This is unhinged. While Americans struggle to afford groceries, Trump is workshopping cult names like "Trumplicans" and teasing a constitutionally forbidden third term. It's a blatant distraction from his policy failures and a dangerous flirtation with authoritarianism. 1/2
Yep and all of it is a distraction from the fact that the US has 771,000 homeless people but not one person will stand up against terrorism against homeless people
Die Stadt #Gießen hat sich mit einer versammlungsfeindlichen Demoverbotszone im Westen der Stadt durchgesetzt, wo am Samstag die neue AfD-Jugend gegründet werden soll. Durch die Entscheidung wird Protest in Hör- und Sichtweite der Rechtsradikalen deutlich erschwert.
Die Stadt Gießen hat sich mit einer versammlungsfeindlichen Demoverbotszone im gesamten Westteil der Stadt durchgesetzt, wo am Samstag der neue Jugendverband der AfD gegründet werden soll.
Update / Demoverbotszone #Gießen: Der linke Bundestagsabgeordnete Luke Hoß hat nun einen Eilantrag in Karlsruhe beim Bundesverfassungsgericht eingereicht, um doch noch eine Gegendemo in der Nähe der AfD-Veranstaltung zu ermöglichen:
Die Stadt Gießen hat sich mit einer versammlungsfeindlichen Demoverbotszone im gesamten Westteil der Stadt durchgesetzt, wo am Samstag der neue Jugendverband der AfD gegründet werden soll.
AUPE Media Release: Dual health-care system will cripple staffing levels in Alberta
Premier’s obsession with private profit will be paid in pain by Albertans
EDMONTON—Premier Smith’s plan for a dual public-private health system is doomed to fail for one simple reason: There are not enough workers, says the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE).
“There’s a shortage of health-care workers in Alberta, across Canda and around the world,” says Sandra Azocar, president of AUPE, which represents more than 60,000 health-care workers.
“Hospitals and health-care facilities are constantly running without appropriate numbers of staff. Many of them have endured temporary closures because there aren't enough workers to stay open,” she says.
The dual health-care system the provincial government proposes in the Health Statutes Amendment Act would allow physicians to practice in both private and public systems and to charge extra for private care.
“Albertans suffering while waiting for treatment will be forced to spend money they can’t afford to get the treatment they need. For those without that option, wait times will just get longer,” says Azocar.
“There is a finite number of physicians and other health-care workers. They will be pulled from the public system and into the private lane, leaving ordinary Albertans behind.”
Thanks to Smith’s ideological agenda, Albertans will face even longer wait times to get the treatment they need.
“The immense pressure already felt by front-line workers will increase as the staff shortages get worse. They’ll also be the people dealing face-to-face with angry Albertans in unnecessary pain who have waited years to get treatment,” says Azocar.
As treatments are delayed, health conditions will deteriorate. It will become more expensive to treat patients, leading to more Albertans turning up at already overcrowded Emergency Rooms.
“The premier’s obsession with corporate profit will be paid in pain by the people,” says Azocar.
She adds that the dual system is likely to face court challenges as a violation of the Canada Health Act.
“Albertans need to know if the premier will invoke the notwithstanding clause again to impose her vision of a U.S.-style system where people buy their way to the front of the line.”
I just saw an article that described "Gen Z as the first generation to grow up with the internet"
I was born in the 80's and started using email around age 5, but go off. By the time Gen Z was old enough to use the internet, it was already mostly over.
The “wondering why my phone suddenly looks shitty” to “realizing the OS pushed a new preposterous look & feel on to all apps” interval gets briefer every week & I resent that I’m getting this fast at figuring it out again each time.
A short video to talk about the recently-discovered loss of NHS England's various Open Source policies. I'm not sure when this happened, but the last Wayback...
Another 45 FOSS projects have been selected for the #NGI0 Commons Fund. We want to thank the project teams for their contribution to a free and open internet. In a world increasingly in the grip of proprietary technologies and those who control them, we are proud to be supporting people who choose to work on the digital commons: shared digital assets that serve not the few but the many.
Come over to read what each project is working on.
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? 🙄
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 “deliberately or recklessly mislead the public”. 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 I’m a fan of citizen’s assemblies as done in, for example, Ireland: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens… It’s 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/11…
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-shut…
The narrative I’ve not seen yet from our storied commentariat? The idea that many GOPers are voting for Epstein files because it’s 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 It’s Turning to the United Kingdom. msmagazine.com/2025/11/14/alli…
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.
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