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jeridansky

@jeridansky@sfba.social

Retired professional organizer (the clutter-clearing type); retired editor. Feminist. Cat owner. Jewish atheist. Yimby. Pro-union. Pro-vaccination, masking and ventilation/filtration. Owner/moderator of my local freecycle group.

Header photo: A large black Maine Coon cat looks at a computer screen.

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jeridansky, to Bloomscrolling
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jeridansky, to Cybersecurity
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Have you heard about the cyberattack that's had a devastating impact on many patients and medical providers alike?

This article from @zackwhittaker is a great summary of what's happened and where we are now — written so it's understandable by someone like me who has zero expertise in cybersecurity.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/09/change-healthcare-fears-data-breach-ransomware/

jeridansky, to random
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My fellow Covid-cautious folks already know the problems with the CDC’s recent guidance about Covid and isolation. But this article sums up the problems nicely — something good to share with others who may not be as knowledgeable.

https://www.self.com/story/cdc-new-covid-19-isolation-guidelines

h/t @DenisCOVIDinfoguy

jeridansky, to mastodon
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The poor admins of my instance, sfba.social, are having to deal with the fiscal host for our donations shutting down.

I've switched my donation to Ko-fi, as requested — and used this opportunity to increase my monthly donation a bit.

https://hub.sfba.social/2024/03/08/important-transition-announcement-for-our-sfba-social-community/


cc: @announcements

jeridansky,
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@stevenray Glad to help spread the word — lot of people didn't see it! It was announced by @announcements here: https://sfba.social/@announcements/112062530702212045

jeridansky,
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@stevenray @announcements Pixelfed's fiscal host is the Open Source Collective, which is fine.

"Open Source Collective (OSC) a US-based 501(c)(6) fiscal host that only hosts open source software-related projects and which continues to operate in good health."

https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project
https://opencollective.com/pixelfed

https://blog.opencollective.com/open-collective-official-statement-ocf-dissolution/

stevenray, to random
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This is a shoutout to my , who would have been 105 today.

Whew, how time flies! He had a good career in aviation, starting in the 1940s and ending when he retired in the early 80s.

He passed just after his 82nd .

Peace and wind under your wings, Pops.

jeridansky, (edited )
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@stevenray What cool photos of your dad. May his memory continue to be a blessing.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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Old coach houses, with servants quarters above them, behind the 1880s townhouses on Cleveden Road in Glasgow. The two parallel tracks are stoneways made from granite slabs designed to allow coach wheels to travel more smoothly along the otherwise cobbled lane.


jeridansky,
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@thisismyglasgow How are those buildings being used now? Still housing, minus the servants?

jeridansky, to journalism
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This is cool: The BBC is running a trial where they show readers how they know an image or video is legit.

See the video here, after the two photos, and click on "How we verified this."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68462851

h/t @BBC_News_Labs @BBCRD

jeridansky, to animals
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Tennessee is very into cleaning.

jeridansky, to random
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I don't normally read news on the World Socialist Web Site, but it does have some of the most spot-on reporting I've seen re: the CDC's Covid isolation guidance that came out last week. I'm happy to see Dr. Ellie Murray quoted.

(There's some editorializing as to the motivation behind the new guidance, which you may or may not agree with.)

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/03/04/drxv-m04.html

h/t @ShrikeTron @andybrwn

jeridansky, to apps
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The Kickstarter for Project Tapestry is nearing its end — 50 hours to go — and it’s approaching its first stretch goal. It’s going to be a very cool app, but it’ll be even cooler if we hit that goal! Please take a look and consider supporting this one if you haven’t already.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry

jeridansky, to books
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Found more books lying around the house I hadn't read yet. Some are getting freecycled — but as a huge fan of Audrey Hepburn and Breakfast Tiffany's (except the Mickey Rooney part) I decided to start in on this one.

The movie came out when I was a preteen and I think that's when I first saw it. Of course that means some aspects went way over my head.

jeridansky, to animals
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Tennessee, in one of his favorite places when I'm not in bed: right up against my pillows.

jeridansky, to tumblr
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From an ex-Automattic employee:

"When I was laid off last summer, the reason I got from HR was that 'I wasn't aligned with the direction the company needed to take'. And holy shit, wasn't that true.

"As I said, I can't trust Automattic more than I trust Facebook, Google, or Twitter. And it breaks my heart and I can't believe I've just wrote that."

https://goblin.band/notes/9qaxi3setuzdw403

h/t @fraying

jeridansky, to tech
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LOL: HP wants you to rent a printer from the company via its new subscription service.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hp-wants-you-to-pay-up-to-36-month-to-rent-a-printer-that-it-monitors/

My suggestion: Just follow The Verge's advice and buy a Brother laser printer. I'm very happy with mine — something I never expected to say about a printer.
https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine

jeridansky,
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@zakalwe I was an HP/Agilent employee for 23 years and started in the Bill-and-Dave years. It's really sad to see what HP has become.

I don't know how good Agilent is or isn't any more. My last interaction was in 2003 when they moved all of my IT department's jobs to India and laid us all off. (Got a good severance package, though.)

jeridansky, to random
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“One sign your office life is officially back to normal: a colleague comes to work, hacking up a lung, and gets props for pushing through illness.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/flu-season-has-an-annoying-side-effect-sick-shaming-at-work/ar-BB1hWTF0

No, rather this: One sign your employer doesn’t give a damn about you and your health, and you should be looking for a new job if at all feasible.

h/t @Wolven @Callalily @hannu_ikonen @ScruffyJunco

jeridansky, to animals
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Tennessee and his cute pink toe beans, for .

jeridansky, to Medicine
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Dr. Ruth Gottesman, on donating $1 billion to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine so all students can attend tuition-free:

Dr. Gottesman’s husband died in 2022 at age 96. “He left me, unbeknownst to me, a whole portfolio of Berkshire Hathaway stock,” she recalled. The instructions were simple: “Do whatever you think is right with it."

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/nyregion/albert-einstein-college-medicine-bronx-donation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YU0.xHcm.KGd5ffmXFPes&smid=url-share

h/t @deborahh

Catlynn, to random
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After all the rain the ground squirrel corner was swamped. Their snack tray was full of rain water and soggy lettuce. This little one is clearly going to leave a bad yelp review! 🥹

jeridansky,
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@Catlynn The look on his face!

jeridansky, to snowboarding
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Living in Northern California means being happy about an improving snowpack in the Sierras:
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/california-storms-sierra-snowpack-levels-18682782.php

And less than thrilled to read about PG&E making record profits as utility bills soar. Shouldn't $ be going to improvements?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/outrage-grows-at-pg-e-25-percent-profit-surge-amid-rate-hikes/ar-BB1iMMjF

"The profit windfall follows rate hikes ... that increased the average monthly bill by more than 22% in January, pushing customers' monthly bills close to $295. An interim increase could push bills even higher by May."

jeridansky, to random
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A fantastic summary of where we stand today re: Long Covid:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl0867

"The pandemic has laid bare a blind spot in epidemiology & surveillance data systems for infectious diseases. Nearly all surveillance data systems are built on the archaic, and now obsolete, notion that accounting for cases, hospitalization, and death in the acute phase is sufficient to capture the health burden of the infection."

Thank you, co-author @erictopol

jeridansky, to SanFrancisco
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My NOAA weather radio went off with a warning just now — the third in the last few days, but none of which affect where I live, This one was a flash flood warning for San Francisco.

jeridansky, to climate
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Dr. Daniel Swain, also known as @weatherwest, is featured on a podcast called SnowBrains.

Interested in climate change — especially what it will mean to California and the Western U.S.? Consider giving this a listen. No annoying chit-chat, just lots of good info from Daniel. You might skip over the 2-minute ad at the beginning.

https://snowbrains.com/the-snowbrains-podcast-episode-10-chris-davenport-legendary-freeskier-ski-mountaineer-mountain-guide/

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