beforewisdom

histoftech, 8 months ago to random

The last part of this article, about current immune-evasive mutations, should concern everyone. In the effort to pretend the emergency is over we are growing new variants at an alarming rate that threaten to make things much worse. It’s interesting how Fortune has better coverage on this than many outlets because they know this will have major, negative economic consequences.

https://fortune.com/well/2023/09/16/united-states-covid-levels-approach-first-pandemic-peak-2020-who-urges-vaccination-boosters-high-risk/

beforewisdom, 8 months ago to Humor

#Humor #Politics

retrohondajunki, 8 months ago to random

HamonWry, 8 months ago to random

When my time comes I want to be buried with my cellphone and a WiFi booster.

You know … just in case.

nixCraft, 8 months ago to random

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DeanObeidallah, 8 months ago to random

“Meet the Press” booking Trump for first show with new host is how FASCISM is normalized. My new article on why this is so dangerous: https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/meet-the-press-booking-trump-for

anildash, 8 months ago to random

A key thing to understand about the technology industry is that Hacker News is a very well-known community for some kinds of coders to hang out; it is an extremist content site run as paid promotion for the venture capital firm YCombinator. Here, an ordinary discussion of the obvious reality that tech workers deserve unions features responses citing explicitly white supremacist rhetoric as a counterargument. No one is even surprised that this is how YC markets itself. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37507458

Loukas, 8 months ago to random

Back in my day we didn't have social media. If you wanted to see a reply-guy you had to go to a public lecture and wait for the people to stand up at the end and say "not so much a question, more a comment..."

GottaLaff, 8 months ago to kentucky

Womp womp

Kim Davis must pay US same-sex couple she denied marriage license $100,000

Jury awards damages to David Ermold and David Moore, who sued former #Kentucky county clerk over 2015 incident | The Guardian #LGBTQ #legal https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/14/kim-davis-damages-same-sex-marriage-license-kentucky

realTuckFrumper, 8 months ago to random

Kim Davis must pay US same-sex couple she denied marriage license $100,000 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/14/kim-davis-damages-same-sex-marriage-license-kentucky?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Bellingcat, 8 months ago to random

An American Neo-Nazi boasted of serving alongside military units in Ukraine. A former Trump advisor then claimed it was the “Biggest Nazi Scandal in US History”. But open source evidence places the Neo-Nazi in Florida, when he claimed to be in Ukraine. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/09/13/us-neo-nazi-says-he-fought-in-ukraine-records-place-him-in-florida/?utm_source=mastodon

TheConversationUS, 8 months ago to random

📢 The CDC recommends the new #COVID19 vaccine booster for everyone 6 months and up.

Two immunologists answer some common questions, like the right time to get your shot and what's known about protection for the latest subvariants.

https://theconversation.com/cdc-greenlights-two-updated-covid-19-vaccines-but-how-will-they-fare-against-the-latest-variants-5-questions-answered-213341

#StaySafe #VaccinesWork

beforewisdom, 8 months ago to gerryanderson

#Space1999 #GerryAnderson #ScienceFiction #SyFy #SciFi

On this day, September 13th 1999 the moon was blow out of the Earth's orbit.

erictopol, 8 months ago to random

Here it is

Some_Emo_Chick, 8 months ago to random

Robobadonkadonk

rbreich, 8 months ago to random

Since the word ‘socialism’ is apparently so terrifying, let me be clear: Every advanced country on planet earth pools resources for the common good.

This is how a society functions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq02yuY4wDQ&ab_channel=RobertReich

finestructure, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Regarding “back to the office”: Why is the commute the employee’s burden anyway? Make it part of the work time and have at it requiring people to come to the office. Three hours commute? You get 5 hours in the office.

Employees are available immediately at home but if they’ve required in the office, the clock starts when they leave home. You rent their time, your choice to spend it on travel.

anneapplebaum, 8 months ago to random

I met the engineers whose sea drones were blocked when Starlink didn't function in September 2022, because Musk feared "World War Three." But they tried the same attack again a month later, and they hit several targets in Sebastopol.

World War Three did not break out.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/elon-musk-let-russia-scare-him/675282/

SrRochardBunson, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Looking for any and all pictures of people flipping off trump and/or trump tower.

Thinking of making a coffee table book.
😅

That's also what I'm going to start calling the middle finger, "the trump tower"

I started a gallery!

https://firefish.social/gallery/9jhdnm1go4hvexny

Maverick: Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations. I was, uh, you know, giving him "the bird."

Goose: You know -- "the finger.

#FingerBook

augieray, 8 months ago to random

"To this day, the cumulative per capita death rates from #COVID19 in countries that embraced the face coverings, such as Japan, South Korea and Singapore, are a sixth of Anglo-Saxon countries like the US and UK that balked at community masking."

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/it-s-aerosol-stupid-the-professor-who-challenged-medical-chiefs-20230814-p5dw8p

grimalkina, 8 months ago to random

Something I think about a lot lately is how physically difficult and claustrophobic being in a spacesuit and living in a space ship must be and how easily lots of people fantasize about this and are the same people who seem too stifled by masks to wear them when I sit in a cardiologist waiting room