So very highly recommended...

Our health insurance system is broken.

Our health insurance system is broken. Period.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Building a Brain with Professor Steve Furber MBE YouTube video by The Retro Collective

New Video: youtu.be/Gh9p9wsl1Xg

Building a human brain with 1 million CPU's - The fascinating lecture by Professor Steve Furber continues today as he talks about his career beyond Acorn to the present day.

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own start-up Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push

Zuck, call your office. Zuck, call your office.

Been saying this for a while. Hopium huffing on Wall St is the only thing propping up the us economy from total collapse

This is surprisingly popular a decade later and you know what's happening now

He left this to my university, and they sold it 😭

Yeah, worth the share.

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

Whether you know a lot or nothing about Silicon Valley, this is a must read piece by my friend and former Wired bud Steven levy @stevenjayl. He has seen the evolution of tech from its beginnings. He knows everyone. Few have as powerful a lens. It’s just seminal. www.wired.com/story/silico...

The pigeon heist: How racing birds became the target of organized crime Pigeon races in Chinese cities became opulent symbols of China’s economic boom, with purses over $100 million — exceeding most of the world’s major sports.

Give this well-written story a chance even if you don't like pigeons (and you should like them).

A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean

So…what he meant was he ran into a domestic violence victim??

Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes Learn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your case.

When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied.

You have a right to see this file.

(Published May 2023)

A lovely image

I've been building around #WordPress to create a social network based on RSS. I want to get out of being controlled by billionaire-owned sites. I have a feeling we may need a good backup given where we are now.

Lovely image!

Decluttering can be stressful − a clinical psychologist explains how personal values can make it easier Assessing how well items align with your core beliefs may make it easier to let them go.

“Why did I keep this?”

A psychologist explains that while severe hoarding can be disruptive, many people struggle with #clutter without qualifying as hoarders.

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A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.

Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.

Trump’s NOAA Budget Cuts Could Gut Critical Climate Modeling Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.

(Published April)

Sick and tired of Republican Senators coming to me privately saying, “Mark, keep speaking up, you’re our conscience.”

I don’t want to be their damn conscience.

I want them to vote their conscience.

I never used to turn our AC on until we hit 78 inside the house, but this year I’ve lowered that threshold to 75, because if I can’t be happy I can at least be comfortable.

Not a huge Musk fan but... He's NOT wrong.

A lovely image.

Incredible!

So sad

Photo of a well-loved copy of the book "Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States" by Sandeep Vaheesan, sitting on a quartz countertop.

This book took me forever to finish because I needed to consult every third footnote and talk myself out of reading all the referenced sources right this minute. I had to stop reading it at bedtime because it was too exciting for good sleep hygiene.

Anyways, recommended!

I MUST DO THIS