Mastodawn

2qx 🔻1d ago

Dave Rahardja 1d ago

Tapping the sign: Do not repeat conservative memes.

#propaganda #memes

https://humancode.us/2025/02/11/do-not-repeat-memes

Do not repeat conservative memes

I wish more people understand that repeating a conservative meme to debunk it *only serves to spread the meme*.

humancode.us

2qx 🔻3d ago

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Mike Olson 5d ago

I tell that story because of this excellent piece by @anildash:

https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/06/people-love-to-work-hard/

He is wonderfully, exactly right. Give folks the space and tools they need to do their work. Give them the information they need to understand what needs doing and why. Then let them get to it.

Today, I'm out of the game, but I've got eyeballs. I still marvel at the amazing things that smart, driven folks are doing.

People love to work hard. If your people don't, it's probably you.

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Anil Dash

2qx 🔻Apr 7

Wulfric Apr 7

If you need something to brighten your day, today is International Beaver Day!

https://www.beaversww.org/international-beaver-day/

International Beaver Day | Beavers: Wetlands & Wildlife

Beavers: Wetlands & Wildlife is an educational nonprofit that has been helping people learn about a species that builds the land's best life support system - and about lasting, win-win solutions for beaver/human conflicts for over thirty years. International Beaver Day Page

Beavers: Wetlands & Wildlife

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Experts believed three nations (Russia, Iraq, & North Korea) held stockpiles of #smallpox in 1999.

In retrospect, Ken Alibek's claims about Iraq were not substantiated after the search for WMD.

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/13/world/government-report-says-3-nations-hide-stocks-of-smallpox.html

Government Report Says 3 Nations Hide Stocks of Smallpox

Government officials say secret Federal intelligence assessment late last year concluded that Iraq, North Korea and Russia are probably concealing deadly smallpox virus for military use, and that this was important factor in Pres Clinton's recent decision to reverse course and forgo destruction of American stocks of virus; say evidence included disclosures by senior Soviet defector, blood samples from North Korean soldiers showing smallpox vaccinations, and fairly recent manufacture of smallpox vaccine by Iraq; besides United States, only Russia retains openly declared stocks of virus now, 20 years after disease was declared to be eradicated; intelligence assessment concludes Russia is hiding additional stocks of virus at military sites; American experts have clashed bitterly in recent years over whether virus exists outside two official repositories, in Russia and in United States (M)

The New York Times

2qx 🔻Apr 1

Trump’s W.H.O. Exit Throws #Smallpox Defenses Into Upheaval [Feb 2025]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/health/smallpox-who-cdc-bioweapons.html?searchResultPosition=5

Trump’s W.H.O. Exit Throws Smallpox Defenses Into Upheaval

Health experts see his retreat from international cooperation as disrupting the safe-keepers of one of the world’s deadliest pathogens.

The New York Times

2qx 🔻Apr 1

Helen Branswell Apr 1

What could possibly go wrong?
#CDC pauses support for states on testing for #rabies & #mpox because it doesn't have the personnel to do the work.
2 pathogens you really don't want to mess with, rabies & mpox. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/health/cdc-rabies-mpox-tests-paused.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share

C.D.C. Pauses Testing for Rabies and Pox Viruses

The diseases were removed from a list of tests the agency conducts for state and local health departments. Experts worry that with drastic staff reductions, the testing may not resume.

The New York Times

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