Luke

technology is cyclical

[Luke @BLukeBlack]

[doing the time-compartmentalization trick halfway through the work week] okay just 15 minutes 80 more times

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Very good reporting from the NYT in Cuba: “Elsewhere in the hospital, doctors and nurses dashed to ventilators that were pumping air into the lungs of sick newborns. The machines’ battery systems died years ago, so health workers have to squeeze a rubber pump to keep the babies breathing until the generators start to work.

“With fuel running so short, the gas generators may be only a temporary savior. Nurses in the hospital’s neonatal unit said they already have plans for a fully powerless hospital: swaddle newborns in blankets and put them back into dead incubators, hoping they stay warm enough to survive.” https://t.co/YToe81Q1Ao

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @hum_dunkin]

The usa is a theocracy but in true American excess its ruled by catholics and protestants and mormons all at once

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

If you want a sense of how dire the situation is in Cuba now, here is a list of the measures the Cuban president says the nation has started taking to try to keep people in nursing homes and hospitals alive while Trump and Rubio choke the island of essentials, which the Cuban government is now referring to a "genocidal blockade" -- which is absolutely will be if it is allowed to persist.

Cuba is not at war with anybody yet we are starving them...because why? Because Marco Rubio wants to?

From the office of the Cuban presidency:

This Friday, measures adopted by the country’s leadership were announced in response to the nation’s current situation, amid the intensification of the #GenocidalBlockade.

⚡| Energy Sector
•Prioritize available fuel for essential services: public health, water supply, food production, defense, and hard-currency-generating activities.
•Continue and accelerate the installation programs for solar photovoltaic parks and solar modules for households.
•Speed up the delivery and installation of solar modules sold to Health and Education workers.
•Install 5,000 solar modules in isolated homes and plan an additional 5,000 for social centers (nursing homes, children’s homes).
•Expand incentives for the installation of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in companies and households.
•Concentrate core administrative activities from Monday to Thursday.
•Adjust fuel sales to the public until the situation normalizes.
•Continue developing domestic oil production.

🚚| Transport Sector
•Ensure fuel for port and airport operations, imports/exports, and the transport of vital cargo (food, fuel, medical supplies).
•Reduce the Nueva Gerona–Batabanó ferry frequency to two trips per week (Tuesdays and Saturdays).
•Extend the frequency of national passenger trains to once every 8 days (starting February 8). Temporarily suspend other rail services.
•Reduce national bus departures, maintaining a basic daily service from Havana. Suspend the waiting list service.
•Offer full refunds within 30 days for tickets for canceled services (rail or maritime).
•Maintain guaranteed Medibus services (for patients) and transportation for students and teaching staff.
•Reorganize local public transportation according to fuel availability in each territory.
•In Havana, establish a new transportation service specifically for Health personnel.
•Strengthen the electric mobility strategy: install solar charging stations and distribute electric vehicles.

👩‍🏫| Education Sector (General Education)
•Prioritize early childhood: maintain the operation of daycare centers (possibly with reduced hours).
•Maintain in-person classes in Primary Education with flexible schedules, allowing early dismissal due to transportation needs.
•For Lower Secondary, Pre-University, and Technical Education:
•Implement blended-learning or condensed schedules (by days or subject blocks), decided locally.
•Give special attention to grades marking the start and end of cycles (e.g., 7th and 9th grade, 12th grade).
•Temporarily redistribute enrollment from some IPVCE schools to urban pre-university schools.
•For students in the final years of technical/pedagogical programs, shift to a training model in schools near their homes, with periodic in-person sessions.
•Resume and adapt the “essential content” experience used during COVID-19.
•Accelerate the delivery of solar panels to teachers.

👨🏾‍🏫| Higher Education Sector
•General transition to blended learning, adapted by degree program and university.
•Transport students back to their provinces of origin.
•Support teaching activities through institutions in the student’s territory (CUM, branch campuses, workplaces).
•Strengthen faculty in municipalities by relocating professors from central campuses.
•Use telework as the main modality, with limited ICT support due to the energy situation.
•Prioritize strategic research and development projects remotely.
•Ensure completion of studies (final exams, thesis defenses) for students close to graduation.
•Reorganize the admissions process for Higher Education.
•Postpone the “University 2026” event.

👩🏿‍💻| Labor and Social Security Sector
•Issue no new labor regulations, applying existing contingency rules.
•Promote telework and remote work modalities.
•Adjust work schedules according to the needs of each workforce.
•Reassign workers to key economic activities or areas of social interest.
•If necessary, apply temporary work interruption with guaranteed pay equivalent to the basic salary during the first month.

🚜| Food and Water Sector
•Increase food production at the territorial level, prioritizing productive hubs with the greatest potential.
•Promote alliances among all forms of productive management (state and non-state) to address commercialization and prices.
•Use Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in food production.
•Allocate fuel to guarantee essential water pumping.
•Concentrate industry on producing and supplying chemical products for water treatment.

➕| Other Sectors
•Tourism: Design a plan to reduce energy consumption and consolidate facilities, taking advantage of the high season.
•Culture and Sports: Make adjustments to programs and activities.
•Science, Technology, and Environment: Guarantee resources for early warning systems.
•Special Education: Do not modify its operation; create a special scheme to guarantee services due to its high sensitivity.

[Luke @BLukeBlack]

@ByYourLogic He realized that jestermaxxing is actually peak fun and the new meta

[Millenarianism Identifier @facebookvillain]

"the fascists can never-" my brother in christ you are watching apple tv+

[Luke @BLukeBlack]

@BIMBOMINDSET My favorite parts are the 4 minute long dive and when he keeps showing off his watch that's displaying a different time than the video says.

[Luke @BLukeBlack]

Pantry full of David, cellar full of Josh

[Luke @BLukeBlack]

The golden path..

[pennipotentum @spinozylvannian]

Chinese international student in my class was telling me about how his evangelical dad in Beijing believes that Trump was chosen by god to win the election, but that this victory is part of a larger divine plan to destroy the united states

[Rohan Talbot @rohantalbot]

This story has been confirmed by a number of survivors and yet it hasn't made even a ripple in the international news.

[chris @DinarDeal4Vets]

yes it’s an evil country full of hitlers

[Luke @BLukeBlack]

Lmao

[Charlie Spiering @charliespiering]

Kamala Harris to Liz Cheney: 'I also want to thank your father, Vice President Dick Cheney, for his support and what he has done to serve our country.'

[Luke @BLukeBlack]

Pet peeve of mine is when people say something is "over" a small and easily quantifiable number. "I've been there over 5 times." What, 6 times? Actually 5 times but you want it to sound like maybe more?

[Don Hughes @getfiscal]

They are not scared or afraid, they are the bad guys.

[Luke @BLukeBlack]

@dylancoleblack No but I will let you know if I ever use it

[Luke @BLukeBlack]

@Riley_Gaines_ You're not in the Olympics because you're too slow!!

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures.

https://t.co/HaRTAvTvVI

[Luke @BLukeBlack]

It's genuinely crazy how like 80% of incoming phone calls are spam now.

[Ben Rosen @ben_rosen]

*seeing an alley cat* i fucking hate this guy’s morals

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

jimmy carter, god only granted you one term for a reason. your country and your party need you again.