Confira a letra da música “Cassandra” de Taylor Swift
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https://daletra.com.br/taylor-swift/letra/cassandra.html

#iToldYouSo #cassandra

Nearly a day ago. Seems a lifetime.

https://mastodon.social/@Armadillosoft/114723848858813800

Taken this day, 2011, I iz sleepy pussy cat https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/5864849794/

Cassie, queen of the house, snoozing on her favourite cushion (if I put it upright on the sofa she'd pull it flat then give me a dirty look).

Horrible thoughts about this coming weekend keep bubbling up in my brain. Moreso than usual, and not just Америка. They scare me with their detail, their intensity, and their frequency.

It's not like my recurring "SpaceX boosters falling onto Google and Meta data centers" dream.

I'm pretty sure it's just my imagination, running away with me (to quote The Temptations), and I'll heave a huge sigh relief when Monday comes around and we're all still here.

In the meantime, I'm a mess.

I keep getting this crazy bad feeling that June 14 is very much not going to be a good day in Америка. The well publicized "No Kings Day" protests coinciding with Puppyfucker's parade... well... it doesn't take a Nostradamus.

I keep imagining something like Kent State, only exponentially worse, and "everywhere", not just California.

In my models, major crop failures will start happening before the end of this decade, and the 30s are going to see some hungry times.

Crops with very specific environmental requirements are already suffering.

To top it off, with fascism on the rise, the best I can hope for is not to be dragged off to a camp before I die on my own.

I must stress again that my math is questionable, at best.

Lots of warnings crying alarm, like the seven articles linked by this one https://cultmtl.com/2025/04/beware-canada-is-having-its-first-disinformation-election/ but few are getting the reach the issue deserves

HMM I WONDER WHY

TLDR: Cassandra letting you know to expect lean years ahead, if you live in an information economy.

I don't know if it's the SARS2. Maybe it's the attention economy; maybe it's accumulated exposure to heavy metals, plastics (equivalent to "an unused crayon" in each brain[1]), PFAS, etc.; maybe it's permanently elevated baseline CO2 levels; maybe it's something else.

But it's REALLY depressing to talk to people in their 30s and older who, in 2019, were clever.

Nurses, accountants, business leaders. Folks who were quite sharp!

Now it's a struggle to convey simple ideas, let alone to analyze. Inference, working memory set size and retention time, linguistic expressivity, even simple math (division by 2 kind of thing) - some of these folks have regressed back into early grade school, in terms of cognitive competence.

It's gonna be hard as this plays out, as these people will be cognitively disabled in place and won't want to leave jobs they are no longer able to perform. Institutions too perforated will collapse. These folks aren't going to want to do physical labour, and in many cases aren't healthy enough to now (THAT one IS the COVID, though, folks).

I see some of these institutions failing in real time right now. It burns more resources to slow fail but many of these folks will be unemployable.

And employment isn't everything! But labour IS how we survive as individuals and as a species, and this drastic reduction in summed output means lean years are ahead.

That's barring unlikely techno-miracles. Treatment that cures Long COVID cognitive disruption WOULD take a miracle though, because neurons don't really grow back much at all. Treatment that cures Long COVID fatigue and PEM would soften the fall.

If you're reading this, the info is not likely news, but sometimes it's hard to make out the forest for all the trees. You've heard Cassandra; sorry that you are cursed* to be unable to change it, but maybe you'll be able to suffer less as it happens.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00405-8
[*] (unless you're a medical researcher, in which case, THANK YOU and may your work bear fruit!!!)

"Ok, sure, as much as I couldn't believe you at the time, you were right about that, and that, and that, and that, ok, and that too, but I simply can't believe that this would ever happen."

Later: "Well, shit. I still don't believe you about the other thing."

"#Cassandra or Kassandra (Κασσάνδρα) in Greek mythology was a Trojan priestess dedicated to the god Apollo and fated by him to utter true prophecies but never to be believed."

So, I have the ability to see the future, warn people, and still not have things change. BTW, my mother's name was "#Cassandra".

Noi ggiovani facciamo binge watching! E stavolta ne è valsa la pena. Jetsons+1984+Frankestein in 6 puntate degne dei migliori episodi di Black Mirror. Ma ciò che dovrebbe terrorizzare (a parte un paio di frame) è la realistica rappresentazione dell'antitesi uomo-donna. Lavinia Wilson pazzesca nel doppio ruolo di vittima-carnefice/umana-macchina e location da sogno/incubo. Tutto su #Cassandra, la serie tedesca ambientata in una casa controllata dall’#AI | Elle Decor https://www.elledecor.com/it/lifestyle/a63740880/cassandra-mini-serie-tv-netflix-dove-e-stata-girata/ #TV

The H5N1 portion of @ducky 's roundup is going to make a lot of Cassandras tense up grimly:

"the US CDC looked at the blood of 150 cow veterinarians in 46 states and found that 3 of them (2%) had H5N1 antibodies in their blood.
None of them had known they had been infected.
Only one of them had contact with a known infected herd.
One of them only worked in two states that have had no known infected herds.
To spell it out: there were H5N1 infections that nobody knew about.

The vets reported using gloves and clothing covers, but not masks or goggles"

In Nevada,
"in a second dairy herd located close to the confirmed D1.1-infected one, they found a partial sequence consistent with D1.1;
both the farm with confirm D1.1 and the one with the partial match reported large bird die-offs nearby;
they saw a genetic mutation – a change of PB2 D701N, commonly associated with mammalian adaptation and which they have never seen in birds — in four separate dairy cows they looked at."

In my opinion: it could peter out. But has it? Or have counts of infections of herds and humans gone up? If this is early in an exponential upramp, can the coefficient even be guessed at, when what amounts to initiating events (mutations facilitating mammalian and human spread) are stochastic?

citations and more papers sumarized at https://covidbc.webfoot.com/2025/02/15/2025-02-15-general/

#Cassandra #Netflix #RottenTomatoes
"Netflix has just added a brand new original sci-fi series, and it’s one we seem to be able to put in the 'great' camp after some amount of misses in the past (though certainly a few hits)."

Netflix’s Best New Sci-Fi Horror Show Has A 100% Perfect Critic Score

'The best new show to hit Netflix in a while has arrived with perfect scores from critics, but it may not be for everyone, given its subject matter."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/02/14/netflixs-best-new-sci-fi-horror-show-has-a-100-perfect-critic-score/