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my ideal future is not one where tech makes everyone go faster but one where everyone has the freedom to slow down

Apgar scores came from a woman. m&NA vacinces came from a woman. CRISPR gene editing came from a woman. Modern nursing came from a woman. Hospital sanitation standards came from a woman. Leukemia chemotherapy drugs came from a woman. Malaria treatment breakthroughs came from a woman. Hormone blood tests came from a woman. Disposable medical syringes came from a woman. Antifungal antibiotics came from a woman. DNA structure imaging came from a woman. Genetic "jumping genes" came from a woman. Stem cell isolation came from a woman. Medical statistics in hospitals came from a woman. Pediatric anesthesia safety came from a woman. Life-saving vaccine research came from a woman. Cells used for modern medical research came from a woman. Breakthroughs in human genetics came from a woman. You came from a woman. Women in Medicine

Belated happy international women’s day!

Hiya! Anyone in the SF Bay Area/Remote need a cool programmer for your team? I've been messing with computers for over 30 years now, I can program anything with bits, and I've got a lot of experience with all sorts of different systems, environments, and languages.
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Congrats on landing a new job! I also just started a new position and I’m officially a senior engineer now.

But that comes with its own challenges.

They’ll start doing ads at some point in the next few years. And then they’ll probably change enough things about what people liked about bluesky to drive people to another platform.

Seems like the only long lasting decent twitter like experience is something federated.

Build A Cat paper project: a coloring sheet of individual cat parts you color, then cut out and glue together to make a cat

we all need 30 to 60 mins sitting at a small table in small chairs with friends while an adult gives us a color sheet with dotted lines, a pair of safety scissors, and some elmer’s glue

At Noma, Accusations of Past Physical Abuse Dozens of former employees say René Redzepi inflicted physical and psychological violence on the staff for years.

the entire point of cooking for other people is that it’s a show of care, and if you can’t share the same level of care for your staff that you show your guests, all you’re proving is that you don’t care about anyone but yourself. egotists have no business running a kitchen.

Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape, according to a joint investigation by the Texas Newsroom and the California Newsroom. In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including rape and incest.

the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Hi! The news is constantly bad. You still need adequate time to rest and recover. You can doomscroll more tomorrow.

I just noticed that Newsom signed that fuckass law requiring Linux to implement age verification... for your OS

I want all of you blue wall with no concessions idiots to shut the fuck up on the internet for a while

Congressman Brandon Gill @RepBrandonGill How many Americans have to get Allahu Akbar’ed before we realize Islam is a problem?

The way sitting politicians can say this stuff about Muslims while facing zero consequences is an indication of just how entrenched Islamophobia still is in our institutions and culture.

It wouldnt make sense for apple, but i would love if they introduced a sub $1k studio display type monitor.

I really like the build quality, but i dont want to shell out all that money.

The quality of other monitor brands isnt that great.

The American people are sick and tired of endless wars built on false promises and paid for with innocent lives.

Congress must immediately pass Khanna-Massie War Powers Resolution.

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

Jack Dorsey renamed the company to Block because he thought blockchains would be the future, in case you were wondering what his track record of predicting long-term tech trends is

Elon Musk’s Secret Web of Companies in Texas

NEW: Elon Musk said he was “selling almost all physical possessions” when he moved to Texas. Nope. Instead, he has secretly amassed land and penthouses and planes and mansions. We just had to spend months digging through private company records to find it all. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...

"Fundamental science is a long game, and government departments and agencies can sponsor long-term projects, whether the goal is mapping the entire U.S. coastline or the entire human genome." Or building an advanced space telescope 🔭 to find out if humanity is truly alone in the cosmos.

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.

They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

It Only Tuesday

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

Producing software for the people who end up using it has a very, very long time ago stopped being the point for the vast majority of software that gets produced.

As with almost everything these days, the only point is make line go up.

This is such bullshit. The lady knows(or her producers know) what this guy is saying is true.

washington post headline saying "the power of AI transfixed wall st and washington. recent research suggests it may be a mirage" as if these idiots just crawled out of a cave

oh word???? no shit????? for real????????

This creep's entire line of thought here is eugenicist trash. People are PEOPLE. You don't measure their value by energy consumption. They have inherent value as HUMAN BEINGS. A fucking LLM has no inherent human value. You cannot compare them.

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
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Yeah, theres a lot of small things in macOS that dont work well(or as intended).

Im hoping they’ll try to fix some of these in their next release.

Today, despite giving eight days’ notice of my visit to the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, I was denied the ability to meet with detained people.

No matter what obstacles this administration throws at us, I will continue to come back and conduct oversight.

Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing

The legitimately innovative thing about AI is that it is a completely bottomless pit. It's swallowed up:

- all energy sources
- all our data
- all investment dollars
- all new jobs
- all capex
- all attention
- and now, all hardware components

with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.