The efforts of sex work advocates are better invested, says Stabile, in campaigning for new laws that would make it illegal for banks to discriminate against sex workers on the basis of their profession, than in developing an alternative financial system.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #SexWork

https://www.wired.com/story/sex-workers-crypto-failing-them/

Been dealing w/ a heart condition called atrial fibrillation for many years, and for a long time medicine kept it under control. Until recently. Was told that the new Apple watches will let you know when/if you're in afib. I already had an older one but all the literature said the newer was better at afib detection and monitoring.

I've found that while there were a few times over the past few months where the watch has alerted me to my heart being in afib, it's more the exception than the rule. Because apparently I've been in afib long enough w/out noticing that the heart thinks this is normal. Got a real heart monitor and found out it's pretty much in afib all the time.

Obviously, this is less than ideal, and we're looking at various treatment options. The point of this post, however, is just to say that if you're counting on your Apple watch to let you know if your afib is under control, you probably shouldn't.

In a transaction believed to be the first of its kind in #Canada, a Vancouver Island family has returned 18.5 hectares of former wetland on the Saanich Peninsula to First Nations in the area

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wsanec-maber-flats-berglund-1.6944201

Even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as during the pandemic lockdown, we wouldn't achieve our climate targets.

While individuals made huge sacrifices, the system remained. This shows that individual action will not solve climate change. We need the system to change.

This twitter-migration chaos is frustrating. People in my communities have scattered to twitter, the fediverse, bluesky, and threads. Some dropped out altogether.

As a result, I spend a LOT more time trying to find interesting discussions across the platforms, and really none of the discussions are nearly as interesting because the interplay between people is mostly gone (because only a fraction is on each).

I hope 3 of them fade away soon.