George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

🤔What if manufacturers were assessed a disposal tax every time something they produced ended up in a waste management facility?

Ultimate Life Hack

We've migrated everyone following the @arstechnica@geeknews.chat mirror to the official Ars account, welcome if you were following that

A big thank you to @jeroen for running that mirror all this time

This guy knows.
#HDMI

Elon Musk changed Twitter's algorithm to feature his own tweets and now he's using that power to promote his preferred presidential candidate.

I have a lead on Senior Software Engineer role working primarily in #rustlang.

The candidate must be in North American timezones unfortunately.

Plz email me: rtyler [at] brokenco.de if you're interested in building data processing tools with Ferris! 🦀

It’s like this: my sib Tidy just called and told me that a significant portion of the population of Austin is up in arms because Dell Children’s Hospital just shut down its entire adolescent medicine dept over fallout from this anti-gender-affirming care crap.

The only MD in the city doing trans youth medicine also happens to be, by all accounts, the best MD in the city for cis girls with other complex stuff. Both of my cis nieces with weird issues are among her patients. This poor doc just said “fuck it” and quit, she couldn’t take the relentless bashing. My nieces and countless other Austin girls are now without the medical care they need and deserve. And for what? The governor’s MAGA street cred?

My point is this: even if your kids aren’t trans, this anti-trans bullshit can and will still fuck them up.

Protecting trans kids protects ALL kids.

#ProtectTransKids

Not electric, but I really enjoyed this calming look at this 1926 Model T. Those ecngine coils! 😍https://mstdn.ca/@flivverchannel/110408686975597694

If Facebook and Instagram were to join the Fediverse and you could follow users from that world from your instance, would you do it?

Boosts appreciated. I'd like to know the current consensus of the Fediverse.

#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #SocialMedia

Can China's Stand-Up Comedy Scene Survive Joke About Two Dogs? https://www.voanews.com/a/can-china-s-stand-up-comedy-scene-survive-joke-about-two-dogs-/7101956.html #voanews #voiceofamerica

France is fighting to save your iPhone from an early death

French prosecutors have launched an investigation into the scourge of planned obsolescence.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/france-is-fighting-to-save-your-iphone-from-an-early-death/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

I've helped so many people in my career to find work. Now it is me. I've been looking for a job for a long time. As a a person who calls on #tech and #ai to be accountable (and offers to help do that) you'd think they'd want me. But nope. Is *anyone* in my network hiring? Please.

The more you know about what raises scores on standardized tests, the less likely you'd be to celebrate a high score or fret about a low one. Today's 1st example (via Linda McNeil): "unteaching" in order to dumb kids down for the test.

You'll also be disillusioned if you attend to how tests are constructed: https://is.gd/hg6NyD.

Keep both in mind when you read, say, extended lamentations about "learning loss" that equate learning with test scores (& never bother to defend that assumption).

Time for the formal #GetFediHired post!

I have varied developer experience going back to the 90s. Front, back, apps, engines. I've spent a lot of time on game design tools -- game languages and VMs and interpreters.

If you want to build a toolset for your users to go creatively wild, we should talk. Doesn't have to be games.

(I recently spent a couple years building a narrative/dialogue engine for a multiplayer game, but a big layoff hit. Now I'm looking again.)

Thanks.

#LookingForWork

> Phoenix invented a completely novel way to abuse the BIOS, and trust me, this article is worth the read if that intrigues you.

https://gekk.info/articles/hyperspace.htm

What should Biden do about the debt ceiling?

All of my friends who were regular Twitter users have taken a break from the app, myself included.

The acquisition by Elon Musk is a textbook example of how acquisitions destroy value.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/17/majority-of-us-twitter-users-say-theyve-taken-a-break-from-the-platform-in-the-past-year/

How to use Ethernet with iPad over USB-C or Lightning https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/17/use-ethernet-with-ipad/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Any #retrocomputing #apple #mac people out there that can help me please? Back in 1994 I started using my first Mac – a Centris 610. It came with OS 7.1.2 and I distinctly remember it having a ‘training’ program with it. It taught you about the basics of the Finder, clicking, double-clicking and dragging. I seem to remember it featured a goldfish bowl. Does anyone else remember it and what it was called? And is it available, even to watch, online anywhere?

A 5th grade teacher in FL was investigated for showing a Disney movie with a gay character in it. She has resigned bc she's sick of the politics.

Is this the America you want? No?

Then help us vote these ghouls out.