It’s actually only Co-Amoxiclav if it’s from the Co-Amoxiclav region of France, otherwise its just Sparkling Penicillin.

My kid is fixing a bit of floor in Minecraft using TNT blocks because "it's what I had and I'll just not blow it up". I think this is what our industry calls technical debt.

when you make your coffee at home

Quite apart from the egregious dismissal of issues of inequality ("as if that matters"), this dude (for it almost certainly is) seems to think that the **only** people qualified to talk about #AI, one of the defining sociocultural issues of our age are... AI developers (!?)

I thought I’d explain what happened today because I’m absolutely exhausted and tbh I think a light needs to be shone on this. Especially given so many people like me seem to experience the same thing.

This struck me as particularly powerful

Why is Europe so riddled with vaccine scepticism? “There is a correlation between doubting vaccines and voting for populist parties,” as ⁦Jonathan Kennedy⁩ of ⁦Queen Mary University of London⁩ showed in his research. “Both movements are about fear.” economist.com/europe/2020/12…

This photo of the sun might not look too impressive... until you realize it was taken at night – not looking up but looking down, through the entire Earth, using neutrinos rather than light. Amazing! apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap980605.…

Please can someone make sure David Attenborough has been vaccinated?

Baby tyrannosaurs were only the size of a Border Collie dog when they took their first steps, a team of palaeontologists have discovered. 🦖 BBC News (UK) has the story. bbc.com/news/uk-scotla…

I cannot BELIEVE how med school made such a big deal out of phaeochromcytoma but have not a single lecture on “how to support your homeless patient”

Could the data in our brains be uploaded into an immortal, digital shell? Is it possible? Is it even desirable? Join me for a QA tomorrow following the international premiere of ann shin's incredible: A.rtificial I.mmortality at Doc Edge - Life Unscripted - docedge.nz/de/films/a-rti…

When your Aunty is on Facebook saying many doctors don’t support the covid vaccine, you can causally mention that there are more registered doctors named “Sarah” who signed a public letter in support of the vaccine rollout than all the doctors in the NZDSOS group put together 😅

we have entered a new era of "this neural net is conscious" and this time it's going to drain so much energy to refute

If you're overwhelmed by the AI discourse this weekend, or aren't sure what to think, look to @[email protected] on Mastodon, MMitchell, and @[email protected] on Mastodon for threads & thoughts that add context and strip away hype.

Why did other species of human perish and Homo sapiens survive? According to Jonathan Kennedy, author of “Pathogenesis”, it was because their immune systems were superior econ.st/3MGiAMr

"It is simply unacceptable that people living in poverty are getting sicker at an earlier age, more often, and for longer, than people who aren’t. This new research puts into focus just how appalling the scale of these health inequalities are." greg fell FFPH Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) President

Prominent psychologists, neuroscientists, zoologists and philosophers have declared that there’s a likelihood of “phenomenal consciousness” in a vast array of animals. quantamagazine.org/insects-and-ot…