Elliot Gilman

YouTube video by Technology Connections You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

Everyone should be watching this all the way to the end.

Medicaid cuts could devastate elderly in Florida nursing homes What would happen if Florida no longer had the money to pay for senior care?

Yikes! “These aren’t just numbers on a spreadsheet — they represent real Florida families who could lose access to essential medical care,” “In Miami-Dade County, nearly three in five seniors rely on Medicaid.”
I don't expect Doge or most of Congress to empathize. 🤬

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New:

DOGE's spending has been secret.

No longer.

My colleagues have uncovered it.

www.propublica.org/article/doge...

NetEase raises fears it is unloading its overseas game properties, hurting U.S. gaming Chinese game companies may be forced to sell off their overseas holdings in U.S. game companies. That could cause an earthquake in gaming.

It's absolutely the last thing the industry needs this year. 😟

DOGE’s .gov site lampooned as coders quickly realize it can be edited by anyone DOGE site is apparently not running on government servers.

This is my surprised face 😐

SAVE Act Could Result in 34% of Female Voters Being Turned Away at Polls for Lack of Proper ID — Carolina Political Review While touted as an election security measure, the SAVE Act, has significant potential to disenfranchise American voters, especially married women. For a group of citizens who gained the right to vote ...

They are coming after Women's right to vote. If your name doesn't match that of your birth certificate, you could lose your right to vote. Contact your reps and give them another earful.

And now they want to ban DeepSeek, but there's nothing they can do to stop us from downloading these models. Not without first building a giant firewall around the U.S.

EA Origin is shutting down. Here's how to keep all your games safe If you ever used EA Origin to play games, you need to do this to avoid losing your games and data.

PSA- If you have games on EA's Origin and want to keep them, install EA's new app and log in using your Origin credentials.

Play CLASSIC games online Play the best DOS or classic console games here, in a web browser!

Great site to try out (or replay) some ol' skool games.

DHS terminated its advisory panel members, including several cyber security committees like CISA and the Cyber Safety Review Board. They were investigating the Salt Typhoon, a cyber attack on the U.S. Treasury. That investigation is now dead.😬

PSA to sky watchers: Jan 21 six planets will be in the sky in the northern hemisphere (Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus, Saturn). It will happen again on Feb 28, with 7 planets (Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury, Saturn). Rare alignment not seen in 100 years.

It looks like Rep. Biggs trying to get Handmaid Centers. "Whereas health care for women should also address the needs of men, families, and communities as they relate to women’s health care"

Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies Meta has promptly deleted several of its own AI-generated accounts after human users began engaging with them and posting about the bots' sloppy imagery and tendency to go off the rails.

This is a serious misuse of AI.

A Kid Made $50,000 Dumping Crypto He’d Created. Then Came the Backlash In less than 10 minutes, a US teen made a small fortune selling off a memecoin he’d made on a lark. Traders, feeling swindled, sought revenge.

The ol' pump and dump scheme has never been easier thanks to crypto. The site Pump dot Fun makes it so much easier though. 😵‍💫

A Bitcoin millionaire hid $2 million in treasure across the US. Here’s how to find them | CNN Inspired by his love for fantasy, Jon Collins-Black created “There’s Treasure Inside,” a book with hints leading to hidden treasure chests containing more than $2 million worth of prizes across the co...

That's a funny way to promote one's book.

It's sickening

Federal judge blocks Louisiana law that requires classrooms to display Ten Commandments Louisiana Attorney General Elizabeth Murrill says the state will ask a federal appeals court to quickly stay a lower court's order declaring unconstitutional a law requiring that the Ten Commandments ...

Stone v. Graham (1980): Posting the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms was found to violate the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, which bars government endorsement of religion.

The clowns keep trying to impose their region on others, especially the young.

The meme-ification of the "Demon Core" The strange transformation of a criticality accident into dark Internet humor

There's a meme for everything, so why not also the demon core?

Let's keep this ball rolling people!

it's official — 1,000,000 people have joined Bluesky in just the last day!!!

welcome and thank you for being here 🥳

The Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics for the first time The new Supreme Court code of conduct agreed to by all nine justices does not appear to impose any significant new requirements on them.

Their code of ethics is filled with "shoulds" and "mays", meaning this is nothing more than a vehicle to deflect scrutiny.

Las Vegas Sphere reports $98.4 million loss; CFO quits The Sphere in Las Vegas reported an operating loss of $98.4 million for the fiscal quarter ending Sept. 30, Sphere Entertainment Co. said this morning on an earnings call. Additionally, the company lo...

This thing looks cool but the business model might not support it.

The enormity of the fraud committed by Trump and family is astonishing.

This Impossible-Sounding Fallout 4 Speedrun Took Over 2,000 Hours After 415 attempts, streamer Vrexia has finally put an end to his no-damage, 100-percent challenge

I don't even know how this person didn't rage quit while trying to accomplish this. lol

Greedy mom roasted for emptying an entire bowl of Halloween candy A Texas mom and her family were caught on camera severely roasted on social media after raiding a massive candy bowl kept outside of musician Cody Tate's house yesterday

Adults continue to let me down. Teaching their kids to be greedy is really going to benefit the world.

"Stocks on Wall Street sank at the open on Friday after the US jobs report blew by expectations, as investors considered the possibility that it could sway the Federal Reserve's thinking on whether to hold or hike interest rates."

This is one messed-up timeline I'm on.

James Webb telescope makes 'JuMBO' discovery of planet-like objects in Orion The new space observatory sees pairs of Jupiter-sized objects floating free between the stars.

The James Webb telescope is simply amazing.

Devs learn rival Godot engine in a week just to mock Unity The result? Install Fee Tycoon

The devs are doing this for the lulz but also for science.

Whiteboard -> using ChatGPT. Love to know how reliable that is. :P