@katzenmann
You're right that #covid isn't like other flus/colds. You're wrong that covid isn't still killing people left & right anymore. It still is #killing people left & right, as well as #disabling a large amount of people who become infected more than once. The problem is governments aren't providing the public with any accurate reports, have stopped funding proper tracking methodology of both infections & covid related deaths, have misled public & conned people into cognitive dissonance/normalizing #eugenics #publichealth policies.

I work in #healthcare. I'm in multiple hospitals, long term care homes, private assisted living homes & multiple medical clinics for my contract work. People are still dying from covid & other illnesses that are triggered/re-triggered from covid infections. Governments are still lying to everyone about it all - while countless people with covid, #longcovid plus those with zero covid & at high risk due to compromised #immunology are dehumanized/devalued by government & treated like crap by ignorant general public.

Normalizing/ignoring covid will only lead to multiple #medical #crisis points & will end up collapsing already overstrained public health care systems. No stable economy either, when more people are becoming #disabled from long covid & unable to work/be limited with work.

@thatkatharine

I ran this poll 2 years ago and 90% of the correspondents on mastodon told me there were no required AI usage at their workplace.

I would like to ask the same question again in 2026:

“Does your workplace have any AI related requirements, either as major project goal, in performance review, or with usage analytics tracking, against your own will?”

Boost welcomed.

Another reason to hate #Apple We're seeing more 2018+ MacBook Pro/Air donations — but Apple's T2 chip means even after iCloud sign-out and reset, the firmware stays locked to the original account.

Without donor contact, these machines are useless. :(

I've upcycled ~1,000 older Macs, but T2 era machines will end that. It's controlling, creates e-waste, and will only get worse. #righttorepair matters — Apple couldn't care less.

MBTA invokes admiralty law in bid to limit its liability for a ferry accident in which a deckhand lost part of his leg
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/mbta-invokes-admiralty-law-bid-limit-its-liability-ferry-accident-saw

#Boston #lawsuits

I heard a reporter from Axios interviewed on NPR the other day (Marketplace Tech, I think) talking about how the tech companies are putting out new models every 6 months to 1 year and how each model is more "powerful" than the previous.

This got me thinking about what it means when we describe technology and this technology in particular as "powerful".

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Another wild fear tactic being pressed on tech workers right now is the “permanent underclass.”

Idk anyone who’s is worried about this myself.

But to those who are worried about this:

Class struggles will not be fixed by getting “in” on AI. It’ll be fixed by collective action and labor rights.

Does anyone know of any non-profits (and preferably co-ops) acting as fiscal hosts for small open source projects? Most of them will only take large, established projects with lots of contributors, but I've got a small project with just a couple of regular contributors that recently lost its only way of taking donations via Open Collective. I can set something up with my personal account, but that feels bad given that others are working on it too. I know small projects with a few donations a year are a huge overhead and burden for fiscal hosts though. We're not on #GitHub (we use #Codeberg) which also seems to be a problem for some of the hosts.

#FLOSS