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Boomer into #cycling, sysadmin from the halcyon days, hardcore Dan fan. #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver

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pluralistic , to random
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Inside: Microsoft pinky swears that THIS TIME they'll make security a priority; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/14/patch-tuesday/

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A frame from a Peanuts animation, depicting Lucy yanking the football away from Charlie Brown, who is somersaulting through the sky. It has been altered. Lucy's head has been replaced with Microsoft's Clippy. Charlie Brown's head has been replaced with a 19th century caricature of a grinning Uncle Sam. The sky has been replaced with a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies.
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    • grheavyroller ,
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    @pluralistic Microsoft has been blowing smoke about this stuff since 2002 with Gate's "Trustworthy Computing" email ( https://www.itprotoday.com/it-management/complete-text-of-the-bill-gates-trustworthy-computing-memo)

    luckytran , to random
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    My comments to TIME on the potential change in CDC guidance: “a reckless anti-public-health policy that goes against science, encourages disease spread, and puts everyone at risk. The bare minimum we should have learned from this devastating pandemic is that we should stay home when sick.”

    https://time.com/6695102/covid-19-isolation-guidelines-experts/

    Not all experts are as optimistic. Lucky Tran, a science communicator at Columbia University, called the potential end of five-day isolation periods “a reckless anti-public-health policy that goes against science, encourages disease spread, and puts everyone at risk. The bare minimum we should have learned from this devastating pandemic that has killed and disabled millions is that we should stay home when sick.” The rumored adjustment “would completely ignore the continued suffering” of people who are immunocompromised, chronically ill, disabled, or otherwise at heightened risk of severe COVID-19, Tran adds.
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    @luckytran Thank you. The Vertlartnic suggested they now drop the second C and just be The Centers for Disease.

    rbreich , to random
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    "We found out today that the Supreme Court is not at all serious about its own Ethical Code.

    Ginni Thomas was directly involved in the plot to overturn the 2020 election. The same plot that got Trump kicked off the ballot in Colorado.

    Clarence Thomas is hearing the case. Hello?"

    grheavyroller ,
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    @rbreich "A court which is final and unreviewable needs more careful scrutiny than any other. Unreviewable power is the most likely to self-indulge itself and the least likely to engage in dispassionate self-analysis … In a country like ours, no public institution, or the people who operate it, can be above public debate." Warren E. Burger, 1968

    pluralistic , to random
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    That shard tho

    grheavyroller ,
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    @pluralistic London pre-jackpot

    balqhaq , to random
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    An evening with Cory Doctorow @pluralistic at the Otherworld bookstore in Berlin Kreuzberg. Great to see you again and hear you read. Always an inspiration.

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    grheavyroller ,
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    @pluralistic @balqhaq Can't tell you how great it is to see a public person masking consistently and acknowledging that the pandemic is not over 😷👍🏻

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