The flu epidemic is inextricably linked to World War I. The first cases in the U.S. were identified in soldiers living in close quarters in Army barracks before heading to Europe to join the war, which the United States entered in April 1917. Even the name that we use to identify the disease, the “Spanish flu,” is inaccurate, according to historian Kenneth C. Davis, author of More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War. “Fear driven by propaganda, censorship and lies were so much a powerful part of the spread of the Spanish flu. People were misled, often deliberately, by officials,” Davis said. “Newspapers were censored. The reason it is the Spanish flu is because of censorship. [During the war] Spain was a neutral country. It didn’t censor its news reports as rigorously as some of the warring countries did, so the first report of a massive epidemic comes out of Madrid in the spring of 1918 and that’s the reason it was reported by Reuters in London that Madrid was under a mass epidemic. That’s the reason it was called the Spanish flu. It certainly didn’t originate there.”

"The reason it is called the Spanish Flu is because of censorship."

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IT'S CALLED AN "INVISIBLE DISABILITY" BECAUSE WHEN WE MANAGE OUR DISABILITIES WELL, PEOPLE ACT LIKE WE DON'T HAVE THEM

This is the difference between tech bros today and software developers of yore. The old developers had to care about the users because to be a user was to be a customer. People purchased software packages. Between ads, venture capital, and whales, the users are the last thing anyone cares about.

ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car.

Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month.

No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.

A key part of the banality of evil is that fascism trains people who are boringly and completely neurotypical to be incredibly violent, as part of their boring job.

It literally could not possibly work if it could only be done by the tiny fraction of the population with cluster B syndromes.

Porn addiction isn’t real btw - it’s a right wing talking point created to shit on sex work & porn and if you believe it’s real you are supporting and believing rw ideology.

did someone build this for real

emergency support needed asap

trans masc person in trouble in NYC

need to get them to safety

please boost

I really actually dislike the level to which cars have become phones. Not the ability to make calls, but the giant stupid touch screen that lets you be severely distracted while driving totally legally all the time. It's hard not to notice how many people are constantly poking at it in traffic

beautiful women named Storage Space Running Out are blowing up my phone

The funny thing is that I'm still getting requests for fundraising, even from Big Mahmoud himself, so their plan to stop that by running her off failed.

It really was. Those airbrushed box arts were so inspiring, they practically made me want to be an artist in the first place.

I tried to homage that particular art with my 'First Cybertronian Civil War' fan art, back in the day.

Cheney explicitly threatened him

We had a man like that, Paul Wellstone. And he got murdered by Cheney for voting against the Iraq War

Today is day 137 of the ICE occupation of MN.

A group of organizers were discussing the lessons of the last 5 months, and came up with two key lessons Minneapolis residents have learned again and again:

No one is coming to save us.
and
We keep us safe.

Let’s keep taking care of each other.

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This is nuts considering the home entertainment team quite literally CARRIED DISNEY ON THEIR BACK FROM 1980-2010

It is unmaintainable dogshit code.

And the hell of it is, the more you use Claude to vibecode, the less you are able to perceive how utterly fucked this code is. You stop being able to notice that it is terribly, cartoonishly sloppy code.

This is 500,000+ lines of code *more sloppy* than someone writing their very first fucking web programming project.

There are even whole entire frameworks in every big language, designed to make it difficult to fuck up this badly by accident. You usually have to work to be this incompetent.

Again: every beginner to programming learns that you sanitize input in one spot. You do it in one place, and then use the sanitized input.

They learn it is a huge, massive pain in the ass that causes endless fucking problems, if they sloppily smear that sanitization out all over the place.

It is unmaintainable pigshit. It's impossible to go "I have to change how ___ happens" and then go to the one single spot in those 500,000+ lines where it happens.

Instead, you have to slam your dick in a car door to discover the several thousand different places the thing happens.

Just in this *one fucking function* you can see sloppiness that a first year programming student is supposed to know to avoid.

One function, out of 500,000+ lines of code, and it's *all just as sloppy*.

It's fractally sloppy, because this function is itself duplicated like a dozen times.

Now instead of going to that one place where the thing happens, you have to hunt down every single time that thing happens all over the place. Maybe it happens in this spot in a different way that you can't easily grep for. Maybe you miss this other spot where it happens because what kind of useless

If, like this vibecoded dogshit, you repeat yourself, now that thing happens in many places, and each different place maybe that thing is done differently.

The very first time you have to touch how it does the thing, you've long since blown both your feet off.

For generations, programmers have tried their damnedest to follow DRY: don't repeat yourself.

If you need to do one thing many times, make it happen in one place, and then have those many different times use that one place.

This means if you change it, for any reason, you go to that one place.

Also: notice that it lowercases like 3 different places in the process depending on what the string is.

It doesn't take the raw input, sanitize and lowercase in *one single goddamn spot* and *then* run the tests on it.

This is pigshit awful fucking code.