Millions of people, particularly in African countries, have lost access to drug treatments, prevention and testing putting the idea of ending the Aids pandemic by 2030 out of reach
Religions and billionaires cause the reduction in medical help around the world. If the billionaires want to be the new world government, they should take care of their people then.
Meta allegedly buried research showing its products are harming users
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-allegedly-buried-research-showing-its-products-are-harming-users-152236073.html
Gosh. Who'd have thought that...
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... and if you'd like to know how I like your app, may I suggest you make it do what I came to ask it to do BEFORE you shove that request in my face? π
I'm unschooled in economics, including Jevons Paradox, but I've become convinced that there's a "law of computer science" to the effect that Moore's Law is more than canceled out by losses in signal-to-noise ratio. I've generally blamed the SNR losses on capitalism, via a belief that all business models eventually lose their innocence, but innocence seems too normative a concept for analytical use.
I'm reminded of some 15 years ago when Ford was using the advertising slogan (for their so-called "Eco Boost" engine) "the thrust of a V8 with the thirst of a V6." At the time, my first thought was, if they can do that, why can't they do the thrust of a V6 with the thirst of a 4 cylinder engine? Or better yet, the thrust of a 4 with the thirst of a lawn mower engine? I wondered, is the reason an engineering reason, perhaps the 6 vs. 4 part of the thirst/thrust curve is a less opportune tradeoff, or is it more of a marketing reason?
I think the one innovation that could change everything would be to make it illegal to βdeliberately or recklessly mislead the publicβ. There are too many half-truths and outright lies in both politics and the media. Democracy cannot survive that onslaught; if the electorate is fed misinformation their votes are meaningless, and democracy is dead. We have to start being honest with everyone!
only way to know what it means to clean a toilet is to clean a fucking toilet. government might not be any different. "the public won't preserve what it has no means of perceiving, understanding, and evaluating" -- maybe a system we can all take a shift in -- participate -- would do that. legislative work as jury duty.
@artlung Iβm a fan of citizenβs assemblies as done in, for example, Ireland: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizensβ¦ Itβs a formal structure for involving citizens in legislative work.
ABC journalist pressures Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia to admit that killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a mistake that must never happen again.
Trump is losing it! He thought this could just be swept under the rug, and then ABC has the audacity to bring reality into The Fake Office!
Journos can overlook ordinary people being targeted, oppressed and killed, but they get very upset if a journalist is subject to the same treatment. Hopefully, they will never let this atrocity be forgotten. MBS should be asked this question everywhere he goes.
This is why you should subscribe to 404media.co if you can afford to. This journalism collective makes a huge difference and puts out more investigative journalism per week than anyone else. infosec.exchange/@josephcox/11β¦
New: the airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting 404media.co/airlines-will-shutβ¦
The narrative Iβve not seen yet from our storied commentariat? The idea that many GOPers are voting for Epstein files because itβs a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card. It might rid them of Trump (who most never liked) and they can escape with minimal damage with their MAGAt base.
Mastodon friends I have a question. I had a business reason for opening an Instagram account on my phone. I checked the "no" box when it asked permission to access my contacts. When it loaded up I saw absolutely blood chilling suggested follows. An old friend I rarely correspond with. A Gee's Bend quilter I engaged to make a quilt 3 years ago. Creepy af. Can I just uninstall? Or should I delete the account? I seriously feel like lighting this phone on fire. #Mastodon #Instagram
You might be in *their* contact lists, which is how IG can connect the two of you. There's a lesson there, which is that a company can know all about who you've been connected with without even seeing your contact list.
Anyway, all these companies are evil. I wouldn't have their apps on my phone.
I deleted the account and uninstalled the app. The episode reminds me of a time my son was browsing on the family room computer and jumped like a scalded cat - a site he had navigated to had turned our camera on him and there were three guys there, just laughing at him. Same reaction I had on Instagram yesterday. God help us we have to get these monsters under control somehow. #Instagram
@CaliCarol Asking for your contacts is the easy way Facebook/Instagram can kickstart your follows when you sign up, but Meta can use several other data sources and cross-reference the email or phone number you used to register. If any of these people shared their contact list and you're in it, then it will be an easy match for Instagram's follow suggestions.
Looks like installing the webp-pixbuf-loader package (using whatever is relevant for your distro) actually makes webp work in nautilus, image viewer, and just gnome in general.
Why this isn't the default value instead of using a library that doesn't support webp out of the box? Beats me. Seems like another one of those weird hang ups linux maintainers have.
The nice thing with Linux is... if something is irritating you with how your distro works. There is probably someone else out there with a similar irritation who has a patch for you.
The down side with Linux is, some of the defaults are just downright idiotic and your hunt to find that patch will cross endless threads of maintainers arguing about how they are *not* going to fix the thing and how much better it is that it is *not* fixed.
Alliance Defending Freedom Succeeded in Overturning Roe. Now Itβs Turning to the United Kingdom. msmagazine.com/2025/11/14/alliβ¦
The conservative Christian legal group that helped dismantle abortion rights in the United States is now exporting its playbook overseas, starting with the United Kingdom.
They are neither conservatives nor Christian. We have a serious, longstanding problem with pedophilia. These pseudo-Christians wouldn't feed it, if they had their way, but they'll groom the pretty ones for the rich to fondle.
Thanks to these knockoff Chinese Bluetooth headphones, I am fully prepared if I should ever be in China and need to tell someone that power is on, off, or Bluetooth is connected.
Has anyone ever tried to implement a digital asset management system (DAMS) as an actual Filesystem?
I remember that old Apple Macintosh filesystems would talk about "data' and "metadata" forks for each file.
Seems like you could do a key-value pair array for each file at the filesystem level, set up to follow the files around on the system.
Then you could implement DAMS features on top of that: file ident/discovery, search by keyword, thumbnailing, etc. That would actually work as utilities or GUI apps on top, but the filesystem would need to keep track of the metadata.
I guess you could probably implement this as a FUSE filesystem?
It seems like a really obvious idea. Has anyone done it? Is it good? π€
The reason you want it to be at the filesystem level is so you capture every time a file is moved or copied.
Otherwise, the metadata won't stay with the file.
The Dolphin file manager for KDE can do metadata association with files -- but it's not that useful, because it breaks if you move the files.
I never tried to see if it retains them if you move them with Dolphin -- but the point is, there are many other ways to move or copy files, so breakage would be a big risk anyway. You wouldn't want to invest a lot of effort in tagging files just to have the tags disappear when you copied them!
I might be out of date on this -- I switched from KDE to XFCE years ago. But I think this is probably still true. It was a cool feature, but I couldn't see how to make practical use of it.
Simply felt it was a good time to start banging on the neoliberal assertion that the free market will make everything inexpensive and abundant. I want people to associate Republicans with United healthcare.. to associate orthodox economics with United healthcare.
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Neutron rocketβs debut slips into mid-2026 as company seeks success from the start
"Those who have failed to deliver are numerous."
https://arstechnica.
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