@nixCraft Yeah, because Bill Gates just wants to exploit your data. 🙄

Bill Gates: Every Person on Earth Should ‘Prove Their Identity’ with ‘Digital ID’ https://slaynews.com/news/bill-gates-every-person-earth-should-prove-their-identity-digital-id/ Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is calling on nations around the world to adopt his “global solution” for “digital ID” to ensure that every single person on Earth “proves their identity.” GTFO, Bill Gates. #privacy #security

The efforts of sex work advocates are better invested, says Stabile, in campaigning for new laws that would make it illegal for banks to discriminate against sex workers on the basis of their profession, than in developing an alternative financial system.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #SexWork

https://www.wired.com/story/sex-workers-crypto-failing-them/

Been dealing w/ a heart condition called atrial fibrillation for many years, and for a long time medicine kept it under control. Until recently. Was told that the new Apple watches will let you know when/if you're in afib. I already had an older one but all the literature said the newer was better at afib detection and monitoring.

I've found that while there were a few times over the past few months where the watch has alerted me to my heart being in afib, it's more the exception than the rule. Because apparently I've been in afib long enough w/out noticing that the heart thinks this is normal. Got a real heart monitor and found out it's pretty much in afib all the time.

Obviously, this is less than ideal, and we're looking at various treatment options. The point of this post, however, is just to say that if you're counting on your Apple watch to let you know if your afib is under control, you probably shouldn't.

4 years ago today since I added Run DMC ft. Aerosmith to a video of the shadow of a millipede walking.
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In a transaction believed to be the first of its kind in #Canada, a Vancouver Island family has returned 18.5 hectares of former wetland on the Saanich Peninsula to First Nations in the area

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wsanec-maber-flats-berglund-1.6944201

Even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as during the pandemic lockdown, we wouldn't achieve our climate targets.

While individuals made huge sacrifices, the system remained. This shows that individual action will not solve climate change. We need the system to change.

This twitter-migration chaos is frustrating. People in my communities have scattered to twitter, the fediverse, bluesky, and threads. Some dropped out altogether.

As a result, I spend a LOT more time trying to find interesting discussions across the platforms, and really none of the discussions are nearly as interesting because the interplay between people is mostly gone (because only a fraction is on each).

I hope 3 of them fade away soon.

@kingsbury Rub it in why don't you! Then again, I'm sitting here in my air-conditioned house hoping my upstairs will actually cool off tonight...

If it is going to be this hot, might as well hit 100 degrees in #Minneapolis, you know so people can be even more insufferable complaining about the #weather. #Minnesauna #mnwx

Vaginal atrophy: There is no equivalent term for male genitals. While penises and testicles also shrink with age, medicine rarely describes them as atrophying. While there is a new term for vaginal atrophy (GSM), it has failed to catch on.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/science/menopause-vaginal-atrophy.html

70% of US fathers return to work within 2 weeks after the birth of their child. Only 13% of private employers offer paid paternity leave. We need federal law to mandate paid parental leave & orgs to encourage and even mandate fathers to take it.
@elliswonk
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2023/08/22/1194946948/im-a-new-dad-heres-why-im-taking-more-parental-leave-than-my-wife

Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital “library”.

Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this. :trantifa:

Most of the greenhouse pollution is being done for the benefit of rich people -- by far.

"A new study found that the top 10% of households are responsible for 40% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions"

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""Our study is the first to link US households to the greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution generated when creating their incomes," "

https://www.salon.com/2023/08/22/how-wealthy-super-emitters-are-disproportionately-driving-the-climate--while-blaming-you

#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #Hottest #GlobalWarming #GlobalClimateChange

I still prefer #Graupel & #Hadoop for #WeatherBingo words but today you can add #WetBulbGlobeTemperature and #CornSweat (or #evapotranspiration) to your card. #Minnesota #Minnesauna #mnwx #HeatWave

@SinclairLewis No microwave? It is a go-to meal for mum a lot, very fast in microwave.

Will be talking about the climate change-fueled wildfires, storms & floods TONIGHT on @PBS @newshour Details to follow...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/

Whatever you do, DONT say "Hot enough for ya?" to anyone in #Minneapolis today. 115 #HeatIndex is danger level and no joking matter. Check on your neighbors. #Minnesauna

Its #WorldWaterWeek & #California which has experienced historic #Drought for years just received more rain than they receive in three years. I can't help but wonder if there was a way to save some of it.

THIS is what I need to find in #Minneapolis, someone interested in this #Consignment #SideHustle! I just don't have it in me to photgraph and list all the stuff I need to sell. There is really a lot of money to be had if someone wants to give it a go or is really good at it, I can identify great deals, write good copy, but I suck at photography & right now have no energy for this. https://www.sidehustlenation.com/consignment-business/