Dead babies, critically ill kids: Pediatricians make moving plea for vaccines
"I remember holding a baby dying of complications of pneumococcal meningitis."
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/01/dead-babies-critically-ill-kids-pediatricians-make-moving-plea-for-vaccines/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

2025. you go to a website. you see all the elements on the page pop-in, loading one by one. it's like the 90s again. your internet connection might be hundreds of megabits per second. the web designer is using a 4k video file as a looping background, and that somehow loads quickly compared to all the actual useful elements on the page. three seconds, five seconds, ten seconds. each checkbox and table has to initialize its own software stack of UI abstraction libraries and surveillance middleware

Because irony is dead, a Dutch tulip farmer is heating their greenhouse with Bitcoin mining: The servers in turn are powered by solar energy from the roof, reducing the normally huge electricity costs for mining, and cutting its...
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