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LLS

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Science fiction writer. Fiction editor. Book designer. Publisher. Sporadic blogger. Not as tough as I seem 🏳️‍🌈 she/her

#SFF #ScienceFiction #science #books #design #CSS #tech #healthcare #NoAI #culture #climate #racism #LGBTQ #justice #USpol et merde

#MECFS #LongCovid

support: https://ko-fi.com/lauras

was @/lauras on birdsite

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charliejane, to StarTrek
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This week's episode of (with the "time bug") was my favorite Trek thing in ages. It was classic Trek, including a strong theme of problem-solving and cooperation and listening to others. And Sonequa Martin-Green knocked it out of the park. I found the ending incredibly moving.

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@charliejane I’m loving how the writing this season has sharpened on Burnham as smart problem solver working for & with her crew, guided by Federation values. S1 esp stood out for this. She played well off Georgiou in S2-3 & Book in S3-4, but it felt like she was written as daughter first, girlfriend first, even as captain.

This season we’re finally seeing her as captain first, whose leadership stands out, reflecting who she is, who she’s become. This episode distills that into crystal clarity.

michelemccarthy, to random
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@GrandpaHarris65:

All I’m saying is, at any point during the ride through the desert, he could have given the horse a name.

LLS,
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@michelemccarthy @evan …because in the desert, you can remember

LLS, to random
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“One aspect of the conversation that is oft neglected, however, is how human workers feel about their robotic colleagues.”

Colleagues? FFS :eyeroll: Maybe someday we’ll have actual Artificial Intelligence, but the digital sausage grinders that corporations are pushing on us — they ain’t it. https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/112293717706625064

LLS, to Insurance
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OK, USians, let’s tell them

#healthcare #insurance #bankruptcy #disability #Covid #Medicare #Medicaid #MeansTesting #LongCovid #MECFS #CovidIsNotOver #vaccines #CDC #NIH #UniversalHealthcare #measles #AntiVax #WearAMask I mean all the hashtags…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/11/submissions-health-care-challenges/

carnage4life, to random
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OpenTable is joining GlassDoor in making previously anonymous reviews public by updating them to include the first name and profile picture of the user.

While I expect this helps with fake reviews it’s a huge breach of user trust. reviews

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/opentable-is-adding-your-first-name-to-previously-anonymous-reviews/

LLS,
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@carnage4life just went to delete my account but the app wants my phone number to proceed so I just deleted the app. I haven’t gone out to eat since the pandemic started anyway…

LLS, to fediverse
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Has anyone built a tool that maps which 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

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  • above a given membership threshold obvs bc there are a gazillion fedi instances
cstross, to random
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Thought for the day: can you imagine "2001: A Space Odyssey" if HAL9000 had the truthiness of ChatGPT?

LLS,
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@cstross “I estimate a high likelihood someone will be able to fix the AE-35 unit on Jupiter.”

“Jupiter?!”

“Repair can be done by at least one of Jupiter’s 210 billion people.”

“210—how do you figure?”

“Earth’s population is 13 billion. Comparing surface areas, Jupiter’s estimated population is 153 billion people.”

“HAL, nobody lives on Jupiter. It’s uninhabitable.”

“Correct. In order to secure repair of the AE-35 unit, we should change course for Saturn, where 93 billion people live.”

LLS, to random
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“Vets, wear PPE! (Doctors, nah, you’re good, no worries.)”

LLS, to random
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Vorlons go home! https://mastodon.social/@nocontextb5/112228094827106535

selzero, to random
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Now watching. The Conversation. 1974. 1 hour 53 minutes. Popcorn Classic. 5 bags and a little headphone set.

🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🎧

LLS,
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@selzero @LinuxAndYarn Love this movie! A slow burn classic.

LLS, to random
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Rather than “upgrade” for the (very few, very small) sites I manage, I’m thinking I’ll just remove it. I can’t be arsed w “content marketing,” don’t do ads, scarcely look at the stats anyway … and Google is so far down the path, I don’t see much of a downside. What am I missing?

LLS, (edited ) to accessibility
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(currently 15 only)

LLS,
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non-meta version

LLS,
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I’m informed it’s only iphones running iOS 15 that can do this, android can’t do this (yet)

LLS, to religion
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Sometimes an old movie clip resonates through time to remind us of things we as a society forgot we knew

https://youtu.be/8YUnOHihAU0

LLS, to random
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“The words haven’t changed. But the facts have.”

https://youtu.be/eUvdPHw4Nd0

LLS, to random
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Let me be perfectly clear.

LLS, to random
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…and that will be goodbye, Discord

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/discord-starts-down-the-dangerous-road-of-ads-this-week/

aliettedb, to random
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Complete Hugo Award nomination list
https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/2024-hugo-award-finalists/
Congrats everyone, so much good stuff there
(And holy whoa I'm on there twice, once for Best Short story and once for Best Series. Can't quite believe it)

LLS,
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@aliettedb Congratulations!

Brad, to random
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I almost don’t want to link to the article even though it’s a pay wall bypass link, so they won’t get any money anyway. But for me, the New York Times has done so much damage with horrible reporting, analysis and outright misinformation that I personally canceled our lifelong subscription to it not long ago. I know why there are chronic absences post 2020 and so do you. See previous posts https://archive.md/2024.03.29-191726/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/29/us/chronic-absences.html

LLS,
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@giflian @hannu_ikonen @Brad “since the pandemic”? The pandemic is still happening! That’s why!

LLS, (edited ) to random
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Elements explained

https://xkcd.com/2913/

LLS, to random
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On the one hand, yay against cellular carriers & their txt msg caps/fees

On the other hand, ugh google https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/112177632359830832

LLS, to random
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Nobody could’ve predicted this https://mastodon.themarkup.org/@themarkup/112179013901026596

ned, to random
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"What is happening at Boeing is happening in every industry. A general trend toward financialisation & hedge fund culture that sees only numbers, not peoples lives or wellbeing. It's just that aviation has a way of making the corruption impossible to hide. It's the dead canary." - Ben King

LLS,
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@ned @burningbird “The invisible hand” doing its thing

women_in_sci_fi_movies, to Women
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#Women in science fiction movies

Of course you can answer by posting which movie, which role and which actress it is. If you want, you can also write whether you liked the movie and the acting performance. I look forward to your answers :)

#womenInSciFiMovies #entertainment #movie #ScienceFiction #SciFi #scene #cinema #image #future #technology

LLS,
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@women_in_sci_fi_movies @hannu_ikonen Looks like Dark Matter to me. The character names were numbers, except for Android (who ended up taking a name privately iirc)

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