(feeling vindicated when I tell people that Rafizi is a god-damned fool)

"What makes affluent anti-vaxxers distinct is their belief that they are the ones questioning the system, when in fact they’re coasting on its success."

https://www.theindex.media/the-herd-immunity-illusion/

#antivax #privilege

The number of people with cardiovascular disease surged by 148% in Southeast Asia over the past three decades, with the condition becoming the region’s leading cause of mortality and morbidity, according to new research. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/28/asia-pacific/science-health/southeast-asia-heart-disease-study/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #sciencehealth #southeastasia #heartdisease

Trump and his supporters want you to believe they are going to bring manufacturing back to the US, but there's only two ways that can actually happen.

The first is by taxing the shit out of the ownership class to lower the cost of living in the US for the working class.

The second is by breaking the back of the working class in the US so that we have no choice but to live as slaves or starve to death.

Guess which Trump and his regime have in mind for their supporters?

Share if you can see this 💡 Spark Space, one of the LAST workspaces in Gz, is on the verge of closing 🚨

The team refuses to abandon the students & freelancers who use the space—so we can't abandon them. Support literally keeps the lights on.

💡40/325. https://chuffed.org/project/spark-space-gaza

Historically, thousands of people who exercised later died. Makes you think

I don't want to outsource my thinking to a machine.

I don't want "art" averaged from some aggregation of actual artists' work.

I can write my own fucking emails.

I can write my own fucking code and design my own fucking games.

And I want art that comes from the brains of human artists. Who feel and whose soul goes into their work.

All this stuff is clever and I am sure there are uses for it but the things that are actually valuable in life can't be reduced to a fucking prompt.

FFS. 🦬

Thailand recorded 53,563 Covid-19 cases with five deaths from May 18 to 24. The increase in Covid-19 cases prompted Ratwinit Bangkaeo School in Bang Phli district to switch to online learning from May 26 to 28.

#Thailand #Asian #CoVid #TootSEA #Health #Disease #CoVid19 #Outbreak #Pandemic

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/thailand-reports-over-53-000-new-covid-19-cases-in-a-week-school-shifts-to-online-learning-4889243.html

#JapanPost is debuting some sort of concept that ties your physical (home) address to a 7-character alphanumeric code (i.e. ABC-12D6) - sorta like how DNS works on the internet, I suppose.

The idea is, for mailing purposes or even for online shopping platforms - instead of manually filling up your full address (which supposedly can be a lot more complicated in #Japan), you could instead give them this unique code.

You will need to sign up with Japan Post to get this Digital Address. I wonder about the security and logistical implications of this, in the long term - but the concept itself is pretty neat, honestly.

Even in Malaysia, it's not uncommon to easily find your exact address on one service/platform, but struggle to find/register the exact same address on a different app which might rely on a poorer map service - delegating this to a 'single source of truth' denoted only by a 7-char long code might make sense.

🔗 https://lp.da.pf.japanpost.jp

Demonizing #Arabs in #videogames is just one topic in this video "Gamification of Warfare 🇮🇱️🇺🇸" by Indie Nile. #CallOfDuty, #Minecraft and others are discussed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTeakaJRBPY

Dr Sacha Rombouts is also interviewed for perspectives from a psychologist.

Also a little drag therapy, and the video ends with wonderful scenes of #Palestinians playing. :lovepalestine:

https://indienile.nl/
https://www.happyminds.com.au/

@palestine

#media #Arabs #Palestine #propaganda #gaming #BDS #microsoft

nothing like preparing your burner phone to enter your own country. peak 2025.

scammers are using cyrillic letters to trick people into visiting look-alike domains, i.e., “citibank.com” vs “citibаnk.com”.

they are indistinguishable when rendered in UTF-8, but when you put them in your browser’s address bar, one will resolve predictably as “http://citibank.com/”, and the other will resolve as “http://xn--citibnk-6fg.com/”

perhaps a new tool in the anti-phishing arsenal might be to copy the URL in an email, and paste it into a text editor to check for unicode.

#infosec

Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/28/gaza-letter-genocide-zadie-smith-ian-mcewan

#Gaza #FreePalestine #Palestine #israel #genocide @bookstodon

Nemu di Facebook

Asean-GCC-China call for lasting ceasefire in Gaza #news

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/744553

Please share - Spark Space rarely gets our support but it serves dozens of freelancers and students DAILY 🚨

☀️ It’s $17/day to sponsor one student who uses the space's internet, electricity, & shelter.

☀️ Can you sponsor 1 student today?💡 40/325. https://chuffed.org/project/spark-space-gaza

Today's lunch for one: egg sando + leftover green salad from last night's dinner. Added some kiwi (current fave fruit), but I may have drizzled too much honey balsamic vinaigrette.

And because I exerted more than usual effort to prepare this, I was too lazy to grind and brew my coffee so I just prepared some iced Kopiko Brown. 😅

#MakanApaToday #TootSEA #food

I’m looking for a sensitivy/authenticity reader. And it’s been super hard to find someone that fits the requirements:

1) Spanish-fluency
2) Mexican heritage
3) Female
4) Familiarity with gothic literature (a fan is even better)
5) Open to reading potentially traumatic (but not graphic) situations

I’m looking for someone who does this for a living (so does invoices, contracts, and has experience with this kind of reading).

If you have leads, let me know!

#AmWriting #books

This type of behaviour is also happening on Mastodon.

I've seen countless false reports, driven by anti-Palestinian racism and westerners' discomfort re mutual aid for Arabs/Muslims - admins/mods panic (or are themselves racists) and delete Palestinian accounts, often blocking/limiting allies' accounts.

I'm proud to be on a mod team that doesn't react in this manner, and instead investigates reports fairly to respectfully reach consensus. We're not perfect, but we're also not cruel bigots.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/bluesky-faces-backlash-over-alleged-censorship-palestinian-voices?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Social_Traffic&utm_content=ap_lw3ecxaqty