@skinnylatte Ooh, what kind do you have? I need to buy some.

@dangillmor There’s also a vaccine for humans in the event that H5N1 becomes an issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avian_influenza#Vaccine

Farm workers should wear PPE around infected cows and stay away from people and animals when they are sick. If they do that, then humans will be presenting less attack surface for the virus to learn to adapt to us.

Sick pay is the big impediment, so we should fight for that in order to win.

The Biden/Harris/AOC Infrastructure act created deep discounts (tax credits) for people in the US who want to go electric:

Electrify your home

Explore resources to help you electrify everything! Learn about induction stoves, heat pumps, solar panels, EVs, and more. Plus, use our IRA savings calculator to save money on upgrades.

(homes.rewiringamerica.org)

This means you can deduct the discount from what you owe the IRS at tax time. With your state and utility incentives many can save up to half the cost of a heat pump, induction stove, hot water heater, solar energy system, battery storage, EV, etc. Some discounts are on a sliding income scale. #usa #ClimateCrisis

Realist leftists vote for the leftmost candidate that can win and continue to organize for justice in the context of a working society free of pogroms.

#alt4you
An international symbol-style, black-and-white sticker graphic. In the circle, lettering: “Trash the Fash, worldwide resistance.” A geometric human figure empties Nazi and white power symbols into the trash can. https://mastodon.social/@AnarchistArt/113419703029815002

It’s all so broken.

Chanel's CEO went to Microsoft HQ and asked ChatGPT to show her a picture of her company's leadership. They were all men in suits

Leena Nair said over 75% of her company’s employees are female.

Fortune (fortune.com)

AIs discriminate against résumés of women and Black people. They prefer white male names.

If you are not stripping names off before running them through the biased probability box, you’re helping them discriminate.

AIs show distinct bias against Black and female résumés in new study

Language models seem to treat “masculine and White concepts… as the ‘default’ value.”…

Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

#jobs #hiring #getfedihired #hr #ai #llm #GIGO #racism

#Texas killed another woman on principle. Doctors let her die because they are more afraid of prosecution by the state (99 years in prison, $100k fines) than of abdicating their duty of care.

These are very dark times for those who together make up the majority of the US people. Christian nationalists and racists must not be allowed to run the country.

Please vote to end this inhumane regime.

Josseli Barnica, RIP. Amber Thurman and Candi Miller of Georgia, RIP.

A Texas Woman Died After Waiting 40 Hours for Miscarriage Care

Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.

ProPublica (www.propublica.org)

Several other Puerto Rican artists also denounced the vile racism at Trump's NYC event to their combined 330 million followers.

2021: “New probe confirms Trump officials blocked Puerto Rico from receiving hurricane aid

“The Trump administration also obstructed an investigation looking into why it was depriving the U.S. territory of congressionally approved funds, the report found.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/new-probe-confirms-trump-officials-blocked-puerto-rico-receiving-hurri-rcna749 #PuertoRico #USPol

#PuertoRico: Singer Bad Bunny shared with 45.6 million followers a Harris video published after Tony Hinchcliffe called PR "a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean."

"I will never forget what Donald Trump did and what he did not do when Puerto Rico needed a caring and competent leader," Harris says in the video. "He abandoned the island, tried to block aid after back to back devastating hurricanes and offered nothing more than paper towels and insults."
https://www.newsweek.com/puerto-rico-celebrities-show-support-harris-trump-rally-remarks-1975697

Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post:

“But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them.”

https://archive.is/VzL2Z

The group dismissed third-party candidates such as Jill Stein, saying that voting for them could only “make Donald Trump president.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/187537/kamala-harris-donald-trump-stunning-endorsement #uspol (5/5)

“Voting for Harris is not a personal endorsement of her or of the policy decisions of the administration in which she served. It’s an assessment of the best possible option to continue fighting for an end to the genocide, a free Palestine, and all else that we hold dear,” the letter says, asking others to place the immediate needs of their communities over their dissatisfaction with Harris. (4/5)

At the time, Trump hailed Netanyahu for doing a “good job” and voiced his support for expanding military operations into Lebanon, where Israel has killed at least 1,800 people in the past five weeks alone.

"The letter also notes Trump’s ties to Zionist Republican megadonor Miriam Adelson, who is pushing for Trump to allow Israel to illegally annex the West Bank. Israel has killed 165 children in the occupied West Bank in the last year. (3/5)

"The letter includes several reasons why the coalition believes Trump would be far worse for Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, and all those organizing for Palestinians. The writers cite Trump’s bloodthirsty remark last week about how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should “go further” in Gaza, while criticizing President Joe Biden for “holding him back.” (2/5)

“In our view, it is crystal clear that allowing the fascist Donald Trump to become President again would be the worst possible outcome for the Palestinian people. A Trump win would be an extreme danger to Muslims in our country, all immigrants, and the American pro-Palestine movement,” the letter states. (1/5)

"French lawmakers on Friday voted in favour of a new levy that would tax assets above the €1 billion threshold at 2%."

"It would apply to anyone who is a tax resident in France or who has assets in France.

"The amendment, proposed by the far-left LFI party (France Unbowed), comes as France’s National Assembly debates next year’s state budget."

https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/10/25/french-lawmakers-vote-in-favour-of-new-tax-on-wealth-of-billionaires

#TaxTheRich

I feel the hype cycle begin the long slide. https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/113351393167122198

Finally! macOS adds some window handling.

BBEdit still has better options though, and has for decades.
https://www.theverge.com/24273664/apple-macos-sequoia-windows-snap-how-to

I hate to say this, but we may need to eat the rich after all. Definitely starting at the top. Maybe we can feed them to the chickens instead since they are so distasteful.