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I know a lot of people whose lives depend on access to medicine. I know fewer other people whose lives also depend on the machinery and software used to dose that medicine. Insulin pumps, pacemakers, and other crucial, always-on medical equipment are crazy useful but also contain the possibility for insane frustration and resentment. I've been pretty honest over the years that I value having an insulin pump, but that I also hate the manufacturers and designers of every pump I've ever used. If you introduced me to any person who has ever designed an insulin pump I've used, I would probably punch them in the face and cuss them out in front of their children. Every single pump I've used as caused me massive problems - though none as bad as the one I'm about to describe.

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Is "AI slop" enough? (lemmy.eco.br)

submitted 3 months ago by flango@lemmy.eco.br to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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AI companies and users of AI are littering all aspects of public space with "AI slop", but does this term reflect what it really is? We have terms like visual pollution, sound pollution, etc. In a way, "AI pollution " seems a proper term, but AI also pollutes meaning, like with AI generated text. Is AI pollution a new form of "microplastics"? Everywhere and in everything?

Suspected gunman at Washington press dinner identified as 31-year-old Californian by flango in c/news@lemmy.world

[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 80 points 4 months ago

This guy just tried "leeroy jenkins" irl

Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? by flango in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 69 points 7 months ago

They want to dumb down Wikipedia

You've heard of the Mona Lisa, I give you the MAGA Lisa by flango in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.ca

[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 46 points 9 months ago

Sentence of the day

The Hollywood Reporter describes Mar-a-Lago face as a "Fellini-esque exaggeration of the dolled-up Fox News anchorwoman look"

Data Centers Turn to Aviation Engines for Power Solutions by flango in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 46 points 11 months ago

Spectrum makes this seems a very positive way of "bringing power gaps", but the social consequences of living nearby multiple engines running 24/7 are terrible. This video describes a "town that elon musk is poisoning "

https://youtu.be/3VJT2JeDCyw

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million people by flango in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 64 points 1 year ago

"The final solution"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution

This ad that claims that windows 11 is 3 times faster than windows 10 by flango in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 52 points 1 year ago

"Just buy a new computer bro; hear me out, Windows 11 is what you need, j-ust j-ust justone more computer."

A Strange Stain in the Sky: How Silicon Valley Is Preparing A Coup Against Democracy by flango in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 92 points 1 year ago

with the idea of re-founding humanity

the desire to start from scratch without the legal constraints of Earth

What they are doing is playing the old book of the nazis

It's a Unix system! Elon knows this! by flango in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 41 points 2 years ago

I don't even have X, but everywhere I go there's an Elon's tweet

Meta is getting rid of fact checkers. Zuckerberg acknowledged more harmful content will appear on the platforms now by flango in c/news@lemmy.world

[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 45 points 2 years ago

Zuckerberg going full nazi... That's one of the many reasons we can't have Mastodon and Threads in federation

Boeing whistleblower found dead in US by flango in c/news@lemmy.world

[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 56 points 2 years ago

Last week, he gave a formal deposition in which he was questioned by Boeing's lawyers, before being cross-examined by his own counsel.

He had been due to undergo further questioning on Saturday. When he did not appear, enquiries were made at his hotel.

He was subsequently found dead in his truck in the hotel car park.

What does your desktop look like? by flango in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 166 points 2 years ago

Gaza: Hundreds of thousands are starving as famine arrives at ‘incredible speed,’ UN aid chief warns | CNN by flango in c/world@lemmy.world

[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 68 points 2 years ago

“People in Gaza risk dying of hunger just miles from trucks filled with food,” said WFP head Cindy McCain. “Every hour lost puts countless lives at risk. We can keep famine at bay but only if we can deliver sufficient supplies and have safe access to everyone in need, wherever they are.”

G-E-N-O-C-I-D-E !!!