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John Bye on Twitter: “Unsurprisingly many people signing the “Together Declaration” against covid passes are HART members with bizarre views on the subject. Liz Evans, for example, keeps making crazy claims that vaccination causes surges in deaths all ove

A rogue’s gallery
(tags: pandemic disinformation hart vaccination vaccine)

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What is Strict Aliasing and Why do we Care? · GitHub

More type punning worries.
(tags: aliasing c programming punning)

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The lockdown’s founding myth | Christopher Snowdon | The Critic Magazine

Argues that natural herd immunity was following the scientists’ recommendations at the time.
(tags: covid19 Politics)

It’s bizarre that this needs saying, but *of course* the UK had a Herd Immunity plan – Lessons From The Crisis

More digging into the history books from 2020.
(tags: covid19 medicine politics)

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What have we learnt from a year of Covid? | Tim Harford

Tim Harford has a decent reflection.
(tags: covid19 pandemic science)

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How an Abstinence Pledge in the ’90s Shamed a Generation of Evangelicals – The New York Times

The Christian “purity” movement promoted a strict view of abstinence before marriage. But two decades later, some followers are grappling with unforeseen aftershocks.
(tags: evangelicalism sex purity)

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How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

Good writeup of another possible entry in the Accidentally Quadratic tumblr (though that itself hasn’t been updated for a while).
(tags: games performance programming quadratic)

Harry and Meghan: The union of two great houses, the Windsors and the Celebrities, is complete

Brutal and hilarious article.
(tags: ireland britain monarchy)

A response to: on the safety of women – Dr Reka Solymosi

Seeing less serious incidents of harrassment with a “near miss” mindset as used in safety critical industries.
(tags: sexism safety)

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[Optimum Performance Settings] For all Oculus CV1 Owners – Virtual Reality (VR) / Hardware & Performance – Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums

VR settings for Microsoft Flightsim 2020. Bumping up the “Pixels Per Display Pixel Override” makes the whole thing look sharper for me, so saving.
(tags: flightsim oculus)

COVID-19 RESPONSE − SPRING 2021

The UK government outlines its plan to ease COVID restrictions in England (PDF).
(tags: covid19 government)

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That XOR Trick

Using XOR to find missing numbers in sequences
(tags: xor programming algorithms)

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COVID-19: what health experts could and could not predict | Nature Medicine

Devi Sridhar in Nature: “Nearly a year after the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, it is time to look back and assess what could have been predicted by health experts.”
(tags: science covid19 pandemic medicine)

I thrived on the tension and drama of British politics. Then I had a heart attack | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian

“I lived for the nerve-shredding rollercoaster of Westminster. But the stress got under my skin, and into my blood”
(tags: twitter Politics brexit journalism health)

I’d love to ignore ‘Covid sceptics’ and their tall tales. But they make a splash and have no shame | Media | The Guardian

Neil O’Brien on the fantasies of those in the media, and beyond, who oppose lockdown. There have been a few articles like this recently, hopefully it marks a tide rising against the loonies.
(tags: covid19 science lockdown pandemic)

Rise of the Coronavirus Cranks – Quillette

Another demolition of the smiley face crew.
(tags: twitter pandemic covid19 science)

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My Brexit hell | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

“What was Brexit like? America’s declaration of independence? A man leaving a golf club but demanding to still be allowed into the bar? Over the years, I went through a few analogies, but the one that persisted was of a married man who has for years enjoyed casually flirting with a work colleague. One evening he makes his traditional half-hearted pass, and instead of rolling her eyes, she replies: “Go on, then”. A month later, he’s living out of his car and negotiating through lawyers to see his children one weekend a month, and he can’t really tell you how it happened.”
(tags: brexit Politics funny)

Dr Andi Fugard on Twitter: “One benefit of Brexit – new jokes can be created by mildly editing old Soviet jokes. For example: A man walks into a shop. He asks the clerk, “You don’t have any meat?” The clerk says, “No, here we don’t have any fish

A Twitter thread of Soviet jokes adapted for Brexit: “One benefit of Brexit – new jokes can be created by mildly editing old Soviet jokes. For example:

A man walks into a shop. He asks the clerk, “You don’t have any meat?” The clerk says, “No, here we don’t have any fish. The shop that doesn’t have any meat is across the street.””
(tags: brexit funny doom politics)

radicle

Distributed GitHub, bit like that Gittorrent thing but seems to be actively maintained.
(tags: git collaboration p2p)

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