Not only do the disinformation campaign and politicisation of public health threaten the gains made over the last six decades, they threaten the entire international effort to control these preventable diseases.

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Hey, please stop repeating the misinformation that corps are legally required to maximize profits or your shareholders can sue you. It's propaganda promoted by a handful of huge fund managers because they'd *like that* to be true.

Even SCOTUS agrees “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.” (Burwell v. Hobby Lobby)

Firefox is fine. The people running it are not • The Register

Money is the problem. Not too little, but too much. Where there's wealth, there's a natural human desire to make more wealth. Ever since Firefox 1.0 in 2004, Firefox has never had to compete. It's been attached like a mosquito to an artery to the Google cash firehose. The Reg noted it in 2007, and it made more the next year. We were dubious when Firefox turned five.
And as for that money — remember back in 2018? That's when Google dropped "Don't be evil" as its motto.
Mozilla's leadership is directionless and flailing because it's never had to do, or be, anything else. It's never needed to know how to make a profit, because it never had to make a profit. It's no wonder it has no real direction or vision or clue: it never needed them. It's role-playing being a business.


This is a good summary of all the good they have done and also how they repeatedly throw out the baby but keep the bathwater.

And this interesting bit.

Mozilla is, sadly, far from alone in having faltering leadership. Around the industry, tech execs who couldn't tell an LLM bot from an MLM scheme if their lives depended on it are investing in AI. It's not just cool, it's a cult now. This isn't hyperbole. The phenomenon has a name – it's called TESCREAL, and it is without exaggeration on its way to becoming a religion.


#Mozilla #Firefox #TESCREAL

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#way back
In only a moment we both will be old
We won't even notice the world turning cold
And so, in these moments with sunlight above
Ed Ames would be 98
youtu.be/bzVbxq8h1BI?si=FPlVeG…

#haze
Purple haze all in my eyes
Don't know if it's day or night
You got me blowin', blow my mind
Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?
"Mitch" Mitchell, British drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience) would be 78
youtu.be/WGoDaYjdfSg?si=Oc9-9j…

Rolling Stone - Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot goes full Nazi, calls itself ‘MechaHitler’ rollingstone.com/culture/cultu…

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Google continues the industry-wide trend of jamming AI down users' throats, making it difficult or impossible to opt out, and potentially endangering the privacy of communications: neowin.net/guides/google-can-n…

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I want this for the retrofuturist movie I will never actually make.

It is currently up for _free_ on #seattle Craigslist and would make one hell of a set piece if you are that sort of person.

seattle.craigslist.org/see/zip…

#set #retrofuturism #prop #WhatEvenIsIt

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it's a device for tuning automotive distributors. looks like it's missing the chuck? you clamp the distributor onto that arm, and then a chuck is supposed to go from the plate up to the distributor. you put the wires on it and the thing spins the distributor at various speeds (see the 'engine speed' gauge) and the firing points show up on the plate at the bottom. the charts are various ignition timing information for various engines, so you can see how far off your distributor is and figure out what you need to change.

I haven't seen anyone use one of these things since I was a little kid, and I'm old as hell

Seattle voters recently approved a 5% payroll tax on high incomes to fund social housing, aiming to build permanently affordable homes for a range of incomes. The initiative could generate $52 million annually for the new Seattle Social Housing program. theconversation.com/from-seatt…
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It is actually very difficult to externally rotate the hips as much as they do in ballet for some people that have never trained in it even if they can do the splits and had a lot of yoga

Balancing on only the toes instead of the whole foot is also challenging

These two features make ballet exercise unique compared too many other common types of exercise and uniquely different than many other types of dance

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Princess Tutu is a Japanese Anime that goes into great detail about ballet style when people move

Even when they are running or dance fighting they run with the hips externally rotated like in ballet

If you like ballet I strongly reccommend watching Princess Tutu if you can watch the whole series for free

m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Aahl1dP…

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@shortstories My sister did ballet for years. She did not pursue it. She was remarkably fit and lithe.
We are estranged...
This reminded me of her.
Sorry for rambling. Perhaps it was just cathartic release.

Aside: yoga is not a fitness regime. It is a spiritual practice to be grounded with Nature. Western ideas have subverted it. Unfortunate.

Also: The Russians were clearly better at this performance of Swan Lake. Synchronization and smoothness of movement.

I thought Hatsune Miku was a guy ?

Hatsune Miku is a virtual singer and character created by Crypton Future Media, and her voice is provided by Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita.
Saki Fujita is a professional voice actor who has been known for voicing Hatsune Miku, Ymir, and Ritsu.
She was born in 1984 in Tokyo, Japan, and has been active in the voice acting industry since 2005.

Catastrophic floods have occurred in Western Himachal Pradesh, with 14 known to have died at 28 people still missing. Many houses, businesses and roads have also been damaged or destroyed.
#climate #ClimateCollapse #environment
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Programming a computer is not weird or abstract or even that difficult. It's just writing a list of steps in a format your machine can understand. In theory, a human being could also "execute" a program as well if they understood how it worked.

And computers are just electronic circuits that are designed to execute stored programs. Programming is the original way to use a computer.