Supreme Court: "Presidential Action! Immune!"
I was able to get an adult ADD diagnosis in my 50s from my mental health counselor. Which was forwarded to my PCP. Only then I was allowed to start meds.
I have heard it's notoriously hard to get a diagnosis as an adult.
Yes, but only Republicans, Amiright?
It's me in this clown makeup and I don't like it.
College was really hard for me. A big bundle of distractions at a vulnerable age in my life. I about failed out twice out of STEM degrees. I finally found a Liberal Arts degree that I could get a BA in.
Then a few years later, I had married somewhat. I went back and completed by STEM degree, somehow.
Now I'm back at it again 20+ years later, working on my Masters in IT. It takes all of my ADHD coping skills. Making lists. Exercise. Counseling. Supporting friends and family.
It's possible, but it's hard.
I'm pretty sure it's wrong, too. Every UBI trial I've seen has people improving their lives. Some get lifted into work. Some get necessary training. A very high percentage have their life and status improved, better than welfare.
Ramsey can duck right off with his bullshit.
It's what Trump's lawyers specifically argued for. It's not a hypothetical or exaggeration at all.
That act won't really hold up. That's not really an action. It's taking away something ephemeral. Rights are not in the physical world.
Now, jailing Donald for crimes. That's doing something physical. And the Supreme Court could rule against him, and Biden could say, "Make me." And Don would continue to be jailed illegally. And the Supreme Court would have no say over the impotence of their own creation. And we'd have an impeachment hearing that won't go anywhere.
But Biden won't do that.
Trump would.
It's a ridiculous self-depreciating meme. It's funny because it contrasts with Biden being old and frail.
QAnons actually believe their shit.
They shouldn't have driven near the exploding spatulas.
Easy.
Republican: Legal. Democrat: Illegal.
It's literally not a crime if the president does it.
There's lots he can do besides killing people if you are creative.
Let's make it easy for Joe. He doesn't have to counter everything. Just say, "Everything my opponent said is a lie." "Again, he's lying. Here's the truth". And then ignore it. You know T**** is going to lie. It's a given. It's a trap to try to refute, so just call it a lie and move on.
That might free up some mental power to focus on proper messaging and not melt down.
Can I just have a little bit of poison in my everything, please?
The Windows error screen is almost never useful. Maybe Linux could aspire to that standard!
That is uplifting news! Thanks for sharing!
Not trying to be argumentative, but can't Meta and governments already scrape everyone's RSS feed in the Fediverse? It's open; that's the point.
Quitting Google isn't just a technical process—it's a massive project. Here's some advice on how to tackle it.
Some companies are easy to quit. If I decide I don't like Coca-Cola anymore I can simply stop drinking Coke. Sure, the company makes more than just Coke, so I would need to do some research to figure out which products they do and don't make, but it's theoretically possible.
Quitting Google isn't like that. It makes many products, many of which you depend on to live your digital life. Leaving a company like that is like a divorce, according to an expert I talked to. "It's not easy, but you feel so much better at the other side," said Janet Vertesi, a sociology professor at Princeton who publishes work on human computer interaction. "Think of a friend who gets a divorce and is so happy to be out. That could be you. That's how it feels to leave Google."
She'd know. Vertesi researches NASA's robotic spacecraft teams and also publishes work on human computer interaction. In March 2012, after Google significantly changed its privacy policies, she decided to stop using Google entirely. Vertesi also runs The Opt Out Project, a website full of recommendations and tutorials for replacing "Big Tech" services with community-driven and DIY alternatives. She is, in other words, someone who has done the work, so I wanted to ask her for some advice about how someone should approach quitting Google.
Lifehacker has already published a comprehensive guide to quitting Google and a list of the best competitors to every Google product years ago, and that information stands up for the most part. But not using Google anymore isn't just a technical process—it's a massive project. Here's some advice on how to tackle it.
The company behind one of the biggest projects in the Fediverse has migrated as an entity to the United States as a 501c3.
As a project, Mastodon has operated under the umbrella of Mastodon GmbH, a German company that benefited from non-profit status with the German government. Despite all indications that they were doing everything right, Mastodon GmbH recently had its non-profit status revoked, resulting in the team to seek an alternative.
In the announcement, CEO and founder Eugen Rochko had this to say:
> Our day to day operations are largely unaffected by this event, since Patreon does not presuppose non-profit status, and Patreon income does not count as donations. We have in fact not had to issue a single donation receipt since 2021.
Mastodon remains one of the only popular social platforms that operates out of the European Union, and Eugen desires to keep things that way. With that being said, this could be an interesting opportunity for the project: a presence in the United States may reduce friction in hiring employees there.
Zach Edey and Purdue were dominant in the first weekend of the 2024 NCAA Tournament.
Zach Edey and his Purdue teammates are not leaving anything to chance. In the first two rounds of the 2024 NCAA Tournament, the Boilermakers have blown the doors off two overmatched opponents as they attempt to erase memories of last year's upset loss to No. 16 seed Fairleigh Dickinson. After thrashing Utah State on Sunday, Purdue is back in the Sweet 16.
Edey and Co. opened the tournament as the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region, and hammered out a 78-50 win over Grambling. The All-American center was unstoppable in that contest, scoring 30 points and grabbing 21 rebounds. Purdue led 31-27 with 3:40 remaining in the half and decided to turn it on. The Boilermakers outscored the Tigers by 24 points the rest of the way.
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
A newly discovered vulnerability baked into Apple’s M-series of chips allows attackers to extract secret keys from Macs when they perform widely used cryptographic operations, academic researchers have revealed in a paper published Thursday.
The flaw—a side channel allowing end-to-end key extractions when Apple chips run implementations of widely used cryptographic protocols—can’t be patched directly because it stems from the microarchitectural design of the silicon itself. Instead, it can only be mitigated by building defenses into third-party cryptographic software that could drastically degrade M-series performance when executing cryptographic operations, particularly on the earlier M1 and M2 generations. The vulnerability can be exploited when the targeted cryptographic operation and the malicious application with normal user system privileges run on the same CPU cluster.