Interesting Links for 15-05-2021

[andrewducker]

A New Brain Implant Translates Thoughts of Writing Into Text at 90 Characters Per Minute

(tags:writing brain )

Delaying second Pfizer vaccines to 12 weeks significantly increases antibody responses in older people .

(tags:vaccine GoodNews pandemic )

Explaining Labour's relationship to other parties

(tags:labour politics UK )

Indian variant more transmissible and will become dominant strain in UK

(tags:pandemic Doom )

"Autism is a Spectrum" Doesn't Mean What You Think

(tags:autism viaLizzieCassMaran )

An Irish take on Scotland, Independence, and the EU

(tags:Scotland independence Europe )

Bringing forward second jab reduces long-term effectiveness of vaccine - but the trade-off is worth it in an emergency

(tags:vaccine pandemic uk )

Anyone who thinks the centre-left needs to "get a handle on immigration" in order to defeat the rise of the far-right clearly hasn't heard of New Labour.

(tags:immigration fascism OhForFucksSake labour )

Comments

[alithea]

That autism article is really really excellent, thank you for bringing it to my attention.

[andrewducker]

My pleasure!

[calimac]

3) The first few entries under "Explaining Labour's relationship to other parties" sound very Bevanite. The rest of it less so.

6) Good overview on Scottish independence prospects. So it seems to me there's three main issues that need to be resolved: what would be the status of the Anglo-Scottish border? (a Scotland with frictionless trade with the EU but not with England would have a lot of adjusting to do); what currency would it use? (remaining tied to the UK pound is not a long-term solution); would it be able to rejoin the EU? (to be stuck in line behind Montenegro would be pretty humiliating).

[andrewducker]

There isn't actually a queue to join the EU (that was the one part that annoyed me in the article). But there definitely is a process which can take years.

[andrewducker]

While I think of it, you will almost certainly find Twitter threads easier to read it you use https://threadreaderapp.com/

(Which I was using for every thread, but people can use themselves if they fancy)

[snippy]

Some people block it on the grounds that it collects and uses people's IP without consent, and adds advertising to make money from it.

[trailer_spot]

Interesting article about the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. So far the guidance here is for about 4-6 six weeks between the shots, regardless of age. It also raises the question how big the effect might be among younger people.

I read your entry about your first jab. I hope you're done with the side effects for now. It really seems impossible to predict how one reacts to the vaccination. I'll probably have to wait another month or two to find out myself.

[andrewducker]

I hope they get to you soon.

Today I've mostly just felt like I have a cold (except without a running nose). No energy, bit nauseous, ache all over. Napped for two hours after lunch which isn't at all like me.