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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay (she/her) 🇪🇺") wrote:

ネコ飛出し注意 (neko tobidashi chūi) Means “watch for cats darting out” and we need more signs like this.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ann3nova@corteximplant.com ("anne.💫") wrote:

https://retrogametalk.com/threads/the-ballad-of-the-wind-fish-a-history-of-japanese-female-composers-in-gaming.9290/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
TomSullivan@mstdn.social ("Tom Sullivan") wrote:

AOC polls as "the voice and face of the Democratic Party."

"So you’re telling me that the Democratic Party does not have a place for her in the leadership?" asks flummoxed Joe Scarborough. "Do you know how insane that is?!"

"Categorically insane," says Giridharadas.
https://digbysblog.net/2025/05/23/the-face-of-the-party/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:

oh no poor babies 😪

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

@adamconover's newest video is fantastic. It starts off as an apology for a recent ad he made for World, Sam Altman's crappy crypto project, then pivots into one of the best and funniest videos about World I've seen yet. Watch it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDsSg-Xm1ms #World #Worldcoin

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jilleduffy wrote:

AI uses too many em dashes because HUMANS use too many em dashes

It learns from what humans have already published on the internet (I'm talking about mass-market generative AI here)

As an editor, I have worked with exceptional writers who wrote clear and cogent arguments...using 30 em dashes, none of which were necessary and all of which were distracting

Boosted by jwz:
gabe_sky@infosec.exchange ("Gabe Schuyler") wrote:

Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

FBI Visits Me Over Manifesto - Ken Klippenstein:

"“We want to know about the timeline: how you knew about the manifesto before anyone else, and if you were in touch with the shooter beforehand.”"

Chilling. https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-visits-me-over-manifesto

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers | The Guardian:

"In several cases identified by the Guardian, nursing home residents who needed immediate hospital care under the program failed to receive it, after interventions from UnitedHealth staffers. At least one lived with permanent brain damage following his delayed transfer," https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/unitedhealth-nursing-homes-payments-hospital-transfers

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@treehouse.systems wrote:

During the public debate surrounding the slaying of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, many Very Serious People TM insisted that it was hyperbolic to say United Health and medical insurance companies like it, were themselves in the business of murdering Americans for profit. While obviously their denials were disingenuous on a structural level in a society where providing (or not providing) access to life-saving medical care is one of the most profitable industries in the US economy, but as it turns out they were flat out wrong in a literal sense too. How do we know? Because recent investigations into UnitedHealth management practices show the company was straight up bribing nursing homes to deny their customers hospital care and pressure elderly residents to sign "do not resuscitate" orders; even if they wanted to use the coverage they paid for to you know, not die.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/unitedhealth-nursing-homes-payments-hospital-transfers

Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers

"The secret bonuses were just one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its nursing home initiative.

Internal emails show, for example, that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had “left” to use up on nursing home patients.

The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays.

Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive."

So, there's a term for a situation when you just let someone in a medical emergency die because its more profitable for your company, and that term is "homicidal negligence." Which itself, is a fancy way of describing what any normal person would call murder. If you or I were caught doing this kinda shit at our (hypothetical, I assure you) Airbnb rental property, we'd be going to jail for a long fucking time. Because UnitedHealth is a giant corporation, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and has enough lobbyists to ensure no US Senator ever dines alone again however, it's just "efficient business operations" in the eyes of many free market fundamentalists and investor class sociopaths. Folks, they literally gamified a plot to enlist nursing homes to murder our grandparents for money; this isn't a wayward comment on an earnings call, these unhinged mutherfuckers had bonus tiers for nursing homes that kept hospital visits low at any cost. In a just world, folks should absolutely go to fucking prison for this homicidal bullshit, but we do not live in a just world and since our entire society is built to service capitalist extraction and the rich people who do it, I'm not gonna hold my breath while I wait for justice.

What I will say however is bougie maggot bootlickers can kiss my puckered asshole, because you can't stop reality from being real, or folks getting killed for profit by corporations, from calling that what it is: murder. The fact is that no company in the history of capitalist society ever created any wealth; they merely extract it from our shared environment and labor class folks like you and I. If a company like UnitedHealth figures out that letting your grandma die is good for their share prices, that's exactly what they're going to do; don't let disingenuous muppets who benefit from this system tell you it's too complicated for you to understand, and this practice isn't precisely what you think it is. These folks have made killing us for money at various speeds, a profitable industry; the least they could do is stop pissing in our faces when we point out that CEOs and investors have more bodies on themselves than you'll find in a pauper's cemetery.

#Capitalism #Murder #UnitedHealth #HomicidalNegligence #ClassWar #ProfitMotive #Corporations #Oligarchy #NursingHomes #Flak #Seniors #USNews #Propaganda #ForProfitHealthcare

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
tychotithonus@infosec.exchange ("Royce Williams") wrote:

Notepad.exe wasn't "barely maintained", Ars Technica.

It was feature complete and stable.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I think these turned out pretty well. Croatia.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 @Ameboid
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Just in time for Memorial Day, a hefty stack of New Books and ARCs that have come to the Scalzi Compound! What here would you like to have for your long weekend reading?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:

Turns out some old (and new) friends were feeling the same way, so we got a crew together from the Old Days and we spun up a collective, got fiscal hosting with Raft Foundation (badasses!), and spent a couple of months building processes and testing ways to work and things to make, and now we're up:

https://unbreaking.org

We started with three pages we've been using to test and build our collaborative processes:

Equality at Work (part one): https://unbreaking.org/issues/equality-at-work-decimating-the-federal-workforce/

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Maybe we should stop making eletronic parts with symmetry. :thonking:

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

It's amazing the confusion and troubleshooting headaches that occur when relays or switches are installed 180 degrees rotated. 😆

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Jony Ive and Sam Altman: I Beg You Not to Make a Voice Device - Business Insider:

"The idea of saying, “Hey Meta, take a picture” to activate my Ray-Bans while at a Benson Boone concert makes me want to bite my cyanide capsule. If I ever start using Siri out loud at my desk in the office, I fully accept that HR can fire me on the spot."

Lol https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-jony-ive-openai-voice-device-2025-5

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

These two stories were published days from one another.

Klarna lays off a bunch of people, then divides its revenue by *less* employees than it had. Finally, it publishes what is essentially a marketing piece, claiming it's making more money per employee thanks to AI.

@TechCrunch, without a shred of critical thinking, or apparently the ability to do basic math, publishes the claim as is. LOL

The media are so complicit I honestly don't know how these editors sleep at night.

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I am just plain doomed

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
simonbp@social.linux.pizza wrote:

I'm glad this is finally out, and the most important part is not that it's a very distant dwarf planet (though that is very cool), but rather that its existence in that orbit completely blows a hole in the Batygin & Brown "Planet 9" hypothesis. So, there almost certainly isn't a hidden distant giant planet in our Solar System.

(Which quite a few of us, including @sundogplanets and myself, have argued was the case for years, but this rather confirms it)
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-extreme-cousin-pluto-dwarf-planet.amp

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cathos@merveilles.town wrote:

Maintenance is art, is meditation, is the foundation of life.
We rebuild what is stripped away.
We reshape what is broken.
We can carry with or leave behind the things that no longer help us.
And we can do without, for awhile.
But to live is to resist. For awhile.

I enjoy taking care of the objects that keep me afloat.
I enjoy taking care of my spirit, too.
I enjoy taking care of my friends.

I struggle, though, to take care of my body and mind.
And without those, the others fall away.
Uneven legs of the stool on which I sit.
The table on which I work.
Uneven lines, snarled and caught and snapping when the breeze comes.
That is illness. Rot. Rust. Decay.

And I resist. By maintaining, as early and well as I can.
First, the body.
Then the spirit.
But don't forget the mind.

Then my tools. My friends, when they are more ill than I. And all the rest of the world.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
clayton@social.coop ("Clayton Dewey") wrote:

TGIFFFS

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Toxic masculinity is many things, and in this case it's just... silly.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/congressman-tells-fox-news-i-dont-drink-out-of-a-straw-brother-thats-what-the-women-in-my-house-do/

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

surprisingly annoying: programmatically getting the formatted text out of a Google Sheet. i ended up having to do a silly workaround with an export-to-HTML-table (which is of course itself all kinds of quirky)

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)") wrote:

At the weekend, a group of trans women protested topless at the Scottish Parliament about the recent Supreme Court ruling that the Equality Act defines women as "biological women". The police couldn't arrest them, because to arrest them for showing their breasts would be to define them as women (it's not illegal for men to be topless). And, of course, the right-wing press that reported on it censored their breasts, thereby making their point for them.

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

We're making the final preparations for the 2025 Web Engines Hackfest. This year is the biggest by far, with 150 people attending to discuss the web platform over 3 days.
Big thanks to our sponsors @igalia, @mullvadnet, Huawei & Arm who have made this event possible! 🙏
https://webengineshackfest.org/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I miss the sound of the waves.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
gutenberg_org ("Project Gutenberg") wrote:

Your Brain on Books: Scientists Reveal What Happens in Our Heads When We Read

By Livia Pereira

https://mymodernmet.com/research-brain-reading/

Original paper:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763425001666?via%3Dihub

#books #neuroscience

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ivy@social.lol ("ivy turner") wrote:

reminder: all transphobes are lonely