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Erwin Wessels
Autistic / đ building the web / Copenhagen / Former Palm Vx owner / Staff Backend Engineer at Pleo / Desultory Boulderer
#Kotlin #Bouldering #webdev
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@stavvers video evidence and sworn statements of three (3) witnesses or it didnât happen. I believe this is physically impossible until Iâve seen evidence.
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When I had my hysterectomy, I was told recovery would be quick because I was young, fit & otherwise healthy.
They were wrong. The surgeon made an error and despite signs of post op bleeding, discharged me & went on vacation.
When I returned to the ER, I was ignored & gaslit
They told me it was ânormalâ to be in more pain 8 days after surgery than on day 1 (itâs not).
They said âwhat do you want us to do?â
They refused to run any tests beyond basic vitals, and scolded me for wasting their time
I knew something was wrong, but I was young and hadnât yet learned how to advocate for myself.
The pain, swelling and bruising were getting worse with each passing day. I was dizzy, listless and had no appetite.
I slept ALL the time.
I was not getting better
I did what anyone would do, I went back to the ER. Surely this time they would take me seriously?
They didnât. They made no attempt to hide their frustration that I had returnedâ. They made misogynistic comments about how âsensitiveâ I was & that being in pain was normal
I went home feeling completely dejected and disrespected, but also starting to gaslight myself.
Maybe it wasnât that bad. Maybe this was normal pain. Maybe I did need to suck it up.
I tried to force myself to eat and go for light walks. I tried to play through the pain.
I was vomiting everything up and frequently collapsing from fatigue.
I could not suck this up.
My boyfriend had to carry me into the ER for a third attempt to get help
They did the exact same thing. Asked what we expected them to do. Told us the pain was normal. Refused to call a consult or run tests.
Thankfully my boyfriend believed me over them. He was certain if I went home, I wouldnât make it through the night
He refused to let them discharge me. He told them, loudly and sternly, that he was not taking me home to die. That they needed to do their jobs.
They threatened to call security but he did not back down.
Thankfully a doctor overheard him and decided to look in and see if he could calm the situation.
When he saw me, half unconscious and white as a ghost, he immediately ordered tests. He told the triage staff not to call security and to take me into a private room
It turns out my boyfriend was right. Had I gone home that night, I wouldnât have made it to morning.
I had a massive internal bleed and a giant infected abscess which had been growing since the surgeon sent me home.
I was rushed to another hospital for emergency surgery and given 50/50 odds of survival. I spent over a month in the hospital, developed a second hospital acquired infection, and needed 11 months to fully recover.
I survived due to luck & privilege. Had my boyfriend not believed me, I wouldnât be here. Had he not been a white man? He likely would have been removed & I would have died
This is medical misogyny. They didnât listen because I was a woman. They thought I was being dramatic
I tell this story because of what happened to Adriana Smith. A young black woman in Georgia who tried to get medical care for severe headaches, and was dismissed and gaslit instead.
She suffered brain death at home because no one believed her. Because of misogynoir.
To make matters worse, sheâs been turned into a medical experiment because she was nine weeks pregnant and living in a state with an abortion ban. Sheâs on organ & tissue support being treated as a human incubator.
No care when alive & forced âcareâ when dead
Misogyny in medicine kills. It maims. It disables and traumatizes.
Women are frequently treated as hysterical and not given the medical care they require.
We often need a man to accompany us just to be taken seriously.
Itâs not right and it needs to change
I will forever deal with medical PTSD because of what I went through, but at least I survived.
Adriana wasnât so lucky, and no oneâs survival should ever be based on luck, privilege or their ability to find a man to speak for them
I survived due to luck and privilege, Adriana didnât.
Whatâs worse, due to abortion bans and dangerous forced birth policies, her body is kept alive on organ and tissue support without her familyâs consent.
We must do better:
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/adriana-smith-misogyny-and-the-cruelty
#misogyny #misogynoir #ableism #patriarchy #abortion #mybodymychoice #disability #ableism #uspol
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Consider this: Would you like to live on the 20th floor of a building built on the vibes of someone who only knows what such a structure looks like from the outside?
Would you like to fly on a plane vibed together by someone who only knows planes from looking at them?
No?
Well, now you know why vibe coding is such a completely insane & stupid & dangerous idea.
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Functional hash tables always seemed like mysterious magic to me. But now I know how they work, and you can too! https://spritely.institute/news/functional-hash-tables-explained.html
@dthompson implemented functional hashtables in Guile Goblins and explains how they work using HAMTs!
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What is your favourite pithy saying that is surprisingly profound and that you wished you'd learned earlier?
I have a few:
"Is this a problem to be solved, or a tension to be managed?"
"Trade, don't persuade."
"Never teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."
"The cucumber gets pickled more than the brine gets cucumbered."
and, of course, my favourite of all:
"The purpose of a system is what it does."
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Donold hates this picture and has demanded its removal from a Colorado State Capitol building.
Wouldn't it be shocking if people shared it across the internet so that millions of people could see it.
Please don't re-post this picture.
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The names of the billionaires funding fascism (well, the ones we know about):
1. Elon Musk $291,482,587
2. Timothy Mellon $197,047,200
3. Miriam Adelson $148,304,900
4. Richard Uihlein $143,498,936
5. Ken Griffin $108,402,284
6. Jeff Yass $101,128,680
7. Paul E. Singer $66,800,800
8. Stephen Schwarzman $40,202,039
9. Timothy Dunn $35,780,200
10. Rob Bigelow $34,991,500
11. Diane Hendricks $33,165,417
12. JJ Ricketts $32,273,650
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@hamatti I would tend to agree. Explicit beats implicit.
@hamatti agree, which is why I called it âspicyâ.
You could also explicitly include a flag to say that content is / is not present. But that also feels a bit weirdâŠ
@hamatti to spice things up: how about a 204?
@hacks4pancakes delighted; congratulations!
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Klarna, which said in 2024 that AI was doing the work of 700 customer service agents, starts hiring remote workers after the AI approach led to "lower quality" (Charles Daly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-08/klarna-turns-from-ai-to-real-person-customer-service
http://www.techmeme.com/250510/p16#a250510p16
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Happy Europe Day, everyone!
Today, 75 years ago, the Schuman Declaration laid the foundation of Europe đȘđș.
I still remember the days when I had to pull out my passport when I traveled from one Europe country to another one, juggling different currencies, dealing with crazy-expensive phone calls and mobile data while traveling...
We are living in such a better european continent today. Let's continue on this path of a strong and united Europe!
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In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect. This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus. www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
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"Status quo for venturekapital i starten af 2025 er:
â Venturekapital er dĂžende bortset fra AI.
â AI er dĂžende bortset fra OpenAI.
â OpenAI er et sĂŠrt svindelnummer som gĂ„r ud pĂ„ at brĂŠnde penge af sĂ„ hurtigt at det hidkalder en AI-gud.
â Ingen kan indlĂžse investeringer."
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/03/in-2025-venture-capital-cant-pretend-everything-is-fine-any-more/
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Things we didnt do
-Start the fire
-Shoot the deputy
Things we did do
-Tried to fight it
-Shot the Sheriff
-Built this city on Rock and Roll
Things we will do
-Survive
-Rock You
Things we wont do
-Get fooled again
-Back Down
-That
-Give You Up
-Let you down
-Desert you
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