Mike Capern @mikecsees@qoto.org

Tonight I finished @maddow’s new podcast Ultra. This powerful warning shot, this unearthing of the threat of American facism in the 30s& 40s is required learning for this moment. There has been a dress rehearsal for what we are facing. We’d best learn. I strongly encourage you to listen to all 8 episodes. The parallels are stunning. A reminder that we’ve fought this before. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/id1647910854?i=1000586931428

“We've arranged a society based on #science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. This combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”

- Carl Sagan, in his last interview to Charlie Rose https://charlierose.com/videos/9094

I miss #LibrarianTwitter. Recommend me more library folks to follow here??

The #fediverse could be awesome, if we don’t screw it up (via @eff)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/fediverse-could-be-awesome-if-we-dont-screw-it

Federation does not fix moderation problems. Only moderation fixes moderation problems.

50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR TWITTER

You just pin your last tweet, Pete,
Request your archive, Clive,
You don’t need a blue tick, Vic,
Just get yourself free.

Hop on the tusk, Gus,
You don’t need to delete much,
Except your DMs, Jen,
And get yourself free.

Use Debirdify, Di,
Provide some alt tags, Mags,
Add a content warning, Tim,
To post sensitively.

Remember to boost, Ruth
You don't need to deny truth,
Just drop off the perch, Dirk,
And get yourself free.
#VerseThurday #TwitterMigration #FediTips

It is EXTREMELY URGENT that government agencies, emergency groups, and others who have over time become dependent on #Twitter to disseminate important announcements to the public, now move quickly to prepare alternative methods (which they really should have already).

It is clear that Musk's behavior is decimating Twitter as a reliable platform for reaching the public without interference, and since Musk now says he will let all hate speech and disinformation that is "not illegal or spam" be propagated on Twitter, even from previously suspended accounts, Twitter will now rapidly become of zero value as a source of trustworthy information on any topics.

DO NOT DELAY!

Optimist: The glass is ½ full.
Pessimist: The glass is ½ empty.
Excel: The glass is January 2nd.

When I get to 100,000 followers on Mastodon I will officially bring Mastodons back from extinction.

Boost and favorite this post to help make this happen ASAP.

Enrollment in a Medicare Advantage plan is associated with lower estimated hospital costs. However, compared with TM, MA beneficiaries had lower access to high-volume hospitals and increased 30-day mortality for stomach, pancreas, or liver surgery.

#medicare #MedicareAdvantage

https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.21.01359?af=R&journalCode=jco&s=09

Taking airline reservations before computers, 1945. Photograph from the SFO Museum Collection.

Game 5. Jeopardy tournament of Champions. Amy lost the game because she only bet 1800 on Final Jeopardy instead of 6700. But it was the smart choice/gambit. Sure, her choice doubled Sam's odds of winning Game 5. But, crucially, her choice made it impossible for Andrew to win the tournament at Game 5.
#Jeopardy #TournamentOfChampions

This is what Elon is going to learn soon #joke

A good view on the computing power over the last 20 years.

When the standard was written in the year 2000 the recommended minimum number of iterations was 1,000, but the parameter is intended to be increased over time as CPU speeds increase. A Kerberos standard in 2005 recommended 4,096 iterations;[1] Apple reportedly used 2,000 for iOS 3, and 10,000 for iOS 4;[4] while LastPass in 2011 used 5,000 iterations for JavaScript clients and 100,000 iterations for server-side hashing.[5] In 2021, OWASP recommended to use 310,000 iterations for PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 and 120,000 for PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2

#crypto #pbkdf2 #hashing #cpu #power

Review this every day.

5 year old boy: *brings me a romance book* what's this?
me: a story about two people falling in love!
b: .... is there a dragon in it?
me: no..
b: then why do you even have it on the shelf?

So awed by my friend E. Jean Carroll who filed a case this morning under the New York Adult Survivors Act against her rapist Donald Trump.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxdfsrz

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