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latestagecapitalism·Late Stage Capitalismbyflango

What it's like to have the machine that keeps you alive die while you're on vacation

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.

What it's like to have the machine that keeps you alive die while you're on vacationhttps://blog.lauramichet.com/what-its-like-to-have-the-machine-that-keeps-you-alive-die-while-youre-on-vacation/Open linkView original on lemmy.eco.br
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asklemmy·Asklemmybyflango

Is "AI slop" enough?

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?

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news·Newsbyflango

‘Dying of thirst’: Inside Gaza’s al-Mawasi water crisis

[...] At the same time, human rights organisations warn that the crisis is no longer merely a byproduct of war but has taken on a systematic nature.

According to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, “the lack of clean drinking water has become a matter of life or death” for civilians.

UN experts have also argued in a letter in July 2025 that what is happening goes beyond a conventional humanitarian crisis and falls within the use of essential resources as a tool of pressure.

The experts said the issue was not limited to infrastructure destruction, but also included cutting supplies, restricting fuel entry needed to operate water facilities, and obstructing repair and maintenance efforts.

“Israel’s blockade and destruction of civilian infrastructure has left most of Gaza’s two million residents displaced and without access to the minimum vital amount of drinking water,” the experts said.

This recurring pattern, combining direct targeting with sustained restrictions, has led to a deliberate reduction in the amount of water available to the population.

The UN experts warned that the “use of thirst as a weapon” has become a reality in Gaza, stressing that “cutting water and food is a silent but deadly bomb”.

‘Dying of thirst’: Inside Gaza’s al-Mawasi water crisishttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/7/dying-of-thirst-inside-gazas-al-mawasi-water-crisisOpen linkView original on lemmy.eco.br
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technology·Technologybyflango

Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

There have been a lot of complaints about both the competency and the logic behind the latest Epstein archive release by the DoJ: from censoring the names of co-conspirators to censoring pictures of random women in a way that makes individuals look guiltier than they really are, forgetting to redact credentials that made it possible for all of Reddit to log into Epstein’s account and trample over all the evidence, and the complete ineptitude that resulted in most of the latest batch being corrupted thanks to incorrectly converted Quoted-Printable encoding artifacts, it’s safe to say that Pam Bondi’s DoJ did not put its best and brightest on this (admittedly gargantuan) undertaking. But the most damning evidence has all been thoroughly redacted… hasn’t it? Well, maybe not.

Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachmentshttps://neosmart.net/blog/recreating-epstein-pdfs-from-raw-encoded-attachments/#more-5373Open linkView original on lemmy.eco.br
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