2.34% of all Americans are trans, according to US government census data. This number absolutely POLEAXES me, and from what I can see in the source data, the number is completely and totally legitimate and based on a colossal datapool of almost 2.5 MILLION respondents.

Let's dig in.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/startling-new-study-shows-12-of-us-adults-are-lgbtq-the-highest-estimate-yet/

A new Meta patent published Thursday says a system, like its AI glasses, would use facial recognition to identify people, create a series of video clips, then provide you with a highlight reel of your night.
https://www.404media.co/meta-patents-ai-glasses-to-use-facial-recognition-to-identify-people-make-highlight-reels-of-your-dinner-party/

@FediTips
Identity isn't decentralized in ActivityPub, though. It's still internalized to the instance that hosts it. They misperception of SSO that is being espoused here isn't expected of any other Fediverse platforms, so why is it being demanded from Pixelfed? You should be blaming the stewards of the ActivityPub standard for not separating identity into federated service unto it's own.
@splitmind

Some more positive notes! I am making some progress on the IV feeding, although it is very slow. They think that my weight (actual body weight, not fluid) is probably in the 61-point-something kg region. I was around 60kg when I came in.

I then did a grip strength test yesterday with the dietitians, and it was hugely improved; my strength and energy levels are much higher.

Finally, I also managed to walk 3x the distance that I could manage when I first came in, and I am not falling over. This was one of the main problems I was having: I would fall while walking and just lose my balance completely all the time, so I wasn't safe to walk on my own. There is improvement!

@johannab as someone who's normally very privileged but is currently going through some personal crisis stuff that feels *deeply* threatening (nightmares, skin hives as stress reaction, and more as a result, the body *knows* we're Going Through a Thing), I feel more tuned than usual to the different kinds of "discomfort". But EVEN in my current state, I need to know *EVEN MORE* what the truth is because truth is grounding.

There's a limit to cope, yes, but that's not really what this is about.

@finner Not exactly related, but I've been getting a ton of robocalls and texts about loan applications. Seems to be a thing.

every time I think about "girls mature faster but absolutely cannot be put in leadership" I get very very angry

@ai6yr Hey, in my typing class, it was big old MANUAL typewriters, manual like the one I had at home. I still consider the course (in Jr. High) to have been the single most useful school course I ever took. At the time I thought it would help me with term papers and such. I couldn't have imagined that I'd be spending my entire career at a keyboard touch-typing, as at this very moment.

All #braille readers and others who work with braille: I urge you to take the Global Survey on Braille: Literacy, Access, and Innovation! The survey seeks to gather information about global trends in braille literacy, access to braille, and familiarity / usage of tools and technologies that support braille. Feel free to spread this far and wide, also. Read more and take the survey by going to https://tiny.cc/braillesurvey #BrailleLiteracy #TouchReader #Accessibility

Neat project to store private SSH stuff in the secure enclave of your Mac https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive

First, the bad stuff. A very hard week. Stress of IV feeding on my body has triggered a terrible rheumatoid arthritis flare.

So I plan to have a slow hospital weekend. I intend to read, to write, but, if I feel like it, to sleep.

To counter the dangerous fluid overload, I will up my dialysis schedule to 5 days per week.

The level of pain in my neck and skull base from this rheumatoid arthritis flare made me vomit, twice.

Re fluid: I worked out that I need to take off almost 4L every other day. This is an infeasible amount to manage on dialysis. If you pull that much fluid off in one go, you just feel terrible. We have a new plan now.

Anyway, I might have some of those details wrong because I didn't fact check myself today (and because, shockingly, this is a pretty difficult story to fact check in the modern era 🙃, or at least it was the last time I remembered it enough to want to try.)

But the gist is 100% true. Mars wrote the track, recorded it, it sucked. Steppenwolf (I think with him still on guitar, but possibly without him and with his brother instead? I'm not a steppenwolf scholar) recorded it faster and louder and it was immediately obvious that the cover was the definitive version, so much so that it's now difficult to find information about the "original".

@maxine No 😔 Sitting in a friends' studio procrastinating making music 😅

We now have infovox330 sapi5, 32 and 64-bit sapi. 
https://github.com/joshknnd1982/infovox330sapi5/releases/download/v1.0.0/Infovox330SAPI5_Setup_1.0.0.exe

@NunavutBirder

Excellent song
and
timing

So I moved the majority of my email from my old #gmail account over to a new email a couple years ago now, at least. I've kept email forwarding enabled so anything still sent there gets forwarded to the new email so I don't miss it since I don't check gmail directly anymore.

For the past few weeks I've been getting a dozen or more phishing emails being forward from gmail. Every. Single. Damn. Day.

All regarding loan applications "I" summited.

Remember when gmail had the best spam filtering?

Here's Cliff Stoll at this year's DefCon, recounting the adventure of Stalking the Wily Hacker forty years to the day after his discovery of a 75-cent accounting anomaly in the LBL computing system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0

Seriously, old UNIX heads will remember some of this and love all of it. If you don't know Cliff or his story, you'll still see a masterful madman tell a hell of a story.

So good!

@kookie Are you at the dyke fest? Say hi

Ah, you too can relive high school typing classes.