A 1974 law designed to protect worker pensions now shields health insurers from accountability when they deny coverage to 100 million Americans with employer-sponsored insurance plans.
Hello Fediverse!
== Moderation bot release! ==
We're probably not the only ones struggling with bot signups and the tedium of checking applications manually for validity via the Mastodon interface, possibly having to check the sign-up IPs too just to make sure no bots slip through.
Wouldn't it be nice, I hear you say, if there were a way to streamline this workflow a bit? Well, glad you asked. We've built a bot that does exactly that, with a nice Matrix messenger integration:
* Notifies you in a dedicated Matrix room about new signups
* Enriches the message with GeoIP location lookups
* Handles any number of Mastodon instances in parallel
* ...and you can quickly approve or reject signups just by adding a "checkmark" or "cross" emoji!
Code and ready-to-run docker image here:
* https://git.fediverse.foundation/ff_pub/fedi-signup-bot
* https://git.fediverse.foundation/ff_pub/-/packages/container/fedi-signup-bot
Hope this helps others as well, and we're happy to hear your feedback about it!
Have a nice day :)
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116867630152249137
#Meta is a stinking pile of garbage.
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🐦🪺 Near the front lines in #Ukraine, common #songbirds are repurposing unspooled #fiberoptic drone cables to weave their #nests.
#Kyiv's War Museum is now preserving two of these unique specimens. Biologists plan to run #DNA testing to identify the exact bird species building with the discarded modern #warfare #technology.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/ukraine-birds-weave-nests-ofc-drone-warfare
#animals #wildlife #biology #birds #communication #drones #information #info #nature #networks #pollution #science #tech #war #museums #tksst #video
Spanish ‘usted’ and Portuguese ‘você’, words meaning “you”, don’t look much alike, but they have the same origin: Latin ‘vostram + mercēdem’, literally “your mercy”.
Click my new graphic to learn how ‘vostram mercēdem’, a reverential way of addressing someone indirectly, gradually became the pronouns ‘você’, ‘usted’, and Catalan ‘vostè’ – a fascinating history in which no Arabic was involved, contrary to a persistent myth.
German grocery stores are expanding fast in the US because everything is so expensive under Trump.
Aldi already has 2500 stores, and is opening 500 more.
Trump — Making Europe great again. ♥️🇩🇪
@brouhaha the US electorate was systematically destroyed over 50 or so years in an explicit right wing plan to remake the education system and thereby the voters. https://emptywheel.net/2024/11/22/a-farce-or-a-tragedy-or-perhaps-both/
A lot of people acting like Trump is a uniquely American problem because of some integral flaw in the character of Americans. Folks sure aren't looking too close to their own right wings, which is how America got where it is now.
There is a general rise in stupid awful fascism around the world, and slagging off Americans as particular idiots isn't going to help you get ready to fight your own fascists. Especially when you realize they might be your neighbors or your kids.
Nothing captures the essence of this US Presidency better than Trump watching Fox News about himself watching Fox News about himself watching Fox News about h…
This is a hell of a picture
#3267 - Types of Tornado Alert
found this hidden gem on the garden. it's a japanese hypercard game called Summer Vacation - Search for the Golden Beetle (夏休み・黄金のかぶと虫を探して, Natsuyasumi - kogane no kabutomushi o sagashite)
the pixel art is just insane - such a careful balance of positive and negative space in each rendering.
it plays very much like early Cyan games like The Manhole - pure exploration. thank you macgarden archivist baku for finding, buying, and preserving this incredible gem.
new metaphor just dropped
The dildo resistance has spread from Minneapolis!
This would straight up freak me the absolute F out 😂
Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-open-source-the-steam-machine-e-ink-screen-so-you-can-make-your-own/
If anybody is interested I ran Mastodon’s source code through Mythos extensively before I lost access (turns out tooting about having access = bad idea), it came back entirely clean.
There was one hardening suggestion around data storage that I’ll report one day.