Futurology Today

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https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6F3sCPmocAQDMNRNg7TZZb

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/walmart-recalls-its-frozen-shrimp-in-13-states-citing-potential-radioactive-contamination

I'm trying to start my own lemmy instance, and reading through the documentation at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/federation_getting_started.html it looks like we need to manually search for just about everything that can be found on other lemmy instances.

It works. I'm able to search for communities/comments/posts and then my instance will load only that community/comment chain/post and only after I've searched it. No updates.

Is this what we're supposed to be doing? Seems pretty tedious to have someone that's supposed to go to other instances and then search for all of their content on my instance in order to federate with it.

I have a feeling there is an easier way, but I'm legitimately not seeing it.

Right now, it looks like the only way users on my instance will get to see content from other instances is if I manually search for just about everything they'll get to see.

I can write a crawler to automate all of this, but I'd rather not unless it's completely necessary.

Hey just wondering if anybody has any experience in a decentralized cloud storage solution. Pretty much just a personal replacement of Google, Apple, and Dropbox services. I’ve been doing some research and it seems like a cool technology that I have not heard about until I went looking for it. So just wanted to know if anyone had experience with it, the pricing, and which one they recommended. Thanks you.

I have been using thiserror, and somtimes snafu, for error handling in libraries and anyhow for error handling in applications.

This blog post describes a new library, Stackerror, that looks interesting. The post also gives a good overview of error handling in Rust.

I just realized tonight all those years as a kid coming home from school to play Warcraft3 and, in it, Jaina Proudmoore being the relateable girl a little older than me had profound effect on me. I hadn't even really thought about it until accidentally generating an image of her tonight, realizing i'm really attached to her, looking at my childhood realizing 90% of my free energy was in warcraft3 with jaina the one relateable character, and refreshing myself on her history a bit to realize there are parallels between her story and mine in all sorts of areas and that i turned out highly magical with a tendency to leadership just like her. lots of me tonight being like 'omg im basically jaina'

anyway, i realized tonight jaina was my main childhood rolemodel. who was yours? do you see their effect on you like i do with jaina?

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A federal judge in Miami late on Thursday ordered the closure of the Trump administration’s notorious “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration jail within 60 days, and ruled that no more detainees were to be brought to the facility while it was being wound down.

The shock ruling by district court judge Kathleen Williams builds on a temporary restraining order she issued two weeks ago halting further construction work at the remote tented camp, which has attracted waves of criticism for harsh conditions, abuse of detainees and denial of due process as they await deportation.

In her 82-page order, published in the US district court’s southern district of Florida on Friday, Williams determined the facility was causing severe and irreparable damage to the fragile Florida Everglades.

State Street, a Boston-based custody bank with $49 trillion in assets under its watch, is pushing deeper into digital assets by joining JPMorgan’s blockchain-based tokenized asset platform Digital Debt Service as the first third-party custodian.

The first transaction State Street anchored was a $100 million tokenized commercial paper issuance by the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC), a Singapore-based banking group, according to a Thursday press release.

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Toronto (Canada) (AFP) – Canada's measles case count has passed 4,500, with the western province of Alberta -- which has about five million people -- recording more cases this year than the United States, figures updated Thursday showed.

World Health Organization data released this month show Canada accounts for about half of all the confirmed measles cases across the Americas region this year.

Canada officially eradicated measles in 1998, but the virus has stormed back, particularly among unvaccinated members of certain Mennonite Christian communities.

The most populous province of Ontario, which has about 16 million people, has recorded 2,366 cases, according to federal government data updated this week, which put the national case count at 4,638.

Alberta's government, which releases its weekly figures on Thursdays, said it had registered 1,790 cases, making it the hardest-hit area per capita.

The United States, confronting its worst measles epidemic in 30 years, has confirmed 1,375 cases, the Centers for Disease Control said this week.

The Pan American Health Organization, WHO's regional office, said this month that 71 percent of confirmed cases occurred in unvaccinated people, with an additional 18 percent among people whose vaccination status was not known.

Canadian experts have pointed to several factors driving the outbreak, including the proliferation of vaccine misinformation.

Canadian physicians have criticized US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has spent decades spreading false information about vaccines.

But the bulk of the Canadian epidemic has occurred among Anabaptist Christian communities -- of whom Mennonites are one -- where vaccine hesitancy is historic.

The beginning of the outbreak has been linked to a Mennonite wedding in the eastern province of New Brunswick.

Outside of Ontario and Alberta, which have larger Mennonite communities, cases have been isolated, with British Columbia the third-hardest hit province with 190 cases.

The only suspected measles-related death in Canada during the 2025 outbreak was that of a newborn baby whose mother was unvaccinated, but officials noted the baby was born pre-term and had other medical conditions.

Remember folks, America is above corruption and money has no influence on public policy. This is democracy baby!

Close personal friend of House Speaker Mike Johnson and purveyor of racist lies Republican Rep. Clay Higgins is back on his unhinged social media game, threatening to block all federal funding to the New Orleans Health Department because it is promoting the use of vaccines and accusing city health officials of being sorcerers.

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the decidedly anti-science Higgins. Back in September 2024 Higgins got in a very stern talking to from his “dear friend” Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise after he posted wildly racist lies about Haitian people online. Later that year he threatened his colleagues in the House, part of a long history of often-racially motivated threats and violence.

After seeing a Health Department post promoting the need for kids and adolescents to get the COVID-19 vaccine, Higgins took to X to drop some of his patented pearls of wisdom.

Higgins called vaccines a “state sponsored weakening of the citizenry, absolute injury to our children and calculated decline of fertility” before threatening to block federal funds from the department and the “writhing band of sorcerers” who work there.

Higgins anti-sorcerer rhetoric is surprising. In the past Higgins has claimed his wife practices some form of magic that allows her to see the future – though as far as we know, none of her visions have actually come to pass.

New Orleans' Health Department has long been one of the only bright spots in city government, using science to help protect citizens from infectious diseases.