What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist On Revolution, ch. 2, sec. 5 (1963)
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La cultura pop del dopoguerra, dalla radio alla TV, agì come un potente catalizzatore per l'emancipazione femminile, trasformando il privato in campo di battaglia politico.
This makes me realise that it's about 4 months too late to photograph the sun reflecting off the windows of the university sports centre and creating a halo around the toilet roll holder of the bathroom in the house we're moving out of.
Very special astronomical event today: sciencedepartmenthenge, when (specifically at lunchtime) the Sun shines through a shoebox sized window in the biology store, through the 10cm window in the door, and the whole way down the corridor through small windows in the fire doors. Plus it's extra special: the last one before we move to a new school and the current one is demolished.
A nighttime photograph depicts a residential street scene shrouded in thick fog. Several two-story buildings with multiple windows are visible, some of which have lights illuminated inside. Streetlights cast bright beams of light that are partially diffused by the fog, creating a hazy glow around them. A white van is partially visible on the left side of the frame, near a dark hedge. The buildings appear to be made of brick or similar material, and their architecture is fairly uniform, suggesting a planned development.
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A decent string is ending with IT: Welcome to Derry finished, and Plur1bus (Pluribus) almost there, after a decent (better than the last two) season of Slow Horses and Down Cemetery Road, The Pitt, a much better than the first season of Peacemaker, and more recently, and this year, generally.
Yeah, The Pitt's back, as are some of my filler shows, but catching up on good stuff I've missed will be a good way to fill in the gaps that seem to be imminent in my viewing options.
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- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year - Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate") - Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma") - Is all-in on AI
That’s exactly the kind of bingo profile the whole community has been waiting for.
otoh five years ago I said "things could not possibly be any worse for Mozilla " after the then-most-recent CEO bonus millions plus mass layoffs thing then, and it turns out I was super wrong I guess.
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In case helpful, @librewolf (still Firefox but without all the bloat, and tuned for privacy) has been a revelation for me.
About the only change I've made for security reasons that actually immediately made my life easier, since it already had all the settings I wanted set as default, and they have stayed that way.
@loptimist @brouhaha I wouldn't expect anything from private enterprise to respect my privacy - and being closed source means there's no reasonable way to verify any claims either. If open-source and privacy-respecting are your two metrics, you'd still be much better off with Firefox.
@Cwiiis @brouhaha True, but I wouldn't automatically trust open-source project either, telemetry being a major concern for privacy. For Firefox, I'm using forks but I didn't read the code nor patches to ensure that everything is fine and dandy. Trustworthiness stands until it didn't I guess.
@dalias @loptimist @brouhaha this - also, I trust the process by which Firefox is developed (not implicitly; I worked for Mozilla for 6 years) to put my privacy first for the most part, and for when it doesn't, for that to be flagged by enough people that I'll know before I'm running it
The bearded man sitting before the Unit 504 interrogator answered questions patiently and in considerable detail. Several days of interrogations had passed
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