Mastodawn

They back off their outrageous plan to register autistic people because there was an uproar. Uproar work. Stay loud.
U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/25/autism-registry-privacy-rfk-research/

U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent

Administration health officials walked back a plan to register people with autism after criticism from scientists, privacy experts and advocates for people with autism.

The Washington Post

Scott Ellis 17h ago

InarticulateQuilter 1d ago

Snort.

From the Voice of #SanDiego:

"Yesterday, a flyer advertising a special pop-up appearance by Rep. Darrell Issa at a McDonald’s in San Marcos was making its rounds on social media. (I posted it here!)

One reddit user wrote, “I would like a big Mac, medium fry, and a town hall meeting, no ICE.”

The flier said he would be serving people in the drive thru. And anyone who attended would get “one complimentary Freedom Fries per order in drive thru from 12-1pm.”

🧵

Give Trump credit for this: it’s hard to think of anyone who could have f*ed things up so quickly. Under Biden, the *private* sector invested almost $900B in new US manufacturing facilities. That’s a lot of inertia that he’s undone in just 100 days.

Scott Ellis 2d ago

guardian rat deity 4d ago

New levels of bumper sticker discourse are emerging

Scott Ellis 2d ago

*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱3d ago

This ‘Elon leaving politics’ story is such bullshit. Another example of the media being stenographers instead of reporting. Musk is seeding this story in order to try to stem the hemorrhaging at Tesla. He’s already said that he will ‘have to’ remain involved with DOGE to stop the ‘massive fraud and waste’ he’s uncovered from coming ‘rushing back’ the second he leaves.

Stop repeating his lies.

#USPoli #USMedia #ElonMusk #Tesla

Scott Ellis 2d ago

Did some "vibe coding" this weekend and again today after work to see what the cool kids are doing.

I expected to be disappointed, but it works surprisingly well for simple things!

First experiment was updating a #homeassistant integration I maintain, second was writing an increasingly complex #linux fan control daemon in #rustlang . Tried a few different tools and models, but ended up sticking with #gemini 2.5 and the coding assistant.

I understand why the kids like this.

Scott Ellis 3d ago

💀Maggot McFear💀3d ago

Marriott CEO speaks up on DEI and how it is part of their business, and the employees are here for it.

"We welcome all to our hotels and we create opportunities for all—and fundamentally those [truths] will never change."

https://www.aol.com/marriott-ceo-spoke-dei-next-151216540.html

Marriott’s CEO spoke out about DEI. The next day, he had 40,000 emails from his associates

After Trump’s executive order banning DEI, Marriott CEO Anthony Capuano stood by the hotelier’s values.

AOL

Scott Ellis 3d ago

Tim Bray 4d ago

I'm a big fan of 404, both the quality of the writing and reporting and of their business structure, as exemplified in this piece. Check 'em out if you haven't already.

How 404 Media Is Navigating 'Economic Headwinds' https://www.404media.co/how-404-media-is-navigating-economic-headwinds/