Notices by Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co), page 2

“winter freeze” is the cause of this recession.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-retail-sales-fall-sharply-january-2025-02-14/

after these hellish 3 weeks in Washington DC, with millions tens of millions of Americans affected by the #techbro and #griftocracy smash and grab of Americans livelihoods, it’s the weather the reason why Americans are not spending money.

sure.

You would watch it.
You know you would.

(Friend & I both decided it was MUCH funnier leaving the original Mr Darcy in place. Friend will return for future projects.)

#MyfanwyAndFriend #sillyScribbles

Press release for Australian research (funded by ME Research UK):

"Large hippocampus detected in Long COVID and ME/CFS patients"

https://news.griffith.edu.au/2025/02/11/large-hippocampus-detected-in-long-covid-and-me-cfs-patients/

@mecfs
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME @longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC

@covid19 #Coronavirus
#COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #COVIDー19 #SARSCoV2 @novid@chirp.social #novid @novid@a.gup.pe #CovidIsNotOver
@auscovid19 #auscovid19

hashtag #Standards #StandardsHowDoTheyWork #FuckinStandardsHowDoTheyWork

Woo-hoo! I got the new logic to decide to go to war for NPCs working. The side I watched started marching warriors across the screen to take the enemy's capitol. Now it's a scrum. Others are pouring in from different sides. Now they're in a giant scrum of mage effects. If one side wins, they should get all of the losing side's assets. But because there are multiple groups present, it may change hands more than once.

It was quiet for a bit. Now more fighters are pouring into the capitol. More mages have arrived.

Oh. Well. The scrum is turning into a strobe effect with debugging on. They are stuck at distance N from their destination because others are in the way. I think I need to look at the acceptance radius for the movement part of this task.

#GameDev #UE5 #RTS

Before I was fired tonight, I was in charge of information security for VA.gov, which has millions of users per month and stores and processes huge amounts of veterans' personal information. I've been told by people I've worked with that I'm the best at what I do of anyone they've ever worked with. Now there will be _no one_ in charge of information security for VA.gov.
Does this seem like improving government efficiency?
#politics #USPol #DOGE #USDS #VA
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@CoachMark @dillyd @stevegis_ssg I took a late nap and so will be up all night. 👋

@HistoPol @flexghost @Tilopa@convo.casa @Hey_Beth
Love Judd!

But GOP dirty money donors do this type of thing every election cycle. This isn't Trump's doing.

@codinghorror 👍

Random Friday night thought: am I the only one who thinks of an IUD every time I see the Tesla logo?

The American axis now includes the white nationalist regime of the United States, the AfD of Germany, Orbán of Hungary, Netanyahu of Israel, the apartheid AfriForum of South Africa, Milei of Argentina, and Putin's Russia.

Zeit Online: "The transatlantic alliance is no longer held together by common values." In Munich, Vance is the ambassador not of the US but of the global populist (I'd say fascist) axis.
Wer greift hier die Demokratie an?
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2025-02/j-d-vance-muenchen-sicherheitskonferenz-usa-europa-ukraine

@old_hippie My kid nose was very sensitive to the smell of sour milk, and I was not very good at that "neither seen nor heard" stuff.

At some point during the tear-down of America, Russia will move on the Baltic states. Be ready. It's coming.

(3/n)

...grip on global communications and his wealth that dwarfs that of many countries.
No, I am talking about his mental health and about his crazy beliefs based in #Longtermism, part of #TESCREAL.

In order to achieve "humanity's destiny" between the stars, some followers of these cults would do almost anything to achieve that goal.
An #AI singularity, that #Musk and his followers fear would be prevent such a destiny, would even *warrant a #NuclearWar*, even it it meant...

#Via Matt Novak
@paleofuture
Feb 13, 2025, 9:40 PM

"Holy shit. This is fucking nuts.

Let me put it this way. If there’s a nuclear accident, NNSA are the people who are called to figure out what to do. These are the people who search the Super Bowl for radiation to make sure aren’t any nuclear devices planted for a terrorist attack. These are not the people you want to cut."

BREAKING: A bunch of U.S. Digital Service employees (including me) were fired tonight. It's still unclear exactly how many. There is no visibility whatsoever into what determined who was let go. Legacy USDS (i.e., pre-DOGE) leadership was not involved in the decision about whom to let go and was not notified in advance that people were going to be fired.
#politics #USPol #DOGE #coup #USDS
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Ooh. A Twilight Zone moment.

Imagine a universe underpinned by a quantum layer that is a probability machine which responds to observation.

Imagine creatures, products of the universe, equipped with the means to interpret and interact with that layer through efficient quantum computers they carry with them everywhere, in their heads.

Imagine these creatures saturating those quantum computers with every horrible possible future there is, and then some, in mass media programmed by similar creatures.

Now imagine that some of the creatures doing the programming are narcissistic sociopaths with shit-tons of money.

Where are you?

You are ⬇️

https://mastodon.social/@DarthAloha/114005603470868936

You know it's bad when you're thinking about finding some dystopian movies to borrow, because they show a world much better than actual current direction of real life. 🤪

@ai6yr Spot-on! Who isn't longing for the universe of the Alien/Aliens movies? You knew where you stood then. Obey Ripley and pay attention to Jones the cat. I can do this.