Donald Trump has finally unveiled his long-awaited framework for healthcare affordability,
almost a year and a half after announcing during a pre-election presidential debate that he had the “concepts of a plan” for healthcare reform.
The short document, titled
"the Great Healthcare Plan",
provides four headline objectives,
but few specific details as to how they will be achieved.
The Trump administration says it intends to lower prescription pri…
NIH specifies how grant reviewers should ensure alignment with Trump priorities (Anil Oza/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/15/nih-specifies-how-grant-reviewers-should-ensure-alignment-with-trump-priorities/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p125#a251215p125
Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…
Cat Heads in Space: The Novel That Grew a Body
Some books begin as sentences. Others begin as outlines or fragments scrawled on napkins at two in the morning. This one began as a sound. Specifically, it began as the sound of my own voice reading a line about a cat head floating through space in a Life Helmet, arguing with another cat head about whether their ship had a name, and realizing that the argument was funnier and sadder and more philosophically loaded than…
If you don't understand Bavarian German (or more specifically the Upper Austrian dialect), I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to translate these song lyrics.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Antonio Vivaldi, Daniel Hope, Simos Papanas, Kammerorchester Basel, Emanuele Forni & Naoki Kitaya:
🎵 Concerto in A minor for 2 violins RV.522 (1st mvt)
#AntonioVivaldi
https://open.spotify.com/track/3sVKV0wIfVljXOf42a7Qnj
It's alive!
The IBM 5150 (AKA IBM PC) just needed two caps on the 12V line replaced. The monitor had some plastic rattling around in the case. Both of those were pretty easy to solve.
#retrocomputing
Does anybody have a connection at Signal who could receive some urgent app design feedback? The app has several very specific problems / limitations / design quirks that are causing major headaches for neighbor groups trying to communicate here in Minneapolis.
(I’ll eventually try to write up some feedback through normal channels so it can go through the normal user feedback pipeline — but I’m sure any fixes that arrive that way will arrive far too late to be useful to us, so I’m not even bothering now. If there’s any chance of having some issues prioritized, I’d sure appreciate it.)
[ETA: I already tagged Mer__edith, but I’m sure she’s far too busy and her mentions are far too crowded for her to give this attention]