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Nice to see reports like this relating to patient care written in relatively plain English that patients could understand and with an Easy Read summary too 👏 . Report doesn't paint a great portrait of the emergency departments in hospitals where I live. Would be interested in finding out how other countries address some of the problems we experience in delivering urgent and unscheduled care in health. Things like patient waits and flow in ED.

healthcareimprovementscotland.

www.healthcareimprovementscotland.scotNHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Emergency Department Review: March 2025 – Healthcare Improvement Scotland

LB: Are you fucking kidding me? GNU ed, getting shat up with options and commands it doesn't need? --loose-exit-status is the latest to maybe sometimes don't exit 1 on errors? z to read $LINES and have a whole new paging command? Like you can't do that by .,+20n already‽

MY FUCK if GNU keeps up ed will be ex and vi and then emacs! IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT‽ ANOTHER GODDAMNED EMACS BUT NOW CALLED ED‽ SCRIPTING IN EDSCRIPT! EDORG MODE! FUCK!

When Elon Musk ordered a government-wide email blast directing federal employees to list their recent accomplishments,
most senior officials paused to consider their options.

In the Justice Department, US attorneys around the country discussed the matter over an email list they share,
with many deciding to seek more guidance before instructing career prosecutors on how to respond.
One questioned whether the email was even real.
But , an acolyte of Donald Trump named interim US attorney for the District of Columbia, charged ahead.
“It’s legit and we’ve already replied,” he told his fellow US attorneys. “Great leadership.”

Just 33 minutes after the Office of Personnel Management directive hit inboxes,
Martin urged lawyers under him to comply,
though he suggested they respond carefully.

“DOGE and Elon are doing great work!” Martin wrote in one of his frequent communiques to hundreds of assistant US attorneys and support staff.

“We are happy to be participate.”

Martin has announced investigations into his own staff for their role in January 6 cases
and has volunteered to support Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Orwellian “Weaponization Working Group,”
which purports to take aim at abuses of the justice system during the Biden administration.

Martin has threatened former special counsel Jack Smith and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
and has used X to indicate plans to investigate administration critics.

He has even tried to leverage a dubious criminal probe to seize climate grant money awarded by the Biden administration.
motherjones.com/politics/2025/

Mother JonesEd Martin is trampling the rule of law. And he won’t shut up about it.Trump's loyal prosecutor is weaponizing the DOJ—one typo at a time.

Okay, #BASIC is not for me. It has too many GOTOs per typical program. I have several ideas on how to handle that (macros, indentation styles, labels), but why should I care if the system itself just doesn't scale? Unlike #Lisp and #ed, there's no meta-evaluation and extension points. If I were to pick BASIC, I'd have to stay with just that—BASIC. And BASIC is not the best language by modern standards (said a passionate Lisper 😜)

I'm considering #BASIC as my next Turing tarpit to write #ed in. But I can't even seem to find good tutorials on it, let alone ones that aren't heavily implementation-dependent. What kind of subset can I use that will be portable across implementations? No idea. It sucks not having a standard for a language.

* Technically, there are two standards, Full BASIC and SmallBASIC, but both were abandoned in favor of Microsoft BASIC. And now I can't even find a reference for original MS BASIC!