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@sindarina on the other hand, so do Proof of Concept and Piece of Crap
@zkat Wait, one? It literally never occurred to me before now that *multiple* kinds of shorthand might exist (but of course they do!)

If your website is still http only, no https...

... are you okay? Do you need help doing archival work? this isn't shade, we just saw the long tail of the web forced offline with the move to https everywhere.

Are you holding on to an http only site for someone who's passed? DM me and I'll help you save a copy some place more durable than a personal or academic server sitting on someone's desk or in a closet. Let's save the remnants of the old web before they go offline entirely.

I try to remember that whenever we talk about how much of a fucked up horror show the world is, what we mean is that the world is full of good people being wronged and beauty being destroyed, that we risk losing all of itβ€”not a denial of the good in the world but its affirmation.
@Lingmops Also, Leonard Cohen: not Christian at all

While researching a thing I'm writing, I found this 2019 psych study on how debt relief improves cognitive function for poor people by 1/4 of a standard deviation. That is a LOT.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1810901116
"Reducing debt improves psychological functioning and changes decision-making in the poor" is the title of the study, in case that link requires a login.

Kinda extra proud of #SomervilleMA city councilor Willie Burnley Jr trying to get us municipal relief on medical debts. #MApoli #Somerpoli

@JohanDiederik @cstross @AlisonW Also, I wasn't talking about paying a single employee a penny less or cutting any healthcare jobs (the cost of "administration" in healhcare is a slightly different, highly related, topic). I'm saying that if you don't need excess profits and growth paid to shareholders you change the incentive structure of the industry.
@cstross @AlisonW I'd like to see a ban on pharmaceutical companies being publicly traded. God knows non-profits are far from perfect, but remove the concept of a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders and focus on delivering quality medicine

Accidentally discovering a new animal species as a

– paleontologist: πŸ₯³

– biologist: 😁

– scuba diver: 🀨

– astronaut: 😨

– surgeon: 😱

This.