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Internet greybeard - active since 1993

Founder of MarTech.Heath

Personal Interests include music, science fiction, and weird movies.

Professional areas are marketing, communications, and digital in the healthcare space.

Business Sitehttps://martech.health
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Alright. Since the whole thing with #Reddit has happened and #Apollo has officially shut down I find myself missing the unique social experience of Reddit without wanting to support the bad behavior of certain social CEOs.

That being the case, what’s the best Reddit replacement at this point. I recall reading that there was some concern about #Lemmy. #KBin? Something else?

For the time being I’m using my #RSS reader more often.

My neighbour’s wind chimes sound so much more relaxing now that I’ve set fire to them.
The Exploration of Mars (1953)
by Chesley Bonestell

Once again, I'm reminded of how much the billionaire space race has absolutely destroyed my love of rockets.

10 years ago, I definitely would have been paying close attention to the current giant SpaceX launch. But because I know it's going to be used to launch hundreds of unregulated, unsafe, polluting, for-profit Starlink satellites at once, I just can't look.

Instead of being excited and awestruck by a new gigantic rocket launch, it just makes me want to puke.

Crochet enthusiasts asked ChatGPT for patterns. The results are ‘cursed’ (The Guardian)

At last! A use for ChatGPT that makes sense! https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/26/chatgpt-generated-crochet-pattern-results

Crochet enthusiasts asked ChatGPT for patterns. The results are ‘cursed’

The widely popular chatbot is churning out uncanny animal designs and we tried one for a ‘hilarious’ outcome

The Guardian
it seems as if every day science takes another giant leap forward
Elijah McCoy was born in 1844 in Ontario to formerly-enslaved parents from Kentucky. They saved enough to send him to Scotland to study mechanical #engineering. When he returned and couldn't get work in his field, he took a job as a train oilman and invented a method of automatic lubrication that eliminated the frequent stops trains had to make to oil up axles & bearings. Railroad companies asking for his product rather than copycat devices spawned the phrase "the real McCoy." #BlackHistoryMonth

If a “religious” person believes the clothing you are wearing is offensive to their religion, should you be fired? Get ready. The Supreme Court looks like it’s going to make this the law of the land…

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/is-scotus-about-to-put-religion-over?r=nl8r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Is SCOTUS About to Put Religion Over Civil Society?

So here we are in 2023 and the real beliefs and plans of the Founding generation — slaveholders and abolitionists alike — have dissolved into a blur of BS, Qanon, and fundamentalist religion

The Hartmann Report
Patterns in slow-motion splashes
Looking for a list of news organizations on the Fediverse. Any suggestions? #news