Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

A federal judge today said the Supreme Court's #Dobbs decision may not have ended the constitutional right to an #abortion.

"It is entirely possible that the Court might have held in Dobbs that some other provision of the Constitution provided a right to access reproductive services had that issue been raised," the judge wrote.

She wants a briefing on whether the 13th amendment — or any other — might confer such a right.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/06/federal-judge-constitutional-right-abortion-dobbs-00081391?cid=mas

"Eric Trump tourmate claims Jewish people are frauds and ''Hitler was actually fighting the same people that we're trying to take down today'"

#Fascism

https://www.mediamatters.org/diversity-discrimination/eric-trump-tourmate-scott-mckay-claims-jewish-people-are-frauds-and-hitler

#cartoonist Dave Whamond
#KevinMcCarthy #HouseGOPLeaderMcCarthy #DebtCeiling #SocialSecurity #Medicare
#GOPdomesticTerrorists #GOPsabotage #GQP #Politics #editorialcartoons #cartoon

Do you want Cylons? Because this is how you get Cylons. (Seriously. See 'Caprica')
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-emulating-dead-people

Why are @reiver and I building #SpaceHost?

Because we looked at the Fediverse's biggest needs right now, and we both agree that there's a HUGE need for more instances.

And not just Mastodon instances. Every kind of instance!

But there's a big barrier to entry: most people have neither time nor expertise to self-host an instance.

So we want to make running an instance incredibly easy by doing the heavy lifting for you!

My kids’ elementary school is having a lockdown drill today, so this is a reminder that, even with the school shootings you hear about in the news, school is by far one of the safest places children can be, there’s zero evidence that lockdown or active shooter drills improve safety, and their main effect is in traumatizing children by convincing them that school in fact isn’t safe. It’s shameful that schools do this to kids and parents should demand they stop.

The reasons for it are clear and were predictable, but I’m still astonished at how utterly quickly Twitter (or at least my timeline there) went from being a vibrant, if frequently problematic, community to a total wasteland. There’s simply nothing there for me any more. And it took maybe a month.

“We’re Still Gonna Say No”: Inside UnitedHealthcare’s Effort to Deny Coverage to Chronically Ill Patient
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After a college student finally found a treatment for his ulcerative colitis that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs.

His fight to finally get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.

#Insurance #UnitedHealthcare #Health #Healthcare #DenialOfCare

https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

A previously unknown layer of partially-molten rock extends below much of the planet's surface, and could illuminate mysteries in plate tectonics.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgjyv/scientists-discover-hidden-zone-of-earth-100-miles-beneath-surface
#tech-science #Science #earth #geology #Abstract #worldnews

Congress sent $600 million to Jackson to help fix its water system. Some are warning that new legislation could funnel the money out of the city.

https://www.propublica.org/article/jackson-mississippi-water-system-state-takeover

@ProPublica @msfreepress

Without a free #Twitter API, do folks think projects will pivot to using #Selenium?

Open source software sometimes languishes, and occasionally goes into a coma, but it never dies as long as the code still exists in the open. There’s always a glimmer of hope it can wake from the coma.

Proprietary software doesn’t just die… it gets killed. It gets murdered. Typically by people who never even use it. It gets destroyed by management and “decision makers” at the top who only look at bottom lines.

#openSource #software #freeSoftware

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

Pharma buys off Congress. No action on drug prices.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

#cartoonist Clay Jones
#AfricanAmericanStudies #AAStudies #AA #history #BlackHistoryMonth #Florida #DeSantis #Floriduh #DeSatan #RevisionistHistory #GubernamentalGaslighting
#culturewars #WhiteWashing #politics #editorialcartoons #cartoon

It's depressing how much Twitter's remaining users are willing to put up with instead of just moving to an open platform not subject to the whims of a capricious autocrat. https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/5/23586577/elon-musk-bots-good-content-twitters-api-free

@beckymsm @freemo you’re free to do so. Just don’t be surprised when you have trouble convincing ppl to vote Democrat. Maybe the Dems should focus less on how they can spin “business as usual” to appeal to millennials and zoomers, and focus more on actually sticking up for working people and marginalized people.

#cartoonist Joe Heller
#ChineseSpyBalloon #Chinesesurveillanceballoon #chineseweatherballoon #TikTok #spyware #politics #editorialcartoons #cartoon