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One thing that the current exorbitant investments in "AI" show is that the investor class and big tech corporations do not pay enough taxes: If you have billions to set on fire for spicy autocomplete we should take some or all of those to do something useful with.

Have heard a new term for “AI hype enthusiast”:

botlicker

Do with this information as you wish.

RFK Jr just cancelled $500 million in mRNA vaccine development.

There were many promising cancer vaccines and treatments under the mRNA programs… including a pancreatic cancer vaccine.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal because it’s almost always found too late.

I lost my Mom to the disease when she was just 47 years old.

This decision will cost lives.

In Denmark they have #hygge, in Sweden people have a #Fika and in the Netherlands it is #gezellig

#TIL #Finland beats all that with #kalsarikännit

Definition and image from an official government website:

"Kalsarikännit - the feeling when you are going to get drunk home alone in your underwear — with no intention of going out". - https://finland.fi/emoji/kalsarikannit/

This has been said a million times a million different ways but it’s worth repeating: the goal of a good developer isn’t to write code that compiles and tests that pass. The goal of a good developer is to solve a problem and hopefully in the process write code that can be understood by the next person maintaining it 10 years from now. The challenge is not in creation itself, it is in decided what to create and how and why

At the individual scale, self-hosting is not a good way to “be in control of my data.”

It’s like saying I do a vegetable garden to be in control of my food. I need much more than I can grow, it’s an inefficient use of my time, and I’m one bad season away from losing it all.

Resilience and transparency are key to be in control of my data and I can’t achieve this alone. This is a social problem, we need to bring solutions as a society.

#sovereignty #selfHosting #gardening

Homestar Runner's "Back to a Website" turns out to be a great critique of where the web has gone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z7kVH9xePM

The Smithsonian asked teenage artists to paint a mural to showcase an honest reflection of the teenagers lives and the world around them. Naturally, it immediately gets censored because old people disagreed with it.

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/28/nx-s1-5463593/teen-art-smithsonian-folklife-festival

#Censorship #Art #Facepalm #Smithsonian #Museum

We are going to have the fun thing happen again where a dozen cisgender female athletes discover they have Y chromosomes.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vovinwhtulbsx4mwfw26r5ni/post/3lv6xdns4bk2j

A good column, and thorough.

Laura Yuen: With some help from my colleagues at the Minnesota Star Tribune, here’s a short guide to regionalisms you may hear in our state and the Upper Midwest. Hopefully, native speakers will find this attempt at translation at least a notch above “not too bad.”
https://www.startribune.com/yuen-beyond-ope-and-you-betcha-theres-subtlety-in-the-minnesota-dialect/601438166?utm_source=gift

#Minnesota #dialect

The best software engineers solve problems, not just write code.

They ask:
- What problem are we actually trying to solve?
- Is this the right problem to solve?
- What's the simplest solution that could work?
- What are the trade-offs?
- How will we know if it's working?

Writing code is the implementation detail. Understanding the problem space, considering alternatives, and thinking through implications—that's where the real value lies.

Code is just the tool. Problem-solving is the skill.

One ocean

(by instagram user @n.renier)

I’m at a watch party for training for #OneMillionRising, a mass organization movement from @indivisibleteam. I’m with a bunch of folks from Indivisible Santa Fe. Learn more at https://www.nokings.org/rise.
#1MillionRising #SantaFe #NewMexico

Excited to be on the 2nd session (of 3) from Indivisible on taking action against our #uspol authoritarianism and building resilience #OneMillionRising details at https://www.nokings.org/rise

#Substack is hosting, monetising and promoting Nazi blogs (https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/114939115888742842). Substack's CEO admitted this back in 2023 (https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/09/substack-nazi-content-policies-controversy/).

If you are still using Substack, it is time to leave.

You might want to try #Ghost, a free open source self-hostable alternative to Substack (more info: https://ghost.org/vs/substack/). If you don't self-host, you can sign up at https://ghost.org

Ghost has Fediverse support in testing, Ghost users can sign up at https://activitypub.ghost.org

Just heard on the lunchtime news that there are no reports of any deaths or serious injuries anywhere as a result of the Pacific tsunami.

Take a bow, emergency planners of the Pacific region.

With so much crappy news around at the moment, it's lovely to hear that sometimes, people do their job really well and lives get saved.

#tsunami

Motherfucking wind farms…

SCOOP: Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog. The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the "white nationalist community." Another Nazi blog is being promoted in Substack's "Rising in History" list https://www.usermag.co/p/substack-sent-a-push-alert-promoting-nazi-white-supremacist-blog