My kid just WhatsApped from his German exchange trip. They had to call an ambulance for him.

He has food poisoning, was very pale and nauseous. He was dehydrated and his blood pressure was dropping.

He's fine now but I wanted to share this because it has the most Western Europe Is a Civilized Place ending ever.

The paramedics came to the mall, took him into the ambulance, gave him an IV, checked him out, stayed with him until he felt better, then told him "No charge. Enjoy your trip to Germany." And if that wasn't enough, when they realized the group had had to move onto the train station without him, they gave him a ride over there to catch up with them.

I'm so ground down by the predatory realities of America in general in 2025 that this just about blew my fucking mind.

Harvard Medical School doctors sued after their work was censored for using words like "transgender" and "LGBTQ". Now a federal judge has ordered that their work be restored.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/federal-judge-orders-censorship-undone

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

SteamOS destroys Windows

https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/27/steamos-destroys-windows

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/27/steamos-destroys-windows

#linux #unix

VirtualBox 7.2 Beta Brings Windows 11 Arm Support, Source Code On GitHub

Oracle engineers have released the first public beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 7.2 virtualization software release for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Solaris systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Oracle-VirtualBox-7.2-Beta

GNUstep (left) looks so nice.

Openstep (right) from the mid 90s.

So much changed since that time. I think I still like older version. What about you?

GNUstep https://www.gnustep.org/

Openstep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep

#unix #llinux #opensource