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Pearl Kendrick, Loney Gordon and Grace Eldering studied pertussis in the 1930s. They developed and ran the first large scale study of a successful vaccine for the disease.

The first vaccine against pertussis was developed in the 1930s by pediatrician Leila Denmark.

#women #science

hi here's a report from the depths of hell: don't let an iOS device get below 1GB of free space, you absolutely can get it to a point of no return, where deleting apps no longer appears to work, and the preferences app crashes when trying to view the available free space

Transphobia makes absolutely no sense to me for lots of moral reasons, obvs

But transphobia is also just BORING

People can change their biology with chemicals and surgery and become a better affirmation of their TRUE SELF

How is that NOT the COOLEST FUCKING THING YOUVE EVER HEARD OF?!?!

This is a *fascinating* concept for games studies - "quotes" of a game that don't just show you a clip of gameplay, but actually let you take control and try it out. It trims the ROM down to only what's needed to run the quote, so this might even pass a fair dealing/fair use test in court if it came down to it - just like quoting a passage of text, or a clip of a movie.

https://tenmile.quote.games

some of my programming-interested followers might not have read my greatest contribution to the literature: my 2023 SIGBOVIK paper, published 2023-04-00, on achieving memory safety via unconventional use of memory protection

Today I'm doing a USB cable test.
I have quite a few to go through

my wife randomly found a cable in the bedroom, and I ran off with it to stick on the tester. Guess what? It's a USB-C charge only cable!

We must stay ever vigilant, the threat never ends.

Linkedin: Grindr for middle managers

This is my new favorite meme

BREAKING: Amazon will be banned from the European Parliament!

After weeks of mounting pressure by trade unions, civil society and Members of the European Parliament, Amazon's lobbyists will no longer be able to access its premises.

Our reaction:

https://www.uni-europa.org/news/victory-amazon-lobbyists-banned-from-european-parliament/

#BoycottAmazon

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> looking for an example of a religious conflict
> guy offers me one
> ask if it's a religious conflict or an ethnic conflict where religion is an ethnic marker
> guy laughs and says it's a good example
> look inside
> ethnic conflict

"Cryptocurrency that tries to base on proof of contribution to open source projects sparks wave of bogus pull requests" isn't the headline I expected to see in the--

No actually, I expected this from the moment I saw it, because we had the exact same problem with something far more trivial: a t-shirt for making a contribution.

When are we gonna learn that "Go make a PR, any PR, get a cookie" is a net loss for effort put forth for project maintainers and this must, absolute must, be opt-in?