David Suffling

I wrote a short interactive article👆

It uses simulations to demonstrate how different cardiac arrhythmias can develop.

Try it out! (It has defibrillators ⚡️)

jenevoldsen.com/posts/excitable-cells

#medsky #cardiosky #cccsky #emimcc

A photo shows the banner saying "ACM Bulletin" across the top, adn then text that reads, "ACM Reaffirms Its Commitment to Our Mission and Core Values in All Our Scientific and Educational Activities ACM is aware that many in our community are concerned about potential negative effects of recent Executive Orders by the new US Administration on our work in both the US and globally. This includes concerns about possible consequences for ACM publishing, conferences, education, and practitioner efforts, as well as concerns about possible harms to our work on inclusion for a strong and diverse technology workforce. ACM reaffirms its commitment to our mission and core values in all our scientific and educational activities. This includes global scientific and educational efforts dedicated to advancing the art, science, engineering, and application of computing. We will continue to serve both professional and public interests by fostering the open exchange of information and by promoting the highest professional and ethical standards. ACM’s commitment to its mission, guided by its core values, is unchanged. We will work with members of the community to understand how new Executive Orders may affect their work as it relates to scientific, educational, and community development efforts."

Nice job, ACM! It's so great to see organizations voicing that diversity, equity, and inclusion are still core values.

#WomenInSTEM #Computing #WomenInTech #Diversity

A Conservative MLA Represented Herself as a Medical Doctor. She Isn’t | The Tyee Medical misinformation experts say Jody Toor’s credentials don’t stand up.

'“She’s a quack,” says Joe Schwarcz, director of the McGill University Office for Science and Society and professor of chemistry, who works to address medical misinformation.' via @michellegamage.bsky.social & @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/01...

The three main strategies for securing email are TLS (which is opportunistic, and not end-to-end); PGP (impractical for institutional deployment; ask me how I know!) and S/MIME (which I'm guessing doesn't federate well).

The funny thing is: I suspect the policies are all based on the (no longer correct) notion that fax goes over the public telephone system, and not the Internet.

Utterly bizarre — a legacy technology, long outdated, but remaining in use because of policies (mostly around security) and lack of a viable alternative (email with end-to-end encryption).

If there is a way to communicate with me that isn't calling me on the phone, please use that.

4% of dog owners _admit_ their pooch is not vaccinated against RABIES?!

Any dog out in public but unvaccinated against rabies should be (a) vaccinated or (b) put down.

The word "fraud" is not used even once in this CBC article about grocery corporations committing fraud.

It's been said many times, but many Canadians aren't getting it, so I'll say it again: it's not the carbon tax that is making food expensive, it's price gouging.

#cdnpoli #bcpoli #onpoli

CBC investigation uncovers grocers overcharging customers by selling underweighted meat | CBC News The problem of grocers selling underweighted meat and overcharging customers is prevalent and ongoing, a CBC News investigation has found.

PierrePoilievre says the high cost of food is caused by the carbon tax. How many Canadians know Poilievre’s Chief Advisor is a lobbyist for Loblaws?
CBC investigation uncovers grocers overcharging customers by selling underweighted meat. #cdnpoli #peipoli
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness' Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation.

NEW: Meta changed its Community Guidelines today to permit "allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality" @knibbs.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

It begins

I came here to say it. It had to be said.

A minimalist illustration showing a packaged charger box labeled "one Union one Charger." The box features an image of a blue charger with the European Union flag symbol and a USB-C cable. The scene is set within a holiday theme, with decorative Christmas trees, ornaments, and gift boxes surrounding the charger box. In the top right corner, there is a small EU flag symbol.

It’s time for THE charger.

Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging new mobile electronic devices in the EU.

It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need!

#DigitalEU

“Having All of Your Internal Resources Exhausted Beyond Measure and Being Left with No Clean-Up Crew”: Defining Autistic Burnout | Autism in Adulthood Background: Although autistic adults often discuss experiencing “autistic burnout” and attribute serious negative outcomes to it, the concept is almost completely absent from the academic and clinical...

We need more research on autistic burnout, as "Although autistic adults often discuss experiencing 'autistic burnout' and attribute serious negative outcomes to it, the concept is almost completely absent from the academic and clinical literature."

www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10....

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One difference between this and shooting a CEO on a NYC sidewalk is that the former is murder on a mass scale.

A second difference is that we chose as a society to prosecute one while excusing the other as an acceptable human sacrifice to capitalism, which is horrific. WTF is wrong with us?

Chart showing "Share of adults who say they believe select factors are responsible for Brian Thompson's death" with accompanying data: NORC at the University of Chicago; Chart: Axios Visuals

In US poll, 69% think insurance industry bears some blame for CEO killing www.axios.com/2024/12/27/b...

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Even setting all the other excellent arguments against cryptocurrency aside:

Why would you choose a payment method that takes 10 minutes to clear when purchasing a hot sandwich? 🙄

Speaking of shut the fuck up Friday, I’ve been seeing some people say that the FBI has contacted them for questioning after seeing social media posts, and my extremely urgent advice is that you should under NO CIRCUMSTANCES talk to the Feds without a lawyer.

No, we are working exactly as designed and intended.

On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image.

All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.

Code written with box characters used on old old software to make fake UIs

You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…

4-panel cartoon GENIE: I am the genie of the lamp. You have 3 wishes. PERSON: I wish everyone against abortion wakes up 7 weeks pregnant. GENIE: oh fuck, that's a good one. Damn. GENIE: You still have three wishes. That one's on me.

Be careful on the roads!

From what I've seen this evening, I'm guessing a good chunk of drivers are impaired to a greater or lesser degree.

Picture of the study "Income-based U.S. household carbon footprints (1990–2019) offer new insights on emissions inequality and climate finance" Link in thread

We're being cooked in our own juices so that a bunch of trust fund babies could sip champagne on a super yacht while we choke on the ashes