Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

This will probably make me look like an asshole but I’m gonna start rambling about the Hippocratic Oath in front of healthcare professionals not wearing a face mask in hospital and medical office settings.

“I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.”

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/oath_modern.html

#CovidIsNotOver #COVID19

California's new digital driver's licence isn't a "perk"; it's a Trojan Horse. To show it to a cop, you have to unlock your phone and implicitly give them permission to take your phone and view it.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/california-dmv-offers-digital-drivers-licenses-18348199.php

I believe I've seen people use generative AI to create art from a prompt. I think I've seen it on Twatter, are there accounts here on Mastodon to do it?

For an upcoming little thing, I'd like to generate a statue of liberty face but looking chagrined or surprised or something like that.

Anyone know of an account or a site or anything which can do this easily? (I think I've seen @adamshostack use an engine like this?) Any

@ZachWeinersmith I have no relevant qualifications, but this paper claims that 15% to 20% of per-capita GDP growth in the US between 1960 and 2010 can be attributed to reduced discrimination against women and black people

https://www.nber.org/papers/w18693

Future gains being harder seems like a reasonable conclusion

While I believe the fediverse is the best way forward for social media, and hope Twitter emigrants will choose a truly decentralized future, the immediate goal should be to make the deadbird site irrelevant for everyone who wants a refuge from the rancid extremism that Musk is promoting there.

Let's welcome the people who come here -- and help them make the move.

YES! Get vaccinated! Mask up! 💉😷

FDA could green light new #Covid boosters as early as Friday

The shots could become available next week, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also signs off.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-green-light-new-covid-boosters-early-friday-rcna103379

BREAKING: Mar-a-Lago IT worker flips, will testify against Trump in Florida case.

Live "posting" coverage on Mastodon!!!

Do you look back with some nostalgia on live coverage of breaking stories like courtroom trials or political hearings on Twitter? These threads were very popular, providing a forum for real time community engagement.

Well, as demonstrated by Laffy's @GottaLaff live posting today (https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/111019296871564013) of the Georgia severance motions for Chesebro and Powell, Mastodon now has the best live coverage of this type of breaking news anywhere.

#LivePosting

THE BOY AND THE HERON Trailer Reveals US Release Date, First Footage of Final Miyazaki Movie https://nerdist.com/article/the-boy-and-the-heron-trailer-reveals-us-release-date-first-footage-of-final-miyazaki-movie/

The room-temperature superconductor that wasn’t: We have good explanations for why a chemical called LK-99 behaved the way it did. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/the-room-temperature-superconductor-that-wasnt/

Productivity
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/productivity-4
#smbc #hiveworks

I just called planned parent hood to thank them for not being active on twitter and encouraged them to delete their account

Your Twitter/X account is a microphone connected to a mixer controlled by a fascist. You can speak all you want. The fascist controls your volume and can mute you whenever he wants. And you might not even know you’ve been muted because you can still hear yourself in your headphones.

It’s not called resistance when your volume knob is in someone else’s hand.

#twitter #x #algorithmicTimeline #elonMusk #fascism

Don't buy so much shit on #Amazon

#tipoftheday #lifehack

'If there's a more necessary countercultural message today than "lead a quiet life," "mind your own business," "uproot evil in the fields you know," and "live in hope," I don't know what it is.'
https://www.jordanmposs.com/blog/2018/6/5/uproot-evil-in-the-fields-you-know

'Despite English being the lingua franca of science, getting an excellent level of English is a privilege of few, restricted to high-income countries or those who can pay for intense language training in Global South countries. Yet, most of the hiring calls from Global North research institutes urging inclusion conflate being a good scientist with being good (or excellent) at English. This isn’t true'

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/english-may-be-sciences-native-language-but-its-not-native-to-all-scientists/