"When received by the sensor and loaded into the Content Interpreter, problematic content in Channel File 291 resulted in an out-of-bounds memory read triggering an exception. This unexpected exception could not be gracefully handled, resulting in a Windows operating system crash (BSOD)."

IT WAS A FUCKING MEMORY SAFETY ISSUE

AMERICANS OF FEDI, PLEASE MAKE IT YOUR MISSION TODAY TO ENSURE YOU'RE REGISTERED TO VOTE

You can check Vote.gov for voting requirements and deadlines in your area. Do it!!!

#USPol #USPolitics #Vote #Voting #RegisterToVote #VoteBlue

Check Voter Registration Deadlines and Laws in Your State

Official voter registration website of the US federal government. Register to vote. Learn the voting registration deadlines and laws in your state.

^vote.gov

A new drug described as “the closest we have ever been to an HIV vaccine” could be sold for $40 a year and still make 30% profit, but is currently being sold by pharma companies for $42,250. Absolutely criminal.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jul/23/hiv-aids-prevention-vaccine-lenacapavir-sunlenca-pharmaceuticals-gilead-generic-licensing

HIV drug could be made for just $40 a year for every patient

Generic version of a drug already on the market, which can suppress and prevent HIV, would still yield 30% profit if the current price was slashed, researchers say

^{Kat Lay (The Guardian)}

Chris Webster sums up how many of us think about those poor ignored Brexiters:

'Those who voted leave because they wanted to leave the EU have no reason to feel ignored because they got what they wanted. The UK has left the EU, and both main parties refuse to admit or address the damage done'!

And, if you voted Leave to achieve something else which hasn't come to pass, well you voted for the wrong thing, didn't you.

#Brexit

“Services like this rely on a basic level of human decency and trust"

Just the British Museum there, lecturing people about theft.

The British Museum.

Lecturing people about theft.

Well done to this artist who has well and truly made his point 😂

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/jul/22/brazilian-artist-swaps-historical-coin-in-british-museum-for-a-fake?utm_source=press.coop

Brazilian artist swaps historical coin in British Museum for a fake

Ilê Sartuzi put original coin in museum donation box as part of project about number of foreign objects in its collection

^{Nadia Khomami (The Guardian)}

It’s getting hotter wherever people live

According to #Copernicus, Sunday 21st July 2024 was the hottest day ever recorded globally in 100,000 years. Yet there are still people saying that because they are having a cloudy day global warming doesn't exist. #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Gonna try and reuse this platform again after a few requests to do so….

Please explain this lock?? Puffy tiger needs to know why!

"UK government to prevent MPs taking on lobbying jobs"

Niiiice.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/23/uk-government-to-prevent-mps-taking-on-lobbying-jobs

UK government to prevent MPs taking on lobbying jobs

Exclusive: MPs to face restrictions on second jobs that fail to ‘put constituents first’, Lucy Powell says

^{Pippa Crerar (The Guardian)}

Dragons can have pool time, as a treat

https://www.tumblr.com/ellohcee/691901345976958976

A trillion is hard to wrap your head around!

A million seconds was 11 days ago.

A billion seconds ago was 1993.

A trillion seconds ago? 29,600 B.C.

The absolute darkest UI pattern that is used everywhere is the no-reply email address blackhole that every service uses. I'm struggling to think of anything more anti-user than "here's some information - now talk to the hand."

Make it easy for people to talk to a real human. If that's not cost-effective for you, you're prioritizing the wrong things in your service.

Here’s what parenting can look like.

When I told my dad I was trans, my dad’s response was, “Oh! I can send you jewelry now!” (He was retired and made jewelry as a hobby).

Two days latter, I had a letter in the mail addressed to Joelle, the first time “Joelle” ever got mail, with a necklace in it. Later he made me this one. He told me, “I hope I got the colors right, I looked it up online.”

You don’t have to mourn a child transitioning. You can be the first to do so many affirming things.

A smug blue yote blocks your way in a stylish latex catsuit and a pair of shiny platform boots. Wyd?

Excellent art drawn by @krd 💙 🖤 ✨

#latex #rubber #latexfur #rubberfur

I drew my #retrogaming journey

#mastoart #art #drawing #comic

fox in a suit!

#art #anthro

All that bad news you saw from me yesterday, along with so much more bad news today — it all adds up to this.

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

I love it when people take their plushies with them on trips, and post photos of them visiting nice places! Is there an established hashtag for those kinds of photos? If not, maybe someone should think of one.

Update: I'm declaring #PlushieTravels to be the one and only canonical totally official proposed hashtag for it.

Changing tracts for a moment; scientists have made an incredible discovery that alters not only how we understand the deep ocean, but also may alter what we know about the Earth's supply of the very oxygen we breathe - and unsurprisingly, capitalists are already working on fucking that up without the slightest care in the world for the harm it may cause our biosphere.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c728ven2v9eo

Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean

"About half the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean. But, before this discovery, it was understood that it was made by marine plants photosynthesizing - something that requires sunlight.

Here, at depths of 5km, where no sunlight can penetrate, the oxygen appears to be produced by naturally occurring metallic “nodules” which split seawater - H2O - into hydrogen and oxygen."

The article goes on to describe how we discovered these deep sea nodules which may take millions of years to form, what it means that oxygen is being produced without marine plant photosynthesis, and how this probably changes our understanding of deep sea life that likely depends on that oxygen (fish need oxygen, they just get it differently than we do.) Science lovers are encourage to read the whole piece.

What I want to focus on here however, is the fact that immediately after we've discovered this natural wonder, deep sea mining companies and resource-hungry capitalists are looking to literally rip these metallic nodules from the sea floor with virtually no concern for how that might affect our oceans, or even life on Earth.

"And because these nodules contain metals like lithium, cobalt and copper - all of which are needed to make batteries - many mining companies are developing technology to collect them and bring them to the surface.

But Prof Sweetman says the dark oxygen they make could also support life on the seafloor. And his discovery, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, raises new concerns about the risks of proposed deep-sea mining ventures."

Are life-giving, water oxygenating metallic nodules our only source of lithium, cobalt, and copper? Nope. Have deep sea mining companies studied the potential harm harvesting these nodules might cause? Nope. Might ripping them out of the water affect the delicate balance of not only ocean life but potentially how the oxygen we breath is distributed across multiple ecosystems and even the whole planet? Yeap. Does capitalism give a shit about any of that? Apparently not. The simple truth here is that we don't know how important these nodules are, and if the capitalists have their way we're going to start destroying them to make batteries before we even find out.

Look you can call me an alarmist if it'll make you feel better, but this story is merely a microcosm of the entire reason you're living on a boiling planet, facing down a mass extinction event that may well wipe out billions of people and destroy a habitable biosphere for countless other species as well.

We live in an extractivist culture, driven by the capitalist profit motive, where time and time again the need to keep stacking money for incomprehensibly rich ghouls is prioritized over not only nature, but the very survival of the human species. Capitalism is killing us, and literally nobody in the wealthy ruling classes, or the governments they've bought lock stock and barrel is doing anything about it, or shows any signs of even *trying* to do anything about it.

I don't know if tearing metallic nodules that produce dark oxygen from the ocean floor to make more Tesla batteries will compromise the planet's supply of the precious air we all breathe or not. But neither do the rich bastards that want to do it anyway. And you and I both know that if even if they did know, they wouldn't care.

At some point the human species is going to have to get serious about prioritizing life on Earth over the material demands of capitalists and rich people, or we're going to run out of life to commodify; or you know, the very air necessary to sustain our own existence as animals on a planet uniquely capable of supporting that life. One thing I *can* tell you is that after hundreds of years of capitalist predation of our shared biosphere, it is clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that neither the capitalists, nor the states they own, are going to make the right choices to ensure our survival, for us.

#ClimateCrisis #DarkOxygen #Capitalism #OceanLife

Dark oxygen made by deep sea 'batteries'

The discovery that lumps of metal on the seafloor produce oxygen raises questions over plans to mine the deep ocean.

^{Victoria Gill (BBC News)}

A wide ask here so please boost: my grandfather is trying to get rid of an old business computer, and I was wondering whether any vintage computer people might want it. It was purchased for $50k from The Ultimate Corporation in the early 80s. This ran the Pick operating system, and my best guess is the hardware was originally manufactured by GE or Honeywell. It's about the size of a half-rack and currently lives in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. It has sat covered in plastic in a chemical warehouse for the past 35 years. Where do people usually post stuff like this other than here? Thanks!

#RetroComputing

Don't roll your own crypto.

I guess a blog post coming in the future.

*Angry fox noises*

A shift is happening:
•Biden has cancelled his meeting with Netanyahu
•Harris will skip Netanyahu's speech to Congress
•Harris will meet with Netanyahu to tell him to stop bombing Palestinian civilians
•Seven major unions just sent a joint letter to Biden calling on him to "immediately halt all military aid to Israel" ahead of Netanyahu’s DC visit:
SEIU, NEA, UAW, UE, APWU, AFA, & IUPAT

Don't let up. Keep the pressure on until US stops funding genocide & starts rebuilding Palestine. Let's go.

Content warning: Long form - on transphobia and trans women as basilisks Reveal/hide

The rise of ChatGPT-style "AI tools" is a climate change issue. Advertising them is, by extension, an attempt at disengaging our sense of alarm.

Therefore, "you need to adapt and learn these 'tools'" is an anti-climate stance. Companies that engage in marketing these tools *are* engaging in the politics of climate change, even if they don't know it yet.

Did a long investigation for WIRED looking at how studios are already using AI to degrade and kill jobs in the video game industry

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-already-taking-jobs-in-the-video-game-industry/