The producers of "What Doesn’t Kill You", a documentary about ME/CFS and long COVID, are looking for people willing to contribute their experiences. whatdoesntkillyou.movie/interview Screenshot from Emerge Australia October email bulletin #MEcfs #LongCovid #PwME #CFS

State Dept is trying to recruit the same humanitarian assistance experts who were fired from USAID. Thing is? Some will rejoin because it’s hard finding dev/humanitarian work, and people who do this work are very mission driven. But the hypocrisy is still galling.

The Last Mile with USAID@thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 3d ago

WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · last wk.

JUST IN: Mag. judge in EDVA clears former FEMA CFO Mary Comans of claims she directed tens of millions in payments for housing undocumented immigrants in NYC. Judge: Statements by Musk & others were 'little more than state-sanctioned intimidation.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

📉 ICYMI: No signs of recovery as Yandex suffers a sustained connectivity loss consistent with extensive infrastructure damage after Ukrainian drone strikes on key data centers in Sasovo and Vladimir. The Russian tech giant has issued a bleak outlook to users at home and abroad.

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a second collapse in the networks of Russian tech giant Yandex after a new Ukrainian drone attack on data centers in Vladimir this morning. The campaign comes not long after Russia's threat to give Ukraine a "digital detox."

That Houthi attack in Riyadh appears to be the deadliest incident in any of the gulf countries since the Iran war began. What a damn mess. So wonderful we destabilized the region.

Tropical Storm Rachel will bring hazardous conditions to Baja California and the Southwest this weekend, including damaging winds, flash flooding, and life-threatening surf and rip currents. Coastal flooding and erosion are also expected to worsen. hurricanes.gov

Aimed squarely at my humble abode.

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

I agree with the criticisms of the Nobel Prize: lack of diversity, etc. Still? I love nerd Super Bowl week. I love hearing about all the discoveries and innovation.

I saw many predictions for this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, but I haven't seen anyone guess Francis Halzen for his work on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. As surprising as finding humor in its Google Reviews 😀

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

Make stuff. Do your hobbies. Geek out with your weird friends. Practice arts and crafts. Every society that ever burned to the ground left behind only the handicrafts, and every society saved from the brink was saved only by arts. Do not give up the joy of creating.

New Chuck tingle just dropped #flock

I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel

thought this was burning man

E. Rosalie@erosalie.infoepi.com · last mo.

The Houthi-aligned Bani Hashish tribes are massing in preparation to “liberate” the remaining Yemeni territory outside Houthi control. It’s a sea of Toyotas with mounted machine guns. I think this is what we should mean when we say Toyotathon from now on.

I’M AT THE URGENT CARE I’M AT THE TACO BELL I’M AT THE COMBINATION URGENT CARE AND TACO BELL

Everyone deserves dignity. Dignity is: safety, security, opportunity and agency. Once we compromise on who is deserving, we’re on the slippery slope of determining who is expendible.

One of the more peculiar 9/11 traditions was that for a number of years, the major news outlets would just replay their coverage from that day. It bothered me: it seemed retraumatizing, and provided no additional info or context or perspective. I kept wondering what family members might feel?

25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.

It's great that there's new information about the dangerous air in lower Manhattan after 9/11, covered up by Giuliani and the Bush Admin. But we knew about the dangers and the lies long ago. I published this in 2009:

If you’re picking on the RNLI, you’re the bad guy. seriously: a bunch of volunteers who risk their own lives at a moments notice to save lives at sea and this is who you choose to hate? uh ok.

I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.

We may seem some genuinely extreme humidity levels along SoCal coastal plain Tue-Wed (yes, even worse than today). As Marie's tropical moisture lingers, temps of 90-100F will combine with dew points of 70F to nearly 80F (!), yielding heat index values as high as ~110F. #CAwx

The man is lit.

Coyote vs Acme is quite good & funny. Its critique of capitalism is only stronger if you remember WB initially wanted to deep six the movie in favor of a tax break.

Ham radio operators can communicate to hams in Nepal via the 9N1SP repeater via EchoLink or IRLP. It is active for the flood disaster. (I helped get this system installed years ago before the 2015 quake and it was used then as well)

If you’re in the Americas, the lunar eclipse is near totality. Go look!