I knew this slush fund shit sounded familiar. 😡
#USpol

As Devi Sridhar (UEdinburgh) warns on the new variant of Ebola currently working its way across the DRC, given that we live in an interconnected world (as the Covid pandemic demonstrated all too well):

'If your neighbour’s house is on fire, you don’t wait & watch. You help to put it out before the fire spreads to yours. That’s the interconnected world we live in, and an important lesson for all politicians watching the crisis unfold'!

#ebola #health #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/19/ebola-drc-needs-worlds-attention-rare-strain-congo-dangerous

@carnage4life welp, time to finally set the default search engine to something less absolutely insufferable on the couple browser profiles where I've been too lazy to do it already

@AwetTesfaiesus Jetzt erst gesehen - eine gute Wahl, Dir ganz herzlichen Glückwunsch, viel Spaß und Erfolg! Das wird bestimmt super, ich freu mich grad schon mit darauf, was da kommt.

Flohmarkt is federated decentralized classified ad software using ActivityPub. They showed off how you can use other fedi platforms (e.g. Mastodon) to interact with small ads and talk to the seller via direct messages.

Demo by Philip Patsch at the most recent #FediForum.

https://spectra.video/w/5GXnaWQ4BByS55J8hM7EpB

/cc @Profpatsch

जय गुरु देव

https://SubGenius.com

@Alice this is why we need glass door dishwashers, to bring the foto tradition back.

voyager picked neelix up when he was run off epstein island planet

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116604745957981805

"links will become an afterthought" is not even coded language for "the rest of the internet is merely training data and we will own the entire means of accessing information online"

2/2
💡 There will be:
-Live demos on decentralized tools,
-The opportunity to discover GNU Taler, the privacy-oriented, free-software digital payments system that put users first,
-Linux installation help,
-Open conversations,

📣 Curious, just starting out, or already an expert? Come join us! Everyone’s welcome!

#LibreLocal #Neuchatel #GoTaler #Privacy #Decentralization #FreeSoftware

The U.S. government asked the German government to take over and care for an U.S. citizen infected with Ebola.

They can’t care for their own citizens as the people constituting the current government viciously criticized the previous government for allowing an Ebola victim to come home and (upon taking over the government) slashed all Ebola prevention.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/germany-readies-treatment-us-citizen-who-contracted-ebola-drc-2026-05-19/

Don’t get me wrong: I am all for helping the victims of this dreadful illness. But the hypocrisy epidemic in the U.S. is also most worrisome.

The cemetery is where great songwriters go to decompose.

@urlyman H'mmm... our offshore wind farm is visible from pretty much everywhere in the parish. It generates revenue of about £10,000 per hour, every hour. But not for us, we get none of that. Even the electricity connection from it goes to England, not here (which makes sense, we're energy rich, England isn't, but...)

I think offshore wind is good technology, you get much more laminar windflows and higher wind speed in open water. But if the people most affected are excluded, that's not good.

@emilymbender yeah, even for someone who is pro-tech and interested in AI developments, this @TechCrunch piece read like a press release. It was journalistically extremely weak to the point I felt dumber for reading it.

Google Search as you know it is over https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

There’s something about this photo that has sent me. It’s like a mirror of a culture just endlessly peering at and documenting its own death https://mastodon.art/@biodiversitypix/116605465571507065

Google is sharing a bunch of stats about its AI advances, but not about carbon emissions, local water supply usage, or revenue sharing with the creators of data used to train its models.

#GoogleIO #AI

@heidilifeldman End the electoral monarchy: It’s an imperial presidency. Cut down the power of the executive, or a more competent authoritarian than Trump will use it to end democracy for good in 2036 latest.

Change your voting system from first-past-the-post to fractional, with much larger electoral areas to cut down the advantage of gerrymandering. Don’t elect 1 of 20 from a small area, elect 20 of 1000 from a larger area.

And kill Citizens United. Normal people have to run.

to quack or not to quack that is the question