Mastodawn

Kee Hinckley 1d ago

Wendy Nather 1d ago

Status: insomniac. Eating a Twix bar. Enjoying the hell out of this rant by @ludicity. Flourishing.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-article-on-ai/

Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article On AI — Ludicity

Kee Hinckley 1d ago

Hacker News 1d ago

Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas confirmed in new study
L: https://news.arizona.edu/news/earliest-evidence-humans-americas-confirmed-new-u-study
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44313137
posted on 2025.06.18 at 16:44:08 (c=0, p=3)

Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas confirmed in new U of A study

A new paper by a University of Arizona geoarchaeologist agrees with findings from four years ago that footprints discovered in New Mexico are between 21,000 and 23,000 years old – as much as 10,000 years older than the previously known oldest signs of human culture in the Americas.

University of Arizona News

Kee Hinckley 1d ago

Kaye 2d ago

Fun fact: If you see someone at a nerd event wearing a vim-themed shirt, it's because they put it on in 2003 and couldn't figure out how to take it off

Kee Hinckley 1d ago

Dr. Lucky Tran

1d ago

Gilead has announced that lenacapavir, the game-changing HIV prevention drug just approved by the FDA will cost $28,218 USD per person per year.

Researchers say a generic version could be made for just $25 per person a year.

Capitalism kills.

Kee Hinckley 1d ago

Dr. Lucky Tran

1d ago

Wow. Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly shot that prevents HIV spread was just approved by the FDA.

The problem? Due to government cuts to Medicaid, PEPFAR, and Global Fund, it's unlikely this game-changing drug will reach the many people who need it most in the US and globally.

Kee Hinckley 1d ago

The local Spanish language Facebook group normally has social stuff, and people selling tortillas and pan dulce and such.
Now it's full of ICE sightings.
And sadly, the pan dulce postings have had to take that into account.

Kee Hinckley 2d ago

Erin Reed 2d ago

My very, very first impression of Skrmetti is that it is as horrible as people are saying, and yet, it is a more limited horror: It does not overturn bostock, it doesn't overturn rulings saying trans discrimination = sex discrimination. Bathroom, sports, passport ruling are good under this.

Kee Hinckley 2d ago

Erin Reed 2d ago

What BS logic from the Supreme Court. Trans care bans don't discriminate on transgender status. Rather, its GENDER DYSPHORIA that they target. Not too many gender dysphoric cisgender people.

Kee Hinckley 2d ago

❝ more than 317,704 preventable deaths — 103 deaths per hour — have already occurred from tuberculosis, malaria, HIV and other diseases since the U.S. halt in funding, deaths that would not have occurred had the funding continued. Such evidence indicates the Trump administration’s decisions have put millions of lives in peril. ❞

https://www.justsecurity.org/114839/us-foreign-aid-cuts-world-must-respond/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-foreign-aid-cuts-world-must-respond

U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts to Healthcare Trigger a Global Human Rights Crisis: How the World Must Respond

The U.N. Human Rights Council's current session offers a critical opening for leaders to address the health crisis spurred by U.S. funding cuts.

Just Security

Kee Hinckley 2d ago

And my wife wrote a nice piece for the local paper on Why We Celebrate Pride.
https://laconnercommunitynews.org/2025/06/16/opinion-why-do-we-celebrate-pride/

OPINION: Why do we celebrate Pride?

This month, La Conner Thrives Association is presenting a series of Pride events to celebrate LGBTQIA2S+ visibility in our community. Importantly, while most of these events are new, we follow in t…

La Conner Community News

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