#china disease

[loving-n0t-heyting]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/06/artificial-intelligence-state-of-the-union/

I set up a Zoom call with Perna. He was in sweats at his home in Alabama, and if he missed carrying the weight of the world he did a great job hiding it. He consults a little for Palantir now, but mostly he was excited to talk about grandkids, the Yankees and the best New York City slice joints. His mood shifted when I asked what government could improve if it embraced AI. “Everything,” he snapped, before the question was fully out. “I don’t understand how we’re not using it for organ donation right now. We should be ashamed. Why do we need 80,000 new people at the IRS? We could revolutionize the budget process. I tell Palantir, why are you playing around with the Department of Defense? Think bigger.” [...]

There are more questions — part of getting AI into government is realizing there will be no getting it out. It turns out that good software and good government are more similar than we knew: Neither is ever done.

ah! so these are the manmade horrors beyond my comprehension i was promised!

#i am forever remembering the discoursedrome post about ai automation and baumols cost disease #hard to tell which is more horrifying between this and the escalation with china wrt AI

[awesomecooperlove]

🇨🇳👿🇨🇳

#china #horrors #animal Holocaust #torture #inhumaine #nonexistent animal rights #evil #brutality #cold hearted monsters #crimes against animals #vegan for everything #love peace harmony health justice #genocide #be vegan #stop the needles massacre #teach children to love respect appreciate and be kind to all sentient beings not only some #beautiful GOD’s animals are sacrificed for satanic rituals and profits #flesh/body parts is not food it’s violence diseases discrimination self destruction #these people are evil #truth #please share

[dddemigirl]

Wow, I can’t wait for covid 2: electric boogaloo

#tiktok #alexa rambles #china #world health organization #illness #sickness #disease #diseases #🦠 #😷 #😷🦠 #wear a mask #wear your mask #mask up

[blackswaneuroparedux]

πολλάκις ἡ πόλις ἥδε δι᾿ ἡγεμόνων κακότητα ὥσπερ κεκλιμένη ναῦς παρὰ γῆν ἔδραμεν.

- Theognis

This state has often run to ground like a failing ship thanks to the wickedness of its leaders.

#theognis #greek #classical #quote #china #covid #wuhan disease #lockdown #chinese communist party #CCP #president xi #repression

[troythecatfish]

TikTok is a tool for the USA 🇺🇸 , not China 🇨🇳

#tiktok #social media #political #political posting #politics #us politics #usa politics #instagram #instagram post #social justice #current events #china #political issues #tiktok is a plague #tiktok is a curse #tiktok is a disease #usa #american politics #signal boost #important #spreading awareness #leftist #socialist #communist #united states politics #tiktok ban #free palestine #freepalastine🇵🇸 #free palastine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free

[ancientorigins]

A breakthrough multidisciplinary research study has revealed the specific location of the origin of the Black Death in Central Asia. It also shows precisely when it started.

#Black Death #plague #China #diseases #health

[businesscatfelix]

some commissions from a local con held in february 2020.

#i was hoping to table at said con next year but they um. announced openings at an unaffiliated event then kept apps open for less than 2 wks #speaking about the 2020 con um it was very surreal. covid was just a disease in china at that point in time. #it wouldnt reach my country for another couple weeks and then we went into a hard lockdown #where i couldnt leave the house without certain reasons and as someone w agoraphobia it was rlly stressful #furry #my art #2020 #mfc

[sataniccapitalist]

#china #coronavirus #asia pacific #world news #infectious diseases

[memenewsdotcom]

China flu lockdowns

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#china #disease #flu #health #lockdown #meme #memes #news #xi&039;an

[itsbansheebitch]

Most people don't even know what Unit 731 is.

During WW2, Japan was running MANY experiments on humans. There were zero (0) survivors. Most victims died horrifically and we're lucky to even have records of this happening. The scientists burned the units to the ground, but victims left messages behind.

The US covered Unit 731 up. They wanted to get ahold of the research the scientists had. There was no research. It was JUST torture. There were over 3,600 researchers/scientists.

The perpetrators got off scot free. There are even monuments of some of them in Japan. Japan refuses to admit it happened. They called the prisoners "logs" and "monkeys" to hide the nature of the experiments. If a researcher or a guard got infected, they'd be cut open. No one was safe.

I don't say this lightly: It's probably one of the worst war crimes in history. The average life span of prisoners was two (2) months.

I don't like asking for this, but please either talk to someone about this or repost this. Make your own post, read a book, watch a video. Hell, there are at least two (2) movies I know of that are about/include this atrocity. EVERYONE needs to know.

There is no happy ending. This story was almost lost to history. It was less than a century ago. The "happy ending" is the future. The happy ending is everyone knowing this. Being able to recite what happened when hearing "Unit 731," not "what's unit 731?"

#politics #us politics #youtube #japan #china #america #russia #soviet union #mongolia #korea #world politics #unit 731 #tw dehumanization #tw war crimes #tw torture #ww2 #ww2 history #tw disease #us government #us govt #tw death #tw violence #world history #tw std #tw stds #tw sti #tw stis #tw racism #ukraine #imperial japan

[kp777]

#langya virus #china #infectious disease

[reasonsforhope]

““I think there’s so much room for optimism,” said Philip Welkhoff, director for malaria programs at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “Later this decade, we could actually launch a push that gets us all the way to zero.”

China and El Salvador were certified malaria-free last year, and the six countries in the Greater Mekong region, including Vietnam and Thailand, have driven down cases by about 90 percent. About 25 countries are expected to have eliminated malaria by 2025.

The bulk of infections now occur in Africa. Even there, despite the limitations imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, nearly 12 million more African children received preventive malaria drugs in 2020 than in 2019.

But it is the arrival of two new vaccines that portend a sea change. The first, called Mosquirix, was 35 years in the making. It was approved by the World Health Organization just last year and may be distributed as soon as late next year.

A more powerful malaria vaccine, developed by the Oxford team that created the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, may be just a year or two away. Many experts believe it is this formulation, which has shown an efficacy of up to 80 percent in clinical trials, that may transform the fight against malaria.” -via The New York Times, via Future Crunch

#malaria #healthcare #infectious diseases #china #el salvador #vietnam #thailand #africa #world health organization #vaccines #public health #good news #hope

[puphoods]

>reading about a piece of media that has zombies

>it starts with a virus coming out of china

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#ENOUGH. no more #chirps #htis isnt a haha covid post btw. the fears surrounding disease coming from china are insane and so racist we dont need to keep doing that

[pressnewsagencyllc]

Takeaways from AP report on how the search for the coronavirus origins turned toxic

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government froze meaningful efforts to trace the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, despite publicly declaring it supported an open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investigation has found. The AP drew on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents, leaked recordings, and dozens of interviews that showed the freeze began far earlier than previously…

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#Ben Embarek #center for disease control #China #Chinese government #Chinese officials #Chinese scientists #Liang Wannian #Peter Ben Embarek #Wuhan

[no-passaran]

Genocide experts warn that India is about to genocide the Shompen people

Who are the Shompen?

The Shompen are an indigenous culture that lives in the Great Nicobar Island, which is nowadays owned by India. The Shompen and their ancestors are believed to have been living in this island for around 10,000 years. Like other tribes in the nearby islands, the Shompen are isolated from the rest of the world, as they chose to be left alone, with the exception of a few members who occasionally take part in exchanges with foreigners and go on quarantine before returning to their tribe. There are between 100 and 400 Shompen people, who are hunter-gatherers and nomadic agricultors and rely on their island's rainforest for survival.

Why is there risk of genocide?

India has announced a huge construction mega-project that will completely change the Great Nicobar Island to turn it into "the Hong Kong of India".

Nowadays, the island has 8,500 inhabitants, and over 95% of its surface is made up of national parks, protected forests and tribal reserve areas. Much of the island is covered by the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, described by UNESCO as covering “unique and threatened tropical evergreen forest ecosystems. It is home to very rich ecosystems, including 650 species of angiosperms, ferns, gymnosperms, and bryophytes, among others. In terms of fauna, there are over 1800 species, some of which are endemic to this area. It has one of the best-preserved tropical rain forests in the world.”

The Indian project aims to destroy this natural environment to create an international shipping terminal with the capacity to handle 14.2 million TEUs (unit of cargo capacity), an international airport that will handle a peak hour traffic of 4,000 passengers and that will be used as a joint civilian-military airport under the control of the Indian Navy, a gas and solar power plant, a military base, an industrial park, and townships aimed at bringing in tourism, including commercial, industrial and residential zones as well as other tourism-related activities.

This project means the destruction of the island's pristine rainforests, as it involves cutting down over 852,000 trees and endangers the local fauna such as leatherback turtles, saltwater crocodiles, Nicobar crab-eating macaque and migratory birds. The erosion resulting from deforestation will be huge in this highly-seismic area. Experts also warn about the effects that this project will have on local flora and fauna as a result of pollution from the terminal project, coastal surface runoff, ballasts from ships, physical collisions with ships, coastal construction, oil spills, etc.

The indigenous people are not only affected because their environment and food source will be destroyed. On top of this, the demographic change will be a catastrophe for them. After the creation of this project, the Great Nicobar Island -which now has 8,500 inhabitants- will receive a population of 650,000 settlers. Remember that the Shompen and Nicobarese people who live on this island are isolated, which means they do not have an immune system that can resist outsider illnesses. Academics believe they could die of disease if they come in contact with outsiders (think of the arrival of Europeans to the Americas after Christopher Columbus and the way that common European illnesses were lethal for indigenous Americans with no immunization against them).

And on top of all of this, the project might destroy the environment and the indigenous people just to turn out to be useless and sooner or later be abandoned. The naturalist Uday Mondal explains that “after all the destruction, the financial viability of the project remains questionable as all the construction material will have to be shipped to this remote island and it will have to compete with already well-established ports.” However, this project is important to India because they want to use the island as a military and commercial post to stop China's expansion in the region, since the Nicobar islands are located on one of the world's busiest sea routes.

Last year, 70 former government officials and ambassadors wrote to the Indian president saying the project would “virtually destroy the unique ecology of this island and the habitat of vulnerable tribal groups”. India's response has been to say that the indigenous tribes will be relocated "if needed", but that doesn't solve the problem. As a spokesperson for human rights group Survival International said: “The Shompen are nomadic and have clearly defined territories. Four of their semi-permanent settlements are set to be directly devastated by the project, along with their southern hunting and foraging territories. The Shompen will undoubtedly try to move away from the area destroyed, but there will be little space for them to go. To avoid a genocide, this deadly mega-project must be scrapped.”

On 7 February 2024, 39 scholars from 13 countries published an open letter to the Indian president warning that “If the project goes ahead, even in a limited form, we believe it will be a death sentence for the Shompen, tantamount to the international crime of genocide.”

How to help

The NGO Survival International has launched this campaign:

From this site, you just need to add your name and email and you will send an email to India's Tribal Affairs Minister and to the companies currently vying to build the first stage of the project.

Share it with your friends and acquittances and on social media.

Sources:

India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe, 7 Feb 2024. The Guardian.

‘It will destroy them’: Indian mega-development could cause ‘genocide’ and ‘ecocide’, says charity, 8 Feb 2024. Geographical.

Genocide experts call on India's government to scrap the Great Nicobar mega-project, Feb 2024. Survival International.

The container terminal that could sink the Great Nicobar Island, 20 July 2022. Mongabay.

[Maps] Environmental path cleared for Great Nicobar mega project, 10 Oct 2022. Mongabay.

#shompen #genocide #stop genocide #india #indigenous #indigenous peoples #indigenous rights #human rights #anthropology #stateless nations #end occupation #andaman and nicobar islands #nicobar islands #great nicobar #💬 #asia #geopolitics #ecocide #sustainability

[jcmarchi]

Trapping Sulfate to Benefit Health, Industry and Waterways - Technology Org

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Trapping Sulfate to Benefit Health, Industry and Waterways - Technology Org

Scientists have developed a new method to measure and remove sulfate from water, potentially leading to cleaner waterways and more effective nuclear waste treatments.

Water – illustrative photo. Image credit: Pixabay (Free Pixabay license)

A collaborative team from The University of Queensland and Xiamen University in China has designed a cage-like molecule to trap sulfate, a naturally occurring ion, in water.

Professor Jack Clegg from UQ’s School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences said controlling the sulfate concentration in water is a significant challenge in health, industry and environmental management.

“Sulfate is a very common and important ion,” Professor Clegg said.

“In low quantities in the human body, sulfate has diverse metabolic roles such as eliminating toxins and helping drugs work effectively.

“But in the environment, too much sulfate can pollute drinking water and accelerate the corrosion of pipes.

“The presence of sulfate also causes problems when immobilising radioactive wastes.

“Being able to monitor and completely remove sulfate in water has great potential across many areas.”

The researchers developed a molecule that measures and traps sulfate in water with a high degree of selectivity.

This ‘molecular trap’ can be prepared inexpensively from off-the-shelf chemicals.

Dr Xin Wu, a former DECRA fellow at UQ now based at Xiamen University, said while there are enormous benefits from cheaply and easily measuring sulfate levels, the molecular trap’s ability to capture negatively charged chemicals from water is also valuable.

“Being able to stabilise a highly negatively charged chemical such as sulfate inside a charge-neutral cavity is a remarkable feature of our molecule,” Dr Wu said.

“This mimics the function of naturally occurring sulfate-binding proteins.

“The technology could also have applications in medicine, such as helping to funnel chloride and bicarbonate ions through cell membranes to treat diseases that involve defective ion transport such as cystic fibrosis.

“This is just the beginning – we’re excited to see how this fundamental science can be applied in all sorts of fields.”

The research paper is published in Nature Chemistry.

Source: University of Queensland

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