Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Regarding the discussion of whether posters should have control over who gets to reply to their posts, here are screenshots of the "Advanced configuration" dialog for privacy settings on Hubzilla channels.

The same pull-down options are available for all fields.

Note: in Hubzilla-speak, a channel is the same thing as an identity.

I have discovered the worst book cover of all time. Behold it and cringe.

(For the record, I know this person and they richly deserve every bit of mockery)

Time Magazine published this transcript of its Trump interview(s) in April. In it, the liar-in-chief said he'd release a "big statement" on the abortion pill mifepristone within 14 days.

As with so many other promises, he of course was lying.

But journalists are a culpable party in this, because they almost never follow up. He counts on their short attention span, and their willingness to let him lie without accountability.

And they accommodate his deceit.

Malpractice. Also standard.

The average UK height of five-year-olds is falling, obesity levels have increased by over 30% and the number of young people being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes has risen by over 20%, the report by the Food Foundation said.

Aggressive marketing of cheap ultra-processed food, diets lacking essential nutrition and high levels of poverty and deprivation are driving the “significant decline” in children’s health, researchers found. #Tories #Food #Nutrition

via Scientific American: "Objectively speaking, we are living through a dumpster fire of a historical moment."

https://archive.md/YNK3D#selection-281.0-281.83

The first thing I read about bird flu in milk (iirc, from a gov. scientist) was that, unfortunately, the pasteurization process does not kill the virus. I saw that fact mentioned all of one time, and ever since it's just been, "stay away from raw milk." We live in a world run by idiots.

I know the Dems are less anti-science than the Repubs, but when this is what we get from them for public health policy, it hardly makes any difference.

"It sure is a crazy coincidence how western politicians and media always start urgently telling us about an invisible epidemic of left wing antisemitism every time western military ties to Israel are subjected to widespread public scrutiny. "

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/06/16/weve-seen-this-antisemitism-crisis-on-the-left-script-before/

Brihana Joy Gray sums it up pretty succinctly over on that other site.

I know it's hard to keep track of this after a couple decades of indoctrination by Twitter and others that public posts necessitate public dialog and that the commenters own their comments, but there really are other ways to do this.

#Livejournal / #Dreamwidth had/has an entirely different model. The original poster owns the reply thread and has total control over not just reactive moderation but pro-active screening. The person who started a conversation curates what other people see.

For the record, the US Government does not dispute that there is an on-going genocide in Gaza. Let that sink in. In a court of law, under oath, on the record - and they do not even try to dispute that what's happening in Palestine is a genocide.

https://truthout.org/articles/palestinians-ask-federal-court-to-rule-biden-is-complicit-in-israeli-genocide/

We're getting ever closer to the date in this comic, which I drew in 2012. Very cool.

Does anyone know of an explanation why exactly the wrong #needle on a #sewing #machine will cause dropped stitches?

When I run fast over jeans, it skips on the seam.

When I run it slowly, it doesn't happen.

#askfedi

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@theconversationau Oh. Guess I'll take a break from reading The Conversation.

In "Things we doubt would happen in the U.S. these days"

My son's school has decided to close for the next few days because there is a respiratory bug happening. (In this case, Flu.) They are recommending consulting with local systems regarding vaccination. (There was just recently vaccinations for updated MMR)

I....am pleasantly impressed.

Well now I can't stop thinking about this https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/06/11/why-curl-closes-prs-on-github/

Thanks @bagder ! Now I don't want to use GitHub anymore! Or to work with my teammate (and myself sometime) that writes poor commit messages because nobody cares since GitHub hides them...

I also know why sometime I feel stupid writing commit messages that nobod will look at xD

😩 when reading blog post makes me sad! 😅

Between surveillance capitalism, indecipherable user interfaces, and digital technologies whose primary function is to increase electricity expenditure, it's easy to forget that there actually have been some worthwhile advances in software over the past 20 years or so.

What are your favorite examples of useful software, programming languages, and tools that didn't exist 20 years ago?

Age verification systems are surveillance systems. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/california-lawmakers-should-reject-mandatory-internet-id-checks

Wholesale bans on public employees talking to the press are blatantly unconstitutional.

People are entitled to know more about their government than PR.

Hopefully, other agencies will rescind similar policies without the need for more lawsuits.

https://www.voanews.com/a/reporter-s-lawsuit-secures-rights-for-us-jail-staff-to-speak-with-media/7656304.html