@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-16 19:10:58
PSA about food labeling in the US
We have a gluten detection service dog because many things that should be gluten free/say they’re gluten free are not actually gluten free.
Stuff gets contaminated when growing (e.g. next to wheat field), by shared equipment, in factories, from packaging, during transport and in-store.
Every US consumer should know:
1. The list of ingredients on food isn't exhaustive
2. Allergen labeling:
a) limited to just some allergens
b) manufacturers don't actually have to test
c) "certified" foods are tested—but not continuously
d) testing only works with enough contamination
Some certifications may require batch-testing, but usually they don't.
A "certified gluten free" product may e.g. contain oats which sometimes are contaminated with gluten—but as not every batch is tested it's impossible to know unless you test yourself (hence the service dog).
Even if the product is properly batch-tested, you might get a part of the product that has the allergen in it, whereas the tested part didn't.
Or the threshold was too low (our dog can detect gluten better than any available lab testing equipment; yes, dogs are amazing).
Food products also contain ingredients that do not have to be included on the label when they're "incidental" (included in an another ingredient) or if they're considered part of the manufacturing process but not of the final product (e.g. various coatings on factory equipment).
Don't need to list flavors or specific spices either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As for allergens, only those responsible for ~90% of food allergies* have to be specifically declared, and they're not tested for as it's simply based on the ingredients list.
Good luck if you have other allergies.
*milk, egg, egg, fish, Crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, soybeans
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-10-29 11:24:00
@jensilber@mastodon.social2026-01-10 15:44:11
"Because professional, well-trained law enforcement officers do not roll up to a woman in her car, hide their identities, crowd her vehicle, and execute her in broad daylight. But ICE did and does.
And this administration keeps trying to get us to forget that."
https://heatherdelaneyre…
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social2025-12-11 00:17:54
#Concertina player Rainer Süßmilch came up while planning tonight's @… show, and I didn't have any info on him
Searching found this great spooky clip:
Althorn Musik-Trailer für "Play Auerbach" von Avishai Milstein, Uraufführung am…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-11-24 07:06:25
»Epstein-Files — Jmail - Entwickler veröffentlichen Epstein-Daten im Format von Gmail:
Zwei Entwickler haben eine Web-Anwendung geschaffen, die über 20.000 Seiten veröffentlichter E-Mails von Jeffrey Epstein in eine leichter bedienbare Ebene überführt«
Hach ja, Gmail einmal in einer guten Form die wirklich den Menschen hilft. Die anzahl der Seiten ist schon wansinnig massig (evt. pro E-Mail eine).
👁️🗨️
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-12-10 17:19:22
When "self-driving" cars were first getting some hype back in ~2015 or so, I told people who asked me that I didn't think they'd be safe, and that I wished the same money were being invested in driver-assistance systems instead.
At the time, advocates were claiming that self-driving cars would be safer than human drivers.
We now have both self-driving cars and some nifty new driver assistance things, and it turns out that the self-driving cars are in fact being developed by corporations whose attention to the bottom line results in danger to others on the road pretty regularly. I don't actually have stats here for whether they're "safer than human drivers" or not, but the opportunity for one bad software update to make *all* self-driving cars dangerous at once kinda makes me doubt that.
Here's an example of Waymo cars getting "more aggressive" as they try to balance between being too timid and obstructing traffic (including emergency vehicles) and being too dangerous:
https://archive.ph/JJuGv
Here's another example of passing stopped schoolbusses leading to a software recall:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/waymo-issue-voluntary-software-recall-after-close-calls/story?id=128207776
In the first article, Waymo claims 91% fewer serious accidents per mile. Obviously an independent audit would be actually trustworthy, but even if we take that claim at face value, it's meaningless if an update tomorrow causes 100,000 accidents.
Note that they could be using better engineering practices, and the fact that they aren't shows that they don't care enough about the risks. They could be deploying new software versions incrementally and slowly, letting new versions rack up lots of miles only on a few vehicles before pushing them to a fleet. The should also have the equivalent of a simulation unit test for "schoolbus is stopped, what do?" and if a software version fails that test, it doesn't make it to the fleet. Clearly they don't have that.
I feel pretty vindicated in my earlier prediction that this tech is a bad idea in the hands of the current advocates.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-28 23:34:38
Garrett: Steelers' focus more on me than winning https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47438289/myles-garrett-steelers-worried-more-getting-win
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nl2025-12-01 20:40:01
Meer dan 1.100 doden t.g.v. regenval in Zuid-Oost Azië
#klimaatverandering
"Human-caused climate breakdown has increased the occurrence of the most intense and destructive tropical cyclones, though the overall number of storms per year has not changed globally. This is because warming oceans provide more energy, producing stronger storms. Extreme rainfall from tropic…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-12-20 10:34:13
Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
AVON: We shouldn't have made him go.
CALLY: He's a free man; he didn't have to go if he didn't want to.
AVON: He was under pressure. It's all very well for Tarrant to play the hero; that's his decision. But Vila?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/260
@pgogl@troet.cafe2025-11-23 05:55:02
Kick it out!
https://winfuture.de/news,155123.html
