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BREAKING: Amazon, $AMZN, has told its employees to return to office 5 days a week.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

in reply to unusual_whales

Previously, Amazon CEO told employees to return to the office or their days may be numbered.

Read more: t.co/trL4HBzeoN

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options



“Our educational future is in the hands of voters on November 5th.”

Last week: Educators are calling for more funding, support, and a system that protects them. Removing the DOE would only perpetuate the problems. texasobserver.org/politics-sch…

#education #Project2025 #Trump #democracy #election2024 #Harris #politics #USpol #news #schools





Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thanks to Kristofer Hjelmtorp, Christopher Floess, and Seyed Sajad Kahani for assigning their copyright to the FSF! #GCC #Emacs More: u.fsf.org/3ht #CopyrightAssignments


Here's everything we know about the apparent assassination attempt on Trump


An agent spotted a rifle barrel poking through a fence; a witness got a photo of the suspect’s license plate as he fled. Now Ryan Wesley Routh is facing federal charges.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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A celestial trifecta: What to know about Tuesday’s lunar eclipse.

NPR reports on an event that will be visible in many parts of the world: flip.it/VKcjV5

#Eclipse #LunarEclipse #Moon #Astronomy #Space #Science



And yes, why are these disgruntled Trump voters who are insane, able to get guns legally? Because it was illegal before Trump, and yes, the first law Trump signed in 2017 as President made it legal for mentally ill people to get guns

The Republicans are a death cult

MAGA Make Assassins Great Again




"Live from the ‘Iggies’: Eight things you didn’t know about science’s wackiest night
At the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, tradition and humor take center stage" [Science magazine]
science.org/content/article/li…
in reply to Marc Abrahams

'Liao, who discovered that trout swimming in the wake of an object moved essentially the same if they were alive or dead.'

Unlike the science cited in the Nobel-Nobels, things like this remain in my brain ever after wonderful new knowledge. This year's looked good and fun - nice article!



It would be really cool if every operating system included a "help" command that printed some kind of help page that could take someone from absolute ELI5 noob to LEET shell scripter or even kernel developer without having to poke around on the web.

The closest I've seen to this is #OpenBSD which sends local mail to every new user that has an introduction and directs them to peruse Afterboot(8): man.openbsd.org/afterboot

in reply to R. L. Dane

$ man afterboot and $ help -- two more things that make #OpenBSD a great system




A Hong Kong man became the first person convicted under the city's new national security law after pleading guilty to sedition for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan. japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/09/… #asiapacific #crimelegal #hongkong #china #censorship



In the age of disinformation and propaganda, how can the average person know the truth.

The answer is NOT Google, #ChatGPT, or blogs.

Return to the respected sources of old - #printpunk - peer-reviewed, referenced books.

Such books stand the test of time.

read #booklovers



Good for the Congressional Black Caucus. They are reaching out to Haitian-American voters in a New York district currently repped by a Republican. nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elec…
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in reply to Heidi Li Feldman

My congressional district, NY-17, also has a large number of Haitians, and is also represented by a Republican, Mike Lawler. I hope our former Representative Mondaire Jones, who is challenging Lawler, also gets this kind of support.

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botocore.exceptions.ClientError: An error occurred (BadDigest) when calling the PutObject operation (reached max retries: 4): The Content-MD5 you specified did not match what we received.

The Content-MD5 header was generated by botocore (not me) and the file didn't change. What is happening? D': #Python #Amazon #AWS