SCOTUS says it will hear a challenge on January 10 to a new law that could lead to a TikTok ban in the US, ahead of the law taking effect on January 19 (Melissa Quinn/CBS News)

cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court…
techmeme.com/241218/p23#a24121…

Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to TikTok ban

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will take up a challenge to a new law that could lead to a ban on TikTok in the U.S.

^{Melissa Quinn (CBS News)}

Mohl bych vás poprosit o pár minut a zpětnou vazbu na web Programů do voleb?

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Díky předem.

Zpětná vazba k webu programydovoleb.cz

Volební rok 2024 je za námi, vánoční svátky před námi, příští rok velké sněmovní volby. Zajímala by mě vaše zkušenost s webem Programů, co bylo dobře, co špatně, co mohu zlepšit. Za každé vyplnění díky předem.

^{Google Docs}

🔗 Connecting dots of long COVID-19 pathogenesis: a vagus nerve- hypothalamic-pituitary- adrenal-mitochondrial axis dysfunction frontiersin.org/journals/cellu…

> According to our theory, the direct mitochondrial damage carried out by the virus, which replicates within these organelles, and the cellular oxidative imbalance, cannot be countered in patients who develop LC. This is because their anti-inflammatory mechanisms are inconsistent due to reduced vagal tone and direct damage to the endocrine glands of the HPA axis. We will illustrate how acetylcholine (ACh) and cortisol, with its cytoplasmatic and cellular receptors respectively, are fundamental players in the LC process. Both Ach and cortisol play multifaceted and synergistic roles in reducing inflammation. They achieve this by modulating the activity of innate and cell-mediated immunity, attenuating endothelial and platelet activation, and modulating mitochondrial function, which is crucial for cellular energy production and anti-inflammatory mechanisms. In our opinion, it is essential to study the sensitivity of the glucocorticoids receptor in people who develop LC and whether SARS-CoV-2 can cause long-term epigenetic variations in its expression and function.

Frontiers | Connecting dots of long COVID-19 pathogenesis: a vagus nerve- hypothalamic-pituitary- adrenal-mitochondrial axis dysfunction

^Frontiers

So, apparently this Claw Machine appeared in my brother's office overnight. I don't know why, but it just looks dystopian, like an episode of Black Mirror. He asked about it, and they told him it was put there to boost morale over the holidays. One might think it would be free to play then, right? Oh no, you have to do extra work to earn tokens or pay. Nothing like Upper Management to both demoralize and insult everyone with their Morale Boosting plan.

JUST.
GIVE.
PEOPLE.
MORE.
MONEY.

Happy Birthday to Sister Mary Kenneth Keller (Dec 17, 1913 – Jan 10, 1985), the first PhD in computer science in the US.

In 1958, Keller began working at the NSF workshop in the computer science center at Dartmouth College, a male-only institution at the time, where she participated in the implementation of the first DTSS BASIC Kernel for the language, working under John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.

Pic: Sister Kenneth with the Bi-Tran Six computer at Clarke Univ.
computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/…
1/n

Long but really good article on tech (which is increasingly indistinguishable from the fascists):

"Our digital lives are actively abusive and hostile, riddled with subtle and overt cons."

wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-…

h/t @glitzersachen

Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might pr…

^{Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)}

government inaction on drones is a conspiracy. government action on drones is a conspiracy. everything is a conspiracy

404media.co/the-no-win-mystery…

The No-Win 'Mystery Drone' Clusterfuck

To political grifters boosting their profiles, government inaction is unacceptable, and government action cannot be trusted. There is no acceptable explanation.

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}

Macht mit bei der #fedimap #fedikarte : @fedikarte und findet euch auf der fedikarte.de.

#boost
#boostwelcome

Fedikarte.de

Fedikarte ist eine User*innenkarte des Fediversums.

^Fedikarte.de

UK: “It’s still illegal to rip a CD you legally own to MP3!”

Also UK: “Hey, let’s exempt those AI guys from copyright law!”

FFS.

gov.uk/government/consultation…

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.

^{Intellectual Property Office (GOV.UK)}

J. J. Thomson, who was born #OTD in 1856, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for his discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be found.

Thomson was also a teacher, and seven of his students went on to win Nobel Prizes: Ernest Rutherford, Lawrence Bragg, Charles Barkla, Francis Aston, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Richardson and Edward Victor Appleton.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Th…

Books by J.J. Thomson at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38…

#books #science #physics

Give a gift that truly matters: privacy ❤️ 🔒 🎄

Tuta festive gift cards are now available under Settings -> Plan -> Gift cards

#GivePrivacy #Christmas

You guys… there’s a huge, yellow, orb-shaped drone over New Jersey this morning. It’s unbelievably bright.

#NJ #Drones

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dobrá robota, evidentne nie som vo svojej koži, ani sa na to nepozerajte

A great paper on the effects of RTO mandates. In news that will surprise no one with half a brain:

• You disproportionately lose women.
• You disproportionately lose your best people.
• You find it hard to replace the good people that you lose.

For a long time, companies were excited about offshoring because it meant that they could take advantage of a global labour force to increase supply and drive down labour costs. Now they’re starting to see the flip side: with a lot of places offering remote work, the demand is also global and they are competing with companies worldwide. If you don’t offer a good work-life balance for your best people, someone else will and they may be anywhere in the world.

After running a successful research project at Microsoft with a team spanning several thousand miles between the furthest members, I was quite surprised to be told that we all needed to come back into the lab because research requires people to be face to face. Especially by people who had spent two years doing nothing to promote collaboration and who were pushing policies that would exclude my close collaborators in other countries.

At SCI, we’re remote first. My most recent hire is on a boat in the South Pacific. As long as people can communicate and have a decent Internet connection, I don’t care where they are (the accountants may, for tax purposes). You need to actively build teams when people are remote, just as when they’re local. Mostly of the people who felt RTO was important were the ones who weren’t doing this in either setting and were relying on similarity biases to create teams (I’d love to see a correlation between managers who advocate RTO and managers who have a higher turnover for folks who are not white cishet males: I suspect it would be strong).

$ pip3 search something
...
RuntimeError: PyPI no longer supports 'pip search' [...]. Please use pypi.org/search (via a browser) instead. [...]

Sure, no problem. Let's see …

»JavaScript is disabled in your browser. Please enable JavaScript to proceed.«

Urgh, but okay, #pip is a #Python package manager, they're good guys. Let me just open #NoScript and temporarily allow pypi.org ... oh no, it wants to run #JavaScript from …

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That's what you get after 30 years of using the term #OpenSource instead of #FreeSoftware.

Just updated to #PeerTube v7 with the new UI. It feels really nice, fresh and modern. Good work @peertube

Also I appreciated that all my simple CSS customizations are compatible with the new UI. I hadn't have to change anything after the update. Very well designed styling. 👍

Welcome to the RB family, PuppyGit 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.c…

PuppyGit is a Git client for Android. Thanks to the enormous efforts by its developer who even rewrote their entire build workflow, PuppyGit was now confirmed reproducible

RB stats now: 376 apps (30.7%)

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid

„PuppyGit“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

An Android Git Client

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Edit: We've moved to a dedicated account, so if you're interested, please follow @StroongeCast. Thanks.

New podcast with my wife, and more to come, the next time I can persuade her to sit behind a microphone again.

#StroongeCast E01: Will You Peel My Orange? youtu.be/XeVO8pTfrK8

Download: onj.me/media/stroongecast/01_-…

StroongeCast E01: Will You Peel My Orange?

RSS feed: https://onj.me/media/stroongecast/index.php?xml_feed=yWelcome to episode 1 of StroongeCast, a husband and wife team consisting of Andre and Kirsten...

^YouTube