Ontario schools begin suspending students who aren't fully vaccinated
Ontario schools are starting to issue suspensions to some of the thousands of students who aren't fully vaccinated, as the spread of measles continues, giving new urgency to calls for the province to digitize its immunization record system.
#school #vaccine #health #policy #Ontario #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-schools-suspend-students-vaccines-1.7505150?cmp=rss
How the Pentagon is adapting to China’s technological rise - It’s been just over two months since Kathleen Hicks stepped down as US deputy secret... - https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/07/1114242/kathleen-hicks-on-china/ #policy #app
Microsoft thinks you should recycle pcs that can't be upgraded to windows 11...
Please do not do this. Try linux or give them to someone else who will, or donate them to charitable organizations.
Goblins need spare computers everywhere!
#question
Can we have a #hashtag on here for people who wish to discard perfectly good computers, so other people on here who are less fortunate can get them and use linux or something?
Any opinions on a best hashtag for that?
*edit @generationX mentioned a hashtag, #computertruhe (which is a group or the german equivalent to this paying it forward of computers or related parts, and is active on mastodon!) This may translate to #computerchest and is the best lead on a relevant hashtag for this purpose so far!
#retux (for games?)
possibly #upcycling
Unique for this purpose suggested:
#takemytech (at least 2 votes!)
#sparePChere
#pc2hand
by area:
@PCsfueralle for Austria, like computertruhe for DE
#LinuxInstallParty may be relevant! DE I think!
#FreeGeek for #Portland and maybe #Minneapolis !
#Debian 12 Bookworm made installation and GUI much easier than previous versions, including nonfree repositories for proprietary driver support! Debian 13 Trixie (stable) drops later this year. It is upstream and all about open source, as a Linux option.
#JeromePowell says #TheFed does not forecast #recession probability.
"We don't actually, we don't make a probability forecast of how likely it is for there to be a recession, but many outside forecasters do, & many of them have raised the likelihood, …there's not much more I can say about that."
Powell stressed that he did not want to be part of a political discussion about #policy.
The Fed is not responsible for #trade, #immigration, fiscal or other policies.
LA Times: What about the bike lanes? Transit advocates say Metro project ignores city’s mobility plans
https://www.europesays.com/1964793/ Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins #Antarctica #DonaldTrump #News #policy #Politics #StockMarket #stocks #tariffs #world #WorldNews #WorldTopics
Important new tool: the Impact Map—a new interactive platform developed under the Impact Project to help visualize how #federal #employment, #funding, and #policy #decisions affect [US] communities.” https://theimpactproject.org/the-impact-map/
Don't want people to die in misery and untreated symptoms of easily preventable diseases?
Tell your MP today!
https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP
https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/contact-an-mp-or-lord/contact-your-mp/
What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. - The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to pu... - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-doge-to-rapidly-rebuild-social-security-codebase/ #syndication #elonmusk #biz #policy #cobol #doge #java
How a bankruptcy judge can stop a genetic privacy disaster - Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A tech company accumulates a ton of user data, ... - https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/28/1113911/how-a-bankruptcy-judge-can-stop-a-genetic-privacy-disaster/ #opinion #policy #app
What is Signal? The messaging app, explained. - MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of tec... - https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/27/1113919/what-is-signal-the-messaging-app-explained/ #mittechnologyreviewexplains #policy #app
Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers - The global backlash against the second Donald Trump administration keeps o... - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/03/europe-is-looking-for-alternatives-to-us-cloud-providers/ #syndication #biz #policy #europe #azure #cloud #trump #aws #eu
@ZhiZhu@newsie.social"And the fact that so many voters seemed oblivious to clear signs about what #Trump would do if he won ought to inform every discussion about how to #oppose him...
the #voters who have most to lose from this extremism didn’t notice...
#WorkingClass voters didn’t notice.
What all this says is that the priority for #Democrats isn’t to pursue whatever you think is a better #policy mix.
It is to get voters to notice."
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/social-security-a-time-for-outrage
To know more about the critical impact of the new #U.S. #policy on HIV-positive Ukrainians., follow us for free (or become a paid subscriber) via the link!
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https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/ukraines-hiv-patients-face-crisis
Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? 30 Days Until Martial Law...?
By Jessica Wildfire • 20 Mar 2025.
https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go-now-30-days-until-martial-law/ (Kind of a salacious title, but unfortunately not impossible either.)
And she links (Safe Travel Trans Americans Passport Policy) https://19thnews.org/2025/03/safe-travel-trans-americans-passport-policy/
(TGNC Checklist under Trump) https://lambdalegal.org/tgnc-checklist-under-trump/
(Travel State gov page on passport help with sex marker) https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/passport-help/sex-marker.html
(Reddit thread A Guide for Americans to Leave) https://www.reddit.com/r/AmerExit/comments/urwlbr/a_guide_for_americans_that_want_to_get_out_of/
(SF Chronicle on the Insurrection Act) https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/insurrection-act-president-trump-20201819.php
"Meanwhile, corporate media asks, “Can he do that?” These stories are engineered to distract the public with technicalities. While everyone’s debating what they can and can’t do, they are doing it.
We know this administration’s pattern of loose interpretation when it comes to law and historical precedent. There’s no reason to believe he’ll stop here, instead using this act to use force against anyone his administration considers a threat, regardless of their status or what they’re protesting.
You also have to remember this country has a long, established history of censoring speech and leading witch hunts. During WWI, god help you if you didn’t buy enough liberty bonds or called yourself a pacifist.
We’re the land of moral panics.
Every single one of this administration’s actions have been building toward this moment, when the president suspends our civil and human rights. It explains why they’ve taken such aggressive action toward federal agencies, firing tens of thousands of workers and purging their ranks of anyone who might say no. They’ve already been testing boundaries, daring courts to stop them as they shut down government operations and kidnap U.S. citizens."
(some bullshit from an insecure asshole puppetted for power) https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declaring-a-national-emergency-at-the-southern-border-of-the-united-states/
(How to move out of the USA) https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2024/11/04/how-to-move-out-of-the-us/
uspol
(18 Mar) Furious at the FCC, Arkansas jail cancels inmate phone calls rather than lower rates
One angry sheriff takes on the feds.
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/81vnq
Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/xanLY ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/j98or
@null_aleph@mastodon.social“Significant changes will be coming for Social Security recipients. Millions will no longer be able to verify their identity over the phone, creating a challenge for older #Americans and those with #disabilities. Advocates are raising concerns about the burden this could place on an already vulnerable population. Stephanie Sy discussed more with Kathleen Romig.”
UK politics, social security / benefit payments, mh--, semi-suicide threat, but also stubborn enough to live just to spite the wannabe-tories
... ok so these fuckers really ARE trying to kill us.
relevant af https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ROtVQt98s
I'm so close to the fucking edge this year.
I got a 1 kg bag of tapioca pearls for boba tea to make cheaper at home so I can still have a treat. Saw the price tag and was like "hmmm. *Do* I want / deserve an easy sweet treat I can add nutrient powder to as needed and sip for hydration?"
I got it in the end, but everyone deserves nice things. Yes, even the people you hate. Even the asshole down the street. Maybe if they got nice things and felt nicer, they might be kinder to people around them, idfk.
New Scientist has used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT records of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary, in what is believed to be a world-first use of such legislationFrom https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472068-revealed-how-the-uk-tech-secretary-uses-chatgpt-for-policy-advice/
These records show that Kyle asked ChatGPT to explain why the UK’s small and medium business (SMB) community has been so slow to adopt AI. ChatGPT returned a 10-point list of problems hindering adoption, including sections on “Limited Awareness and Understanding”, “Regulatory and Ethical Concerns” and “Lack of Government or Institutional Support”.Apparently it didn't say "because it's unhelpful and probably harmful to most SMB problems" or "what on earth are you doing asking a computer this you fool?".
https://www.europesays.com/1903383/ Germany’s Greens make Merz sweat over massive spending plan – POLITICO #cooperation #debt #défense #DemocraticParty #DonaldTrump #elections #Energy #FriedrichMerz #GermanElection2025 #germany #GreenEnergyTransition #history #infrastructure #intelligence #IntelligenceServices #investment #Kremlin #military #negotiations #parliament #policy #security #Services #space #Ukraine #UnitedStates #US
