Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

I was a jailer for two years. Not proud of it, I needed the money.

One of the repeat offenders we had was an old man who was HIV positive. He went to jail several times while I was working there and always for the same thing. He would shoplift items from a store while in full view of a cop. This old man had a cane and could barely walk. There was no way he expected to get away with it.

After he was arrested we had to process him and the medical questions always led back to his HIV diagnosis. The state provided him with his HIV medication while he was awaiting trial where he always pleaded guilty. He was always released after serving less than 60 days pretrial. Upon release, he was given six months worth of his HIV medications (which he needed to survive) and he would shoplift again when he ran out of medication.

It would have been cheaper for the state to just give him the medications without him needing to be part of the criminal justice system first.

He was shoplifting so he could stay alive.

#Healthcare #luigimangione #denydefenddepose #Anticapitalism #EatTheRich

Elon Musk is everything Republicans feared George Soros was to the Left. Only he's 10x worse. A wealthy and unelected billionaire directly meddling in government business. Only where Soros supposedly cared about immigrants, women, people of color, and the LGBTQ community, Musk cares about the 1%.

Scams are no less scams because they are run in plain sight. That just makes the MAGA suckers active participants and not victims, no matter how much they're harmed.

The HTML Native Search Element, by @trevorlasn.bsky.social:

https://www.trevorlasn.com/blog/html-search-element

🧑‍⚕️ 🏥

#love #marriage #nurse #healthcare #meme

Breaking: Elon Musk promises Donald Trump “an important role” in the upcoming presidential administration, with “specific areas of responsibility to be worked out.”

Pues no ha sido camiseta, ha sido bolsa para ir a comprar que la usaré más 🤷🏻‍♀️

Worldcoin: La empresa que escaneaba el iris a cambio de criptomonedas deberá borrar todos los datos recopilados

Ouch

https://www.eldiario.es/tecnologia/empresa-escaneaba-iris-cambio-criptomonedas-debera-borrar-datos-recopilados_1_11916153.html

Wow! Github is giving me free CoPilot access!

Delete.

Postscript is to PDF
as
JavaScript is to Node.js

#TIL

Version 1.0.3. of the demo Temple of the Three Rules is out now! I totally forgot that I had set one boolean to false. No wonder the gold nugget bug appeared.

I also released a Linux version! 😎

👉 https://ramoramainteractive.itch.io/temple-of-the-three-rules

#retro #game #indiegame #adventure #adventuregame #linux #linuxgaming #indie

If you ever find yourself thinking “would this graph be better in 3D” the answer is always no

'UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI' https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/17/uk-proposes-letting-tech-firms-use-copyrighted-work-to-train-ai creatives won't be the last people sacrificed to this government's 'growth through AI' delusion

“Stop asking why schools don’t have bulletproof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That's the question that needs to be asked.”

- Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes

https://www.dailycardinal.com/article/2024/12/3-people-dead-including-shooter-after-teenage-student-opened-fire-at-abundant-life-christian-school

"As a percentage of global total final energy consumption, fossil fuels contributed 80% in 2019, the same as in 2000. This disturbing result occurred despite the rapid growth of renewable energy over that period, because energy consumption grew substantially. As a result, renewable energy has been chasing an increasing target, a situation that continues today."

https://johnmenadue.com/consumption-is-driving-global-greenhouse-gas-emissions/

When will we ever learn?

It's not an energy production problem.

It's an energy consumption problem.

A new iOS 18.2 update for iPhone and iPad users in the EU will prompt you to choose a default browser app.

Make a choice that matters. Choose Vivaldi. ❤️

Current status

The hardest problem in computer science is avoiding the temptation to imagine a more interesting problem to solve instead of the one someone is asking for help with