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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Wow. Answers in Genesis found 3 astronauts who are ignorant wankers. They are so proud.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/24/astronauts-can-be-total-dumbasses-too/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKBi2OyHIXo

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

simple truths

https://universeodon.com/@Swede1952/114551465108035872

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ElenaLonergan@aus.social ("Dr Elena Lonergan") wrote:

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It wasn’t easy to choose, but I voted for Loribelle Spirovski’s “Finger painting of William Barton” in the Archibald Prize this year.

I love this painting for its looseness and freedom, the way it lets the light in.

#ArchibaldPrize #AGNSW #painting #art #Sydney

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

If you are married or in a long term relationship living with someone for years how did you meet your partner?

(Pick whatever fits best)
(Not everyone needs or wants this kind of relationship but I'm curious about how those who did and found it paired up.)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

Colleges are canceling affinity graduations due to anti-DEI policies. Here is how students are preserving the traditions
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/24/us/affinity-graduation-college-dei-trump?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into US News @us-news-CNN

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

With (not just) AI companies and their ignorance of copyright/authorship rules and laws, digital distribution of works becomes less and less attractive for creators and artists. So I am going back more and more to physical artefacts, which is also not ideal, seeing how artists are squeezed by publishers. But at least there is no DRM (Digital Rights Management) that turns ownership into licensing. I buy books, vinyls, CDs, DVDs and sculptures, paintings. Brings me closer to the artist/creator.

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

some hacks are historical

https://mastodon.social/@jockr/114562488582081193

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jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:

In Memory Of Ed Smylie, Whose Famous Hack Saved The Apollo 13 Crew | Hackaday

https://hackaday.com/2025/05/18/in-memory-of-ed-smylie-whose-famous-hack-saved-the-apollo-13-crew/

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

ditto

https://masto.hackers.town/@X00001/114560022353224147

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X00001@masto.hackers.town ("Radio Wave Girl🗼") wrote:

no sorry i dont really use instagram, i can contact you via ouija board, spirit box, fluctuations in temperature, flickering lights, and certain rituals. i am also on mastodon.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
uk@pubeurope.com ("UK") wrote:

https://www.europesays.com/uk/126692/ SDSC Launches Societal Computing and Innovation Lab #Computing #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Here's another one. Croatia.

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

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Y'all—stop donating to Harvard. Just Stop.

Harvard has a $53 BILLION dollar endowment—the largest in the world.

THEY. WILL. BE. FINE.

If you want to donate money, donate to orgs defending immigrant rights & representing those the Trump regime has disappeared. Donate to reproductive rights orgs who provide women the critical healthcare they need. Donate to food banks as 1 in 6 Americans are food insecure.

Donating to the wealthiest University on Earth is not "resistance," it's just stupid.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Aligned with the core argument here, the iPhone will be a *better product* when competent and capable browsers are finally allowed – something Apple continue to fight tooth-and-nail to prevent:

https://hypercritical.co/2025/05/09/apple-turnover

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Drink Special @ Exploration of Bass: Luci -- Habeas Corpus is Woke: Tequila, Tropical Red Bull, and a splash of cherry

Attachments:

• gifv: 30f2ef349e7d4ec2.mp4

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kabootie@oldbytes.space ("Kabootie computey!") wrote:

I put together a build farm for the Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard software project I'm working on right now, and if I say so myself it's quite cute.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:

📝 A clarified stance on blocking AI crawlers #Development #Webdev #Ai #Tech

My clarified stance on blocking AI crawlers is this: block all of them. I won't speak for everyone on the matter (I can't), but feel ok walling them all off.

https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/a-clarified-stance-on-blocking-ai-crawlers

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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.

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ann3nova@corteximplant.com ("anne.💫") wrote:

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

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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/

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ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:

oh no poor babies 😪

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?