Posts by jayeless@todon.nl
(DIR) Post #A329TKRchBllYetDfM by jayeless@todon.nl
2021-01-08T03:53:51Z
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I wrote a blog post about my two days (so far) experimenting with #Gemini: https://micro.jayeless.net/2021/01/08/experimenting-with-gemini.htmlOverall, I think the Gemini protocol is a really cool idea, as a lightweight text-oriented and secure alternative to http(s) (I go into more detail in the post). I've had a good experience using Lagrange to browse "Gemini space", although getting up a Gemini server is still beyond my technical competence at this point 😅I have dipped my toes in with the hosted service of gemlog.blue. If you have a Gemini client you can check that out (with its single post) here: gemini://gemlog.blue/users/jayeless/
(DIR) Post #A3yz4x3cC3RULsQxCy by jayeless@todon.nl
2021-02-06T01:04:44Z
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Amazon in the US is forcing workers onto a lengthy overnight "megacycle" shift, from 1:20am to 11:50am every day – putting them at higher risk of injury and forcing them to use all their non-working time just recovering from the physical strain of each shift: https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3gk3w/amazon-is-forcing-its-warehouse-workers-into-brutal-megacycle-shifts
(DIR) Post #AJ8C50wwBvRQ7nf1s0 by jayeless@todon.nl
2022-05-05T04:31:56Z
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Important point made here: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/elephant-in-the-room-clean-energys-need-for-unsustainable-minerals/While moving to renewable energy is critical, we can't forget that renewable energy generation requires the use of specific valuable minerals, the mining of which has its own environmental and social issues. Recycling is good, but still not perfect (recycling plants can leak toxins into their surrounding areas). To reduce the *need* for mining and recycling, we need to use less energy. Not on an individual, "turn off the light when you leave the room!!" level, either, but on a society-wide level.
(DIR) Post #ALD715o2sjwpDuxtYW by jayeless@todon.nl
2022-07-06T01:18:03Z
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The Omicron subvariants are more infectious than ever, and actually weaken your immune system (on top of doing other damage to your body) so each infection will be more severe than the last.https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/07/04/Get-Ready-Forever-Plague/
(DIR) Post #ALDV2F2YQvdp3Gpes4 by jayeless@todon.nl
2022-07-06T05:02:00Z
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@Sandra Well, I'm far from a public health expert, but I can offer the impression I get. I think the real best solution (eliminating the virus) is not really viable any more, thanks largely to Western governments. So for now, measures like vastly improved air filtration in indoor environments, holding events outside where possible, a return to mask mandates and certainly WFH where possible, all have a part to play. I also think governments and health authorities need to stop being in denial about Long Covid, so we can actually have health services and secure welfare available to people with that condition (if at the same time we could improve services for people with other medical conditions too that'd be grand). There also needs to be considerable funding for medical research into better treatments, and better vaccines. I don't think any of the suggestions I'm making here are particularly ambitious, even, it's just that the political, business & much of the media classes seem so desperate to convince the rest of us that "the pandemic is over"… 😔
(DIR) Post #ALDV2G3eeK7ECyM3E0 by jayeless@todon.nl
2022-07-06T05:20:45Z
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@alcinnz @Sandra Yes, same here, almost like Aus and NZ were working together to make the same mistake 😔 It feels really dissonant how fast we swung from lockdowns to "no rules, anything goes"
(DIR) Post #ALDV2H4kriadMfsRZw by jayeless@todon.nl
2022-07-06T05:52:44Z
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@Sandra @alcinnz That might well be part of it, although I think there was also a sense of inevitability even before Omicron. I think another part was governments (at least in Australia, but quite possibly also in NZ) putting ALL their faith in the vaccine rollout, and not recognising that there are bad implications if you're infected even as a vaccinated person. So when we hit the magic milestone of 80% vaccinated, that was the end of the story. Impatience to get back to a "normal" economy contributed too, I think.
(DIR) Post #ALmLaDMgMKLOTvf5FY by jayeless@todon.nl
2022-07-23T07:41:28Z
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Two decades of Alzheimer's research may be based on deliberate fraud that has cost millions of lives: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/22/2111914/-Two-decades-of-Alzheimer-s-research-may-be-based-on-deliberate-fraud-that-has-cost-millions-of-livesI remember seeing an item on the TV not long ago where the presenter was puzzling over why drugs that successfully targeted amyloid plaques did not seem to have any effect slowing or stopping the development of Alzheimer's. I guess now we know 😕
(DIR) Post #AuNsLyGh43D5Koszce by jayeless@todon.nl
2025-05-23T09:57:43Z
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Australians – tomorrow there is a National Day of Action calling on the government to cut ties with Trump's America.If you're disgusted by the Trump regime and exasperated at the "softly, softly" approach our government's taking to them, you should come!#AusPol
(DIR) Post #AuwS7XN5CdrPflm3G4 by jayeless@todon.nl
2025-06-09T03:21:38Z
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Melbourne people: there's a snap protest tonight at the State Library in support of the Freedom Flotilla activists. Copy-pasting from the post on the Students for Palestine Instagram:"The Madleen Freedom Flotilla has been attacked by Israel and the activists onboard have been kidnapped."We demand that our government immediately sanction Israel for their attack on the Freedom Flotilla, their siege on Gaza & cut all economic, diplomatic and military ties with the state of Israel." #FreePalestine #AusPol
(DIR) Post #AuwSmmhN7aPl59vrNo by jayeless@todon.nl
2025-06-09T02:57:07Z
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Saw that the IDF has boarded the Freedom Flotilla and arrested everyone aboard: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-09/israeli-army-boards-freedom-flotilla-gaza-bound-ship-madleen/105393390Worth remembering that the IDF killed nine people on the Freedom Flotilla in 2010, and injured thirty, so it's not as bad as it could have been. Maybe the high profile of Greta Thunberg helped.But as they say, it's not about this boat or these activists. It's about the people, including the children and the little babies, starving to death in Gaza as Israel calculatedly denies them food, and locks up the measly trickle they are allowing in behind a ghoulish series of death traps. Good on the Flotilla activists for trying to shine a spotlight on that #FreePalestine 🇵🇸
(DIR) Post #AvTgOI6x2JiA2BKtBg by jayeless@todon.nl
2025-06-25T01:56:10Z
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Glad to see Antoinette Lattouf won her unfair dismissal case against the ABC, with the judge finding that she was sacked for her political views (that genociding Palestinians is wrong) after Zionists orchestrated a campaign to flood the ABC with bullshit complaints about her #AusPolhttps://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/antoinette-lattouf-wins-unlawful-termination-case-against-abc-20250613-p5m77w.html