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#bookerprize2024 #Shortlist has been announced:
Percival Everett, James

Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

Anne Michaels, Held

Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

Charlotte Wood, Stone Yard Devotional
#literature #bookstodon @bookstodon @books

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Pacman 7.0.0 Will Now Download Packages as a Separate User to Improve Security #Pacman #Archlinux #Security #Linux
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Not sure why Govt.s seem to like 'fiscal rules' (in the way that Rachel Reeves likes them)?

Here's @sjwrenlewis exploring the issue to conclude that no fiscal rules are often better than badly conceived (or deployed) fiscal rules.

In the end fiscal rules are not about convincing financial operators that a Govt. is prudent (these actors already know one way or the other), rather it is often a self-denying ordnance to try to halt policy temptation(s).

#economics
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in reply to TC Won't Give In To Lies

@silentfp

In one sense, the deployment of fiscal rules is a classic case of agenda setting power - by getting them to seem like 'common sense' those using/prompting them get to narrow the agenda of possibility in a way that limits political choices that can be seen as sensible or prudent - which SWL hints at, if doesn't make absolutely explicit in these terms

in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May

@TCatInReality @silentfp But this does sound a bit conspiritorial. It can happen, but often I think politicians adopt or maintain bad fiscal rules because of what I have elsewhere called mediamacro: incorrect analogies between governments and households that political journalists love to use, mostly not because they have an agenda but because it allows them to think they understand macro.


Tonight in @thegamerclub We're running a Selfhosted night

"Join us for a regular monthly show-and-tell showcasing what members are hosting in their homelabs."

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Find us on Matrix too at #tech:glasgow.social

#glasgow #opensource #selfhosted




#waspassiertmitdemKlima

Um die unglaublichen Regenmengen während der regionalen #Klimakatastrophe in Niederösterreich zu veranschaulichen, hier ein paar Zahlen und eine Grafik von der Messung in der Landeshauptstadt Sankt Pölten:

Zwischen 9. und 16. September 2024 fielen 436 Liter Regen pro Quadratmeter.

Normalerweise fallen in einem September 54 Liter.

Das bisherige Monatsmaximum lag bei rund 190 Liter.

436 Liter sind die höchste jemals in einem Monat gemessene Regenmenge an der Station.



Jacob Rees-Mogg’s attacks on working from home were ‘bizarre’, says Labour - theguardian.com/law/2024/sep/1… "Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds says government is pressing ahead with plans for new flexible working laws" yeah, whatever happened to that weird man...?
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Glyn Moody
@sdarlington but it is striking how he has completely disappeared...there was nothing there



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La nomination de Nicolas Vanbremeersch comme chef du pôle communication à Matignon fait jaser à l'Elysée, tant l'homme s'est montré féroce envers Macron sur Twitter X: "Le couple Macron a-t-il fait des plans à trois avec le nervi?", écrit-il par exemple en pleine affaire Benalla. De quoi permettre à Barnier d'affirmer une certaine indépendance face au président? La politique est un théâtre... lalettre.fr/fr/action-publique…

#Politique #Twitter #SocialMedia #Matignon #Barnier #Macron #Benalla

in reply to Nils Wilcke

à peine arrivé et avant même de rentrer dans le dur, l'homme du compromis s'est dejà mis la cour du monarque à dos ?

Ça serait trop drôle que Barnier se fasse censurer par les macronistes...



River otter attacks child on dock and pulls them underwater - boingboing.net/2024/09/16/rive… perhaps they have been talking to the orcas...


Gestern konnten sich die meisten aus unserem weitverteilten twillo-Team mal wieder persönlich treffen. In Hannover haben wir die Weichen für die nächsten spannenden Entwicklungen im Projekt gestellt. #IdeenSchmiede 💫 #OERde #OER


Letzten Freitag, am 13. September, feierte das
@b_freie_bildung seinen 10. Geburtstag! #happybOERThday 🎈🎈

Und da ein Tag feiern irgendwie zu wenig ist, wird das zehnjährige Jubiläum noch weiter gewürdigt:

▷mit einer Abendveranstaltung auf unserem zukünftigen 🔥OERcamp in Essen

▷mit einem Workshop auch auf dem OERcamp
👉oercamp.de/24/essen/
sowie mit einer

▷Videoreihe: 10 Wünsche für die nächsten 10 Jahre BFB
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#OERde #bildung
@wikimediaDE






Patreon backer Alexander brings you this special episode all about D&D's deadliest monster -- but it's actually all about folk celebrations and monster costumes.

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Heritage Foundation Admits KOSA Will Be Useful For Removing Pro-#Abortion Content… If #Trump Wins - techdirt.com/2024/09/16/herita… another reason to bin #KOSA


Let's be crystal clear: this shit doesn't stop at pregnancy and abortion. The precedent being set here is a ticking time bomb for digital privacy and civil liberties across the board. It's the legal equivalent of a universal skeleton key, and once that door is unlocked, every aspect of our digital lives is up for grabs.

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