peterbutler

peterbutler, 8 months ago to random

The USPS will start shipping free COVID-19 tests again. You can start placing orders next Monday, September 25

https://special.usps.com/testkits

#Covid #Covid19 #CovidTests

peterbutler, 11 months ago to random

Bandcamp is donating all their sales today to the NAACP. Good day to buy music

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/juneteenth-fundraiser

#Bandcamp #NAACP #Juneteenth

peterbutler, 3 months ago to BBC

"... we’ve amassed around 60,000 followers across our six trial accounts, and we have had to do very little moderation of replies associated with our content.

"We’ve had really encouraging levels of engagement (i.e. replies, re-posts and likes) on Mastodon.

"For some equivalent posts we’ve seen significantly larger engagement numbers for Mastodon compared to X/Twitter, particularly given the relative sizes of different platforms"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-02-extending-our-mastodon-social-media-trial

#BBC #Mastodon #Fediverse

ernie, 12 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to random

How I fixed Google so it doesn’t shove AI into my face anymore.

https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

new @tedium

EDIT: Nobody cares if you use DuckDuckGo, you do you

ianbetteridge, 3 months ago to random

The speed at which Amazon has moved from "we love and care for our workers" to "trying to enforce workers' rights is illegal" is really quite something.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/business/economy/amazon-labor-nlrb.html

peterbutler, 3 months ago to random

Here’s the cartoon that got Michael de Adder fired from Brunswick News

Not sure which one made WaPo drop him

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/07/de-adder-and-wapo-part-ways/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/06/30/viral-trump-critic-canadian-cartoonist-loses-his-freelance-contract-with-publisher-brunswick-news/

peterbutler, 7 months ago to Sleeping

Any neurologists out there with a background in sleep research who would be willing to be interviewed for a CNET article on delayed sleep phase disorder/syndrome?

I’ve got a young writer who could use some help. Long shot, but if you see this message and would be willing to help with an interview, let me know. Thanks!

#Neurology #Sleep #Experts #DelayedSleepPhaseDisorder #DSPD #DelayedSleepPhaseSyndrome

peterbutler, 3 months ago to mastodon

Mastodon PROTIP:

When someone posts a gift article to a paywalled site, you need to click on the text URL to get the correct gift link

The (default) link preview in Mastodon uses the canonical URL without the gift tags that bypass the paywall

#Mastodon #Paywall #Gifts #Links

peterbutler, 5 months ago to fediverse

"If we do this correctly — if the next phase of how we congregate and communicate online is built for humans and not advertisers — there won’t be a new titanic company to rival Meta or a platform with eye-poppingly huge numbers like Facebook

"What we’ll get instead is something much bigger: an entirely new infrastructure for our online lives that no company or platform controls”

https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub

#Fediverse #ActivityPub

GottaLaff, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Indiana Court Gives Win To Group Arguing Religious Freedom Grants Them Right To #Abortion - https://public.courts.in.gov/Decisions/api/Document/Opinion?Id=ceRhQVOHpmrAKEFEgOb-ljReHIDalwhQNh8pti3VNauTIeWgUy8xAPlzKMgmNo3L0

peterbutler, 5 months ago to random

"The Hyperloop’s failure provides a lesson we’re learning far too late: that Silicon Valley won’t deliver us a better world if they can’t find some way to profit off it.”

from @parismarx

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-hyperloop-was-always-a-scam

peterbutler, 7 months ago to mastodon

Mastodon PSA:

For a robust Home timeline you have to follow a lot of accounts, particularly on a number of different instances

NOT JUST HASHTAGS

Your Federated timeline and followed hashtags will only show posts from “known servers”

That means someone on your server has to be connected with someone on another server for you to see that server's posts

For the exact same hashtags, my smaller account sees about half of the posts I see with this account

#Hashtags #Mastodon

peterbutler, 2 months ago to USPS

If you didn’t order them last fall, you’ve got until Friday to order your 8 free COVID tests from the Postal Service

Program is shutting down on March 8 😞

https://www.cnet.com/health/youve-got-until-march-8-to-order-free-covid-19-tests-from-usps/

#COVID #COVID19 #CovidTests #USPS #PandemicIsNotOver

peterbutler, 1 year ago (edited 11 months ago) to fediverse

If you were going to start a photo blog on the Fediverse, which software would you use?

(and I’d love to hear why in the replies…)

#Photos #Blogging #Fediverse #Pixelfed #Mastodon #Calckey #Photography

peterbutler, 3 months ago to SanFrancisco

“These billionaires ... have laid their hands on the city that’s been my home since 1980 and used their wealth to undermine its diversity and affordability, demonise its poor, turn its politicians into puppets and push its politics to the right.

"They have produced many kinds of dystopia without ever deviating from the line that they are bringing us all to a glorious utopia for which they deserve our admiration.”

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/rebecca-solnit/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley

#RebeccaSolnit #SanFrancisco #SiliconValley

peterbutler, 11 months ago to random

"West Virginia leads the nation in drug deaths, with more than three times the per capita rate of California; why is there no media drumbeat against Gov. Jim Justice?”

Broke-Ass Stuart shoots fish in a barrel, with loads of receipts. This is an excellent compendium of recent sources for SF media coverage vs. reality

https://brokeassstuart.com/2023/05/31/the-character-assassination-of-san-francisco/

#SanFrancisco #Media #Propaganda

peterbutler, 3 months ago to incarcerated

>> The goods these prisoners produce wind up in the supply chains of a dizzying array of products found in most American kitchens, from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour, Coca-Cola and Riceland rice.

>> They are on the shelves of virtually every supermarket in the country, including Kroger, Target, Aldi and Whole Foods.

https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e

#Prison #Prisoners #Labor #Food

peterbutler, 5 months ago to ai

This new commentary from @pluralistic hits on something I’ve been thinking about for a while

AI/LLMs could improve many services and industries, but it won’t save them money. They’ll actually make it more expensive to operate

And the commercial outputs of AI don’t seem very valuable (at least not yet)

What Kind of Bubble is AI?

https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

#AI #LLM

peterbutler, 6 months ago to music

Help me out here, Mastodon music fans

Back in the 1980s, there was a band called the Dry Heaves, and they were legendary

Literally legendary. No albums, no CDs, just some homemade tapes

They were a cross between a novelty band and a punk band (kinda like an early version of The Feelings)

The only damn song I can remember is Merge Into Heavy Traffic

Were the Dry Heaves a fever dream? Did they exist?
!HELP!

(I’m thinking Mid-Michigan)

#Music #DryHeaves #Punk #MidMichigan

DrALJONES, 15 days ago to Israel

Israel’s Willing Executioners - Read by Eunice Wong

Forced to flee, once again, after more than half of Gaza's population took sanctuary in Rafah.

"And when you run in terror to one part of Gaza we will make you turn around & run to another. Trapped in a labyrinth of death. Back and forth. Up and down. Side to side. Six. Seven. Eight times. We toy with you like mice in a trap. Then we deport you so you can never return. Or we kill you."

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/israels-willing-executioners-read?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=5xoug&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#Israel #Gaza #Rafah ..

peterbutler, 3 months ago to random

"Technology doesn’t just make it possible for me to find out what stupid people are thinking; it now curates their thoughts and serves them up to me daily, as if I were some kind of connoisseur of idiocy. I honestly do not remember asking for this.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/17/no-focus-no-fights-and-a-bad-back-16-ways-technology-has-ruined-my-life-tim-dowling

peterbutler, 1 month ago to california

The Supreme Court has made horrible decisions in recent years, and it's impossible to top Dobbs for harm caused ... but I’m scared that the decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson and what comes after will break my heart completely 😢

https://theconversation.com/supreme-court-to-consider-whether-local-governments-can-make-it-a-crime-to-sleep-outside-if-no-inside-space-is-available-221703

#Homeless #Unhoused #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #California #Oregon

peterbutler, 2 months ago to TeslaMotors

“If autonomous, self-driving vehicles make you uncomfortable, it’s so much worse than you think it is”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DOd4RLNeT4

#SelfDriving #FSD #AutonomousVehicles

Nonilex, 28 days ago to america

What emerged in 2 interviews w/ #Trump, & conversations w/more than a dozen of his closest advisers & confidants,were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape #America & its role in the world. To carry out a #deportation operation designed to remove >11M people from the country…he would be willing to build migrant detention camps [#ConcentrationCamps] & deploy the #US #military…

#BidenHarris2024 #VoteBlue #democracy
https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/

GottaLaff, 3 months ago to random

Mystal:

Jason Murray up now, representing the people trying to get Trump off the ballot. We should learn more about where the justices are leaning from this part, I think, just because he won't be as scattered as Mitchell was.

Thomas arguing that states don't disqualify candidates, he's saying that only the federal government can exclude national candidates.