@ffmike Wait, are there still people who deny this? I thought they pivoted to “technology will help us adjust, humans are resilient, no need to worry”.

@jtr Love these, please keep it up! I’ll emphasize this intro post you buried in a footnote. The part about things to avoid in particular — YouTube is full of screencasts that offer that kind of advice (there’s some great stuff there as well, but it all starts with “let’s make a minimalist config”)

@mcuban.bsky.social A few years ago we analyzed how much the price of cancer drugs correlated with how well they worked. Answer: not at all.

As this case perfectly shows, cancer drugs are priced by how much they can get away with.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

@JohnBrady Indeed:

> The population is a hopeless tangle and enigma; Syrian, Spanish, Italian, and negro elements impinging upon one another, and fragments of Scandinavian and American belts lying not far distant. It is a babel of sound and filth, and sends out strange cries to answer the lapping of oily waves at its grimy piers and the monstrous organ litanies of the harbour whistles.

He wasn’t a fan of the American melting pot.

@jtr Yeah, on my laptop I do use CapLock as compose since I moved the Ctr to be right next to the space bar. On the desktop there’s more keys to work with.