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THIS IS INCREDIBLE 😃

"an mRNA cancer vaccine developed at the University of Florida successfully reprogrammed patients’ immune systems to fiercely attack glioblastoma, the most aggressive and lethal brain tumor" through "...use of a patient’s own tumor cells to create a personalized vaccine...."

FUCK CANCER. And let's see anti-vaxxers reject *this* one.

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/cancer-vaccine-triggers-fierce-immune-response-to-fight-malignant-brain-tumors/

people always tell me "mathematical notation is just like jargon, its just more efficient." no, mathematical notation is not like jargon

1. jargon are words. anyone can put a word into a search engine and find a glossary of terms explaining what that jargon word means in some context. you can't do that with math notation unless you already know math notation

2. jargon is almost never overloaded like mathematical notation is. the same letter or piece of punctuation can mean wildly different things in any given context and can even vary based on the *font the symbol is displayed in* inside one context

imagine if someone in software engineering used the symbol ⍼ instead of "garbage collector", except it only maps to "garbage collector" if it's written in sans serif. if it's written with serif, it means "compute shader" instead. but if its in comic sans it means "SIMD divide"

and also 98% of the time they used the ⍼ symbol it was inserted as a picture, not a copy/pastable unicode glyph. *that's* math notation

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Universal basic income mitigates tunneling, meaning that people are more able to think beyond just one focus. The need to earn survival income tends to function like blinders that block out everything else but your focus on basic needs. Until they're obtained, we can't think beyond.

Today we are releasing an exciting enhancement for Distributed Press: the Social Reader - a new way to read posts on the Fediverse.

The Social Reader is a privacy-first personal reader for subscribing to content published on federated social media.

The Social Reader is ideal whether it's your first step into the Fediverse, and you want to browse without creating an account, or you just prefer to use tools that are private-by-design.

Skip the need to manage a digital persona with this free, no sign-up tool: just follow and access all the beautiful content you want.

Local-first

Works offline

No account

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This tool also works without internet connectivity: you'll have your own database locally, so you don't need to go online to read posts.

In addition, it has native support for subscribing via peer-to-peer feeds if you use Agregore, Galacteek or any other p2p browser. This makes use of the peer-to-peer published versions of people's sites, fostering the ecosystem to gradually adopt decentralized publishing flows. Consequently, streams are more resistant to outages or attacks, given that their data is distributed across multiple nodes. 💪

🎉

Try it out here: reader.distributed.press

Watch a brief demo 👀

Curious about operational details? Check out our documentation

Disclaimer: it is important to note that Distributed Press does not host any of the content accessed through Social Reader. Therefore, Distributed Press bears no legal responsibility for the appropriateness, accuracy, or legality of the content accessed or distributed through the use of this tool.

Human curration is what makes bookstores and record stores work.

Staff picks move books, even at a big chain. Reviews move books on Amazon, and get people to theaters.

But what incentive is there for people to undertake the act of intentional curration?

Film reviewers get paid to publish in magazines, but most magazines aren't turning a profit anymore.

No one gets paid for Amazon reviews. Rarely does anyone make money on their zine or their blog.

How can we support the people who help us find things?

Several of the major social media platforms - Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter - have effectively declared war on linking to things and I absolutely hate it

"Link in my bio" / "Link in thread" / "Link in first comment"... or increasingly no link at all, just an unsourced screenshot of a page

@nixCraft Part of my continued screaming series on "stop using services that heavily advertise on Youtube and Twitch."

@yhancik @darius The old thinking was that you should be rotating your gender every 90 days for security reasons but that’s proven to be an ineffective approach. Modern best practices are to use a unique and complex gender for every interaction, to avoid repetition and store them in a secure gender manager. This makes it easier to change genders when one relationship is compromised, and protects you against gender-stuffing attacks.

If your “open source software” requires a datacenter-scale strata and is optimized for, or maybe only meaningful to, datacenter-scale problems, is not open source in any way that matters. “Free as in corporate risk management” and “free as in labor arbitrage” are not aspirations.

Shitty dollar store painting. Cheap trash is worth a lot when the expensive is unattainable. #art

The difference between mastodon and tiktok is that mastodon is for shouting into the void and tiktok is for staring into the abyss.

With the Web becoming filled with LLM-generated babble and toxic bullshit, there is an historical precedent for a solution to the problem of finding information on the internet.

Once upon a time, there was a project called DMOZ, and it was a human-curated hierarchical link directory, divided into subjects.

I think that's a brilliant thing, and provided it was still 100% human curated, there would be great utility in such things -- each curator would be assigned to a "beat", a subject area where their existing knowledge allows them to identify real human-made content, curated for accuracy, and link it in the directory, with an entry and some kind of automated polling to ensure that dead links are brought to the curator's attention for maintenance or removal.