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Phenomenal article here. Worth reading the entire thing
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/debilitating-a-generation-expert-warns-that-long-covid-may-eventually-affect-most-ame…

“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans
In a candid discussion with INET's Lynn Parramore, Dr. Phillip Alvelda highlights the imminent dangers of long COVID, criticizing governments and health agencies for ongoing preventable suffering and deaths. *This is Part 2 of a two-part interview.

Well, let's see; that creation order thing would put animals in charge (proving it's a stupid reason to keep women out of pastoral care): “What better way to express our countercultural commitment to the goodness of God’s word than to affirm God’s creation order in relation to the office of pastor?”
**The Southern Baptist Convention vote on IVF: The group’s stance on reproductive technology is only the beginning.**

The Southern Baptist Convention Showed Where the Backlash to Women’s Rights Will Go Next
IVF is only the beginning.

Cartoonist Jim Davis sitting next to an oversized Garfield plush wearing a T-shirt that reads "Are we having fun yet?" Is the most artistically obscene thing I have ever seen.

More Evidence Of A Putin Back Door Deal – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2024/06/16/more-evidence-of-a-putin-back-door-deal/

More Evidence Of A Putin Back Door Deal - Digby's Hullabaloo
The only thing Trump gets in return is destruction of America's alliances a nuclear arms race and possibly Europe. Win-win for both parties I guess: Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday blasted the scale of U.S. support for Ukraine and said that if he is reelected in November he would immediately

8 things Cowboys must have go right for 2024 include repeat Prescott performance https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/lists/cowboys-must-go-right-2024-reasons-to-win/

8 things Cowboys must have go right for 2024 include repeat Prescott performance
The Cowboys literally replaced their lost free agents in order of importance with draft picks, but the rooks coming through big is just one thing that must go right in 2024. | From @KDDrummondNFL

In the 1800s tons of men HATED themselves
because they were taught that enjoying masturbation meant they were very bad sexual deviants.
Today exactly the same thing happens when young men realize they're sexually attracted to teenagers (which is 100% normal)

Did you know there is a report that determines calculation of how much money each local authority can have to run, but that the basis of that calculation isn’t publicly known and the only thing we do know about it is that it is based primarily on the square footage of the county, not the population?

In this video I look at Putin's proposal about a so-called peace plan, and what it tells us about how he looks at the war. I think the most interesting thing was not the outrageous demands that he made as a precondition to even start negotiations, but that he also reiterated the same war aims as when the invasion began in 2022. In short, Russia's goals with the war haven't changed.
The link is to a blog post with both the video and a transcript.

Putin still wants total control over Ukraine
In this video I look at Putin's so-called peace plan. Most commentators have reacted to the tangible and frankly outrageous demands that Putin has come up with just to begin negotiations with Ukraine, but I think the most important story is that he also reiterated the original war aims from

A few months ago when Automattic started pushing AI everywhere and did deals with AI companies selling their user's writing I stated (https://tante.cc/2024/02/27/the-automattic-ai-thing/):
"Maybe WordPress needs a fork and a new home governed by an entity that does care …

The Automattic "AI" thing
Automattic is secretly selling the stuff their users wrote and drew and created to "AI" companies to fuck up the web a bit more for a few bucks. But the problem goes deeper.

Musk tweeted a thing
Rahul Gandhi says Electronic Voting Machines are a ‘black box’ that nobody is allowed to scrutinise as Elon Musk raises hacking concerns
https://www.thestatesman.com/india/rahul-gandhi-says-evms-are-a-black-box-that-nobody-is-allowed-to-scrutinise-as-elon-musk-raises-hacking-concerns-2-1503310648.html

Re https://aus.social/@kate/112628561587625023
I think part of the issue (besides racism & sexism; those are the biggest problems here) is that people have *different* models of what posting is like. My model has always been "yelling in a public square, which has very different norms than "chatting in a pub." I saw this as the main distinction between Twitter & Facebook back in 2007 or so. However, as social media has morphed from a fringe curiosity to something omnipresent, it probably makes more sense to follow the pub norms by default.
Also, regardless of norms, white men specifically need to learn to respond better to mild social pushback (myself included). Structures of hierarchy including kyrarchy & white supremacism teach that we can demand attention, answers, respect, and deference, even when we give none of those things, plus they intentionally baggage us with a parcel of myths that has us unconsciously enforcing hierarchies beyond the conscious shit we pull.
"Admins are almost exclusively white geeks" is a problem that contributes here, and it's one almost any open-source federated thing will have, but just because it's a better problem than "admins are at the whim of one billionaire and actively encourage thr worst in us for profit," doesn't mean it's not a problem that deserves both technical & social attention.

"The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases"
A somewhat meandering article, and one I feel doesn't meet the expectation the headline set in me. But it does have good examples and anecdotes.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/12/drowning_in_cod…

Drowning in code: The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases
The speedier computing cake is a lie... so we got software bloat instead

Las Vegas Raiders' new defensive tackle Christian Wilkins is in awe every day watching Maxx Crosby https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/las_vegas_raiders_new_defensive_tack…

Oooh, ooh, ooh… look what just arrived! I’ve been waiting almost a year for it and boy was it worth the wait. My new Linux laptop is a… tablet? Yep. The StarLabs StarLite.
Oh and the screen on this thing! 😍
https://ie.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite

StarLite 12.5-inch
Its fanless design ensures your StarLite will never make more than a whisper - unless you want it to. The Mk V supports coreboot open source firmware which you can effortlessly configure to your preferences via our coreboot configurator.

Yesterday I went for a second walk, just to nip up to the top of Whiteside (700m). I knew I was over-doing it. But it'll be fine, right? I've done this sort of thing many times.
Well, this morning I can confirm that I'm not as young as I used to be. I can barely stand up. Putting a brave face on it so my wife won't ground me. But a gentle walk around the lake today, I think.
#walking

“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called the Marshmallow Test -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.” -- #Dune (well, sort of)

Claude is fully capable of acting as a Supreme Court Justice right now.
When used as a law clerk, Claude is easily as insightful and accurate as human clerks, while towering over humans in efficiency.
Let’s start with the easiest thing I asked Claude to do:
adjudicate Supreme Court cases.
Claude consistently decides cases correctly.
When it gets the case “wrong”
—meaning, decides it differently from how the Supreme Court decided it
—its disposition …

Claude 3 for SCOTUS? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I would vote to confirm: I decided to do a little more empirical testing of AI’s legal ability. Specifically, I downloaded the briefs in every Supreme Court merits case that has been decided so far this Term, inputted them into Claude 3 Opus (the best version of Claude), and then asked a few follow-up questions. […]

It’s fitting that my ADHD medicine alarms are Mr. Rogers singing “it’s a good feeling”. He reminds me that I’m special and being me is the best thing I can be. :)

star wars nerd
sure, sure, Mortis gods, yada yada Ashla/Bogan,
you might know about the father, daughter, son,
but how about Abeloth, and their desire like Yzma in emperor's new groove seeking to maintain her imortality?
the one that, like the Avatar / legend of korra thing, would be imprisoned by Centerpoint station and Sinkhole station, repeatedly escaping whenever time would reverse (and be re-imprisoned), but then the Ones died and then Abeloth escapes and turns young Jedi into sleeper agents?
basically what I'm saying is Kronk's kevin-bacon number to emperor Palpatine is like, in the low fours.

This is the kind of thing that the D-party should be advocating rather than quietly murmuring about firearms in ways to avoid annoying gun nut absolutists.
California Becomes First State in America to Call for Constitutional Convention on Right to Safety

Anyone out there using or familiar VSCode? I have a few web developers using VSCode, and when the edit a site, it screws with all the directory/file permissions on the Linux host. Not sure what to do about that... I could rant about whatever stupid php daemon its launching too but that seems like me being an old angry man, the file permission thing is a real problem.

@Linux_Is_Best@woem.men interesting. Haven't heard of Ultramarine Linux - I'll look into it.
Honestly the only reason I suggest Linux Mint is that I have literally never had to debug a problem with it. I installed it once years ago on this shoddy Lenovo netbook type thing and had 0 problems whatsoever.
Could just be that people have been using & suggesting Linux Mint for so long it's become the defacto standard despite being antiquated?

The thing I love about Cambridge is that you can get right up to the stage so easily.
#BethAtwell #CFF24 #folk

This is the kind of thing that the D-party should be advocating rather than quietly murmuring about firearms in ways to avoid annoying gun nut absolutists.
California Becomes First State in America to Call for Constitutional Convention on Right to Safety