Crazy idea I know but have hospitals and other healthcare settings considered having staff and visitors mask up to avoid spreading diseases from the sick people who commonly show up in these settings?
#Deepfakes are everywhere, but #DigitalForensics investigators are fighting back:
Paul Dukas used agentic AI to write code in the late 19th century, had to get a senior engineer to clean up after a massive incident, and his most popular composition "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is a cautionary tale against unleashing technology that you don't master.
(Not quite microfiction, but very loosely inspired by the genre)
I was looking to order about £45 worth of stuff from Taiwan.
Shipping is £30.
That makes it rather less attractive...
Yet, at the same time, £30 to get something delivered to my door from half way around the world is really rather impressive.
(Whether or not there would be additional customs fees, VAT, etc., I'm not sure. But still.)
My friend is home visiting family in Ballyclare and just sent me this photo of the pickled onion range available at her local shop 😂
one of the things i love when going to a country i've not been to before is go right to the local convenience food store and hitting the pickles, snacks, and drinks aisles.
most grocery stores have pretty similar stuff (modulo local fresh produce). but it's in those snack aisles that different cultures most proudly strut their weird and unique.
there are things in the UK, japan, belgium, etc. where i look forward to the trip partially because of the snack foods i'll find only there.
I was looking to order about £45 worth of stuff from Taiwan.
Shipping is £30.
That makes it rather less attractive...
@gerrymcgovern @Brendanjones @dnkboston @knud
…The rule of thumb I’ve seen is that the overall efficiency of electrification is expected to reduce like-for-like demand by 40%.
But the narrative misses the point that the infrastructure doesn’t get built without the extant fossil fuel infrastructure to build it.
People like Louis Arnoux make more sense to me in that they make a case for hyperlocal small-scale generation with tech that has substantially less advanced industrial dependencies
@urlyman My 17 year old heart pitter pattered when I first read about microgrids--and then thirty years later, was told that MA regulations forbid them.
Regardless of energy/heat source, efficient power/transmission lines, as well as optimal insulation, makes it possible to use less energy.
Deutsche Raffinerien produzieren aktuell mehr Kerosin, um dem Mangel entgegenzuwirken, den es laut Reiche nicht gibt. Deshalb wird weniger Diesel produziert. Der wird durch die Knappheit, die es laut Reiche nicht gibt, teurer. Den Preis senkt die Regierung dann mit 1,6 Mrd Euro Steuergeld mit dem Tankrabatt. Um dem zu finanzieren wurde die Tabaksteuer angehoben und alle sollen mehr rauchen.
Aber klar, ein Tempolimit und Recht auf Homeoffice wäre verrückt. Mir raucht der Kopf 😵💫
That blows my mind.
@lowqualityfacts So true because human is only one of the playable races, ugh your mind
Random East Coast Observation: https://rob.crabapples.net/2026/05/10/random-east-coast-observation.html
Day 3 of my Oxygen Not Included gameplay.
As we slowly approach the midgame, remember to offer comments and questions. I've loved and played this game for years, and I greatly enjoy chatting about it.
I will try my best to hashtag every post, for easy mutability/following. *Try*.
A continuation from: https://mastodon.social/@GeePawHill/116545587656157343
c60. Census, 8 dups. We're ranching-heavy, w/stone hatches, pacu, and soon to have both dreckos and shinebugs, too.
I expect today to be mostly improvements in and near the base. All that tapping and capping from yesterday? We're just letting those supplies build while we do our work. That build-up is *why* we tapped & capped so furiously.
Instead of governments stopping Apple and Google from engaging in egregiously anti-competitive behavior, they're directly participating in locking out competition via their own services. Requiring people to have an Apple device or Google-certified Android device is anti-competition, not security.
The purpose of these systems is disallowing people from using hardware and software not approved by Apple or Google. This is wrongly presented as being a security feature. Banks and government services are the main ones adopting it but Apple and Google are encouraging every service to use it.
Let's give the absolute worst people on the planet a functionally infinite amount of cash and zero accountability and see what happens
@aram experiment concluded: fail.
reset starting conditions, and run the equitable society test next. we should've done that first but we will do it now.
registered another test account on mastodon.social and the onboarding email is disappointingly mastodon-centric and written like someone's angling for a marketing job at apple ("unparalleled creativity"), mastodon is the best, follow and be followed on mastodon, no mention of the fediverse
Fyi I also host the Nicolium Frontend at https://nicolium.trustworthy.contact
@mos sounds very... trustworthy...
Ich musste 3x ueber die #WirVerlassenX Aktion schlafen und bin zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass SPD, Grüne & die Linke ihre digitale Strategie auf nem Oer-Erkenschwicker Schuetzenfest ausdiskutiert haben.
Morgens um 4 und nach 2 Patronengurten Underberg!
Hier 👉 https://share.transistor.fm/s/bad53571 habe ich mir Luft gemacht & erklaere, warum es nach 4 Jahren #Musk nicht nur reichlich spaet ist, sondern auch warum #Bluesky #TikTok & #Instagram keine Alternativen sind!
Gerne boosten. Danke fuer euren Support 🙏
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