Brian F. Chu

@brylon.bsky.social

Followers

169

Following

Posts

Game developer. Martial arts. Regenerative Ag. Climate science.
Alaskan raised by wolves.
Love the whole world 🌍☮️🖖

Posts Replies Media

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

a ruthless predator, alligators will sometimes use jazz hands to lure musical theatre people to their deaths

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

Behold, the Cool S Sword.

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

Study Finds COVID-19 May Damage Vision In a study in mice, researchers found that the COVID-19 virus can infect the retina even when the virus doesn’t enter through the eyes. www.managedhealthcareexecutive.com/view/study-f...

Study Finds COVID-19 May Damage Visionwww.managedhealthcareexecutive.com In a study in mice, researchers found that the COVID-19 virus can infect the retina even when the virus doesn’t enter through the eyes.

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

A new gold standard review of 100 studies finds: - masks are effective in reducing transmission of respiratory diseases - N95 respirators are significantly more effective than medical or cloth masks - mask mandates are effective in reducing community transmission journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

This is what's known as 'psychological distance'. It's a common human defense mechanism to perceive risks as far off in space, or time, or relevance: when we don't understand how they affect us personally, and when we don't know what to do about them. I call this the "head to heart gap" ...

Who Americans think will be hurt by climate change - Future Generations / Plants and animals (most hurt) - Developing countries - The US (in the future) - The US (now) - Themselves personally (least hurt) climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizatio...

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

big telecom is back on their shit, creating fake consumer groups to spread lies and disinformation about hugely popular community-owned broadband networks

How “dark money” groups help private ISPs lobby against municipal broadbandarstechnica.com "Social welfare" groups spread industry talking points against public broadband.

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

There's a little kid in The Beer Garden who likes to tell me facts that aren't really facts and so then I just "well actually" him and it feels great. I see why men do that.

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

A deadly coronavirus has resurfaced in Saudi Arabia, killing at least one patient At least two of the MERS-CoV infections involved human-to-human transmission, some researchers are concerned that the outbreak could cause a new pandemic. www.salon.com/2024/05/11/a...

A deadly coronavirus has resurfaced in Saudi Arabia, killing at least one patientwww.salon.com First detected in 2012, MERS has about a 36% fatality rate and is similar to the virus that causes COVID-19

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

It’s really funny reading the Jack interview and having him be like “people just came over to Bluesky from Twitter and wanted to use Bluesky like Twitter”, as opposed to protocol enthusiasts I guess. Just people super into protocols.

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

Thank you Tango Gameworks.

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

⚠️ BREAKING WHO Reports three new human cases of MERS-CoV including one death between 10 and 17 April 2024, by the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). www.who.int/emergencies/...

In the USA, when we have a hostage situation, we don't usually shoot every civilian passing by and the hostages to get the bad guys. Or bomb the building they are in. Sorry just thinking out loud.

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

Every time tech companies release a demo that absolutely blows everyone's mind and launches a million think-pieces about how industries will change, there's always a short piece that comes out weeks or months later that reveals the demo was basically made up. Case in point:

Turns Out That Extremely Impressive Sora Demo... Wasn’t Exactly Made With Sorafuturism.com A viral two-minute short titled "Air Head," created in part by using OpenAI's video-generating Sora tool, required a good bit human editing.

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

I'm trying a new diet where I eat a normal amount of food

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

Technologies that allow us to do more with less (read: are efficient uses of resources) are the shit, my jam, and cool as hell. Technologies which seemingly need more and more resources (energy, compute cores, human labor) to do questionable things at best are whack and you shouldn't like them.

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

the highlight of bsky’s wikipedia article

There are a lot of great video games that have come out recently. Very exciting Q1 this year.

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

Today, we’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating, or opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data! Read more here for how this will affect your experience on Bluesky (in short: it won’t) and why this matters. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Bluesky: An Open Social Web - Blueskybsky.social Today, we’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating, or opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data.

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

Elections matter. Getting fair maps in WI is the direct result of a state supreme court race, and the willingness of the winning judge to not be intimidated by the threat of impeachment. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-most-i... donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-heads-...

Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) has signed new legislative maps into law, potentially loosening the GOP grip on power in Wisconsin state government for the first time in well over a decade.

Evers signs new maps into law, effectively ending Wisconsin redistricting lawsuitwww.wpr.org Gov. Tony Evers has signed new legislative maps into law, potentially loosening the GOP grip on power in Wisconsin state government for the first time in well over a decade.

The most important election this year is happening in Wisconsindonmoynihan.substack.com Will the billionaire funders of election deniers get their pick?

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

Doctor on possible revision to CDC's COVID guidelines: "Frankly, there's been no change in the science. This is about what corporate America wants."

Doctor on possible revision to CDC's COVID guidelines: "No change in the science"www.cbsnews.com The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may revise its COVID-19 isolation guidelines to more closely match those for flu and other respiratory diseases, according to a report by the Washington ...

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

they should make cigarettes that are good for you

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

This image of a polar bear sleeping on a bed carved into an iceberg is the winner of the 2023 Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award. British amateur photographer Nima Sarikhani, who captured the stunning moment after 3 days on an expedition vessel off Norway’s Svalbard archipelago.

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

Reupping for any newskies that may come along, welcome! (Not my creation, but some good tips here)

@gryphonmyers.bsky.social 👋

Hope everyone had a happy Christmas. Mine was great

Where my Path of Exile Gamers at?

Reposted by

Brian F. Chu

More than half of Indonesia's protected coral areas look set to suffer severe bleaching every year by 2044, researchers warn

More than half of Indonesia's protected coral areas look set to suffer severe bleaching every year by 2044, researchers warntheconversation.com Severe bleaching is forecast to hit 12 Indonesian marine protected areas every year by 2030 – then spread to other areas. Here’s what locals, experts and the government say we need to do to save them.