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Five stars: The Worst Ronin by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Faith Schaffer (Illustrator) (2024) is an odd page turner about two young women saving a village and sticking it to the man. Although the graphic novel is set in a pre-car, pre-train Japan, cellphones, television, the internet, and computers exist. It feels like a modern companion piece to Oh Edo Rocket.

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#TikTok was in court today to overturn a U.S. law that would force the video app to divorce from its China-based parent company or be banned.

It’s the latest development in a lengthy saga over the app that many politicians in Washington fear is a security risk.

But why is TikTok controversial?

Here’s a quick rundown of reads from #cybersecurity, #socialmedia and legal experts:

theconversation.com/tiktok-ban…
#news #technology



Archaeologists believe this Bronze Age board game is the oldest yet found

Origins of Hounds and Jackals , aka Fifty-Eight Holes , may lie in Asia rather than Egypt.

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Discovered 'A Frame Of Mind' by Kalandra from the Bandcamp feed.

kalandra.bandcamp.com/album/a-…

This is a very nice slice of Nordic prog-folk tending towards a big and heavy sound.

#NewMusic #Kalandra #Bamdcamp




scrcpy, a free tool for mirroring Android devices on computers, has released version 2.7 with gamepad support and enhanced frame rate control, for time-lapse videos for example. It also includes fixes for ONYX devices and upgrades to SDL 2.30.7 for Windows.
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Scripting News: How I cross-post to Threads. I move my linkblog posts to micro.blog via RSS, and it cross-posts to Threads via their API.

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Something that #TypeScript provides that I'm surprised I don't see more often in languages is the ability to declare a type as union of literal values. This handles 90% of the situations I want any kind of "enum" support in the language for, and it's arguably a lot cleaner than what I see most languages do.

Compare #Python enums and the fact that they're objects, heavyweight objects, and you aren't allowed to subclass / extend an enum definition because their membership in the class describing them is part of their identity as enums. It's a mess when all I want is the ability to say "These three symbols, and only these three symbols, are valid as the input to this function."

in reply to Mark T. Tomczak

#Python has this too, in typing.Literal (docs.python.org/3/library/typi…). It's a handy feature and definitely underappreciated, although when I use it I do eventually wind up wanting an enum instead a decent fraction of the time.


In honor of Mexican Independence Day, I’d like to introduce you to painter/activist Frida Kahlo.

In her art she focused on inclusivity, culture, and indigenous rebellion against colonialism.

My favorite quote from her, which taps into deep regions of self-awareness and human consciousness:

“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”

More:
fridakahlo.org/

#MexicanIndependenceDay #Mexico #FridaKahlo #Painter #Activism #Latina

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@Caiotekit nice! Her work is def amazing. I only learned about her earlier this year. I’m fascinated by her life journey and her work.
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Reasons recorded for worker absence on this 3,200 year-old ancient Egyptian attendance register include ‘brewing beer’, ‘stung by a scorpion’, and ‘embalming brother’! 🤯

Written in Hieratic Script. From Deir el-Medina. More info: britishmuseum.org/collection/o… 📷 @AlisonFisk

#Archaeology

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the gen Z of that age just wanted an excuse for slacking!


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BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, announces quarterly dividend increase and new share repurchase program

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

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$MSFT was up green in after hours on the news.

To see all $MSFT news, check Unusual Whales.

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