dyedgrey @dyedgrey@qoto.org

"In the 1980s, many people in the medical community treated chronic fatigue syndrome as a punchline. Some doctors dismissed patients’ debilitating symptoms, including crushing fatigue and crashes after exercise, as figments of their imaginations. Media outlets even dismissively nicknamed the condition “yuppie flu,” since many cases were reported among affluent white women."

#mecfs
#pwme
#longcovid

https://time.com/6240058/post-viral-illnesses-common-long-covid/

Cards for Insight: Generative Sequences

When you find a meme that perfectly captures your life's work...

Computer science pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper was born #OTD in 1906.

As far as I’m aware, she is the only person who has both a supercomputer and a US Navy destroyer named after her.

Image: Computer History Museum

Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time

https://youtu.be/VdQY7BusJNU

#FavoriteMusic 27/

Quick poll for research project:

Do you use Mastodon as a web app on your computer or as a mobile app?

Here's a thought: self-hosting all technology, a common end goal of many software freedom enthusiasts, has nothing to do with freedom. Rather, it's the logical end of hyper-individualism applied to source code.

USA: President attempts coup. He leaves office and continues grifting and lying and sowing division and is now running for re-election.

PERU: President attempts coup. He's impeached, arrested and thrown in jail.

Media’s Crime Hype and Scapegoating Led to Crackdown on Unhoused People

The New York Times parrots the implausible suggestion that cities cracking down on unsheltered people constitutes efforts to help them.

https://fair.org/home/medias-crime-hype-and-scapegoating-led-to-crackdown-on-unhoused-people/

#Crime&Punishment #Homelessness #NewYorkCity #NewYorkTimes

Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

Excellent response from #NAMI NYC to #MayorAdams move to involuntarily commit people with #MentalHealth issues in NYC. I wrote a long thread a few days ago about my issues with #MayorAdams stance - which are many and based on my son's experience of 'the system' - and this #NAMINYC statement hits all the points of concern to anyone who loves someone struggling with #MentalIllness

https://naminycmetro.org/involuntaryremoval/

Reminder to anyone who supports the NYT staff's labor action: unless a miracle happens and we get a contract deal by midnight, we will be walking out for one day tomorrow, Dec. 8.

We'll be asking supportive readers to abstain from visiting/using NYT offerings for the day, midnight to midnight. That means articles. That means multimedia. That means... Wordle.

I know. That one pains me too. But maybe the word will be like LYMPH and we'll all be lucky to miss it.

@andrewfeeney @kevlin @cwebber

I might curate that as:
#ChatGPT #AIMisinformation #ManSplaining #manSplainingAsAService

Because I feel more people need to see that. If that's annoying, lmk and I'll delete.