Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Long COVID friends, need your help.

Friend has #LongCovid. US-based Corporate Employer is bullying them with RTO.
What's the least traumatic way to get a doc's note? Can PCPs provide? Is this covered by ADA?

Pls repost for wider reach 🙏

#Covid #disability #CovidIsNotOver

Some people still don't know that the guy behind Five Night At Freddy's has been donating money to openly transphobic politicians and it shows.

Y'all need to put that license in the bin next to the Harry Potter shit.

Do you have a high or a low tolerance level for ambiguity or 'not knowing' something?

(I mean if things are grey, rather than being black-and-white!)

#AskingAutistics
#ActuallyAutistic

in so many political discussions there is such an unexplainable obsession with throwing things at problems and expecting them to work to solve these problems. "tech will save us", or "we need more police officers", or "we need bigger walls" or something like that.

but like, means on their own mean nothing if you have no ethical principles by which you utilize them.

Wallet security startup founder scammed out of $125,000

January 2, 2024
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=bill-lou-scammed

#nieuwselders We hopen voedingsstoffen te leveren voor nieuwe initiatieven om te ontkiemen in de vruchtbare grond waar een diverse ecologie van bewegingen uit ontstaat. We willen graag even stilstaan bij onze intenties en ervaringen. https://www.doorbraak.eu/compostering-van-coderood/

Your annual reminder that creating single event only corporate domains is harmful because endusers cannot tell if oracle-zoominfo-notice dot com is a phishing domain or real. Guess 2024 will also not be the year of security on the phone :)

Tip: Het voordeel van al die "smart home" hype is dat de conventionele programmeerbare thermostaten (van Nefit in mijn geval) heel goedkoop aangeboden worden op Marktplaats.

watching a talk recording that starts with "I'm a bit under the weather today, so if and when I collapse in a fit of coughs, have some patience please" and people just laugh instead of throwing him out of the fucking building because he's standing there, in front of a crowd, without a mask, admitting that he's fucking sick

@alda Many, many years ago, when I worked at a medical information system, I got to learn some Important Principles from my manager.

The first of them was, a computer must not get in the way of a doctor. The specific example, of which there were numerous examples (because of a recurring data quality issue) was, if a doctor makes a medical record of a man having become pregnant, or more urgently, having gotten his water broken and an emergency Caesarean being necessary, the computer must never try to override the doctor.

A data quality issue can be sorted out later. Somebody dying because a doctor was arguing with a computer instead of doing a life-saving surgery, can't.

And that's even before I learnt the Biological Period, that strange punctuation mark that appears in medical texts all the time. It looks just like a period, but it's pronounced But Biology Is Messy, And Sometimes There's Exceptions. Some people's hearts are on the right. Some people have six toes. Some people might well have two appendixes, so just because one was taken out three years ago is no good reason for a computer to argue a doctor wanting to schedule a new appendectomy. There will be time to count the appendixes later. Saving a life can't wait.

Back then, we often thought of medicine being a uniquely life-critical field of tech, but as decades pass, I keep running into good times to apply this principle increasingly often.