On the need for physician validation and empathy

Be wary of what you like and retweet. Disinformation and misinformation are key components of war.

#NASAWebb is fully deployed! 🎉

With the successful deployment & latching of our last mirror wing, that's:
50 major deployments, complete.
178 pins, released.
20+ years of work, realized.

Next to #UnfoldTheUniverse : traveling out to our orbital destination of Lagrange point 2!

Workers of the world, unite and seize the means of fabrication!

The tale of a single register value. cfl.re/3nXiDpp

JPay, a company that provides financial services to prisons and jails across the country, has been ordered to pay restitution over predatory prison banking practices similar to those exposed in our 2014 investigation. publicintegrity.org/inside-publici…

Welcome to the Guild and Washington-Baltimore News Guild! ✊🏾

Just a reminder to everyone using encrypted ZFS and is tempted to upgrade to Ubuntu 21.10...don't! Unless you want potentially irreparable filesystem corruption (which you might already have if you're running 21.04 and upgrade kernel to 5.13)

more here: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source…

Something incredible just happened at the CWA convention.

Three Constitutional amendments, proposed by NewsGuild-CWA members, were overwhelmingly approved by the delegation.

They address harassment and discrimination — and our fight to eradicate both from our union.

JOB ALERT: The Center for Public Integrity is hiring a philanthropy specialist. Come help us build a sustainable business model to support our investigative journalism. This is a union-covered position. Details here: recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Job…

Also blessed by this ZFS bug...now my entire drive pool is more or less inaccessible. Not exactly something I was expecting to deal with in an LTS Kernel. Happy Friday!

One final point: Now let’s remember that the internet is 1-to-many. If 1 million people download that 1GB this month, my cost with @cloudflare R2 this way rounds up to 13¢. With Amazon Web Services S3 it’s $59,247.52.

THAT is why people are losing their minds over this.

Simon Willison Systemd! It supports both file system access restrictions, marking certain directories (e.g. /usr) read only and also supports more fun hardening features like isolating “/tmp” redhat.com/sysadmin/maste…

Is there a good non-adobe PDF client that supports Dynamic XFA forms?

Today is #NativeWomensEqualPay Day. Native women must work ~9 months into 2021 to catch up to the 2020 earnings of white men. Pay disparities are rampant, including in the news industry. We demand #EqualPay . Artist: Ernesto Yerena
@NewsGuild newsguild.org/pay-equity/

This isn't unique to Amazon Web Services – all the providers do startup credits – but damned if it doesn't lead to terrible Cloud Economics.

You don't have to *care* about the cloud bill until you've burned through $100K. At which point tagging / attribution has become A Big Deal.

Woohoo! ✊ Welcome to the Washington-Baltimore News Guild family! 🤗 We're so glad you're here. @AmerIndependent should practice the progressive values they preach and recognize The American Independent Union immediately.

Urgh, one of the most consistent user-hostile anti-patterns is the thing where UGC sites start adding a login requirement just to view content

Medium, Quora, Reddit... and now Twitter are doing it!

So disappointing news.ycombinator.com/item?id=282892…