@ConnyChiwa As a Kiwi visiting the UK, enduring the latest strain of covid-19 after a city break in London, I can definitely vouch that it isn't gone, and it isn't fun.

Despite being a former healthcarer hyper-aware of hygiene and taking every possible sensible measure, it was impossible to stop my parents also getting it because the recent heatwave really didn't move air enough in their small home.

Adequate means of ventilation is essential.

Grim to think NZ has this flu to come home to, as well.

@spla Seguríssim! Els finlandesos són gent seriosa.

Ayer vi este meme en el subreddit de BetterOffline pero luego desapareció. Aquí lo dejo para la posteridad (bueno, para la posteridad de los 30 días que aguantan mis posts.)

@lowqualityfacts that scars children at a higher rate than is ever acknowledged

Hey, y’all remember last year when I went to the ER cause we thought I was having a stroke cause of the double vision? And it turned out to be a bacterial infection in my optic / cranial nerves, and the culprit was ultimately determined to be contaminated eye drops? Save yourself the hospital stay, and throw away any bottles of Clear Eyes Maximum Itchy Eye Relief.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91593026/nearly-40000-bottles-of-eye-drops-recalled-nationwide-fda-warns-of-heightened-risk-of-harm

#ClearEyes #eyedrops #recall

Uber just got hit with an almost $1B fine for using an automated system to deactivate driver accounts suspected of fraud such as taking unnecessarily long routes to the destination.

The GDPR bans making algorithmic decisions which have significant impact on people’s lives without oversight.

https://www.reuters.com/world/dutch-regulator-fines-uber-966-million-automating-driver-suspensions-document-2026-08-21/

@CStamp This is so true. Around 1997 or so, I knew a young Korean-American woman from LA, 1.5-generation, and she was like “Korean girls are *modest*. They would *never* wear miniskirts.”

And I was all like, have you ever even *been* to Seoul? What are you even *talking* about?” She’d preserved the country and the culture as they’d existed in the year of her parents’ departure, and passed to her through stories, in stasis and amber.

@Lady Look I definitely am not confident that I understand what Dialectics is and what it's doing when it gets used a bunch of the time, but if this is dialectics them I think I still should keep an eye out for which ways dialectics has developed since the Amoraic period.

https://www.sefaria.org/Bava_Metzia.84a.17?lang=bi&with=all

@mewsleah Same. The not everytime part drives me nuts

They're the same picture.

@Caelumtangi @qualcu tant descontrol no tenen, vaig encarregar dos i m’han arribat els dos, un en blanc i l’altre en negre 😅

@gedeonm I suspect the same of Threads, the numbers for which must be heavily inflated by shoving people across from Facebook and probably counting some of the impressions from Insta.

@pikhq @zzt microsoft accomplished through slop and useful idiots what they never could through having a competitive product, killing OSS

@fresseng
Avant on disait "Attention les murs ont des oreilles" quand on savait qu'on pouvait être écouté.

Maintenant nous sommes sur écoute et géolocalisé H24, nos oreilles sont équipées de micros et caméras avec IA et en live avec les serveurs Apple & Co...

Si on comptabilise ça aussi comme des "fuite" de données personnelles ça représente encore plus que le piratage des serveurs.

SI on peut rester en dehors avec les ronces je prends cette option

American Who Wiped His Phone With 'Duress' Password During Border Search Gets Felony Charges https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/202201/american-who-wiped-his-phone-with-duress-password-during-border-search-gets-felony-charges?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Yes, you can have a legit mental illness and still be a dick about it to people that didn't do anything wrong.

@farah I mean, if you’re gonna have a tummy ache anyway you might as well go all in

AI is just like the internet! remember when multiple companies had massive public relations scandals and incurred brand damage when they got caught lying about not using the internet to produce something?

what do you mean no that didn’t happen

@danirabbit termux + scp