@david@boles.xyzWhen the Radiologist Becomes the Expense
On March 25, 2026, at a Crain's New York Business panel discussion of the city's hospital sector, Mitchell H. Katz, MD, president and CEO of NYC Health Hospitals, told the assembled executives what cost-cutting now sounds like in the largest public hospital system in the United States. "We could replace a great deal of radiologists with AI at this moment…
@Jyoti@mas.toIf you are new to organised left-wing politics, pick a flavour of revolutionary socialism.
This is my fave, it may not be yours but it's a great place to start learning what *you* believe or don't believe in.
https://marxist.com/manifesto-of-the-r
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The longest train journey in the EU.
https://jonworth.eu/the-longest-train-journey-in-the-eu/
saved 2026-04-25 https://
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineGithub and its misteries
@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.orgJoin the May 5 UKSG discussion “Why we all need to #DefendResearch” with Declaration co-authors Alice Meadows and myself, Terri Teleen of Emerald Publishing, and David McMenemy of CILIP! Register here: https://www.
@stsquad@mastodon.org.ukThis has been brewing for awhile at work but finally the announcement is public. Previously to join in the collaborative engineering at #linaro you started with a discussion about membership costs and engineering commitment. The new #corecollective removes the financial barrier to entry so mor…
@CordWiljes@nfdi.socialThe first day of #rdade2026 in Potsdam featured inspiring talks by Kerstin Schneider on the planned Research Data Act (#FDG, #Forschungsdatengesetz) and by Wolfgang Marquardt on the future of
@cheryanne@aus.socialSaltwater Strategists
In an increasingly competitive maritime environment, the Saltwater Strategists provide insightful and considered discussion on maritime issues in the Indo-Pacific...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/saltwat…
@knurd42@social.linux.pizzaThings I somewhat dislike about #Fedora Linux:
Its inconsistent approach to shipping new major versions upstream released as regular updates.
New major versions of kernel, firefox, thunderbird, and kde are regularly shipped as regular updates, mesa often as well (except when it's not 🙄) – gnome, libreoffice and a few other things otoh are never updated.
This "neithe…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… refocusing on false assumptions: further discussion might help, but not today.
Not least, because it's way past midnight …
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaThere is a mass discussion on the Orange Website right now about the European implementation of mandatory digital ID and associated ban on the use of jailbroken or non-attested devices with the digital ID applications as well as Android's impending blockade on unsigned sideloading.
Broadly, I see only two camps represented:
1. people discussing how such systems can be technically implemented
2. people rabbling about how it's an infringement of `muh rights` (lol, you…
@cdarwin@c.imFour years after the massacre of nine black church goers in Charleston, South Carolina;
two years after the murder of a white anti-fascist and anti-racist activist in Charlottesville, Virginia;
and days after the racially motivated massacre of 22 people who were targeted because their murderer wanted to kill Hispanics,
America has reached a crisis point where we finally have to talk about racism in our society.
But is the media approaching this conversation in an …
@TobiasFrech@ijug.socialRE: #AI. In the long run …
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itFrance: "we're going to ban short-haul flights where alternative train routes exist, in order to curb carbon emissions"
Rest of EU: "we'll start a commission to create a panel which will lead to a discussion on.."
US (via #AccidentallyTheEcoPresident): "what if we started a war so disastrous and stupid that it kneecapped ALL sh…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsThe discussion around "age verification" in systemd/XDG has been largely focused against the California law. But honestly, there's a much deeper problem there.
Firstly, the data collected. The question initially asked is "are you at least 18 years old?" However, that's not the data collected. In fact, the data collected is not even the age — it's the full birth date. It's a perfect example of collecting more data than you need, and a sensitive information too, and sharing it with any application that asks.
Secondly, the extended goal of "parental controls" used as a justification to collect more data. When you think about it, you realize how bad this is: it isn't the case of asking the user about their birth date (with the assumption that a kid will enter a fake date to workaround the limitations). It is effectively a tool for *parents* to impose restrictions on their children, which means that they are more likely to enter the real date to ensure that these restrictions work. And given how popular sharenting is today, do you really think they'd come up with a fake birth date that happens to roughly match their child's age?
This is simply irresponsible.
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social#TrevorNoah has a podcast I’ve been watching on his YT channel. Here’s a discussion with #JoshJohnson. It’s 2 hours long🙁 but wide-ranging and interesting: his history;methods; goals; motivation; privilege of comedians; media have always had algorithms to program us but now it’s automated by AI; “T…
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social@… not sure I've ever read a discussion on this:
Was there ever some thought about a Reform with a touch screen? Or have people possibly done mods?
I'd be especially interested in a Pocket Reform with touch.
@yetiinabox@todon.nlOne of the wonders of the Fedi is that we really do have complicated, constructive, nuanced discussion here.
@… critique <https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-eth
@raysofred@discordian.social#fediblock edens.faith (posting lewd images of children) I've already reported them to the Center for Missing and Exploited Children. DO NOT go looking at it.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotEveryone (and tagging @… into this discussion) there is what claims to be an #AI bot posting #FossilLobby talking points into discussions on the
@mnalis@mastodon.online#CoMaps is #OpenStreetMap based navigation app -- it is an #OrganicMaps fork made so it can be oriented towards community, privacy and
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThe most tedious discussion of religion is atheists arguing over biblical interpretations, triggered by a silly meme.
#SubToot
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialDegrowth and socialist comrades, what should we be doing?
Ted Trainer* This is an attempt to clarify this discussion of degrowth strategy, a topic on which I think there is considerable confusion and mistaken approaches. Debate has recently been fuelled by Jason Hickel’s argument for a socialist position on both the goal and the means do it for degrowth. Liegey, Nelson and Leahy replied against Jason, defending the wide and diverse range of strategies now…
@hacksilon@infosec.exchange#Trivy got compromised on thursday and released a backdoored new version, which was rolled back. We spent the entire friday in incident response mode. Now they got compromised again over the weekend.
I have a lot of sympathy for people under pressure during an incident, but for fucks sake, having a security tool get compromised three times within two months is just completely bonkers. We sp…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWhat is the hardest coaching job in world sport? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7038551/2026/02/15/hardest-coaching-job-world-sport-discussion/
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -
@servelan@newsie.socialBooker Announces Keep Your Pay Act Alongside New Jerseyans With Kitchen Table Discussion
https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-announces-keep-your-pay-act-alongside-new-jerseyans-with-kitchen-table-discussion
@cdarwin@c.imIn one of the most extreme anti-speech policies ever imposed at a public university, Texas Tech issued a ban on LGBQT topics
The policy bars professors from discussing LGBTQ topics in core and lower-level courses
and eliminates entire fields of study across the five-university system.
It even requires that if an industry-standard textbook includes content on sexual orientation or gender identity, instructors must skip over it and avoid discussion around it.
Most …
@scott@carfree.cityThis is why I don't fully trust 48hills, even though they're on "my side" in being pro-labor and anti-billionaire. Tim Redmond thinks it's a good thing that a 100% affordable housing development was forced to lop a floor off to preserve views 😫
"The staff reached out to the neighbors,[...]took feedback, and as a result made some changes that lowered the height of the new buildings. That, in a reasonable world, is how this should work" No it's not!!…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioMy dad could use a helpful resource on establish a baseline community code of conduct for an online discussion group. Any recommendations for good guides and/or templates?
(This is a •completely• nontechnical group, FYI.)
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Libraries on Fire"
https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2025-0052
"Leah Hinds, Executive Director of the Charleston Hub, organised a panel in Berlin to discuss: “Defending Scholarship in a time of Political Pressure”. In her introductory remarks, she explained the purpose of the discussi…
@adulau@infosec.exchange
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeRepresentative Pat Fallon (TX-04) will make a push for creating a US Cyber Force tomorrow at CSIS
https://www.csis.org/events/implementing-us-cyber-force-conversation-representative-pat-fallon
@nemobis@mamot.frI opened a random online discussion, skimmed the replies, upvoted a uniquely constructive comment. Turns out the author is @…. No wonder.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUCLA cancels Bari Weiss' Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture on "the future of journalism", following student protests; a source says it will be rescheduled (The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/bari-weiss-ucla-lecture-canc…
@cjust@infosec.exchangeWell, Fediverse Friends, I've done a thing.
I've decided to start blogging again, since I seem to have more time on my hands that I would like as of late.
The most interesting bit - at least in my mind (and certainly worth a larger discussion in a future blog post) is that it is self-hosted on Ghost, and in theory, you should be able to follow it (@…
@doktrock@toad.socialTonight (Wed, March 18) at 6:30 pm (EDT) a public event on "Time's Second Arrow: Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature" by Bob Hazen and Mike Wong. ⚒️🧪 #mineralogy
Virtual registration at https://carnegiescie…
@veit@mastodon.socialI have been thinking about how LLM agents pose a threat to open source projects and what strategies can offer us at least some protection. Nevertheless, this is likely to remain a challenge: https://cusy.io/en/blog/how-llm-agents-endanger-open-source-projects.html
@ncoca@social.coopI'm in something like 13 different #Slack communities, mostly for various #journalist groups.
Lots of discussion in many about ICE.
Discussions about leaving slack due its ties to #Salesforce, …
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deslashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
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This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
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@gwire@mastodon.socialIn a discussion about Polymarket trading on military strikes; "We are fast approaching the Jim Bell event horizon."
@cheeaun@mastodon.socialRE: #PhanpySocialDev
@paulwermer@sfba.socialThe best and worst of CA housing policy, on display at UCLA conference - 48 hills
https://48hills.org/2026/04/the-best-and-worst-of-ca-housing-policy-on-display-at-ucla-conference/
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialThe best and worst of CA housing policy, on display at UCLA conference - 48 hills
https://48hills.org/2026/04/the-best-and-worst-of-ca-housing-policy-on-display-at-ucla-conference/
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders Hit With Maxx Crosby Trade Take From Insider https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-trade-take-from-insider/
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -
@seav@en.osm.townRE: #OpenStreetMap
@shriramk@mastodon.socialI love a stickler for precision and a discussion about the true nature of things. But I can separate that from observed phenomena. I wonder if during the early days of flight, people said, "Well akshually Mr Wright, you didn't really *fly*". (Yes, this is a GenAI post.)
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMore U.S.-Iran peace deal talks are in discussion, White House says (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/14/trump-iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-negotiations.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260414/p70#a260414p70
@mia@hcommons.socialThis led to great discussion in an MA class on crowdsourcing and citizen science today
From: @…
https://hcommons.social/@mia/116053173459026787
@marcel@waldvogel.family"I’d interpret this as follows: this likely came down to a discussion involving Secretary of State Marco Rubio and a few other Iran hardliners. That’s where the decision was going to be made. There were probably people on the margins […]. But they would have known these buzzkill remarks weren’t what Trump or his inner ring of advisors wanted to hear. This is the nature of personalist rule. It’s down to the leader’s gut impulses. He doesn’t want to hear about problems."
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgDiscussion at parents meeting about mobile phones, screen time and other topics, quite clear that most parents (including me).have no clue what our kids are actually doing on their devices..
Also clear how clueless so many parents are about data privacy, security and online safety.
The black boxification of tech will be our downfall.
@Techpizzamondays@social.linux.pizzaWe’ve chosen the paper for @… next week (February 23rd): “Hallucinating with AI: AI Psychosis as Distributed Delusions” by Lucy Osler.
(Is it this Lucy Osler: @…? We think so!)
We’ll have copies to give out tonight (6 PM, Vi…
@kctipton@mas.toProtest ‘agitators’ have a long history – in myth and fact - CSMonitor.com https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2025/0612/trump-la-protests-paid-insurrectionists
@ripienaar@devco.social
@danyork@mastodon.socialAh... what better way to start a Saturday morning at 5:20am then getting into a discussion of the capitalization of "Internet" on a #Wikipedia Talk page! 🤣
https://en.wik…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzOpen Market: Javonte Williams and the RB equation in Dallas https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/open-market-javonte-williams-and-the-rb-equation-in-dallas
@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizzaThis post is a placeholder for any potential discussion or feedback on my blog's links page: https://theprivacydad.com/links/
@jtk@infosec.exchangeThe end-to-end (e2) argument is about where to put functionality in a layered system. It generally argues for functions to be moved out and up, but it does not say you cannot have functionality at lower layers or in the middle. The paper states "A great deal of information about system implementation is needed to make this choice intelligently."
Seen in a discussion about the recent GNU inetutils telnetd vulnerability, someone incorrectly states:
"End to end prin…
@stefan@gardenstate.socialI don't think I ever got the reddit model down but I'm going to try it out on this piefed instance with a new New Jersey community
#newjersey
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialRE: https://floss.social/@soller/116429029395748738
To those reading the discussion, consider a cold beverage with it. 🥤
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116171339797022986
I don’t care if someone calls stuff “spaceflight” (though that usually includes portions of actual flight through air).
But if it’s for a scientific or technology discussion it’s hugely inaccurate and misleading.
In space, things always move in orbits, which is essentially more or less perpetually falling.
To make things go places (e.g. make a thing go to Mars), you change how it’s falling.
Play some Kerbal Space Program some time!
@chrysn@chaos.socialAt @… we're running many linter-ish tools in CI that I'd like to have easy to apply (codespell, various indentation/sorting stuff, cargo clippy --fix). Are there existing tools that I can wrap those in, so that at the end of a PR's CI run, I get a neat set of "fixup!" #git
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialI went to see an exhibition in #Hamburg today advertised as "from Herakles to Superman". I foolishly assumed there would be some discussion of the elements that make a modern hero vs the ancient Greek heros, similarities & differences between Greek heroes & US-American superheroes, and how heroes reflect society. But the exhibitors decided to make 1 room about US superheroes an…
@axbom@axbom.meI almost signed up for Gaggle Mail even though it's US-based. I figured at least they seem to have good sense in seeing the value of email for discussion groups. And then while trialing I saw they have a function to summarise email discussions via ChatGPT that is *turned on by default*. I mean, wtaf.
So I'm deciding on self-hosting Mailman. It always seems to come back to self-hosting in the end, doesn't it... which is not nearly easy enough for most people to grapple with.
@johl@mastodon.xyzLast month, I was in Vienna to talk about #Wikipedia and AI (and #Wikidata, #AbstractWikipedia, and the Wikidata Embedding Project). It took me some time, but I have now written down most of my talk…
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldI post on social media to invite conversation, not to shout into an echo chamber. Disagreement, evidence, & thoughtful discussion are how we learn. If we’re unwilling to even consider other viewpoints, we’ve lost something important.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/data-ov…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWhat is an NFL physical? Explaining the medical exams needed to approve most transactions https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7129252/2026/03/19/nfl-physical-exam-maxx-crosby-ravens-raiders/
@hynek@mastodon.social@… I think this discussion is somewhat hard b/c everyone understands something entirely different under “code quality”. And I don't even mean the subjectivity of it, but the zoom level alone: Will LLMs be able to write better algorithms than me? 100%. Will architecture and expandability ever stop mattering? That's magical thinking. A highly coupled system…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
A theorem of software engineering: the shortest possible schedule.
https://bertrandmeyer.com/2019/11/01/theorem-software-engineering/
saved 2019-11-02
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deslashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
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@servelan@newsie.social"Washington state lawmakers were within their rights when they declined to issue press passes to three conservative media figures, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a case that echoes a national discussion over who qualifies as a journalist."
WA judge rules on media figures' access in Olympia | FOX 13 Seattle
https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/wa-judge-media-access-olympia
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -
@raiders@darktundra.xyzWhat is an NFL physical? Explaining the medical exams needed to approve most transactions https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7129252/2026/03/19/nfl-physical-exam-maxx-crosby-ravens-raiders/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzOpen Market: Javonte Williams and the RB equation in Dallas https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/open-market-javonte-williams-and-the-rb-equation-in-dallas
@cjust@infosec.exchangeThis was my rabbit hole for today - a fun and fact filled romp through AI datacentre (& other) water usage discussion from Hank Green:
Why is Everyone So Wrong About AI Water Use??
https://www.youtube[.]com/watch?v=H_c6MWk7PQc
As always - Hank takes a comple…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA federal judge declines to issue a restraining order that would force Washington state's legislature to give press passes to three conservative media figures (Martha Bellisle/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/press-pass-pod…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeRE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116345269637598744
On truthfulness and openness
The quoted post, unedited, linked to a plea, in Reddit, for:
― rational discussion
― no false assumptions.
The pull request in Codeb…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@clim8_solutions/116059449169009029
In particular, the discussion of battery safety:
@paulwermer@sfba.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@clim8_solutions/116059449169009029
In particular, the discussion of battery safety:
@axbom@axbom.me @ripienaar@devco.socialUpdated my free-for-dev Contributing Guide, Code of Conduct, Readme, PR templates, Added AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md that tells bots not to contribute.
Still you get daily fuckers like this who just drive by dump their projects on 100s (or exactly 100 in this case) lists with no regard for list polilcies.
Now just closing without even any discussion anything that even looks like LLM generated.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deslashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
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@cdarwin@c.imDetainee at "Camp East Montana" says guards bet on suicide
Like other detainees, Ramsingh said that between cleanings the rooms, restrooms and showers were often filthy and infested with insects.
He said detainees stole others’ food because everyone was hungry due to the small and sometimes inedible meals,
-- which led to fights, and the conditions took a toll on his mental health.
🔥At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made am…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz @grahamperrin@bsd.cafeHacker News discussion of Michael's post:
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949564>
@…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz4 Under-the-Radar Options For Dallas Cowboys at No. 20 in 2026 Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/4-under-radar-options-dallas-cowboys-pick-20-2026-nfl-draft
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -
@axbom@axbom.me @servelan@newsie.socialIncludes a brief discussion of the cult-like behavior of incel communities online...
The Pentagon says it’s ‘lethalitymaxxing’. Why has ‘incel’ slang crossed into the mainstream? | Language | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/01/incel-slang-mainstream-government-media
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deslashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
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@raiders@darktundra.xyzChad Johnson Shares True Thoughts on Raiders’ QB Situation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/chad-johnson-true-thoughts-qb-situation/
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeRE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115882407207303960
Good reads:
― the 2024 blog post
― the 2026 discussion in Lobsters.
Incidentally, I did stop using Discord. No regrets.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deslashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
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@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders GM Doesn’t Hold Back on Jack Bech, Dont’e Thornton https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/gm-comments-jack-bech-donte-thornton/
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -
