George Mari @GeorgeMari@qoto.org

omg

https://antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app/

A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.
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In North Carolina, a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Ciji Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-abortion-laws-ciji-graham?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Women #Health #Law #NorthCarolina #Abortion #Medicine

"According to current neuroscience, human thinking is largely independent of human language – and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own."

Intriguing article by Benjamin Riley (founder of Cognitive Resonance) for @verge.

👇
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligence-neuroscience-problems

#neuroscience #linguistics #AI

The Trump administration and the state of Utah announced on Thursday an agreement to assert Utah’s control over 8 million acres of national forests while cutting public oversight and weakening environmental reviews. The agreement sets the stage for vastly expanded commercial logging as well as state control and management over a host of national forest resources, including minerals, recreation and grazing.

https://westernwatersheds.org/2026/01/trump-admin-utah-strike-dangerous-deal-to-advance-state-control-of-8m-acres-of-national-forests/

Tenure-Track Faculty Position - Applied Biotechnology
James Madison University

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/james-madison-university-27778-tenure-track-faculty-position-applied-biotechnology/

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/james-madison-university-27778-tenure-track-faculty-position-applied-biotechnology/?fsp_sid=7914

A few days ago, a client’s data center (well, actually a server room) "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G.

I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an alert.

The office was closed for the holidays, but I contacted the IT manager anyway. He was home sick with a serious family issue, but he got moving.

To make a long story short: the company deals in gold and precious metals. They have an underground bunker with two-meter thick walls. They were targeted by a professional gang. They used a tactic seen in similar hits: they identify the main power line, tamper with it at night, and send a massive voltage spike through it.

The goal is to fry all alarm and surveillance systems. Even if battery-backed, they rarely survive a surge like that. Thieves count on the fact that during holidays, owners are away and fried systems can't send alerts. Monitoring companies often have reduced staff and might not notice the "silence" immediately.

That is exactly what happened here. But there is a "but": they didn't account for my Uptime Kuma instance monitoring their MikroTik router, installed just weeks ago. Since it is an external check, it flagged the lack of response from all IPs without needing an internal alert to be triggered from the inside.

The team rushed to the site and found the mess. Luckily, they found an emergency electrical crew to bypass the damage and restore the cameras and alarms. They swapped the fried server UPS with a spare and everything came back up.

The police warned that the chances of the crew returning the next night to "finish" the job were high, though seeing the systems back online would likely make them move on. They also warned that thieves sometimes break in just to destroy servers to wipe any video evidence.

Nothing happened in the end. But in the meantime, I had to sync all their data off-site (thankfully they have dual 1Gbps FTTH), set up an emergency cluster, and ensure everything was redundant.

Never rely only on internal monitoring. Never.

#IT #SysAdmin #HorrorStories #ITHorrorStories #Monitoring

This is incredible. An MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade along with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps.

https://wantmymtv.vercel.app/

Periodic reminder to boost the posts you like to keep the Fediverse alive.

WE are the algorithm here

#Mastodon

In 2025, I learned to like doing this again.

I have been gone so long I did not recognize it at first.

The Joy of Intentful Making.

Not easy. I had a lot of trauma to work though -- and more still, surely. But I showed myself what I could do on my own. I had to do it or I would never believe I could.

Today marks two anniversaries that belong together. On January 6, 2016, armed militants led by Ammon Bundy seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, occupying federal buildings for 41 days in the name of “constitutional” resistance to public-lands law. Five years later to the day, a violent mob stormed the United States Capitol in an attempt to overturn a lawful election. These were not isolated events. They were chapters of the same story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8M7b1ui2aQ

If you have a foldable Google or Samsung (or any Android foldable phone) you can play this game. It is a flappy bird clone that uses your folding phone as the controller

Play here: https://lyra.horse/fun/foldy-bird/

Author page and demo https://xcancel.com/rebane2001/status/2007198231479103611

The Epstein files must be worse than any of us imagined. - Andy Borowitz
#ShadesOfGWB

I can't believe the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize would do this!

9 days after Inauguration Day, 404 Media wrote about how this declassified World War II-era government guide to sabotaging fascism became one of the most popular open source books on the internet.

One of our top stories this year. Happie holidays <3 https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/

"... in contrast to Unix manual editions (which were formally numbered and give the Unix Research Editions their name) distributed software tapes were mostly a copy of whatever was at the time in the (single) Unix development computer."

Unix V4: The secret 1973 birthplace of "Works On My Machine."

(attn: @codinghorror )

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20251223/?ms261223

Let’s talk about digital freedom in 2026. What’s your new year resolution?

Welp ... I was just informed through a Slack DM that I will no longer be working at the place I'm working at in two weeks' time. That is, evidently, how we handle that now. Not entirely unexpected as the writing on the wall was evident, but still not loving that approach for reasons I haven't quite worked out yet.
If anyone needs help with their #accessibility from someone with both native #screenReader experience and a coding background, keep me in mind I guess :)
Located in the eastern Netherlands, primarily interested in remote opportunities.
#fediHired #layoffs

China is running out of critical battery material: here are the countdowns https://electrek.co/2025/12/29/china-running-out-critical-battery-material-countdowns/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Even though I have a few strong job leads, I’m doing a #GetFediHired post even though I’m not a programmer.
- BSBA, Management w/minor in Research
- MBA, Data Analytics/MIS
- 5 years teaching business & math
- 5 years of event planning management
- 2+ years of inventory management
Certified in: bookkeeping, tax preparing, Microsoft Office Suite, project management
Looking for management roles: operations, inventory, customer service, center store

#JobSearch #JobHunt #Business #HireMe

New post: TEN Episode 563 | “And Finally” – A Year Of Final Stories https://www.transportevolved.com/2025/12/27/ten-episode-563-and-finally-a-year-of-final-stories/