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IF YOU EVER FEEL HEAVY
BECAUSE YOU CARE DEEPLY ABOUT INJUSTICE, SUFFERING AND ECOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION,
REMEMBER THAT A TRILLION
DOLLAR PROPAGANDA MACHINE
WAS BUILT TO MAKE YOU NUMB
AND IT DIDN'T WORK ON YOU
-- Natasha Jay
https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/1147281

Natasha Jay 🇪🇺 (@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt)
Attached: 1 image I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

@… If you’re gonna make a typo, make an egregious one, and the Somebody Else’s Problem Field will take care of it.
This post is a perfect accompaniment to @…’s latest podcast episode on how our brains don’t simply work with perception…

I had the BEST time recording with @catherine_ashton_critical of Critical Info this morning! (Not, I must say, in an Oodie but Remy needed a walk 😉 ) We talked about end of life doulas, advance planning, grief, inclusive death care, and why a pet's death can be just as devastating as a human's.
Catherine's work is extraordinary and high-calibre, I encourage you to follow her if you don't already.
What are your weekend plans??!

Sorry, 2 Thessalonians 3:10 is talking to the Thessalonians. No Thessalonians here.
GOP senator insists 'Biblically, you're supposed to work' to earn medical care - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/jim-justice-2672407677/

Trump Administration Cuts LGBTQ-Specific Care From Suicide Hotline (CT Jones/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/trevor-project-contract-ended-national-samhsa-stop-work-1235367296/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p164#a250618p164

I honestly wonder how the famously right-wing leadership of Home Depot feel about having their workforce specifically targeted, terrorized, and (presumably) encouraged to seek work elsewhere. I doubt they care about these people as human beings, but surely they care about their labor costs. Have we heard any remarks from them? From their shareholders?

Is anyone aware of case law / settlements (in the USA or elsewhere, just curious) about copyright/trademark infringing tattoos?
People get fan-art tattoos all the time and most of the time the rights owner doesn't care... but under some circumstances, they might.
Obviously they could try to go after the artist, that's a "standard" copyright/trademark infringement case.
But what about the infringing work that is now part of your body?
The three plausi…

If people taking care of our elders get deported, will anyone take their place?
At a time where it seems fewer and fewer of us want to work in long-term care, the need has never been greater
So how will millions of aging Americans be able to afford care for physical and cognitive decline,
especially given Trump’s proposed cuts to Medicaid, which covers about two-thirds of nursing home residents?
And who will take care of those who don’t have family members who can …

Commentary: If people taking care of our elders get deported, will anyone take their place?
How will millions of seniors get healthcare, especially with Trump's policies on immigration and proposed cuts to Medicaid?

Aua. Der Text tut weh. Weil er in vielen Teilen wahr ist.
"we’ve moved all the controls away from the passionate technical folks that care about the long-term impact of their work, and handed them to greedy business folks who only care about short-term returns for their investors"
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#uspol Federal grants that my mom's department uses to study long-term care for people with Alzheimer's disease have been withdrawn, and an accompanying letter bearing RFK Jr.'s signature decried their work as unscientific and a waste of money.
This is especially sad to our family as her father/my grandfather had Alzheimer's for many years before he passed.
To sus…

Alzheimer's Association | Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia Help
Alzheimer's Association national site – information on Alzheimer's disease and dementia symptoms, diagnosis, stages, treatment, care and support resources.

How are you *being*? New interview at YaleNews with YDS professor and former Yale chaplain Frederick "Jerry" Streets about his work attending to clergy well-being.
https://news.yale.edu/2025/05/30/being-well-amid-uncertainty

On being well amid uncertainty
In a new book, former Yale chaplain Frederick Streets calls on clergy and congregations to work together to promote self-care and well-being.

ICU-TSB: A Benchmark for Temporal Patient Representation Learning for Unsupervised Stratification into Patient Cohorts
Dimitrios Proios, Alban Bornet, Anthony Yazdani, Jose F Rodrigues Jr, Douglas Teodoro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06192

ICU-TSB: A Benchmark for Temporal Patient Representation Learning for Unsupervised Stratification into Patient Cohorts
Patient stratification identifying clinically meaningful subgroups is essential for advancing personalized medicine through improved diagnostics and treatment strategies. Electronic health records (EHRs), particularly those from intensive care units (ICUs), contain rich temporal clinical data that can be leveraged for this purpose. In this work, we introduce ICU-TSB (Temporal Stratification Benchmark), the first comprehensive benchmark for evaluating patient stratification based on temporal pat…

Should we care about the spatial heterogeneity in coral reefs under unidirectional turbulent flows?
Akshay Patil, Clara Garc\'ia-S\'anchez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03021

Should we care about the spatial heterogeneity in coral reefs under unidirectional turbulent flows?
In this work, we systematically investigate the similarities and differences observed between a hydraulically rough wall comprised of an array of cylinders, massive corals, and branching corals arranged in a staggered manner, along with a stochastically generated coral bed using a scale-resolving computational framework. Our data suggests that for all the flow parameters of interest, there is a substantial difference observed between the stochastic coral bed and the regularly arranged coral bed…

Over the last few months, I have filtered out most USA news, so I have basically a minimal knowledge of what is happening in that part of the world. To be honest, it's great! The same goes for tech, I work long 12-hour days and weekends as a sysadmin, and the last thing I want to see after those days is tech stuff. So, I read tech news through newsletters sent to an email address I only use for that purpose.
It’s making my life more relaxed not to care about what is happening on ot…

Evaluating Robot Policies in a World Model
Julian Quevedo, Percy Liang, Sherry Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00613 https://arxiv.or…

Evaluating Robot Policies in a World Model
Robotics has broad applications from automating house chores to taking care of patients. However, evaluating robot control policies is challenging, as real-world testing is expensive, while handcrafted simulations often fail to accurately reflect real-world conditions, resulting in poor correlation between simulated evaluation and real-world outcomes. In this work, we investigate World-model-based Policy Evaluation (WPE). We first train an action-conditioned video generation model as a proxy to…

#WritersCoffeeClub 5/27. What is a ‘load-bearing’ part of your non-writerly life that makes writing possible for you?
I have a limited amount of energy and my family comes first, and then obligations that I have to take care of. Work is necessary, not optional.
The time I have left is my spare time. We all have that, an hour or two when we're free.
During that time,…

It's exhausting to try and fix. There's a lot of work. There's a lot of thinking. There's a lot of decisions to make. There's a lot of emotional stuff to dredge through to try and get through it. https://www.

One of the most important lessons I've learned in life / continue to learn / managed to forget is the importance of "stopping." It is so easy for life to become overwhelming with all the things I must do. Work, family, friends, volunteering, community, finances, chores, taking care of my health, the list goes on...
"Life is a very simple thing. We make it more complex." - Anonymous
"When we are making our life more complex, that is precisely the time when we are totally incapable of seeing what we are doing. The more complex our lives are, the more we need to be present to them and, surprisingly, this is exactly the time when we are most distracted. When we are distracted, we tend to have poor judgment and make more mistakes . . . usually adding to the confusion . . . and so it goes."
"....We usually respond by trying to become even more controlling and, eventually (or immediately!), this just makes things worse."
"It's time to stop, take stock, take some deep breaths, rest, listen to others, and regroup...We may miss something. We may even miss something we think is important. That's okay. We're more important."
"Taking time to stop may be just what I need to move ahead."
-- Anne Wilson Schaef, Meditations for People Who (May) Worry Too Much, Ballantine Books, 1996, entry for May 6th.
#life #quotes #health #productivity

#WritersCoffeeClub 5/27. What is a ‘load-bearing’ part of your non-writerly life that makes writing possible for you?
I have a limited amount of energy and my family comes first, and then obligations that I have to take care of. Work is necessary, not optional.
The time I have left is my spare time. We all have that, an hour or two when we're free.
During that time,…

Workplace Adjustments For Energy Limiting Conditions - free online event
On Zoom, Monday 16 June 2025
1pm - 2pm BST
From Astriid, a UK charity aiming "to make working practice more inclusive for people with long-term conditions"
"Are you seeking work alongside managing a long-term health condition? Join our free Spring Into Inclusive Employment Webinars!
"Working with an energy limiting condition is tough, but workplace adjustments can make things more manageable. In this session we’ll explore examples of reasonable adjustments to your working patterns, environment, and communication preferences that can all help you to thrive in your role while taking care of yourself."
Book here:
#ChronicIllness #disability #work #access #ReasonableAdjustments #UK

The liberal obsession with optics serves the right and persuades no one. There is literally an active ethnic cleansing happening in the US right now, and the only thing that matters is making that as hard as possible to carry out.
Anarchists destroying intelligence assets saves lives. Every escooter thrown at a cop car is one less escort for a goon too afraid to kidnap random brown people without being flanked by a branch full of bad apples. Spray paint is not violence. Vandalism is not violence. Community self defense in all forms is legitimate.
Make no mistake, these raids are about changing demographics. Demographic trends have been shifting blue for a long time, and the right has, for a long time, been blaming "white replacement." Conspiracy theory aside, Democrats have also been relying on the growth of black and brown voters as a block. The nuances of whiteness as an identity are lost on the current administration and their supporters. They see that "white people will be a minority by 2050" and equate that with the "end of Western Civilization."
The only way to "save Western Civilization" is to change those demographics. Forced birth and forced removal are two sides of the same white nationalist objective. Of course they can't have due process, because they need to be able to kidnap anyone who they see as a threat to their demographic future.
They don't care about optics. The plan is to murder away any threat and flood everyone else with propaganda. There is no mythical middle. There's no one unconvinced. They know this, but they win when democrats buy that myth and save the police the work of policing the protests.
If your protest is 90% "peaceful," they'll take pictures of the 10% that isn't. If it's 99% peaceful, they'll shoot rubber bullets and teargas until someone throws a brick and take 100 pictures from a dozen angles. If its 100% "peaceful" and no one can be provoked, they'll generate pictures with AI or photoshop like they did during the George Floyd uprising and the pictures from the CHOP/CHAZ. Do you have literally no memory?
#USPol #FiftyFiftyOne #50501movenent #resistance #NoKingsDay #NoKingsDayOfAction

Unison campaign for fair pay at Nottingham University Hospitals
Here's an article about that fair pay campaign we heard about in the speeches today:
#Unison #PayFairForPatientCare #Nottingham #NUH #work #pay