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In the 12–0 vote, the committee of advisors selected by anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. adopted a recommendation for adults 65 and older and people aged 6 months to 64 years to get a COVID-19 vaccine based on shared clinical decision-making. After this story was published, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopted the recommendation, which will broadly maintain requirements that federal and private health insurance plans cover COVID-19 vaccines at no cost.

But the panel today also heard from outside sources who presented unvetted evidence and associations, suggesting COVID-19 vaccines cause cancer and nefariously linger in the body. The members themselves brought their own conspiracy theories and bunkum to the table.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 14 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Crispng adds:

Court documents show Ruth was previously charged with stalking, trespassing, and prowling at night, but had no felony convictions.

 

The shooter was stationed inside the house and immediately began firing with an AR-15-style rifle, Barker said. 

Investigators also discovered a black lab shot dead in the basement of the house that belonged to the ex-girlfriend of the shooter.

[The ex girlfriend] also told investigators that she believed Ruth had set her pick-up truck on fire while it was sitting in the home's driveway in August, according to an affidavit.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thanks. Sounds to me like a person who reasonable gun control laws would have prevented from gun ownership.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Aljazeera has a scant few additional details:

Police said the officers were there to serve a warrant. At a news conference, Christopher Paris, the state police commissioner, explained that they were following up on an investigation that began the day before, but he shared few other details. “The general heading of that investigation, I would say,

From the original article:

“This kind of violence is not OK. We need to do better as a society,” Shapiro said.

Seems like quite a juxtaposition there. I wonder what the "disturbance" was, and what de-escalation approaches were attempted.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 8 points 6 days ago

Bummer, I had a pretty high opinion of RPI up until now. I would say 'wait and see what results get published,' but we saw how that worked out with the elections, and I can't imagine anyone would take that money without knowing the result they're expected to deliver.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Better South Korea than a concentration camp, but all these headlines calling it "home" is misleading, their homes are presumably near their workplace.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Misleading title, "flown home" actually means taken "to South Korea on a chartered flight".

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Use polars, or some framework that's been built with performance from the start?

I have optimized pandas notebooks before, but it seems a bit like a foundation of sand.

plus a GPU-powered drop-in accelerator, cudf.pandas, that delivers order-of-magnitude speedups with no code changes.

Don’t have a GPU on your machine? No problem—you can use cudf.pandas for free in Google Colab, where GPUs are available and the library comes pre-installed.

Ah, I see why NVIDIA is writing about it.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ballotopedia is not so ad encrusted and has this breakdown:

Wu has said she would prioritize reducing dependence on cars. Wu has highlighted her record on public transportation, including working with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority to eliminate slow zones, as well as increasing ridership with fare-free bus lines, installing speed humps, and using technology to reduce congestion.[9] Kraft has said he wouldn't prioritize reducing dependence on cars and instead would focus on fixing roads and sidewalks, as well as temporarily pause bike lane construction to conduct an audit on the efficiency of proposed bike lanes.[18]