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Scientist fired from Winnipeg disease lab intentionally worked to benefit China: CSIS report

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  • I sure hope people are sharing this research with Zimbabwe. They've got endemic marburg virus to deal with. The frank truth is, for something like Ebola, sequencing it isn't going to change how you weaponize it. You weaponize it by breeding it and then blowing it up at low heat so it spreads over a large area. Any contact with it leads to infection, it's a nasty bug.

    This is different, than say, anthrax weaponization. You can go to cattle farms, dig in the dirt, and culture it, and you will eventually isolate anthrax. That strain, however, won't really go into spore form well and won't be super pathogenic. You'll need to infect a bunch of sheep with it and try to get a better strain, like they did in my hometown at Ft. Detrick. Then you use specific drying methods to make it turn into weapons grade spores. That's why specific strains are important with anthrax and you could theoretically use something like CRISPR to make your own that's better than what you can find digging in the dirt.

    • Scientist fired from Winnipeg disease lab intentionally worked to benefit China: CSIS report

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  • I seriously cannot parse these two statements

    The document show the service had a more rosy initial assessment of Qiu's motivation, noting in spring of 2020 that she could be "susceptible ... based on the belief in the power of science to help humanity."

    But as the investigation went deeper, CSIS's concerns deepened. A few months later, CSIS wrote Qiu was using the level 4 lab in Canada "as a base to assist China to improve its capability to fight highly-pathogenic pathogens" and "achieved brilliant results."

    They're the same picture

    Like I get it, you want to secure medical research. And she was likely inappropriately sharing unpublished data against lab policy. But the tone shift they're trying to make doesn't connect for me.

    • A former US surgeon general says he went to the ER for dehydration and ended up with a $5,000 bill. He called the healthcare system 'broken.'

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  • He got more done than he said. He likely went in for syncope (since he's a doctor and that's one of the few things that might scare them) and they did an ECG and possibly something else (particularly if he requested it). That said, 5k is still ridiculous.

    • Frozen embryos shouldn't be considered people, two-thirds of Americans say

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  • I swear to god, theological debates about how many angels dance on a pinhead make more sense. Quickening as being more than a clump of cells made more sense and those motherfuckers came up with that nonsense when they didn't even have a microscope.

    • You're on your death bed, the end credits music to your life starts to play. What song plays?

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    • Bitcoin miners win legal battle to keep mum about energy use [US]

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  • temporary restraining order?

    It's just a type of pretrial injunction. You need to show that irreparable harm would come if the DOE did this. It's helpful to have the case look like you'd win. Since the judge already said that it looks like they'd win, he'd likely extend it all the way to the end of the trial.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/temporaryrestrainingorder

    • Leah Rowe, the creator of Libreboot, stole my work.

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  • Yikes.

    • France's Macron says sending troops to Ukraine cannot be ruled out

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  • Yo, but seriously. If you like having your head in your ass, you should do it. Empower yourself and don't let anyone yuck your yum.

    • Hackers Leak 2.5M Private Plane Owners’ Data Linked to LA Intl. Airport Breach

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  • Kim Stanley Robinson is likely one of the best sci fi authors alive. You generally can't go wrong with his stuff.

    • Researchers have developed a Very Big Disc™ that can store up to 200 terabytes of data and may represent a return to optical media for long term storage

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  • Seems the researcher's concept is to have data on both sides of the disc and have it sitting in a datacenter. I don't really buy the use case.

    • Six Times More Children and Women Killed in Palestine in Five Months Than in Ukraine in Two years

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    • Hobbycraft refused to sell paint to black man as ‘he may use it for graffiti’

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  • Uh huh.

    • Hobbycraft refused to sell paint to black man as ‘he may use it for graffiti’

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  • What, you wanna check the tag on my Fred Perry shirt?

    • Hackers Leak 2.5M Private Plane Owners’ Data Linked to LA Intl. Airport Breach

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    • RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel announces her resignation

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    • RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel announces her resignation

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  • It's actually a normal sized gavel and she has a persecution complex about her height. She joined the Republican party so she could hurt others life she's been hurt

    • Navalny died from blood clot, Ukrainian intelligence chief says

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  • Being unjustly confined in a prison is still a direct contributing cause to a stroke or pulmonary embolism. There's a reason they still make folks in solitary in the US do "yard time."

    • Hobbycraft refused to sell paint to black man as ‘he may use it for graffiti’

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  • I'm an anti racist skinhead who's also worked in retail. I'm not at the point that I accept that this wasn't a tantrum, but I accept there might be discriminatory elements. I don't really know how carding works in the UK, but in the US if someone asks you're not getting service if all you've got on you is your cell phone.

    • Hobbycraft refused to sell paint to black man as ‘he may use it for graffiti’

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  • I do, but making a big deal over his white grandad not getting carded is a bit much for me.

    • Hobbycraft refused to sell paint to black man as ‘he may use it for graffiti’

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  • Arguing with staff until your son cries because you don't have ID on you generally makes me think of you as an asshole.