Dan McGuire

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Healthcare bureaucrat trying to do the right thing. Recovering engineer and consultant.
It's no longer the Reverend Dr.'s birthday, but you can still read and think about the man's actual words and deeds rather than some made up and defanged version you've been sold for decades. You can always still do that.
Announcing a Newsroom to Meet the Moment

Mother Jones is joining forces with Reveal to confront the crisis in democracy head on.

Mother Jones
TIL about halfstaff.org, a website that exists primarily to answer the question “why are the flags at half staff today?“ (FTR it’s to honor Rosalynn Carter, which I thought, but didn’t want to assume.)

Anyway, while I don't understand why this pisses some people off so much, or why they take my critique of the Mastodon PM semantics so personally, it's now very clear that it does piss some people off quite a bit.

But I'm not going to let that stop me. I'm an expert on security and privacy. And my job is, in large part, to act as a public intellectual. Warning people of dangerous designs that could cause them harm is what I do. If doing so makes me an asshole, so be it.

How To Read This Chart: A data-based fable for our political times

Plus, Z overtakes boom in the workforce.

@artemesia We can look back at that case as a product of more innocent times.
I love the Fedi but we have to be honest. People here often want everyone to come to Mastodon & the Fedi to the point of making posts calling out users and calling them nazi apologists etc. This place is anti-capitalist, want people to CW their lived experiences and a ton of views incompatible. Some people use social media for their businesses, communities and other important reasons. Let’s be honest about the incompatibility of this culture to the masses. Twitter was important for social movements like #MeToo #BLM and others. People don’t want posts to go viral here. I don’t want to live in a world where those stories didn’t get the attention they deserved. Think outside of yourself before passing that judgment, think of marginalised communities. #Fediverse #Mastodon #Twitter #X # #Meta

In Episode 3 of #MoralRepairPodcast, @Wolven talked to us about how insurance companies have come to use #AI to determine who receives what care.

That's what's going on in this story:
https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/111422904090022457

Today I am avoiding a job I hate

By doing other jobs that I have also been avoiding, but which I hate slightly less

This is how my most productive days all turn out

Okay, new proposal for everybody to just shut the fuck up for a few weeks. No takes. No discourse. Just… sit real quiet and do nothing. JFC