Facebook Consumer Privacy Settlement

I haven't seen this go around dreamwidth yet. I think this is legit and I registered for it. We'll see if I get a check for 50 cents in a few months.

Facebook, Inc. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation. "If you were a Facebook user in the United States between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, inclusive, you may be eligible for a cash payment from a Class Action Settlement."

Links: The Covid pandemic is not over

A collection of Covid links for those of us who know the pandemic isn't over amidst the ever-increasing pressure to pretend it is. How to be more inclusive. Some possible good news about a more long-lasting vaccine.

Biobot Analytics, Alameda County. You can check if your county is on the list, or look at the nationwide Covid levels in wastewater.

Broken Sociality: Isolation in the Pseudo-Return to “Pre-Pandemic Normal.”" by Nate Holdren.

Pandemic life remains terribly lonely. It’s recently become differently so. Elements of pre-pandemic normal social life have returned, but not for us those of us who aren’t going along with the so-called “back to normal.” I want a name for this painful situation. Lacking a better one, I’ve started calling it broken sociality.

Practicing Inclusion in the Time of COVID. A set of colorful slides with clear how-tos on how to be more inclusive.

Practicing inclusion during COVID-19 means acknowledging the health and safety needs of all people, then taking steps to communicate and provide safe(r) and more accessible options for gathering. This includes not only working to understand the reasons spaces may be inaccessible to individuals with varying needs, but also committing to following community-centered practices to improve safety for all. Creating inclusive gatherings rooted in disability solidarity makes our movements and communities more powerful.

The above two links via cosmolinguist on heard_community.

Listening to Long Covid’s Lessons and Teachers—Today and Tomorrow by s.e. smith. "We will adapt. We will find new nesting places. But there will be no return to “before.” Not for the flock."

FWD/Forward: Feminists with Disabilities for a way forward. Blog archive from 2009-2011. I went looking for it for a friend, so I'm posting it here so I can find it again.

Why long COVID could be a ticking time bomb for public health by Philip Finkelstein.

Dr. Smeyne elaborated on the seriousness of these findings, telling Salon, "Our studies in mice predict a 30-50% increase in Parkinson's risk for those moderately to severely infected with the Alpha variant. While on an individual basis this only changes a person's risk from 2% to 3% for developing Parkinson's, over the whole of the population we would expect to see millions more develop Parkinon's disease than would have if not for their COVID infection."

Novel Rutgers vaccine may provide more durable protection against SARS-CoV-2 by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. "Animal studies indicate that a new COVID-19 vaccine developed at Rutgers may provide more durable protection against SARS-CoV-2 and its emerging variants than existing vaccines."

https://www.covidresilience.org/community-voices via adrian_turtle in comments.

Links: Art and music and miscellaneous

Project 562. "Created by Matika Wilbur, Project 562 is a multi-year national photography project dedicated to photographing over 562 federally recognized Tribes, urban Native communities, Tribes fighting for federal recognition and Indigenous role models in what is currently-known-as the United States, resulting in an unprecedented repository of imagery and oral histories that accurately portrays contemporary Native Americans."

Yixing Pottery from the Irving Collection. A gorgeous variety of hand-shaped teapots made of yixing clay. via jesse_the_k.

What Happens When You Speak by Dr. Geoff Lindsey. MRI video of the mouth and throat of a person speaking, and then Dr. Lindsey explaining how the different parts work together to produce speech.

Neli Andreeva singing Ne Hodi Momne Le. The community choir I'm participating in is learning a version of this song with harmonies by Sestri Kušlevi, and this solo version is also amazing. Neli Andreeva is justly famous for her ornaments in Rhodope Bulgarian singing.

Dreaming in Welsh by Pamela Petro.

Hiraeth. It’s pronounced “here-eyeth” (roll the “r”) and it’s a Welsh word. It has no exact cognate in English. The best we can do is “homesickness,” but that’s like the difference between hardwood and laminate. Homesickness is hiraeth-lite.

Love and Justice in the Streets. A local organization helping homeless folks.

A list of books to learn Ruby and Rails by Akshay Khot. These aren't the books I used, but it looks like a useful list for recommending books to others.