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“You have a problem that is really not an engineering problem, but people were insisting on using an engineering mindset to solve it." -
c.im/@cdarwin/1131396999723194…


“In 1975, two people tried to kill Gerald Ford in less than three weeks.
Amazingly, Ford didn't try to rile up the country, inflame America's anger - or try to fundraise off it.
But that's back when we expected more of our national leaders.”
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I miss when UIs looked like this. everything you can interact with immediately jumps out at you because they're prioritizing visual clarity over aesthetics - and yet it is still strangely beautiful in its own way
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There's always Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) for a modern KDE 3.x fork.

I've been meaning to try it out.

KDE 2.x *was* pretty sweet, though. ☺️




This tells us how National Review editors talk about Black people among themselves.

RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sefgp…



"The study revealed that the light reflected from the mirrors was more than 70% of incoming ambient light at midday in some cases. This boost in available light energy led to profound plant responses, as seedling survival increased more than 160% and growth in plant height increased more than 170% in one of the experiments"

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1…



Beeindruckende Grafik in @derStandard

Die Regenmengen der letzten Tage in #Wien im Vergleich zum "Jahrhunderthochwasser" 2002.

#WienerFlut #Hochwasser #Klimakatastrophe



‘I deeply lost myself’: Women raped during Newcastle bucks party describe trauma byteseu.com/425079/ #Australia #Sydney



An interview about Oath, the site I'm using to donate to Dems this cycle. It targets underfunded swing races, and it DOESN'T give my contact info to campaigns. Their website is app.oath.vote . An Algorithm to Stop Democratic Donors From Wasting Their Money politi.co/49oasbL via @politico

An Algorithm to Stop Democrati...



De Partij voor de Dieren maakt wereldnieuws! Dankzij het aangenomen voorstel van onze Haagse fractie wordt Den Haag de eerste stad ter wereld die fossiele reclame wettelijk verbiedt. Een prachtig succes! Nu we laten zien dat dit kan, kunnen vele steden wereldwijd het voorbeeld gaan volgen.

Het verbod geldt vanaf 1 januari 2025 voor reclame voor fossiele producten en diensten zoals vliegvakanties, cruisevakanties, benzineauto’s en gasaanbieders.

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visionOS 2 introduces a new system overlay for accessing home and control center that involves making a pinch gesture and rolling one's hand over. Read more about how to avoid conflicting with that interaction in the updated HIG Gestures page:

developer.apple.com/design/hum…



He voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020. He was a huge fan of using an executive order to stage a coup after Trump lost the last election. He was a covid denier, among other whacko conspiracy theories.

He apparently soured on Trump because of his stance on Ukraine.

The right is going to blame “the radical left” but, once again, this was one of their own.

#USpol



The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end—is being destroyed. - Hannah Arendt, German philosopher and historian, from her essay “Truth and Politics,” published in the February 25, 1967 issue of The New Yorker.
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Umm... Wow... Political censorship forces Manchester Royal Exchange to cancel it's entire production of Midsummer's Night Dream... Palestine and trans rights were the politics involved.

manchestereveningnews.co.uk/wh…

#UKPol #queer #palestine



Yesterday's #OSSEU 24 Keynote: @torvalds in Conversation with @dirkhh: youtube.com/watch?v=OM_8UOPFpq…

See also a write up from @sjvn:

'"Linus Torvalds muses about maintainer gray hairs and the next 'King of Linux'

Live from Vienna, it's the Linus Torvalds and Dirk Hohndel show! This time, they're talking RTLinux, #Rust, maintainer burnout, and succession planning.'"

zdnet.com/article/linus-torval…

#Linux #LinuxKernel #Kernel #LinuxTorvalds #Rustlang

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