IMHO masking-induced 'health anxiety' is a better choice than covid-induced brain-inflammation anxiety

In using an extrapolated future to explain the present, SF has rarely done better than Butler's 1990s 'Parables' novels. Including a far-right politician promising to 'make America great again', the novels describe our society's cruelty, but also offer a template for hope. Superb

Let the celebration begin
Our position paper 'Bayesian Deep Learning in the Age of Large-Scale AI' is accepted ICML Conference
Kudos to all coauthors Michael A Osborne Emtiyaz Khan Konstantina Palla Max Welling Wilson Andrew Gordon Wilson Yee Whye Teh Jose Miguel Hernández-Lobato and more
Enjoy
arxiv.org/pdf/2402.00809

Part of the problem of Long Covid is that people think that deep suffering must look dramatic, and have a dramatic cause, whereas the deepest suffering of which I know looks like patients lying in bed, and is caused by nothing more than a stranger's breath

Pretending the pandemic is over is a luxury that many of us cannot afford—perhaps including you

I do not like punk, I thought—but I just discovered The Misfits' Static Age, which is wall-to-wall BANGERS. Part of the appeal is the legit dumb nihilism, but these guys really loved those songs—Danzig could sing! And the back-story is punk as ****. What else should I try?