#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:
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.
arstechnica.com/science/2024/0…
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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.
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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.
Coder by day, DJ by night 😎 🎵
Pony is about to bring the 🔥 this #DjangoConUS!
#Django #Djangoconus2024 #Python #stickers #sneakpeek
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 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
I'm other news, McDonald's considers spinning off its hamburger making operations
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
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New post: Micropayments History🪙
Hey, remember that period when there were a ton of online 'coins' that people are trying to make happen & big companies got involved & even talked about standardizing? Do you remember that time... in the mid to late 90s?
Wow 😳 so buying kiddie porn is on now.
Huw Edwards given six-month suspended jail sentence for child abuse image offences - follow live - BBC News
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