@PhilipS@mastodon.world Turning coffee into bugs.
Joined June 2010
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This is an incredible progress story
An aggressive type of cancer (Philadelphia chromosome–positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia) used to carry a dismal prognosis, with 50% of patients dying in a year
New therapies have transformed it to a cancer that most people are cured of
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A new study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of tax cuts in the U.S. — which promised to “trickle down” and eventually boost jobs and income for everyone — have only helped one group: the rich.
cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-ri…
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I can't figure out if vaccines work or not.
Tough one. I can see why RFK Jr is so concerned.
Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.
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the guy who just mansplained The Handmaid’s Tale to the author of The Handmaid’s Tale
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Did you know?
The iconic sound of the bald eagle you always hear in movies and TV shows is the one of a red-tailed hawk.
Why?
This is the red-tailed hawk's vocalization vs a real bald eagle's.
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Case in point: there's no way to build a backdoor that only the "good guys" can use.
When the entire technical community says that the EU's ChatControl legislation + similar pose serious cybersecurity threats, we're not exaggerating for effect.
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It is amazing how the industry came together to invent a universal USB-C connector and then decided to instead make it all a giant mess.
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Every accusation is a a confession. When your boss tells you that he thinks that you can't be trusted to do a good job without total, constant surveillance, he's really saying, "*I* only bother to do my CEO job when I'm afraid of getting fired':
pluralistic.net/2024/04/19/m…
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As @JohnQuiggin writes, the biggest reason to force us back to the office is to get a bunch of us to quit:
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Denise Prudhomme's bosses at Wells Fargo insisted that the in-person camaraderie of their offices warranted a mandatory return-to-office policy, but when she died at her desk in her Tempe, AZ office, no one noticed for four days.
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ALT A medieval drawing of a horrible torture chamber in which men are being tormented by various diabolical machines. On the wall hangs a poster reading 'LATE AGAIN! Dependable workers are on the job.' Through the window peers an impatient man in a sixties vintage executive suit, clutching a sheaf of papers and scowling at his watch. Behind him is the nighttime Manhattan skyline.
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It's been said a million times before but if public libraries were invented today the law would strike them down
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They also removed ‘Fahrenheit 451’ 🔥 List of the 1,300 banned books the publishers removed from our library linked in this FAQ: help.archive.org/help/why-ar…
