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• Post #4296860

  One of the smartest and most knowledgeable people I know, who is an MD, uses ChatGPT *constantly* in his daily life. He visited me a few months back & was asking it everything about our trip, about whatever topic we were talking about, using it to plan another trip... This guy loves learning and has spent decades constantly learning stuff on his own in many areas (he's also an app coder) and I think the LLM feels like a shortcut to even MOAR knowledge and information. Pretty sure this...

• Post #4292175

  I think (and hope) Gianni Infantino is going to get booted from FIFA. Quick recap: The guy who just led the FIFA's men's World Cup to record attendance, revenue & Trump ass-licking, recently sprang a proposal to sell off the men's & women's World Cup to the Trump-Kushner crime family. FIFA is a non-profit with 211 member nations (more than the UN, as some FIFA nations, e.g. New Caledonia, are not nation-nations). It's a trust of sorts that distributes funds earned...

• Post #4258082

  'murica, we are soooo free here it's amazeballs, I can feel the freedumb on my credit card bill #healthcare #medicine #FREEDUMB

• Post #4255843

  I don't have a ton of money invested in stocks (well, I guess it depends on perspective, to a 20-year-old me it's a lot) but I just moved half of it out of the market and into safer things. No one knows when the house of cards will collapse but...

• Post #4180988

  I didn't register my ebike with my county because they require a check or money order. Straight to jail, I suppose.

• Post #4078861

  Kind of a niche post, but if any #scuba divers are looking into diving Kaua'i, the famous Tunnels dive is now off-limits to commerical operations. This is a fairly recent change inside Haena State Park; no more permits for any commercial activity. Divers can still dive there but tours and paid guides are not allowed. A local guide just confirmed this to me. I would NOT recommend swimming or diving into the maze of lava tubes without an experienced guide. It's...a complicated system of...

• Post #3950582

  I thought this neighborhood tom with a creaky meow was everywhere but it turns out instead he has a body double! #cats

• Post #3873559

  Chicago FIRE vs Vancouver Whitecaps MLS game in Chicago postponed due to.. ...🔥. Fire beats water. #Soccer #Facepalm

• Post #3842874

  Bad wildfires in Ontario north of Thunder Bay. I've been fishing up that way (years ago) and it's beautiful country with gorgeous lakes. Hard to imagine it all burning. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/wildfires-thunder-bay-9.7269683 #climate #Canada #wildfires

• Post #3838451

  Somehow the regime hasn't scrubbed every government website of climate info. This NASA page is still up that summarizes the evidence for fossil fuel-driven climate destabalization: https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/ #climate

• Post #3769544

  In Phoenix for a family event and the dearth of rooftop photovoltaic arrays is sad. On the bright side, there's no way this blighted city survives another 30 years.

• Post #3712441

  Wally Funk dies at 87. She should've been among the first women in space, but sexism stopped her & others. Funk did get a suborbital flight in 2021. Amazing life spent above the clouds, and here she gets a well-deserved detailed obituary. #aviation #space #obituary https://wapo.st/4f1TggE (gift link)

• Post #3609502

  I'm utterly shocked that FIFA admitted they made a huge mistake by giving a red card to the US's leading scorer, whose suspension for Monday's game has been lifted. This is an extremely rare reversal. #WorldCup #MastodonFC https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/folarin-balogun-usmnt-world-cup-belgium-fifa-lifts-suspension/

• Post #3547261

  Croatia can blame NASA for that loss. Adidas sent an experiment to the ISS while developing the technology that led to the offsides call that negated the tying goal. #WorldCup #MastodonFC #NASA #space https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/nasa-sent-fifa-world-cup-160000220.html

• Post #3519600

  Cool opportunity for musicians: $100,000 grants for developing music-based therapies for brain diseases. The Foundation for the NIH is teaming up with Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead & Renee Fleming, a soprano. #music #medicine #research https://fnih.org/press-release/fnih-renee-fleming-mickey-hart-and-jim-weiss-launch-neuroscience-initiative-music-as-medicine/

• Post #3478834

  Guy who was arrested for playing the Imperial March at National Guard in DC gets a payout for 1st Amendment violation. https://wapo.st/3SpuPlP

• Post #3158865

  I wonder how many 18-25 year olds bothered to vote in the California primary. Wait lemme guess...8% of them? Maybe 12. The people will the most to win/lose in elections tend to vote the least...I don't know the answer but it's been a big problem for a long time.

• Post #3158864

  State of Hawaii: Here's an email reminding you to check your voter registration. Also State of Hawaii: j/k, our voter registration website is down.

• Post #3158863

  This cat at the sanctuary where I volunteer is just back from the front lines and is eager for pets. #cats

• Post #3158862

  My last boost was a news article in Science magazine examining AI in astronomy. It does a great job of relating the struggles of astronomers as their field is being upended. Lots of people trying to grapple with a new reality. Great reporting. #astronomy #science

• Post #3158861

  Spain-Iraq are 1-1 at halftime of a pre-World Cup friendly. Iraq's gonna win it all aren't they. #soccer #WorldCup

• Post #3158860

  Had to fly past Chicago to land in Chicago just to give us the view. Haven't been here since 2015...it's been a minute. #travel #Chicago

• Post #3158859

  Diabetes researchers criticizing the Trump admin cuts to science were escorted out of a conference by security. Trump's NIH director was speaking at the conference. I've attended hundreds of medical & scientific conferences and have never heard of anything like this. Is it fascism yet? #science #medicine #USpol https://wapo.st/49EYInR (gift link)

• Post #3065457

  I like supporting PBS through their Passport streaming service but...I can't find any info on changing the credit card I use except to email my local PBS station. Seems a bit...inefficient.

• Post #3065456

  got an alert my gmail password was exposed on the dark web. gimme a url or whatever, where was it exposed, and was it arrested for indecent exposure?

• Post #3065455

  Looking at reddit on a browser on my phone now stops scrolling and pops up a demand to use their app. Pass.

• Post #3065454

  One of my friends with long covid is trying to find a lower stress job. Another is struggling to work from home for a state agency. A third is contemplating early retirement. And I know a few who seem to have had their symptoms resolve. So much of the cost of it is hidden...here some researchers try to put real numbers of it. Since covid began, we in the chronic illness community have talked about how using diagnostic codes to estimate prevalence will lead to a huge undercount. #LongCovid h...

• Post #3065453

  I hope this company does well...I'll give it a 50/50 chance. I hear people saying they want a basic, inexpensive EV but how many will take the offer? There are a lot of tradeoffs here...shorter range, not much for an entertainment system, etc. And yes some people care deeply about data privacy but most Americans really don't. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/06/slate-says-its-electric-pickup-will-never-track-you/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_...

• Post #3065452

  How long will it take the State of Hawaii to mail me a new handicapped parking placard? It's already been two weeks.

• Post #3065451

  So this is interesting. I recently got a router from Gl.iNet that has AdGuard as an option. I turned it on for my entire home network and now when I watch Tubi...there are no ads. After about 90 minutes into a movie it threw up a warning about digital rights or something and stopped playback. I restarted the app and finished the movie just fine.