Good Things Friday (354) and Link Love
December 12, 2025
1. PiC brought home soft, delicious and free chocolate chip walnut cookies!
2. I met a friend’s 3 month old puppy and it was also delicious 😋 snuggly and sleepy and puppy breath which is both wonderful and stinky. It was the shot of puppy therapy I desperately needed.
From Marisa Kabas: Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
Those are really high false positive rates: Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects
Yeah, no kidding (I deal with AI slop literally daily at work now. I hate this garbage): Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
Can’t speak to methodology but this seems like a good thing for those of us who vaccinate regularly.
“We conducted a territory-wide observational study of 1,737,475 adults in Hong Kong during the BA.4/5-dominant period (November 2022–January 2023).
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Vaccination before infection consistently yielded superior protection compared to infection-first scenarios, with infection-first CoronaVac recipients facing 97–141 % higher subsequent infection risk.”
What the: South Carolina measles outbreak is ‘accelerating,’ driving hundreds into quarantine