LLS

LLS, 10 days ago (edited 7 days ago) to random

You know how you can smell a cigarette from far away, across the room, or after they left, or outside across the yard, or up the sidewalk, or on a restaurant patio, or even not even know where it’s coming from, but you can smell it?

Covid is aerosolized, it spreads across distances like that too. But you can’t smell it.

Think about that next time you smell cigarette smoke. Think about it next time you get that “just a cold” again.

#CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver

LLS, 24 days ago to random

“Google yourself” takes on a whole new meaning https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/112496475718227188

LLS, 27 days ago to random

“Recall records everything users do on their PC, including activities in apps, communications in live meetings, and websites visited for research.”

But don’t worry, it’s encrypted, Microsoft says.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

LLS, 30 days ago to random

During a 36h migraine, I drafted a short story with monsters and killing. The muse was with me. If these headaches persist, I’ll have a themed anthology in no time, though if these headaches persist, no time will feel like a million years and shit’s gonna get dark.

LLS, 1 month ago to random

this had me in stitches

a what to call this? a celebration? a tease? a loving tribute? a shitpost chock full of brainworms from Gideon the Ninth (with maybe some very small spoilers, though you wouldn’t know it if you haven’t read it)

https://youtu.be/f315N619OKY

LLS, 1 month ago to random

Forget Skynet.

Slopnet will be the end of us — not with nukes and cyborgs but with slop, injecting AI slop into every service, operation, utility, everything we rely on. Nobody will notice until municipal grids fail, planes fall from the sky, food supplies dwindle, summers extend year-round, and billions die.

Then the slop-meister trillionaires will gather in their mountain bunker retreat, pop the last bottles of champagne, and toast to their victory over human diversity and compassion.

LLS, 1 month ago to random

if you want to radicalize yourself, look up Project 2025

LLS, 1 month ago to random

Slop Overflow

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

LLS, 1 month ago to random

In case you haven’t read this yet…

Compelling on-the-ground reporting by student journalists, w first-hand accounts & multiple quotes from students & faculty with varied perspectives on what’s happening. Far more informative and revealing than the glib, shallow, misleading coverage thrown up by mainstream corporate cable news & newspaper platforms.

NY Magazine does us all a service highlighting this:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/columbia-university-protests-israel-gaza-campus.html

More: https://www.columbiaspectator.com/

LLS, 1 month ago to random

Now a new DOT regulation!

“air carriers must provide prompt automatic refunds and and ticket agents must provide prompt refunds upon request when airlines cancel or significantly change their flights”

Another piece of Reaganism undone

https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/biden-harris-administration-announces-final-rule-requiring-automatic-refunds-airline

https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/refundsfinalruleapril2024 https://wandering.shop/@LLS/112322625829519674

LLS, 2 months ago to fediverse

Has anyone built a tool that maps which #fediverse instances* federate with which —something to visualize who’s federating (or not federating) with whom?

bc that would be an awesomely useful resource when picking a new community to join/migrate to

—

• above a given membership threshold obvs bc there are a gazillion fedi instances

LLS, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to accessibility

#AltText #Accessibility (currently #iOS 15 only)

LLS, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

You don’t see such blunt commentary on tv, not even from Rachel. #Maddow on the organized subversion of US democracy and the press

https://youtu.be/CqassXP6HAU

LLS, 2 months ago to disabled

4y ago, when #covid was spreading across the world, I got sick. 4d of severe illness

Then I “recovered” except for low fever, fatigue, body aches…

I worked—& crashed, barely able to get out of bed, rested days/weeks, felt better, went back to work—crashed. That’s the cycle

I set activity limits, cut them back & back…

Today if I walk >400 steps, stand >2 min, sit up >2h, or have >10 min heart rate >85bpm … I crash

Hard lessons. Took a long time to accept I’m #disabled w #LongCovid #MECFS

LLS, 3 months ago to mecfs

#MECFS, the Board Game

via elo on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/elohopea.bsky.social/post/3knl6dh6e4k24

@mecfs #LongCovid

LLS, 3 months ago to random

Not either/or: solar panels installed ABOVE working ranch/farmland. Fascinating new methods.

> Greater benefits can come from combining solar with food crops. The solar panels must be mounted higher up…kept plants cooler during the day and warmer at night, and they held more moisture in the air. These less-stressed plants…needed substantially less watering…[and] evaporation from the plants even helped to cool the panels and increase electricity output.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2301355120

LLS, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to mecfs

Give your loved ones, friends, mutuals, followers, neighbors, acquaintances, strangers and yourself the gift of a healthier holiday season and beyond by sharing this list of NIOSH-Approved N95 mask brands and models.

A lot of masks sold or even given away are fakes — and while any mask is better than none, it’s your health on the line. Covid is surging, and even the mildest case with no symptoms can leave you w #LongCOVID

@mecfs

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/disp_part/n95list1-b.html https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/disp_part/N95list1-b.html

LLS, 7 months ago to random

No, I will not flip it
Or tap your tiny url
Or click to see your bitly
Or blithely go through tco
Or even view your apple news

Links that hide their destination
Are moist gray blobs of mystery meat
I’m not gonna eat.

LLS, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to twitter

Twitter: geek joy, fail whales, new voices, communities forming, breaking news … & doxxing, bigot brigades, fake news networks, gaslighting pols + celebs, the fash…

Last yr I posted a farewell & deleted the app. But was that enough? “X” [#twitter] keeps setting new lows of scary awfulness.

Poll: What did you do to (or are you doing with) your account?

If you’re willing, share why. (And plz, everyone be kind, no need to shame other ppl’s choices here. We each live our own lives.)

LLS, 9 months ago to mecfs

? for other disabled folks (esp w ME/CFS): How do you estimate spoons available for the day? Or do you?

I need a better way than “Do things until PEM, then one thing less.” Timeboxing stuff pomodoro style kinda helps but doesn’t factor how much I must:

• move my arms
• sit up
• stand up
• walk
• climb stairs
• lift >5 lbs
• focus mentally
• do emotional work
• travel
• be in crowds
…or combinations of above

ANY resource links, tips, recommendations?

#MECFS @mecfs

LLS, 1 year ago to random

The Sears case cuts to bone

With its massive catalog, >100y experience w production/inventory/fulfillment & millions of devoted customers, Sears was ideally positioned to move online as THE dominant online retailer

Instead, investors gutted the golden goose

And that’s just one example in @pluralistic’s rundown of the long history of heists like this being pulled by private equity

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/#

LLS, 1 year ago to random

#bellhooks
#queer

LLS, 1 year ago to random

“This is the new normal” translates as “fuck y’all”

LLS, 1 year ago to fediverse

“It’s too hard to pick an instance!”

Why?

Because it’s impossible to filter #Mastodon instances lists by basic community rules. You’d have to go to each instance & parse through their #CodeOfConduct

Filtering by interests doesn’t help here

And defaulting folks to mastodon[.]social with its at-best inadequate #moderation only invites more trouble

This is something of a travesty considering the benefits touted re the #fediverse

cc #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #lgbtq #trans #disabled #abuse

LLS, 1 year ago to FantasyWriters

new instance, new #introduction:

I’m a #writer of #SFF. #wip stuff will have to go in another post.

I also do fiction #editing, print #bookDesign, #ebook design + #coding, #coverDesign, graphic design … an eclectic assortment of fields to have gained years of experience & expertise in … great for cofounding @tsi, a bootstrapped #smallPress, but at times makes covering the bills a bit of a challenge. ("What is it you do again?)

Links w more info are in my profile.