By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/06/2026It turned out that a small number of people have these heart defects, and that the defects themselves are quite harmless, provided that you are never put in a giant, high-intensity centrifuge. 3/ 1492
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/06/2026Given that most of us will never be put in one of these centrifuges, it is quite possible to live your whole life without ever knowing that you have this lurking vulnerability. 4/ 2360
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/06/2026But once you build one of these machines and start shoving millions of people through it, you're bound to catch some of those rare people, and they will have cardiac episodes that are scary at a minimum, and are at the worst *fatal*. 5/ 2402
Sarah Richards @sarahrichards.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Not unlike the shameless use of statistics. If your risk of suffering from a potentially deadly disease “halves” from 2% to 1% by adopting a new behaviour/drug (or “doubles” from 1% to 2% without it), how genuinely necessary is it for the average human in real life? 262
