#programming monitor

[wardingshout]

the Zelda timeline ??? yeah I know about it

[chappellland]

Oh, I... I wish I was with you. Lisa Frankenstein (2024) dir. Zelda Williams.

[scipunk]

The Matrix: Resurrections (2021)

[wynandcore]

Scars. ooohhh Scars.

[ando666detonao]

hi, your art is REALLY good. Id like to know, what program do you draw on and what brushes do you use?

i mostly use Sai2, but at times i goof around with csp if i want fancy lineart, animate or use gradient maps

here are the setup for my main brushies^^

i also use lineart2 for shading, some of them have specific textures so just dm me and i'll hand you the files no prob👍

[tumatawa]

My windows 10 computer themed to Vista ^^ Very happy with it

[rozzywell]

hey what if in the acid pit scene in junk yard dog KITT was still checking how Michael was doing because he was showing signs of distress

Aough. Thinking about him monitoring Michael's vitals and such via the comlink specifically. I'll be real I don't remember if it even works like that but I don't care. "I need your help and am calling out for you and doing the closest thing I can to physically making contact (essentially grabbing at your wrist) but neither of us can actually do anything and the only thing my readings are telling me is that you're just as scared about it as I am." OKAY!!!!!

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alejandra Caraballo at Erin In The Morning:

Early last fall, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Dallas pediatrician, Dr. May Lau for providing gender-affirming medical care to teens. The lawsuit accused Dr. Lau of prescribing testosterone to “at least 21” minors between the ages of 14 and 17, in an alleged defiance of a new state ban on providing gender affirming care to trans youth. Lau’s medical license is now on the line under Texas Senate Bill 14, which prohibits hormone therapy for transgender youth and requires the state medical board to revoke any doctor who violates it. Within weeks, Paxton’s office filed similar suits against two more physicians, branding them “scofflaws” and “radical gender activists” for treating adolescents with puberty blockers and hormones. By February, Paxton boasted that he had effectively shut down these three doctors’ ability to practice: two agreed to stop treating patients entirely, and a third is under court injunction barring any care for trans youth. Paxton’s lawsuits are the first enforcement of Texas’s new transgender health restrictions. What is not immediately apparent is how it is a striking example of how government officials can weaponize private prescription records to target anyone they want. At the heart of these cases lies a statewide database that quietly logs every controlled substance dispensed to Texans: the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program ("PDMP"). The database enabling this crackdown was never billed as a tool for political persecution. PDMP's were originally established in the 2000s to combat the opioid epidemic and “doctor shopping” for narcotics. Every U.S. state and territory now maintains a PDMP – an electronic registry of controlled substance prescriptions, typically Schedules II through V, that doctors and pharmacies are required to report. Testosterone, classified as a Schedule III controlled substance, is automatically tracked in the PDMP database. Although the attorney general’s complaints do not spell out how these physicians were caught, the detailed counts of their hormone prescriptions and the fact that virtually all of the patients were transmasculine points to the usage of the PDMP to find providers still prescribing hormones to trans youth. The reason for this is that estrogen is not a controlled substance and is not subject to PDMP surveillance. The PDMP itself is administered by the Texas State Board of Pharmacy. Within the system run by regulators, authorized personnel can query exactly which providers are prescribing a given drug, and even filter by patient age or other criteria. Paxton’s investigators appear to have combed through Texas’s pharmacy records for evidence that certain doctors continued providing testosterone to minors after the ban took effect, evidence they are now using to sue the providers and strip their licenses.

[...]

From Opioid Tracking to Dragnet Surveillance

In theory, PDMP's allow physicians to spot signs of addiction and help authorities flag illicit prescribing practices and abuses by patients and doctors. In practice, PDMPs have evolved into something much broader. From a recent law review article by Jennifer Oliva in the Fordham Law Review, she describes how modern PDMP platforms “collect a litany of sensitive, prescribing-related information about every monitored prescription drug” and increasingly about other medications as well. Oliva goes on to say that what began as a targeted public-health database has morphed into a “dragnet” of personal health information. PDMP datasets typically include patient details, medication dosages, refill schedules, and identifying information for the prescriber and pharmacy. In nine states, the PDMP entry even contains the diagnosis code (ICD-10) associated with the prescription. That means a police officer scrutinizing the file could directly see why a person was prescribed a drug. In states like Tennessee or Florida, which track diagnoses, a record showing testosterone cypionate accompanied by an ICD code for “gender dysphoria” would immediately telegraph that the patient is transgender. As is often the case with law enforcement surveillance tools, PDMPs have proven susceptible to mission creep, Oliva writes, noting that most state programs now track not only opioids but “all controlled substances as well as non-controlled ‘drugs of concern.’” In other words, a system built to catch illicit OxyContin refills has quietly become a mechanism to monitor any number of treatments – from anxiety medications and stimulants for the treatment of ADHD to testosterone for gender transition. Crucially, this vast trove of prescription records exists in a legal gray zone outside standard medical privacy protections. The questions about HIPAA compliance typically come up when I've discussed this subject. However, once a pharmacy uploads your data to a PDMP, that information is no longer covered by HIPAA privacy rules. Instead, each state dictates who can access the PDMP and for what purpose. Unfortunately, law enforcement agencies have lobbied hard for access.

[...]

Gender-Affirming Care and Reproductive Health in the Crosshairs

The Texas cases underscore how PDMP surveillance can be aimed at politically charged medical care. But gender affirming care isn’t the only area of concern. The same prescription databases could be used to monitor and punish those seeking reproductive care or other stigmatized treatments. After the overturning of Roe v. Wade, states that outlawed abortion began exploring new avenues to track and prevent medication abortions. Their task is made easier by the sheer scope of PDMP monitoring. Ultimately, the PDMP effectively becomes a shortcut to gleaning some of the most sensitive details of a patient’s health status. While Abortion medications like Mifepristone are not federally scheduled controlled substances, and thus not routinely logged in PDMPs yet, Louisiana recently classified the abortion medication Mifepristone as a controlled substance, which could now be tracked by Louisiana's PDMP and might be flagged with a code indicating miscarriage or abortion. But many states vest their pharmacy boards with power to add any drug to the PDMP’s watch-list as a “drug of concern,” without legislative approval. Conceivably, an anti-abortion regulator could designate abortion-inducing medications or other reproductive treatments for tracking, instantly pulling them into the surveillance dragnet. The targeting of gender-affirming care is thus part of a much larger pattern. It exemplifies how data collected for one purpose – public health and patient safety – can be repurposed for surveillance and social control. 

Alejandra Caraballo wrote in Erin In The Morning wrote about Texas AG Ken Paxton (R)’s data privacy-invading accessing of prescription records to attack reproductive health and gender-affirming care.

[danganronpasurvivoraskblog]

-The World's most Multiversal DND Party!-

(featuring @danganronpasurvivoraskblog, @a-student-out-of-time, @finalverse and @despair-to-future-arcs)

[MORE INFO UNDER CUT]

//So there were a lot of talks about the main protagonists of mine and three other well-known Danganronpa ask blogs forming a DND part together on Mod Bubbles blogs, and as an artist, and a major DND fan, I could not resist.

//My little autistic cogs in my little autistic brain got turning and I basically made full on character sheets for all four main protags of each of the blogs; Kuripa from Survivor, Hajime from ASooT, Nagi from NWPM, and Aliza-chan from Finalverse

//I won't post the full sheets because I don't know how many people would want to see that, plus it's a shitton of information that I just don't want to bother with. But outside of the character cards above, here's a brief summary of every character in this "AU" shall we say.

Hajime - The party leader. Was once a young boy who never stood out, but gained the gift of a prophecy that showed him a dark future wrought by dark lord Junko Enoshima. Now with the power to reset himself every time he dies, the number of times depicted in his magical left eye, he dedicates his life to the journey of stopping the prophesized dark future. Sometimes he can be a bit cold and distant, always acting like the fate of the world rests squarely on his shoulders despite his teammates by his side, but he is capable, kind and a true leader.

Aliza - Aliza has a power with a similar origin to Hajime, which gravitates her towards him, and eventually is the founding reason she becomes his ally. Unlike him however, power is that to see and explore other universes parallel to theirs, where everything can be different, and she struggles to control it. The goal of her journey is to learn to use her power for good, and to escape the lofty expectations and cruelty of her family. She's a little bit clumsy and inexperienced as a result, with her wild magic sometimes landing her team in deeper trouble than they were originally, but she always means well and if nothing else, serves as the heart of the group.

Kuripa - He was originally a well-known artist and sculptor who lived a quiet life until a rogue in a steel mask raided his village and murdered his sister. For those who frequent this blog, you know how this story goes. He dedicated the rest of his life to hunting down the murderer, learning black magic arts and becoming a blood hunter, willing to sacrifice anything and anyone, including his own body, if it meant achieving his goal. He's a bit of a loose cannon and more violent than his peers when it comes to executing plans, much to Hajime, Aliza and Nagi's chagrin, but it's made up for in the fact that when he gets the job done, he REALLY gets the job done, and it makes them glad that he's an ally and not an enemy.

Nagi - Nagi was an Aasimar who was the guardian of a realm in the sky known as "Neo World" until she was attacked by Junko Enoshima's evil paladin right-hand, Mukuro Ikusaba, who was ordered by Junko to kill her and bring back a part of her body to show that she'd finished the job. After this encounter, Nagi miraculously survived, but Mukuro successfully tore her wings from her body. Nagi joins the party out of revenge, and despite her trauma, is still the most mentally sane member of the group, acting a lot like a team Mom of sorts.

//I'll also but transparent renders of the characters here if that tickles your fancy. Thank you for letting me pour my little nerd heart out.

[a-student-out-of-time]

Name: Yuna Ouma Birthday: June 19th, 2024 Height: 116 cm Weight: 19 kg Pronouns: She/Her Orientation: Undecided Likes: Good Health Dislikes: Yogurt

The daughter of Komaru and Hirota, Yuna could best be described as a complete and utter cinnamon roll. While she often acts mature for her age, having picked up plenty of therapist terminology from her father, she's yet to really grasp what it means. Nevertheless, she's very sweet and tries to help people whenever they seem down.

Her parents met while Komaru was 21, in her second year of university and Hirota was a licensed therapist. He'd been feeling a bit burned out and Komaru decided to help cheer him up, which led to them becoming friends and later to a romantic relationship.

While her family had some reservations about it, given that Hirota was already in his mid-20's, he swore Komaru's happiness was important to him and he'd never hurt her. He ultimately got along well with the family, and waited until Komaru had graduated and found a career to propose to her.

They got married in early 2020 and later had Yuna. She's had a pretty normal childhood, with her dad still working as a therapist and her mother a wedding planner who's also a spirit medium on the side.

Although she's also claimed to have "friends" that nobody else can see...

[gwydionmisha]

This harms everybody.

[supersmew]

something something lost media is everyones responsibility to preserve

[kiki-mimi222222222]

I can't stop play Portal 2, help

Translation:

(Pavel: I understand, that for idiot, like you, expensive equipment is hard concept to understand - but for Flynn's sake, STOP CRUSHING MONITORS!!!)

(Tesler: Funny, I thought, the only idiot here is you, Pavel)

[scipunk]

Devs (2020)

[computerwarrior]

@program-monitor

"my head ...."

Ark rushed over to the program, "Hey, are you okay?"

[starbuck]

dude, i met another trans guy on the bird walk today and we were chatting and lowkey flirting and it was so much fun and i wanted to give him my number, but i gave him my WORK EMAIL email instead. 🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼