustained VWF-ADAMTS-13 axis imbalance and endotheliopathy in long COVID syndrome is related to immune dysfunction onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Sustained VWF‐ADAMTS‐13 axis imbalance and endotheliopathy in long COVID syndrome is related to immune dysfunction
Background Prolonged recovery is common after acute SARS-CoV-2 infection; however, the pathophysiological mechanisms underpinning Long COVID syndrome remain unknown. VWF/ADAMTS-13 imbalance, dysregu...
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German Greens are inviting the other parties to discuss the disbandment process for the extreme right-wing party AfD. Hopefully SPD and the CDU will join.
Grüne im Bundestag@gruene-bundestag.de · 11mo agoLiebe Union, SPD und Linke: Wir demokratischen Fraktionen müssen uns gemeinsam stark machen – für die Demokratie und gegen Verfassungsfeindlichkeit. Es ist an der Zeit zu handeln! Deswegen laden wir euch ein, gemeinsam ein Verbotsverfahren gegen die AfD vorzubereiten. #AfdVerbot #AfDVerbotJetzt
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Long COVID as a risk factor for hypersomnolence and fatigue: insights from the 2nd International Covid Sleep Study Collaboration (ICOSS-2)
Hypersomnolence, defined as excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), excessive quantity of sleep (EQS), sleep inertia, and fatigue reduce quality of life. …
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Long Covid and end organ damage - seen even with mild or asymptomatic infections - study restricted to mild infections: COVID-19 Infection and Coronary Plaque Progression: An Early Warning of a Potential Public Health Crisis Jonathan R. Weir-McCall , Jack S. Bell pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10....
COVID-19 Infection and Coronary Plaque Progression: An Early Warning of a Potential Public Health Crisis | Radiology
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NEW: ICE burst out of a Penske truck at Home Depot in McArthur Park, LA. This footage is from Fox News who have “embedded” themselves in Trump’s masked gestapo unit. This footage stops before you see what happens - which is ICE snatching the first brown people they can find. (🎥 Fox News)