Mike Capern @mikecsees@qoto.org

Hospital busting at the seams, hallway patients in the ED. 5 hour waits. Half the ED rooms are boarders waiting for a bed.

Meanwhile at #Humana HQ

Your patient with 5 compression fractures can't go to rehab despite having a bed... And your tube fed guy with DT's and sepsis doesn't meet inpatient criteria.

Read the room insurance folks... Your mothers would be ashamed of you. I'm embarrassed for you.

On this Thanksgiving Day, I encourage you to become familiar with the Native peoples whose land you reside on and to express your gratitude for their stewardship of this land. You can find that information at this website. https://native-land.ca/

1. You can catch Covid multiple times.
2. Reinfections are common, not rare.
3. Breakthrough infections are common.
4. Covid can kill you months after you recover.
5. It can cause brain damage.
6. It can cause blood clots and heart attacks.
7. It doesn’t spare children.
8. Vaccines help, but only some.
9. Masks work.
https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/you-may-be-early-but-youre-not-wrong?r=jp7y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Not a surprise, but still disappointing. Canada makes copyright term extension official. Term extended to life + 70 years as of December 30th.
New works entering the public domain lost for a generation.
https://orders-in-council.canada.ca/attachment.php?attach=42842&lang=en

Holy moly. This is gonna be a time sink of massive dimensions. Much of the Boston Public Library's vinyl collection digitized on archive.org

Lots of stuff you know and lots more you don't.

https://archive.org/details/vinyl_bostonpubliclibrary

#music #publiclibrary #vinyl #archiveorg

"What I’m finding most satisfying about Mastodon, and I’m seeing a lot of other journalists feel this, is that it actually forces you to ask and confront some of these questions and to make active choices. Even if Mastodon were to remain Twitter’s very tiny stepbrother, I would still like to be part of a Mastodon journalist community because I think we got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, Elon Musk and their staff decide...'

—@adamdavidson

I made Thanksgiving dinner and now the kids are crying and I'm not allowed to help anymore

The collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and its affiliated businesses has left a million creditors holding the bag for a chaotically managed, corrupt enterprise that created vast personal fortunes for the conspirators who ran it, even as it stole the life's savings of retail investors who bought into its lies.

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Looks like the NIH has set up a new website so that people in the US can finally report home test results: https://makemytestcount.org/

Hopefully these results will be made public soon, and are factored into policymaking, as current data may be undercounting by as much as 20x.

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

One last thing: Beyond deaths, when there's unmitigated COVID spread, that means a lot more people get #LongCOVID, and many more are impacted by acute COVID too (e.g. by lost wages due to no sick pay). There are so many reasons we need BOTH vaccines AND protections like masks.

#COVID #COVID19 #vaccines #PublicHealth

People of infosec.exchange:

I need to ask you a favor.

There’s a lot of animosity across the fediverse about my decision to allow CISA on infosec.exchange. This situation has people torqued up. I need y’all to bring it down a few notches (inside and outside of Infosec.exchange)

Please be respectful of those who have different views. Do not harass others or try to convince people their views are wrong.

I learned a long time ago that you can’t and shouldn’t tell someone that what they’re feeling is wrong: it is literally what THEY are feeling. Respect that, disengage, and move on.

In the same way that I will not tolerate others in the fediverse harassing our members, I will not tolerate our members harassing people on other instances or our own.

Please continue being awesome. To those who will be leaving us or blocking us, I wish you well.

This feels like acoustic Twitter.

Thank you for this day. 🌇 
#tyftd #greetings #goodMorning #GratitudeMonth #gratitude #ritual #thankYou #goodVibes #twitterMigration #hello #introduction #goodVibes #beginnings #TuesdayMorning #theBean #sculpture #autumnVibes #travelTip

Twitter's new philosophy of life...

#TwitterMigration

Renewed Climate Disinformation Campaigns Threaten COP27 Progress

The #pandemic and Russia’s war, experts say, have “turbocharged the disinformation ecosystem” with new conspiracies.
#ClimateAction #COP27 #Disinformation

https://undark.org/2022/11/22/renewed-climate-disinformation-campaigns-threaten-cop27-progress/

I am NO expert but I wrote an email to a friend at his request explaining how to join Mastodon, so I turned that into a post. I'm holding a masterclass in Mastodon -- a masterdon? -- at my school on Dec. 5, so this is also my preparation. Tell me what I screwed up.
https://medium.com/whither-news/on-joining-mastodon-d539eed5e41a

Did you know that #Mastodon supports #RSS feeds?

That means you can follow your favorite people and topics right inside of Thunderbird!

→ Just add ".rss" to the URL ←

For example, our Mastodon URL "https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird"

becomes

"https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird.rss"

What about #hashtags? YEP!

Let's look at #OpenSource. From our instance, it is: "https://mastodon.online/tags/opensource"

So, we just append .rss and it works!

"https://mastodon.online/tags/opensource.rss"

REALLY useful if you don't want to miss a thing!

Who makes you laugh on here? Looking for a bit of leavening in this very serious place.