Media coverage of my unsuccessful initiative back in early 2020.

Current evidence suggests that an association exists between smoking and COVID-19 severity, in line with recent research which has shown that smoking is associated with increased risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome.

...

tobacco smoking appears to be the most important avoidable risk factor for a poorer prognosis in COVID-19

In retrospect, doubtful that would have made any difference given how everyone messed up in the end.

Boris Johnson skipped five Cobra meetings on the virus, calls to order protective gear were ignored and scientists’ warnings fell on deaf ears. Failings in February may have cost thousands of lives

Social distancing in a psychiatric facility is easier said than done

Ahram Online , Sunday 19 Apr 2020

Full interview with Professor Jonathan Bisson from Cardiff University, talking about the new PTSD Prevention and Treatment Guidelines published in March 2019 by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

There is strong research evidence to support the pharmacological treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a second line to trauma-focused psychological interventions. Fluoxetine, paroxetine, sertraline and venlafaxine are the best-evidenced drugs, with lower-level evidence for other medications. It is important that prescribing for PTSD is evidence-based.

The Evergiven saga

Wordpress plugin that offers automated booking.

Mu is the first Palm OS emulator capable of actually playing Palm games. It is currently capable of playing most 160×160 Palm OS 4 software perfectly. There are a few hardware abstraction glitches and sound FIFO inaccuracies but other than that the device works and the audio plays normally, with no hacks done to the OS.

NYT:

The latest numbers surpass even the yearly tolls during the height of the opioid epidemic and mark a reversal of progress against addiction in recent years.

people systematically default to searching for additive transformations, and consequently overlook subtractive transformations

[img[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/aesthetics/images/3/32/Floral_shoppe.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/350?cb=20190627025135]]

Vaporwave is a music genre branching from electronic Chillwave. But the unique and iconic visual aesthetic cultivated alongside it is now, debatably, more popular and recognizable than the music itself. Vaporwave, as an aesthetic and movement, has been described as a tongue-in-cheek commentary on modern consumerism and the soulless glamour of late capitalism. Its purposeful vagueness has led to more overt and blatant offshoots of Vaporwave, like Fashwave (which attempts to co-opt a lot of Vaporwave symbolism to promote a fascist ideology) or Laborwave (which removes the ambiguity of Vaporwave's capitalist critiques in favor of promoting a Marxist ideology), though both of them also tend to blend in a lot …

Templates to help you say no in any situation.

TaskExchange connects people working in health evidence with people who have the time and skills to help.

• Have you become cynical or critical at work?
• Do you drag yourself to work and have trouble getting started?
• Have you become irritable or impatient with co-workers, customers or clients?
• Do you lack the energy to be consistently productive?
• Do you find it hard to concentrate?
• Do you lack satisfaction from your achievements?
• Do you feel disillusioned about your job?
• Are you using food, drugs or alcohol to feel better or to simply not feel?
• Have your sleep habits changed?
• Are you troubled by unexplained headaches, stomach or bowel problems, or other physical complaints?

Mask wearing, social distancing and other steps to stop COVID-19 have also curtailed influenza

Parts for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Personal Computer

Once the cutting edge of the "internet" (pre-world-wide-web and mosiac days), Usenet is now a murky, geeky alternative to torrents for file-sharing. However, it's cool geeky, especially if you're into having a fully automated media platform.

A good starter for the usenet scene is https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/. Because it's so damn complicated, a host of automated tools exist to automate the process of finding, downloading, and managing content. The tools included in this recipe are as follows:

[img[https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sourdough_starter.png]]