I’m moving over to @Bfordham and won’t be maintaining this server much longer. If it want to follow me, that’s the place to do it

The entire BBC In Our Time archive browsable by Dewey-Decimal code? Yes please

I made a website to find old episodes of In Our Time to listen to. There are almost a thousand, it’s my starting point for any new topic

Very early, suggestions welcome

https://genmon.github.io/braggoscope/

If you've been waiting for full-text #search on #Mastodon, please go to #TootFinder and sign in. The more, the merrier.
https://www.tootfinder.ch/

Thanks to @buercher for building it.

It's opt-in, not opt-out. It respects Mastodon culture and doesn't index accounts that don't sign in.

That means the index might be small if we don't spread the word.

#mastotips #feditips

Image description:
A 2x4 matrix of tweet screenshots. Left column labeled at the top "When there is a highly contagious disease outbreak", right column labeled "When black people protest being murdered by cops". First row, under "disease outbreak", tweet author Sharon quips "I call bullshit! Just trying to scare people to stay inside..." punctuated with a middle finger emoji. Under "murdered by cops", the same Sharon says "They said get in the house. Fkn listen." Description continued below.

Same energy. #SOTU

White Collar Crime Risk Zones.

Predicting Financial Crime: Augmenting the Predictive Policing Arsenal: In this paper we have presented our state-of-the-art model for predicting financial crime. By incorporating public data sources with a random...
https://jwz.org/b/yj9t

@ardent_handsaw @jkohlmann have you ever read “On Bullshit?” Because I can’t get it out of my mind when people take about ChatGPT. It doesn’t know anything, but it’s not lying. It’s bullshitting.

“We’re Still Gonna Say No”: Inside UnitedHealthcare’s Effort to Deny Coverage to Chronically Ill Patient
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After a college student finally found a treatment for his ulcerative colitis that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs.

His fight to finally get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.

#Insurance #UnitedHealthcare #Health #Healthcare #DenialOfCare

https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

@kpl Absolutely. I have a fun bot that creates nonsense from Conan the Barbarian books. It'll die in a few days.

Off to Chicago

@kplawver In a nutshell, yeah

Ma'Khiyan (5) just casually asked me, "Daddy, why do people like getting in wars?" and I'm 😭

Walking with M, he’s saying “will you stop being a pain?” to me while we’re walking, I’m saying no I like being a pain. So he yells, “can you stop being a butthole, then?!”

@doycave I actually set up a Savannah area server, which is what I’m using. Not too hard to find things, just takes a bit to get started

@doycave Looks like you found it :)

So the senate can be bipartisan. But only in support of oligarchs

So the senate can be bipartisan. But only in support of oligarchs

Was stopped at a red light behind a truck with a Trump bumper sticker. They had another sticker that said something like, “Dear Biden voters. Please put your signs back up in the yard so the illegals know where to go for food and shelter.”
I mean, that’s just basic Christianity, isn’t it?

These come back every year. They’re in a corner of my garden, and every winter the kids say “oh no they died.”