cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38457017

As director of the New River Health Association Black Lung Clinic, Emery’s seen guys as young as 45 getting double lung transplants as disease rates soar among miners forced to dig through more rock filled with deadly silica to reach the remaining coal — far worse than the dust their grandfathers inhaled.

A rule approved last year by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration would cut the federal limit for allowable respirable crystalline silica dust exposure by half to help protect miners of all types nationwide from the current driving force of black lung and other illnesses.

But, now, it’s in jeopardy amid other Trump administration cutbacks and proposals targeting workers’ health and safety guardrails: Stuck in a politically charged environment that promotes industry, with lawmakers arguing to change it and the federal agency that wrote the rule not pushing to enforce it. Some angry retired miners with black lung are fighting back, demanding that Donald Trump honor promises he made to the people who voted him in.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52583440

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The Dutch government is ready to shelve the ministerial order that gave it the power to block or change key corporate decisions at Nexperia, if China allows exports of its critical chips again, according to people familiar with the matter.

“Given the constructive nature of our talks with the Chinese authorities, the Netherlands trusts that the supply of chips from China to Europe and the rest of the world will reach Nexperia’s customers over the coming days,” Dutch Economic Affairs Minister Vincent Karremans said in the statement.

https://archive.is/Jvmnn

The Dutch government is ready to shelve the ministerial order that gave it the power to block or change key corporate decisions at Nexperia, if China allows exports of its critical chips again, according to people familiar with the matter.

“Given the constructive nature of our talks with the Chinese authorities, the Netherlands trusts that the supply of chips from China to Europe and the rest of the world will reach Nexperia’s customers over the coming days,” Dutch Economic Affairs Minister Vincent Karremans said in the statement.

If you ever tried the infamous "Update and shut down" option in any Windows build, it often leads to a reboot instead to an actual shutdown. Now, Microsoft has finally fixed this issue starting with Windows 11 25H2 Build 26200.7019 (or 26100.7019 on 24H2). According to the Windows Latest, Microsoft has shipped this broken functionality way back with Windows 10, and has never fixed it since. However, the Windows teams working behind the update have finally managed to ship a working solution with a note stating in Windows 11 experiences that the new build: "Addressed underlying issue which can cause "Update and shutdown" to not actually shut down your PC after updating."

China's most advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian, has entered service days after a grand commissioning ceremony overseen by Chinese leader Xi Jinping, state media said.

The Fujian, the country's third warship, is equipped with electromagnetic catapults which will allow planes to be launched at higher speeds.

Its launch marked a significant step forward for Beijing, which now has the world's largest navy in terms of sheer number of ships.

China has been expanding its navy at breakneck speed under Xi, putting pressure on the United States and its allies to keep up.

Pyongyang has been steadily accelerating the pace of weapons testing in recent weeks. Analysts believe the recent rise in tests is because Seoul plans to construct a nuclear-powered submarine in the US.

Finished Fire Emblem: Three Houses !

Well, the first route any way.

Bought the DLC after that, to try the DLC classes and added features, but it said you have to play the DLC before you can use the DLC features in main game, so started that now. I think you only need to complete Chapter 1 or 2 for that, but since I have started it, going to complete it before switching back to next route in main game.

DLC is much tougher than the main game, the battles are much longer, and you have limited money, so you have to be careful about weapon durability too. Also, you can certify for any other class, though you can switch between the couple that are already unlocked for each character.

Played a bit of Hyrle Warriors: Age of Calamity. Finished another main mission. Slowly playing through it.

Tried Dimension Drive for a bit and kept dying in that platforming section, I have realised this twitchy reflexes gamesplay isn't for me anymore, so officially dropping it too. I still have a list of shmups I was recommended here, so will try a couple of more (Dimension Drive wasn't from the recommendation list), but it is feeling like it's not a genre for me.

Again no Judgment this week. Plan to get back into it this weekend, let's see.

What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?

The industry keeps echoing ideas from bleak satires and cyberpunk stories as if they were exciting possibilities, not grim warnings.

In a recent article published in the New York Times, author Casey Michael Henry argues that today's tech industry keeps borrowing dystopian sci-fi aesthetics and ideas -- often the parts that were meant as warnings -- and repackages them as exciting products without recognizing that they were originally cautionary tales to avoid. "The tech industry is delivering on some of the futuristic notions of late-20th-century science fiction," writes Henry. "Yet it seems, at times, bizarrely unaware that many of those notions were meant to be dystopian or satirical -- dismal visions of where our worst and dumbest habits could lead us."

You worry that someone in today's tech world might watch "Gattaca" -- a film that features a eugenicist future in which people with ordinary DNA are relegated to menial jobs -- and see it as an inspirational launching point for a collaboration between 23andMe and a charter school. The material on Sora, for instance, can feel oddly similar to the jokes about crass entertainment embedded in dystopian films and postmodern novels. In the movie "Idiocracy," America loved a show called "Ow! My Balls!" in which a man is hit in the testicles in increasingly florid ways. "Robocop" imagined a show about a goggle-eyed pervert with an inane catchphrase. "The Running Man" had a game show in which contestants desperately collected dollar bills and climbed a rope to escape ravenous dogs. That Sora could be prompted to imagine a game show in which Michel Foucault chokeslams Ronald Reagan, or Prince battles an anaconda, doesn't feel new; it feels like a gag from a 1990s writer or a film about social decay.

The echoes aren't all accidental. Modern design has been influenced by our old techno-dystopias -- particularly the cyberpunk variety, with its neon-noir gloss and "high tech, low life" allure. From William Gibson novels to films like "The Matrix," the culture has taken in countless ruined cityscapes, all-controlling megacorporations, high-tech body modifications, V.R.-induced illnesses, deceptive A.I. paramours, mechanical assassins and leather-clad hacker antiheroes, navigating a dissociative cyberspace with savvily repurposed junk-tech. This was not a world many people wanted to live in, but its style and ethos seem to reverberate in the tech industry's boldest visions of the future.

Hiya,

Recently upgraded my server to an i5-12400 CPU, and have neen wanting to push my server a bit. Been looking to host my own LLM tasks and workloads, such as building pipelines to scan open-source projects for vulnerabilities and insecure code, to mention one of the things I want to start doing. Inspiration for this started after reading the recent scannings of the Curl project.

Sidenote: I have no intention of swamping devs with AI bugreports, i will simply want to scan projects that i personally use to be aware of its current state and future changes, before i blindly update apps i host.

What budget friendly GPU should i be looking for? Afaik VRAM is quite important, higher the better. What other features do i need to be on the look out for?

In a moment that feels both hopeful and yet falls short, Ms Rachel has been named a Glamour Woman of the Year for 2025.

Like me, anyone with a pre-school aged child will most probably have already held Ms Rachel as a personal hero and extended member of the household, but her unabashed and constant advocacy for the Palestinian cause in recent months — particularly for the plight of the children in Gaza — has catapulted her from beloved children’s star to one of the most consistent critics of Israel’s bloody genocide in an industry of figures who default to silence in the name of staying apolitical.

Yet while this moment deserves celebration, it also prompts reflection on the gap between symbolic recognition and the hard, irreplaceable and much less glamourised work of justice and liberation.

After all, the very same media outlets that might now be jumping on the bandwagon to praise Ms Rachel’s support for Gaza have themselves long been perpetuating the very narratives that have allowed Israel’s oppression of Palestinians to reign for decades.

The blanket acquiescence that Western mainstream media affords to Israel has been a critical tool in the manufacturing of consent for occupation and genocide, and honouring Ms Rachel’s bravery doesn’t replace media platforms themselves doing the work to hold Israel to account.