soren lorenson

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Domesticated dinosaur keeper. Dour feminist killjoy. Politics nerd. I help extremely smart people use extremely dumb technology.

I'm telling you to get a bivalent booster, which means I love you more than any of your friends and family who haven't told you to get a bivalent booster.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2215471

@hankgreen on the offhand chance you open Mastodon:

poopulo.us

Make it happen.

Make no mistake, the tsunami of #tech #layoffs is not about the recession. It’s about striking back at “uppity” labor, after they enjoyed a shift in the balance of power from #remotework and DEI #activism .

These companies are reporting record profits. Inflation is just cover. It’s because they can, because there’s social cover for it, because there’s money left on the table and having “some” money isn’t enough.

It’s nothing short of class warfare.

Really quite a trick for a pretty big group of people to have managed to rebrand thoughtfulness as “self censorship.”
Or how about we pay people who already know SWIFT to work directly for and with educators? The solution to not sustainably funding technology in schools is not to give teachers one more job to learn and execute. They're already doing about thirteen other jobs. Hire experts and compensate them fairly.
Bingeing @hankgreen 's #deletethispod from the very beginning is like speedrunning my own life 2018-Present. #piples

Seems like a good time to plug this @Forbes Newsroom chat about Congressional salaries and why the House Speaker gets paid more than other lawmakers.

#USPolitics #HouseSpeaker #News

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfoq5K7kCrM&feature=youtu.be

Here's How Much Speaker Of The House Makes (And It's A Lot More Than A Regular Member Of Congress)

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I am 100% not shitting you when I say scientists named mastodons after their teeth which they thought looked like nipples. “Mastos” as in breast. “odont” as in tooth.
We’re on a website that, in Greek, literally means “Booby Tooth.”
I don't know if anyone else gets anxious about phone calls but a little tip I've learned is: if there is a phone call that I don't want to make, before I start dialing the number, I carefully hold the phone in my hand & toss it gently into a lake. I hope this advice helps others.