a dog wearing a hoodie is standing on a table in a hallway ALT: a dog wearing a hoodie is standing on a table in a hallway

TIL a group of Corgis is called a Wiggle. This brings me joy.

How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate.

ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.

Here’s what we found.

(Published Nov. 2024)

I never want to hear anyone argue that a woman can't be president because she'd be too emotional and flippantly start wars again.

Today, we’re excited to introduce Sloppie, currently as an invite-only closed beta. Sloppie is the first vibe social app on vibeproto. It’s something completely new—an experiment in making building the protocol more sloppie.

This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.

the year is 2026. We have IDEs, debuggers, the Debug Adapter Protocol, and language support for breakpoint statements in code. the best debugger is still manual print/logging.

do you think the debugger will get mad at me when it sees all the extra print statements surrounding the bug

his innocence, perfect corpse, looks down with an enigmatic smile at a tiny aneska. he blends in with the sky and stars. blood drips from a wound across his throat, trails in the snow, and leads to a bloodsoaked aneska who looks back up at him. the blue moon, the eye of god, is a crescent around his iris.

blood of my blood

part of me hopes that June becomes veterans month so we can ratio the military every year

The Free Speech Union commissioned a "security" report on us, so we tested their security. Turns out - it sucks.

We've now published the names of everyone who has donated to a FSU fundraiser, along with how much they gave and to which campaign.

www.transbashback.com/fsu.html

xoxo BASH BACK

tweet screenshot: a popular myth is that people who are Very Computer have computers that work. nothing could be further from the truth. the Very Computer are capable of generating much more novel and fascinating ways to make computers not fucking work and exercise this capability wantonly

I think a big chunk of the "linux is hard" sentiment stems from the fact that most linux users do weird things with their computers. basically this:

Creating a panic meter based on NOC and LMT stocks and the share of capital letters in presidential social media

so the US bombed Venezuela while Chinese envoys were present, and China responded by taking Taiwan since it already perceives US aggression all while Israel and Russia are redoubling their respective war efforts, which the US is involved in by proxy.

did I get that right

checking defense company stocks to see if ww3 has started

GitHub - yazaldefilimone/ffmpreg: In-development universal safe multimedia toolkit. In-development universal safe multimedia toolkit. Contribute to yazaldefilimone/ffmpreg development by creating an account on GitHub.

@foone.bsky.social github.com/yazaldefilim...

2008 is almost over omg

When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.

"making everyone use a Real ID is vital to our Homeland Security, which is why we're allowing would-be terrorists to pay $45 to skip it"

My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor

happy #WorldVeganDay everyone

are they still in your life?

I'm not worried about protein powder because as an electronics hobbyist I've already decided that lead poisoning isn't real

the cover of the book “The OpenGL SuperBible”, by Graham Sellers, Richard S. Wright, Jr., and Nicholas Haemel

you can tell that OpenGL is a better religion than Christianity, because OpenGL has a SuperBible, while Christianity only has a normal bible

Sometimes I add iFunny watermarks to people's memes and repost them. Just to feel something.

My hand holding a pair of long black beaded dangle earrings with red, orange, and yellow accents and silver bugle beads

My hand holding a pair of black beaded loop earrings with red, orange, and yellow accents and silver bugle beads

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY (aka fuck Columbus day 😝)
For me making my beadwork, and for yall buying/wearing beadwork is a great way to say fuck Columbus, fuck colonizer assholes, fuck fascism. Im gonna stay celebrating my culture, the culture that they tried to wipe out from this land → cvkvlv.com

#vegan, #animals, #WorldFarmAnimalsDay
World Farm Animals Day, observed annually on October 2nd, is dedicated to mourning the billions of farmed animals killed for food and raising awareness about the suffering in factory farms. The event honors Mahatma Gandhi's birthday and promotes compassion.

"Low effort, unhelpful AI generated work is having a significant impact on collaboration at work. Approximately half of the people we surveyed viewed colleagues who sent workslop as less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before ...AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity