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Dear Friends, Another way to look at #vaccine #misinformation. The cost per case of #measles in the United States. About $60k per case. From CIDRAP: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/each-measles-case-2025-us-outbreak-cost-almost-60000-study-estimates-or-134-million-total
The cost of a single dose of MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine? About $3 to $10 depending on who is buying it.
RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/117130339793810266
These companies are only worth billions upon billions so I see why they couldn't move the employees to another department/project so they could keep their jobs. 🤷♂️
Capitalism is a terrible concept.
@chadmccullough twitter thankfully did that after google intervened to kill our project
WTF 😡 "People deported by the U.S. to Liberia will mostly hail from Latin American countries including Cuba and Venezuela, Liberia's information minister told Reuters, as authorities received the first deportation flight on Thursday.
The West African nation announced on Tuesday that it had agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the U.S. in the next 12 months, the latest of several deals the Trump administration has implemented on the continent to accelerate removals."
#USA #deportation #migrants #Latinamerica #Cuba #Venezuela #Liberia #Africa #HumanRights #FuckTrump
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/venezuelans-cubans-among-deportees-liberia-under-trump-deal-official-says-2026-08-20/
always leveling up my pathetic household injuries: inconsequential burn on the toaster but then i rubbed sunscreen into it 🥳
OpenAI effectively acknowledged today that it knows which features and attributes cause brain rot, addiction, and attachment — and that it knows how to turn them off.
https://www.machinesociety.ai/p/openai-built-a-safer-chatgpt-but
@dch
Auf dem Weg von der Kohlmaierhütte zur Roßalmscharte/Hohe Leier.
Anfahrt von Lieserhofen/Kärnten über den Hintereggergraben zum zweiten Wanderparkplatz.
@ABellingrodt vielen dank! Ich hoffe, mit die Familie gehen.
@zzt counterpoint: all elisp is holy
@zzt if you haven't used pcase yet i recommend it but it is kind of an incredible rabbit hole
@hipsterelectron also you’re going to hate the elisp I’m writing
but crucially it’ll probably be done enough to share soon
@zzt counterpoint: all elisp is holy
And if you zoom in, you may be able to see the “close ad” button.
MN filed suit against TX Gov Abbott to compel extradition of #ICE officer charged in connection w #shooting #deaths #murder #DHS of 2 US #citizens in #Minneapolis. Abbott said flatly he has no intention of complying w #Minnesota' extradition requests —sitting governor openly defying another state's #legal process to protect a federal agent charged with #killing #American citizens. This is what nullification looks like in 2026: #law #courts #justice #democracy #ruleoflaw https://www.huffpost.com/entry/minnesota-immigration-enforcement-minnesota-texas-extradition-ice-officer_n_6a84ff92e4b0ca44601a0bf5
RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/117130339793810266
These companies are only worth billions upon billions so I see why they couldn't move the employees to another department/project so they could keep their jobs. 🤷♂️
Capitalism is a terrible concept.
Found an interesting new malware loader which creates a fake Windows lock screen to phish the user's system login password. The fully-modular loader also bridges multitude different programming languages, including: Python, C#, C++, and PowerShell.
This extensive use of cross-language components, along with shipping an entire runtime environment, lead to us dubbing it SynkLoader (Sink Loader), because it brings everything but the kitchen sink.
While the original loader runs all of its modules in memory only, we were able to collect them by reverse engineering the command-and-control protocol, then building our own version of the loader which logs everything to disk.
Additionally, we were able to to lure the operator into thinking they had a reverse shell on our honeypot system. This allowed us to watch as they attempted to execute PowerShell commands, which were being printed to our system's console instead of being run.
Full analysis: https://expel.com/blog/synkloader-when-you-throw-in-everything-but-the-kitchen-sink/
@malwaretech isn't this shit the whole reason they did the CTRL-ALT-DEL to login thing?
Guess they probably should have kept that...
Mis abuelos vivían en un molino de agua. Yo me senté con mi diminuta caña de pescar y lancé el anzuelo a la corriente que pasaba por debajo muchas veces siendo niño, aunque ya entonces quedaba muy poco de lo que había sido en su día.
En aquel cauce hubo cangrejos de río, e incluso truchas, oscuras y brillantes. Una de las fotos que más he visto en el álbum familiar es de uno de mis primos sujetando a mi lado dos ejemplares recién pescados, casi más largos que yo. Soy pequeño y parezco muy feliz.
El agua lo envolvía y lo definía todo allí. Mis tíos me señalaron un día dónde estaban, en el fondo, las muelas de piedra que se habían precipitado a través de la decrépita estructura de madera de otro molino. Era aún más antiguo, pero también había pertenecido a la familia. Ese lugar, y esa forma de vida, eran especiales.
Mi hermana me ha enviado hoy una foto desde el pueblo. El río ya no existe, es un pedregal.
@hipsterelectron I would like to!
@hipsterelectron also you’re going to hate the elisp I’m writing
but crucially it’ll probably be done enough to share soon
full ass gnu emacs
@milo gnu emacs can have my whole ass
Go on convince me that it would be somehow economically more serious.
I do know of a company that tried to replace their customer service team of 8 people with AI. They thought they could get by with just 2 people if the AI processed most customer requests with human supervision. That was a year ago. They have since hired 4 people back and an AI coordinator.
Things are still not going well.
Same argument here. Basically, nobody has this thing performing mission-critical work yet. If it went away, everything would basically be fine. (Unlike, as Doctorow says, if Office 365 shut down tomorrow or John Deere tractors stopped working, in which case all hell would break loose.)
@zzt we will make a better kernel
@hipsterelectron I would like to!
full ass gnu emacs
imagine traveling back to 2001 and going “nah the kernel doesn’t really matter” around any of these people
they’d cut you with a fucking knife
@zzt we will make a better kernel
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