In the same way I will never play Russian roulette (1 out of 6 chance) I will never willingly get COVID (1 out of 6 chance for disability/long-term sickness)

BTW - of course LC is under-reported. The current definitions of LC don't include most of the "commonly-associated-but-not-directly-caused-by" chronic illnesses and vulnerabilities that a COVID infection leaves people with.

I'd guess it's 2-3x more prevalent, when you include those.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2849452

#OtD 28 May 1936 32,000 workers occupied the Renault plant in Paris. 100,000 more workers soon occupied every major engineering factory around the city. A strike wave swept the country, involving 2 million workers in 12,000 strikes and occupations https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10039/french-popular-front-strike-wave

Thousands of people in Kent are still without tap water due to high demand caused by the heatwave.

About 8,000 customers in the #Whitstable area were affected because nearby reservoirs were at a "critical level" due to "extremely high demand", said South East Water.

It said taps should start to run again later on Friday but supplies could be patchy over the weekend

South East Water were dismayed their suggested idea to drink less water was not heeded

@Colarusso

what if we called it "pretend intelligence" tho

Dear Fedi friends,

I hereby present you my new favorite website: https://isaiprofitable.com, which tracks the spending and revenue of all the major AI companies.

Oh it is glorious - the perfect link to share with AI-pilled people in your life.

Spoiler alert: there is a NO in big red letters on the homepage. And there's a running tally of the money spent on AI since the page loaded.

@davidgerard you would love it

#AIresistance

@brianb it feels like the world is now run by these kinds of people.

Oh, interessant: Die Wissenschaftlichen Dienste des Bundestags haben ein Gutachten zu »Haftung von Serverbetreibern und Bestimmung der Nutzerzahlen dezentraler Netzwerke« veröffentlicht.

https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/1182736/WD-7-026-26.pdf

🌍🏛️ We’re delighted to welcome 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡-𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 as a new signatory of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information.

Its signature highlights the growing role of international university networks in advancing open research information, responsible research assessment, and community-governed infrastructures.

📰 Read more, including reflections from Jan Palmowski and @MsPhelps: https://barcelona-declaration.org/news/20260528_the_guild_signs_barcelona_declaration/

@kate

at another house where i spend some time (this guava tree is being removed at my apartment), i was *gutted* when the vacant lot sold and the tree through which i'd watched so many sunrises and moonrises had to come down. a special one that only grows there too. here it was in 2017. definitely grief, still grief

Actuellement avec des milliers de fichiers de quelques Mo, et pour savoir ce qui mérite d'être gardé, difficile de faire l'économie d'aller les voir 😬 À l'inverse, j'ai probablement supprimé des choses intéressantes... Juste parce qu'elles étaient lourdes, et rendues visibles par l'analyseur de disque

RE: https://sfba.social/@revjss/116649005765746593

This is the Solarpunk future the Epstein Class want to destroy....

...and you know what they'd do to the donkey 😬

Burrito is the Future! 🫏

#Solarpunk #EpsteinClass

Now hear me out, but I'm starting to think the term AI might have been used in such a way as to render its meaning not only functionally useless for reasoned discussion but that its lack of definition might actually be at odds with such. Just a thought.

@thomasfuchs

The delivery method sets the limits. User has to swap how many floppies? User has to swap how many CDs? User has to let the computer suck on the network link how long?

@jackryder or you know... when we invented social safety nets

I should also add that I've heavily moved to this model already, except that it's since my parents gave me an Apple Watch.

It's far from the perfect solution, but since I got the version that has its own sim card, the watch really is kind of its own dumb phone. It can do basic stuff (The 2FA capacity is a godsend) and that often keeps me from puling the iPhone out of my pocket and getting sucked into something.

Immigrant detainees at Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark, NJ have been forced to cook, clean, & repair the facility for as little as $1/day and sometimes for free. They are on a hunger & labor strike; protesters outside have been tear-gassed. Here's our report, including a quote from a detainee:

Delaney Hall ICE Detainees Tak...

@neil Long ago, before it became clear that AI would just make things up, I asked ChatGPT a legal question I already knew the answer to. I have never trusted it since.

Struggling with job hunting? Here is two easy tips:

One, switch to trapping. Putting out a lure & wait for jobs to get trapped. This requires significantly less raw effort & scales significantly better but a higher degree of sophistication. Just remember to check your traps regularly.

Two, hunt as a pack. While managers & HR departments are generally capable of outrunning or even fighting off individual job hunters they generally struggle with coordinated groups of hunters. While you will need to share with the other members of the pack this still guarantees higher individual survival chances.

@dedicto @autistics

All Cats Are On the Autism Spectrum

Too Sticky! Sensory Issues With Autism by Jen Malia

These are picture books, but get to the heart of what autistic kids need to know about autism

I've heard good things about Good Different by Meg Eden Kuyatt. It's more for middle grades than young kids, but she might be okay with it or it might be one to keep in reserve.