Jason C Daniels
@jasoncdaniels.bsky.social
Disabled 54 yr old software engineer. I enjoy programming, TTRPGS, food & more! If you ever see me yell "I live!" I'm exaggerating.
#spoonie #disability #ttrpg #programming #cartography #gamecartography #art
Under 18? 🚫 DNI!
#spoonie #disability #ttrpg #programming #cartography #gamecartography #art
Under 18? 🚫 DNI!
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I suppose it's about time I make an introductory thread.
Hi, I'm Jason. I came over from the other site when Blue Sky was still invite only, roughly a couple months before that ended, IIRC.
I'm here to mostly have light hearted friendly fun with others.
1/11
Hi, I'm Jason. I came over from the other site when Blue Sky was still invite only, roughly a couple months before that ended, IIRC.
I'm here to mostly have light hearted friendly fun with others.
1/11
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Babies are born with very low levels of vitamin K, a nutrient the body needs for blood to clot, leaving them at risk for severe bleeding early in life. In the early 1960s, hospitals in the United States began giving newborns a protective injection of vitamin K.
www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...
www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...
More parents refusing vitamin K shots for newborns, study finds
Babies aren't born with enough vitamin K, which the body needs for blood to clot. An injection at birth helps prevent severe bleeding in infants.
www.nbcnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Babies are born with very low levels of vitamin K, a nutrient the body needs for blood to clot, leaving them at risk for severe bleeding early in life. In the early 1960s, hospitals in the United States began giving newborns a protective injection of vitamin K.
www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...
www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...
@bsky.app popup notifications are annoying, especially in a web browser, even more so when it's about a feature I've been using for over a year now. Even worse is it steals focus!! (Bad UI programmer BAD!)
Your people should know better than to do all that. Give us the ability to turn notifs off.
Your people should know better than to do all that. Give us the ability to turn notifs off.
December 9, 2025 at 3:45 AM
@bsky.app popup notifications are annoying, especially in a web browser, even more so when it's about a feature I've been using for over a year now. Even worse is it steals focus!! (Bad UI programmer BAD!)
Your people should know better than to do all that. Give us the ability to turn notifs off.
Your people should know better than to do all that. Give us the ability to turn notifs off.
So... It looks like the eMMC drive on my GMKtek G9 is dead and/or I need to reset the bios... Or sacrifice an NVME drive to host the OS. I hate tech some days. But at least the sacrificial drive has been backed up, and is redundant anyways! (I decided to while typing)
December 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
So... It looks like the eMMC drive on my GMKtek G9 is dead and/or I need to reset the bios... Or sacrifice an NVME drive to host the OS. I hate tech some days. But at least the sacrificial drive has been backed up, and is redundant anyways! (I decided to while typing)
... and in my attempt to prep the main drive for reinstall, I accidentally nuked my VENTOY USB drive. Now I gotta refind all the ISOs I had on it. Bleh.
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
... and in my attempt to prep the main drive for reinstall, I accidentally nuked my VENTOY USB drive. Now I gotta refind all the ISOs I had on it. Bleh.
As a Gray-Ace, I know I'm heteronormative for WHO I'm physically attracted to. The details of how it works and frequency are dramatically different. Even still, I can't enter a queer space and just assume my experiences are shared. They likely aren't. Even among Gray-Ace's experiences vary.
Just a friendly reminder that just because you’re queer doesn’t mean you’re not straight and vice versa bc the A stands for umbrella of asexuality which includes straights
It’s an umbrella term for anything non heteronormative. The sooner yall realize that the sooner we can have real conversations
It’s an umbrella term for anything non heteronormative. The sooner yall realize that the sooner we can have real conversations
December 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
As a Gray-Ace, I know I'm heteronormative for WHO I'm physically attracted to. The details of how it works and frequency are dramatically different. Even still, I can't enter a queer space and just assume my experiences are shared. They likely aren't. Even among Gray-Ace's experiences vary.
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'Germany has announced €500 million (US$582 million) in research funding for post-infectious diseases, including long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).' @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
'Germany has announced €500 million (US$582 million) in research funding for post-infectious diseases, including long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).' @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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A bit of Kent beach! Creative Writing students were asked to write something about the sea - and make it fit on a pebble.
December 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A bit of Kent beach! Creative Writing students were asked to write something about the sea - and make it fit on a pebble.
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One big effect of AI hype and promotion of unreliable chatbots is that a significant amount of additional friction and labour is being injected into our knowledge-making and -maintaining systems. At a time when these systems are already contracting and being starved by growing austerity.
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
One big effect of AI hype and promotion of unreliable chatbots is that a significant amount of additional friction and labour is being injected into our knowledge-making and -maintaining systems. At a time when these systems are already contracting and being starved by growing austerity.
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Hey I'm Emily, a graphic layout designer for TTRPGs.
I've worked with MCDM, Hatchlings Games, Bright Bard Games, and am the Creative Director at @graftbound.bsky.social
💼: emilyentner.com
✉️: [email protected]
#PortfolioDay
I've worked with MCDM, Hatchlings Games, Bright Bard Games, and am the Creative Director at @graftbound.bsky.social
💼: emilyentner.com
✉️: [email protected]
#PortfolioDay
October 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Hey I'm Emily, a graphic layout designer for TTRPGs.
I've worked with MCDM, Hatchlings Games, Bright Bard Games, and am the Creative Director at @graftbound.bsky.social
💼: emilyentner.com
✉️: [email protected]
#PortfolioDay
I've worked with MCDM, Hatchlings Games, Bright Bard Games, and am the Creative Director at @graftbound.bsky.social
💼: emilyentner.com
✉️: [email protected]
#PortfolioDay
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Did you know you can watch this incredible movie for free right now on the internet archive?
You’re welcome.
archive.org/details/dr-s...
You’re welcome.
archive.org/details/dr-s...
Dr Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb : Stanley Kubrick : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Stanley Kubrick’s painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless...
archive.org
February 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Did you know you can watch this incredible movie for free right now on the internet archive?
You’re welcome.
archive.org/details/dr-s...
You’re welcome.
archive.org/details/dr-s...
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This movie is 71 years old and everyone should watch it
December 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
This movie is 71 years old and everyone should watch it
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When this happens, systems revert to the explanation that imposes the least structural cost. Immunity debt filled that role for a long time.
Its eventual collapse wasn’t triggered by any one study.
5/7
Its eventual collapse wasn’t triggered by any one study.
5/7
December 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
When this happens, systems revert to the explanation that imposes the least structural cost. Immunity debt filled that role for a long time.
Its eventual collapse wasn’t triggered by any one study.
5/7
Its eventual collapse wasn’t triggered by any one study.
5/7
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Why the “immunity debt” narrative ultimately collapsed:
Over the past few months, the conversation has moved toward the conclusion the evidence has been pointing to for years.
Since 2022, immunity debt offered an easy explanation for the unusual patterns of illness we kept seeing.
1/7
Over the past few months, the conversation has moved toward the conclusion the evidence has been pointing to for years.
Since 2022, immunity debt offered an easy explanation for the unusual patterns of illness we kept seeing.
1/7
December 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Why the “immunity debt” narrative ultimately collapsed:
Over the past few months, the conversation has moved toward the conclusion the evidence has been pointing to for years.
Since 2022, immunity debt offered an easy explanation for the unusual patterns of illness we kept seeing.
1/7
Over the past few months, the conversation has moved toward the conclusion the evidence has been pointing to for years.
Since 2022, immunity debt offered an easy explanation for the unusual patterns of illness we kept seeing.
1/7
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A Michigan man has died of rabies after contracting it through a transplanted kidney.
The Donor Risk Assessment Interview questionnaire reported that the donor has been scratched by a skunk.
He then developed symptoms of rabies & died in hospital.
It seems odd he was permitted to donate organs:
The Donor Risk Assessment Interview questionnaire reported that the donor has been scratched by a skunk.
He then developed symptoms of rabies & died in hospital.
It seems odd he was permitted to donate organs:
Man contracts rabies from donated organ infected with fatal disease
The CDC revealed the case in a new report published Thursday, stating the man received a left kidney from a donor from Idaho in December 2024.
www.dailymail.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
A Michigan man has died of rabies after contracting it through a transplanted kidney.
The Donor Risk Assessment Interview questionnaire reported that the donor has been scratched by a skunk.
He then developed symptoms of rabies & died in hospital.
It seems odd he was permitted to donate organs:
The Donor Risk Assessment Interview questionnaire reported that the donor has been scratched by a skunk.
He then developed symptoms of rabies & died in hospital.
It seems odd he was permitted to donate organs:
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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The TootsiePop Owl terrorizes a woodland community by killing one of them each time they wrongly guess how many licks it takes to get to the center of a TootsiePop.
December 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The TootsiePop Owl terrorizes a woodland community by killing one of them each time they wrongly guess how many licks it takes to get to the center of a TootsiePop.
... And the EMMC drive was nuked... WTH. I'll need to look at replacing it with a more reliable brand. FML. In the mean time it looks like I can restore it to an operational state. IIRC the last time this happened I was tinkering with jellyfin. I know I was tonight...
December 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
... And the EMMC drive was nuked... WTH. I'll need to look at replacing it with a more reliable brand. FML. In the mean time it looks like I can restore it to an operational state. IIRC the last time this happened I was tinkering with jellyfin. I know I was tonight...
...and my media sever died, yet again. Booting from a USB drive to see what's going on.
December 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
...and my media sever died, yet again. Booting from a USB drive to see what's going on.
FWIW, if you repost someone engaged in misogyny, you and them get blocked. I don't need followers like that. And I don't care if your participation in misogyny is also an attack against the admin and/or their hypocrisy.
December 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
FWIW, if you repost someone engaged in misogyny, you and them get blocked. I don't need followers like that. And I don't care if your participation in misogyny is also an attack against the admin and/or their hypocrisy.
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A few important points here
- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false
- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE
media.licdn.com/dms/document...
- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false
- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE
media.licdn.com/dms/document...
December 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
A few important points here
- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false
- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE
media.licdn.com/dms/document...
- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false
- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE
media.licdn.com/dms/document...
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the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
Tossed and turned until around 2am. Heartburn woke me at just before 5am. And now I can't fall back to sleep. I demand a refund! This body is seriously defective.
December 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Tossed and turned until around 2am. Heartburn woke me at just before 5am. And now I can't fall back to sleep. I demand a refund! This body is seriously defective.
Woke late today. All meals were offset about 4 hours from normal. Yet I'm packing it in at a "reasonable" hour. Sleep tight everyone. Don't let the bed bugs bite...without consent.
December 7, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Woke late today. All meals were offset about 4 hours from normal. Yet I'm packing it in at a "reasonable" hour. Sleep tight everyone. Don't let the bed bugs bite...without consent.
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Ok wait I have a subversively optimistic frame on this though
Think about how easy it is to smuggle human-centered measurement into this when no one's looking and you have this expansive tool budget 😎 technical people have cultural and organizational power to shape what's seen in technical work
Think about how easy it is to smuggle human-centered measurement into this when no one's looking and you have this expansive tool budget 😎 technical people have cultural and organizational power to shape what's seen in technical work
It's frankly astonishing the billions of dollars wasted in on new software and tools in service of various initiatives, without first ensuring the organization can accept and handle change.
Especially because making change is literally what goes into working on software.
Especially because making change is literally what goes into working on software.
Learning culture moderates how software organizations adopt tools and the implicit rules we're giving developers want what they can do, experiment with, push back on, and share.
And software has spent years dismissing it in favor of sloppy ad hoc velocity benchmarks
And software has spent years dismissing it in favor of sloppy ad hoc velocity benchmarks
December 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Ok wait I have a subversively optimistic frame on this though
Think about how easy it is to smuggle human-centered measurement into this when no one's looking and you have this expansive tool budget 😎 technical people have cultural and organizational power to shape what's seen in technical work
Think about how easy it is to smuggle human-centered measurement into this when no one's looking and you have this expansive tool budget 😎 technical people have cultural and organizational power to shape what's seen in technical work