Welcome to the Pandemic Roundup : an inclusive, curated selection of new information and fresh perspectives on Covid-19 published every Thursday. Top stories : – US CDC approves new boosters for all;

Photo by Zac Edmonds on Unsplash On the app formerly known as Twitter, I’m known for occasionally going on rants about how it’s good to be normal and average and middle-class . To some degree this is

September 11 2023 9:27 PM 4 min read Share Email If you've ever seen the movie Soylent Green, you know it's not about cannibalism. It's about the banality of social collapse. It's not quick. It's a sl

One in 5 Doctors With Long COVID Can No Longer Work: Survey Please confirm that you would like to log out of Medscape.If you log out, you will be required to enter your username and password the next

Enlarge / The winning entry, Théåtre D'opéra Spatial , from the Colorado State Fair in August 2022. Jason Allen On Tuesday, the US Copyright Office Review Board rejected copyright protection for an AI

Health-care workers at a hospital on Vancouver Island are sounding the alarm about the fast spread of COVID-19 at the facility in the last few weeks, after public health officials said they would not

Summary Background Case reports suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infection could lead to immune dysregulation and trigger autoimmunity while COVID-19 vaccination is effective against severe COVID-19 outcomes.

Something happened to business software. You used to pay for it once, install it, and run it. Whether on someone’s computer, or a server for everyone, it felt like you owned it. And you did. Today, mo

A long time ago, I had this friend. She moved. One day, I went to see her. She drove me around. There was a problem. It would eventually end our friendship. When she drove, she didn't hold the steerin

Biden and his supporters have been bragging about the state of the economy while touting what they call "Bidenomics." His conservative critics are finally admitting what we've tried to say for years:

Unknown to science four years ago, the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 has surely generated more research studies than any virus before it. Many of them have to do with the “sequelae” of infecti

Last October, Colin Kahl, then the Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, sat in a hotel in Paris and prepared to make a call to avert disaster in Ukraine. A staffer handed him an iPho

Jessica Wildfire Aug 31, 2023 181ef August 31 2023 7:28 PM 3 min read Share Email Anthony Fauci recently went on the BBC to talk about the new surge of Covid cases. He said something remarkable: "The

I've been thinking about all the things that used to be normal. It used to be normal to own someone. It used to be normal to work them to death. It used to be normal for a man to beat his wife and for

In a companywide email sent earlier this year, the tech company’s CEO Satya Nadella warned staff of salary freezes and cuts to the bonus budget. Loren Elliott—Getty Images

Background info Recently I started using a Sophos VM Firewall at home for my own traffic. I know Palo Alto Networks Firewalls on a deeper technical level, but I wanted to experience what other vendors

The AI hype is collapsing faster than the bouncy house after a kid’s birthday . Nothing has turned out the way it was supposed to. For a start, take a look at Microsoft—which made the biggest bet on A

Watch 26 August 2023 Getty Images Some trains were brought to a standstill for a few hours Polish intelligence services are investigating a hacking attack on the country's railways, Polish media say.

Social Health "You Do You," The War on Compassion Jessica Wildfire Aug 21, 2023 Shotprime August 21 2023 9:46 PM 5 min read Share Email Humans don't like feeling empathy. It hurts. Psychologists at Pr

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Mark Meadows and Fani Willis, Photo courtesy of Mediaite Legal observers have been gripped by a fairly nerdy but consequential question of late: Can Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell arrives for a meeting of financial regulators in Washington, D.C., on July 28, 2023. Powell warned on Friday the fight against inflation still "has a long way to go

I recently got a plaintive text message from my magnificent friend Abby Bangser, asking about a conversation we had several years ago: “Hey, I’ve got a question for you. A long time ago I remember you

IT giant Ivanti is advising some customers to make changes to dodge a new zero-day vulnerability affecting one of its products. On Monday, the company warned of a bug in its Sentry security product th

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A painting titled "Carting the Dead" by French artist Jean-Pierre Moynet that depicts a cart of bodies that died from the Black Plague in the 1300s. Wikimedia Commons The Black Death created a labor s

Credit: VentureBeat made with Midjourney The age of generative AI is here: only six months after OpenAI ‘s ChatGPT burst onto the scene, as many as half the employees of some leading global companies

The image below, adapted from Climate Reanalyzer, shows that the World Sea Surface Temperature (60°South - 60°North) was at a record high of 21.1°C or 69.98°F for the third day in a row on August 23,

I’ve needed to write this for a long time, for multiple reasons. Lots of people have been asking what the hell I’m doing. Like do I work somewhere? What do I actually do all day? Tons of my friends ar

The text below is a very recent leaked document, which was shared by an anonymous individual on a public Discord server who has granted permission for its republication. It originates from a researche

There's been a handful of stories across the internet lately pointing out that more Americans and Canadians, especially young adults, are dying than anyone expected this year. Weird, huh? For example,

"So what's the solution?" You get that a lot these days, especially when it comes to public health and the climate crisis. It comes right after they tell you the latest inferno "wasn't caused entirely

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday it is tracking a recently discovered COVID-19 strain, BA.2.86, after experts discovered a case of the highly-mutated strain in Mi

On May 11, 2023, the federal public health emergency declaration for COVID-19 came to an end. Only a few months later, and cases are already starting to surge across the country again . This decision

Social Health Jessica Wildfire Aug 14, 2023 ShotPrime Studio August 14 2023 10:21 AM 4 min read Share Email Back in the 1950s, this guy named John B. Calhoun built a rat paradise. Actually, he built s

Social Health Jessica Wildfire Aug 14, 2023 Shotprime August 14 2023 1:59 AM 4 min read Share Email There's this play by Eugene Ionesco called, "Rhinoceros." You should read it sometime. It's about an