wood man

@wood-man.bsky.social

reply guy. knows a thing or two about machine learning (phd). works in sustainable mobility. covid cautious. he/him

I am rarely affected by discourse on social media, but the current wave of posts asserting that Long Covid is psychosomatic has angered me. To be very clear: if you're asserting that LC isn't a physical disease, you're ignorant of science. End of.

I’m only seeing people with ME or Long Covid sharing this. If you’re not affected, can you please read it & share? Ableist propaganda goes viral all the time, which encourages outlets to publish more of it. Can we please make the truth go viral instead?

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d ago

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I am really fed up w/ ppl punching down at online advocacy and activism when the rest of you refuse to make in-person spaces accessible for high-risk ppl. We have gotten more done in 6yrs online on the most ignored issue in our country with tens of millions chronically ill bc of it, mostly ONLINE.

Im Zuge extrem umfangreicher Kürzungen will der WDR auch seinen Insta-Account klima.neutral streichen. Es ist einfach arg, was an Umweltberichterstattung eingestampft wird.

Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 4d ago

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

The people that won on literally every front (there are no mask mandates anywhere anymore & no reporting on disease levels so you don't even have to think about it either) gleefully, vindictively celebrate every space taken away from those who care about their health. Then frame us as the bad guys.

doom boy@doomboy.bsky.social · 6d ago

hilarious and insane article. full of the sorts of people you meet all the time in left activism, who combine neuroticism and narcissism to bring down any institution they're allowed into.

I think of workplace generative AI as pretty much in the same category of these sort of things. You can see how an extremely emissions-intensive activity sort of worms its way into workplace culture; just becomes part of the air around you. And once it's locked in, it's v tough to argue against

Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · 6d ago

One weird thing about energy/climate academia is how many people choose to do lots of unnecessary and harmful stuff (fly lots, eat lots of beef, drive fossil vehicles lots, etc.). I get that we need policy and system change, but also, doesn't this it undermine credibility after a point?

One weird thing about energy/climate academia is how many people choose to do lots of unnecessary and harmful stuff (fly lots, eat lots of beef, drive fossil vehicles lots, etc.). I get that we need policy and system change, but also, doesn't this it undermine credibility after a point?

Für alle, die noch nicht darüber informiert sind: Die Reisepraxen bieten die neuen XFG-COVID-Impfstoffe gegen Selbstzahlung an. Impfpass mitnehmen, keine Barzahlung. Kosten: 💉 Comirnaty XFG: 125,17€ 💉 Spikevax XFG: 138,35€ 💉 Nuvaxovid XFG (noch nicht geliefert): 153,96€ #COVID #Impfung Link ⬇️

While there are horror stories from many countries, the Netherlands and Sweden really stand out. They might be very "civilised" in some respects, but on ME/CFS they seem to be in the Dark Ages.

listen für die usa und ihr werdet drauf stehen "Daten über ethnische Herkunft, politische Meinungen, religiöse oder philosophische Überzeugungen sowie genetische oder biometrische Informationen könnten laut einem Dokument der Kommission,[], unter dem Rahmenabkommen für EBSPs übermittelt werden."

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stadtpark-apotheke regensburg impft auch heuer wieder (erwachsene) gegen COVID und influenza 👍 aber wo finde ich jetzt eine impfung fürs bebi? mir wäre erstkontakt mit impfung lieber als mit dem virus kinderarztpraxis scheut wohl den aufwand bzw hat sich heuer dagegen entschieden

Gern noch mal in einfachen Worten für Union und FDP: Wenn man fünf Jahre lang so tut, als habe die AfD im Grunde Recht (“Migration=größtes Problem”, “Grüne=sozialistische Deutschlandhasser”), dann hilft man damit der AfD und schadet sich selbst. Es ist wirklich nicht schwer.

Aus "vaccines only" wurde "no vaccine anymore either now". Bei SARS-CoV-2, bei dem es Jahrzehnte oder Jahrhunderte dauern dürfte, bis es sich friedlich gemeinsam mit dem menschlichen Wirt entwickeln wird, glaubt die Menschheit, sie habe es schon nach 7 Jahren unter Kontrolle. 🤦‍♀️ #COVID #COVID19