What might it look like if we permit a mutating virus that degrades our immune systems to spread widely and reinfect people often? I don't know, it's a complete mystery. #COVID19
These sewage discharges in the UK are the result of increased extreme storm flows and decades of underinvestment by the water agencies Margaret Thatcher privatized in the late 1980s. Instead of reinvesting revenues in maintaining and upgrading infrastructure, they paid out billions to their shareholders while increasing their debt.
There's a maxim in medicine: When you hear hoofbeats, look for horses, not zebras. That's useful to remember as we wait for more info on childhood illnesses in #China. This sounds more like the legacy of its zero Covid policy than a new disease threat. https://www.statnews.com/2023/11/23/surge-of-respiratory-disease-in-china-triggers-anxiety-but-experts-see-likely-explanation/
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And this is why I will continue to say that the Republicans would wrestle to be the one to take-away Tiny Tim’s crutch and deny Oliver Twist a second bowl of gruel.
Cruelty is the point.
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"Her focus is expected to be combating ‘wokery’ and ‘standing up for working people.’"
We live in the dumbest timeline.
Rishi Sunak brings in Esther McVey as ‘minister for common sense’ - LBC https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/rishi-sunak-brings-in-esther-mcvey-as-minister-for-common-sense/
Over late October and early November, military cargo flights in and out of Kaliningrad were at an uncharacteristic high. Bellingcat went to investigate what these flights could be moving using SAR imagery… https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/11/13/as-cargo-flights-leave-kaliningrad-air-defence-systems-disappear/?utm_source=mastodon
Back in August I wrote a program for a particular platform, installed, tested and put it into service, and it's been running reliably ever since. All well and good.
The really messed up part? I decided to make a change to it and discovered that, a mere 3 months later, I could not remember where I wrote it, how I prototyped, installed and tested it, nor where the source code is, or even very much about wht the code consisted of. It took me about an hour to track it down and recreate from evidence what I actually did and how I did it. Three. Months.
I'm bloody sunsetting, I am.
Today marks the 86th anniversary of the #Sandarmokh massacre, a tragic event where over a thousand people, including prominent Ukrainian writers, poets, artists, scientists, and others, were ruthlessly executed by Soviet authorities in the pine forest in northern russia (karelia) on an autumn day.
Known as the “Executed Renaissance” in #Ukraine,
For decades, the Soviet Union concealed this crime, only revealing the truth in 1997
Read more here🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/11/04/ukraine-commemorates-sandarmokhs-victims-a-thousand-intellectuals-slain-by-soviet-authoritis/
The overwhelming majority of the resources approved as security assistance for #Ukraine has... gone directly to #American #manufacturers, supporting American #jobs, expanding the American industrial base, and producing new weapons for America’s military — Sen Mitch McConnell #quote #quotes #SupportUkraine
There is a real Catch-22 at work in the tech media rhetoric I’m seeing around ‘incumbent’ responses to new AI regulation: If you are an incumbent that resists new regulation, you’re arrogantly setting yourself above sovereigns. If you are an incumbent who accepts new regulation, you’re trying to entrench your power and block new entrants.
Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧