I feel like neo-Nazi trolls feeling emboldened enough to show up en masse to heckle at tech conferences amounts to a kind of permeation of the blood-brain barrier. Our community needs to develop an improved immune system.
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Replying to @mattblaze
The blood-brain barrier is not mediated by the immune system :)
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Replying to @marabou
Yes, but if something is permeating your blood-brain barrier, your immune system better be ready.
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Replying to @mattblaze @marabou
Actually, the blood-brain barrier prevents the immune system from operating in the brain entirely. there's a separate system, the neuroimmune system:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroimmune_system …
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Thanks to both of you. I posted this rather personal thread about my interactions with nazis in the hopes that people would use it as an opportunity to school me about human physiology.
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On the bright side, the brain/Twitter barrier appears to be holding up magnificently.
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