Metformin shown to prevent long COVID across risk groups in multiple randomised trials when taken during or shortly after acute infection with SARS-CoV-2.
Source: https://archive.md/dsi5t
Study: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaf700/8444410?login=false
The @europeanOSacademy‘s Excellence in Open Source Award 2026 goes to @gregkh #opensource #OSAwards #eosawards26, presented by @bagder. #linux
I don't disagree that we are at the stage of having overseas conferences on how to protect US cultural heritage and historical records from a regime bent on erasing them, but it's still striking to see. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/2026/mar/state-united-states-safeguarding-knowledge-when-memory-becomes-political
Good evening 🌔
How are you dear friends? How was your day? How’s your health?
I went on a long walk with my father this morning, it was a very beautiful moment.
You know I’m an information technology engineering student. Thanks to donations, my tuition fees aren’t a worry anymore for now.
I am now entering my fourth year at the university, and there is a graduation project that requires me to have my own laptop in order to graduate.
Can you help? 💲🔁♥️
👉 https://gofund.me/e4c7d56a4
#Gaza #Palestine
@khaled
بالتوفيق والنجاح ان شاء الله ✌️
today i'm back to reading this paper by @grimalkina about contest cultures and brilliance traps in software and I'm going to try to live tweet some notes because reading papers is hard
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/2gej5_v2
(1/?)
this contest culture thread from yesterday really reminds me of how much I loved the Recurse Center social rules https://www.recurse.com/social-rules, it feels a lot of them are tricks for combatting contest culture and making a space that's good for learning
A girl who was part of a student-led anti-ICE protest at a school in Nebraska was hit by a vehicle displaying a Trump flag. https://www.ketv.com/article/nebraska-student-hit-by-vehicle-fremont-high-school-demonstration/70193890
Good evening 🌔
How are you dear friends? How was your day? How’s your health?
I went on a long walk with my father this morning, it was a very beautiful moment.
You know I’m an information technology engineering student. Thanks to donations, my tuition fees aren’t a worry anymore for now.
I am now entering my fourth year at the university, and there is a graduation project that requires me to have my own laptop in order to graduate.
Can you help? 💲🔁♥️
👉 https://gofund.me/e4c7d56a4
#Gaza #Palestine
Alright, my second Behind the Scenes video for @blueridgeruby is out!
In this one, I chat with my friend @adrian about Ruby Passports (the origin story, how to setup an embassy, and future possibilities).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeUD4de884s
I’ve just filled in the Python Developers Survey 2026 ✅
If you use Python at work or in your projects, it’s worth a few minutes. Python is a community-driven project, and this is one of the ways our voices actually get heard. 📢
Please take part 👇
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/01/your-python-your-voice-join-python.html?m=1
Any reputable journalism organization would fire someone who manipulated a photo this way; many have done exactly that. It’s a shame our government can’t adhere to such a basic ethical and moral code too. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/beware-government-using-image-manipulation-propaganda
See, that's the thing.
The current US government isn't a government, it's a mafia organization.
They actively spurn truth, the rule of law, and any kind of decency. All they want is power and riches.
Everyone who does not want to see this is in denial.
With all the tiktok drama I have been telling people Mastodon is still here and kicking!! I love this app and I really think the decentralized model is the best for social media.
Still, people don’t want to join! What do you think Mastodon’s biggest barriers are to courting new users? What could be done to improve the product and grow the user base in a positive way?
On March 2, we are going to try something different. Something in addition to the regular twice/year FediForum un-conference (so don't worry).
We will run an un-**workshop**, on a topic that many in the community have told us is very pressing for them:
How do we grow the Open Social Web?
When Elon bought Twitter now over three years ago, and every time X has been rocked by scandal since, many people expected a big exodus to decentralized social media platforms based on open protocols.
1/3
@taylorlorenz
Have you signed up to this?
https://mastodon.social/@fediforum/115934767765808123
@401matthall
@farah Wow. I didn't expect that!
I remember defending him to my siblings as a kid! I always identified with him so much. It wasn't depression, or even sad. He just wanted to do his own thing!
@minego @401matthall Right? “I’ll do it, but I will not enjoy it” has been my motto for the longest time. It’s okay to not be excited about everything.
My girlfriend is amazing! While out grocery shopping, she texts me "The question is, how much do you need this?".
I respond "Yeah, I'd unironically wear that."
She comes home and tosses me this badass t-shirt.
I spend an hour and a half later that night cutting it up and tying it back together.
*Poof* new tank in my favorite shirts drawer.
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Before y'all are like "Wtf Alice, Twilight??" —I just rewatched all five of them with my other girlfriend, and they are all amazing movies...for learning how to spot every possible red flag in a relationship. And I love them. Besides, Alice is great.
Pay-once software users demanding constant updates is the equivalent of buying a book and getting mad the author won’t keep adding chapters.
@Daojoan Problem is that almost all software; including OS are shipped unfinished and semi-broken. I'm very willing to buy software, pay for upgrades but not when the product is unfinished. And IF I decide to buy an "Early Access" Software/Game - in other words; when I am a software-tester that is going to be unpaid. Then ... there needs to be some other benefit.
I'm very willing to pay for software; pay for upgrades - but then it needs to work. And theese days it very often does not.
@nartagnan
Ils devaient serrer les fesses, déjà qu'ils font tout pour que les gens ne se comparent pas leur paie brute annuelle et dilue leurs avantages.
Je veux bien ce que tu as noté
Le présentateur réstait positif, lui il vend des solutions RH et "y a déjà la transparence dans sa boite" (mais j'imagine qu'il y a que des ancien·nes RH, 3 commerciaux et 2 dev qui se connaissaient avant, donc zéro enjeu).
C'est dans les questions du chat qu'il y a eu des trucs cringe surtout.
Je te sors ça quand je peux je réalise que c'est sur le PC pro et je bosse pas avant mardi, je vois si je peux avant.
Oh for crying out loud! Keep your sick kids with fever at home and don’t send them to school!!
Mine caught something from certain someone and now barfed all over the bed in the middle of the night.
@farah 😱 Oh no!
What do you want to be when you grow up?
my two favorite tumblr posts about rene magritte
"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language.
...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k5nskatzhyxersjilvtnz4lh/post/3mdktthk2qi2b
