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The Caring CEO. For Leaders Who Want To Grow Teams Who Are More Caring, Fun Filled And Productive. For Leaders Who Care.
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-caring-ceo/

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.

FBI issues chilling call for tip-off on gender-affirming care doctors
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/04/fbi-gender-affirming-doctors-call-for-investigation/

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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Elon Musk will singlehandedly be responsible for the wholly unnecessary deaths & misery of millions worldwide. And he & Trump couldn't care less.
You did this, #Trump voter.
And anyone that didn't vote.
http…

Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror Is Only Just Beginning
His “departure” from the government is anything but.

"In churches we pray for revival, but we need to understand what that really means. It is not just about personal change, but about change in the whole society. That requires that we lay down our arms, care for the poor, and treat creation well."
—YDS Professor Willie James Jennings in this interview with the Dutch Daily Newspaper. Prof. (To access the article, you'll need to do a free registration. Google translation should help you turn the Dutch into English.)

Ofte kommer disse to bots lige efter hinanden i mit feed. Det giver på en måde ekstra mening (og gŸr de lidt anstrengende selfcare-tips mere til at holde ud):

White House asks for steep cuts to HHS budget
https://thehill.com/newsletters/health-care/5329525-white-house-hhs-budget-nih/

A very interesting aspect of a type of concierge medicine and aome complications.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/dana-farber-cancer-care-kenneth-anderson-cancer-treatment/

After a big donor sought care from a Dana-Farber cancer doctor, things went awry
How a case involving Dana-Farber Cancer Institute illustrates the potential risks for institutions when star doctors give special off-the-books access VIPs.

House Republicans quietly expanded their proposed Medicaid ban to include trans adults - Poynter
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/medicaid-ban-transgender-adults-gender-affirming-care/

«AI systems are an attack on workers, climate goals, our information environment, and civil liberties. Rather than enhancing our human qualities, these systems degrade our social relations, and undermine our capacity for empathy and care.»
Nice writing by @…!
https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/ai-is-dehumanization-technology.html

Dear @… ,
I get that you need to FOCUS, but I'm personally bummed you are killing off #Pocket, as it's a service I use pretty much ** every single day! ** 😞 (I don't care about Fakespot )
But please... literally *** NO ONE *** is asking for mor…

Investing in what moves the internet forward | The Mozilla Blog
Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire and our independence shapes everything we build. This independence allows us to prioritize bu

Also, I don't care if you all hate #AI. I will always cherish this kind of weirdness in the uncanny valley periods.

I'm not sure how this affected me, but my PCP just told me it's ending via form letter.
Making Care Primary (MCP) Model | CMS
https://www.cms.gov/priorities/innovation/innovation-models/making-care-primary

This prick is always wrong.
LD_PRELOAD rules, paper coming soon!
(Yep it’s fake but I don’t care lol)

“You already posted at 11:46 pm” I DON’T CARE I DON’T CARE I DON’T CARE #fedica

We sometimes think about Switzerland as the country-as-a-fortress, but in reality we should look at Finland.
They organised their entire country, including culture, health care system for the not-that-theoretical-anymore case of needing to fight for their independence again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R…

I've been happy with my decision about 6 months ago to cancel some news subscriptions and pay for a 404 Media one. Today though I listened to the subscribers-only section of their podcast about how they were doing financially and their principles on growth and I was further encouraged that it had been the right thing to do.
Here's a referral link to their free newsletter. I think if several people use it I might get some free merch but I don't care about that.

«AI systems are an attack on workers, climate goals, our information environment, and civil liberties. Rather than enhancing our human qualities, these systems degrade our social relations, and undermine our capacity for empathy and care.»
Nice writing by @…!
https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/ai-is-dehumanization-technology.html

@Snowshadow@mastodon.social
Would be a shame if the crazy red hat wearing health sites were reported
https://www.wtphealthcare.com/

We The People Health and Wellness Center | Primary Care | 959 East Venice Avenue, Venice, FL, USA
We The People Health and Wellness Center in Venice, Florida. Our DPC services offer transparent, affordable plans with unlimited telehealth visits for adults and pediatrics. Redefine your healthcare experience with IV Therapy, Red Light Therapy, Vitamin Shots, and Functional Medicine. Visit wtphealthcare.com for more. medical freedom, direct primary care, doctors that care, primary care, IV therapy, PRP therapy, massage therapy, red light therapy, pediatric care, vitamin shots, supplements.

With all excitement and bling floating around I am enjoying my time today on GhostBSD Mate edition. Well rounded, everything works ootb, quiet styling (I've turned on a Dracula theme of course ;-).
Plus'es: samba , VLC, sound, LibreOffice, generic feel, the Stations (backup, software), sudo (I prefer doas, but newcomers will recognize sudo), install and go.
BSD generic: volume settings (mixer pcm etc), wifi (on a 2018 mini pc with Ryzen 2500U, seriously?) and of course BT are generic issues. Can be solved, but still.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that GhostBSD totally takes care of graphics drivers, dbus et al. I mean DisplayPort at 185hz ootb, great!
All in all a nice one 👍🏻, recommended!
Cc @… @…
@…
#ghostbsd

This Wednesday afternoon April 9th from 3-6pm there's an end of life information event at the Westbury Community Centre.
Speakers include myself, the northern Palliative Care Tasmania coordinator and a social worker with palliative care.
There will also be a short film.
I'll be discussing rights, options, choices, and money saving tips.
#tasmania

recap from my weekend distro hopping (that was severely limited by the good weather):
- tried Hyprland: cool but I still don't care about tiling window managers; terminals have tabs, emacs is its own window manager, the rest can be full screen or half screen.
- cool to learn about "new" things like Universal Kernel Image, a bit about UEFI, etc.
- I don't like the LEGO approach to build a Desktop; I care about this as much as 10 years ago: 0

I've been happy with my decision about 6 months ago to cancel some news subscriptions and pay for a 404 Media one. Today though I listened to the subscribers-only section of their podcast about how they were doing financially and their principles on growth and I was further encouraged that it had been the right thing to do.
Here's a referral link to their free newsletter. I think if several people use it I might get some free merch but I don't care about that.

US political contradictions; knowledge systems
As Trump at least partially succeeds in constructing an alternate reality for his most ardent followers, it's tempting to think of his dogma as false, in contrast to some imagined "truth" which his non-followers are smart enough to believe in. But a more nuanced view of knowledge would admit that different groups of people have different shared truths, constituting different knowledge systems which each deviate from what's objectively measurable in different ways, and in fact they each accept different standards of what is objective, so there's not really a single "ground truth" we can even compare to to determine which of these knowledge systems is "more correct" (similar problems arise even if we only care about "more useful").
To make this more concrete, we can see that e.g., competing quantum physics theories, or likewise competing religious beliefs, have no reasonable basis on which to judge between them, either in terms of "truth" or "utility." So the Trump-dogma knowledge system, although bad, morally repugnant, etc., can't so easily be dismissed as "false" in my view. "Distorted" or "malignant" or "evil" or "contradictory" are better monikers, in my opinion.
But what I'm even more interested in thinking about is: in what ways does the current American liberal "common sense" knowledge system already bear the scars of past fascist lies & contradictions? I can think of a few:
"Columbus was an explorer."
This is "factually accurate" in the same way some of Trump's propaganda is, but it's also a cruel distortion of "Columbus was a child murderer," and it's a misrepresentation that serves an evil purpose, yet which is widely taught in elementary schools today.
Another: "dropping atomic bombs on civilians in Japan was necessary to end WWII."
Perhaps in the future we'll have "family separation & the 2025 ICE crackdowns were necessary to end the immigration crisis," although I dearly hope not.
"Reparations for slavery aren't reasonable," is yet another...
I'll close this rambling with a question: what other fascist lies have you noticed that are normalized in America right now from past Trump-like leaders (or even from less overtly fascist institutions)?

@Snowshadow@mastodon.social
Would be a shame if the crazy red hat wearing health sites were reported
https://www.wtphealthcare.com/

We The People Health and Wellness Center | Primary Care | 959 East Venice Avenue, Venice, FL, USA
We The People Health and Wellness Center in Venice, Florida. Our DPC services offer transparent, affordable plans with unlimited telehealth visits for adults and pediatrics. Redefine your healthcare experience with IV Therapy, Red Light Therapy, Vitamin Shots, and Functional Medicine. Visit wtphealthcare.com for more. medical freedom, direct primary care, doctors that care, primary care, IV therapy, PRP therapy, massage therapy, red light therapy, pediatric care, vitamin shots, supplements.

Satellite Event
AIFoundry invites you to the 2nd edition of the AI Plumbers Conference, a meetup for low-level AI builders who value real conversations over keynote slides and for anyone working in modern data infrastructure, machine learning and open-source software projects. Connect, swap ideas and collaborate, free from the pressure of constant talks.
📅 When: June 15, 2025 – 10 am-5 pm
📍 Where: GLS Event Campus Berlin, Kastanienallee 82 | 10435 Berlin
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techno-political rant
Say what you want about using the right tool for each problem, but there are tools that suck no matter what.
I'm tired of people portraying legit technical criticism as "biased" and "religious", while at the same time they present themselves as tolerant and open-minded (spoiler: for the most part, they aren't).
Almost every day of my life I have to deal with the nasty consequences of ultra-dumb decisions made by the very same people who are obsessed with productivity and criticise all day long whoever pushes for any design that shows any minim amount of care and/or deep thought (mostly via strawmen arguments).
And, of course, unironically: this has a lot to do with capitalism, as many of our other social and economic problems.
They arrive, have a strike of super-productivity for a few weeks/months and then use that as a trampoline to raise through the ranks or abandon ship before having to face the consequences of their technical crimes.
Then others arrive and are obviously slower at that same job... so the uneducated observers start believing that these newcomers aren't as good as the class traitors who wrote the initial nasty code.
To make things worse, if any of these newcomers dare to speak openly about introducing good practices... this ends up creating a new mental association (in the minds of uneducated observers) between "good engineering" and "lack of productivity".
The ones trying to fix the mess are indeed slower, not because they try to do things the right way though, but because they have to waste vasts amounts of time fixing what is objectively broken besides doing the "visible" work.
Most of today's established "super-productive" ones, if they were starting today, would be probably "vibe coders", certainly not what we commonly understand as a programmer. Not because AI-coding is the future, but because they never cared about the trade at all. They were here only for the grift.