#PPOD: Scientists think six icy moons in our solar system may currently host oceans of liquid water beneath their outer surfaces. Arranged around Earth are images from NASA spacecraft of, clockwise from the top, Saturn's moon Enceladus, Jupiter's moons Callisto and Ganymede, Neptune's moon Triton, Saturn's moon Titan, and Jupiter's moon Europa, the target of NASA's Europa Clipper mission. Shown to scale. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/University of Arizona/DLR
South Africa's cannabis bill now essentially means that private citizens can no longer be prosecuted for growing and consuming a limited amount of cannabis for recreational purposes β so long as it is grown and/or consumed within the confines of their own private property.
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South Africa Becomes the First African Country to Partially Legalize Cannabis - UNICORN RIOT
South Africa's new cannabis laws have legalized medical and recreational cannabis use in "private spaces," but still bans recreational sales.D (UNICORN RIOT)
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I'm reminded of the incredible, historic, extremely progressive changes that Biden made to the way regulations are developed -- which he got no credit for & now Trump will destroy.
The wonky but incredibly impor...
The wonky but incredibly important changes Biden just made to regulatory policy
An obscure-but-powerful federal agency called OIRA has issued a new set of rules and guidelines for how other federal agencies should develop new regulations.David Roberts (Volts)
Endangered and exceptional: New insect species highlights Kosovo biodiversity hotspot
A new species of caddisfly, Tinodes lumbardhi, was found in a sidestream of the Lumbardhi i Deçanit River in Kosovo's Bjeshkët e Nemuna National Park.Pensoft Publishers (Phys.org)
So #Trump βsuggested there could be a place in American politics for the Proud Boys and Oath Keepersβ?
America teeters on the brink of something profoundly wicked.
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Trump's first full day back in White House includes firings and an infrastructure announcement
President Donald Trump is spending his first full day back in the White House meeting with congressional leaders, announcing an investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure and demonstrating one of his favored expressions of power: firing peoβ¦MICHELLE L. PRICE (AP News)
Don't even need commentary.
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Musk says media racist to whites, Asians amid βDilbertβ backlash
Billionaireβs claim comes amid backlash against βDilbertβ creator Scott Adams over comments about Black people.Al Jazeera
How fast can a train go?
The world speed record, which still stands, was set by a French train Γ grande vitesse (TGV) in 2007, when it topped out at 574.8 km/h (357 mph).
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Just re-upping this fantastic explainer thread, on how an EO cannot just rename an international body of water, and we need to stop describing patently illegal EOs as "doing" the things they legally cannot do. And if any big international corp (Apple, Google) buckles, hope other countries push back
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Find your LGBTQIA+ groups in your town. Find out when they're meeting and lend support.
Everything flows... food, housing, medicine, immigrant rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, religious rights...
...your rights.
Now is the time to find and join and build community.
We're here. We're organized. We're acting.
You need to join us.
I watched with great interest this retelling of the development history of X Window by Keith Packard from back in 2020.
Among the many nuggets of wisdom one can glean from this presentation is the selfish and ultimately self-destructive struggle between Sun, DEC, HP, and others in establishing a dominant Unix windowing system. Instead of solving the *developer* problem of writing software that can run on a large number of workstations, they quickly took the successful (and open) X11 implementation and each subverted it to βbuild their castle walls tallerβ. By refusing to cooperate to serve their primary customers, they left the market wide open for Microsoft Windows to take over.
This retelling seems oddly parallel to todayβs oligarchs refusing to care for their societies, which approximately equals their customer base. By mistreating and underpaying their workers, they destroy the very consumer buying power their companies need to survive.
#tech #history #unix #XWindow #windows
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βBy mistreating and underpaying their workers, they destroy the very consumer buying power their companies need to survive.β
The capitalists are so eager to fire their workers, but who will be left to buy their shit?
Welcome to #TransTuesday!
Let's talk 2024 trans rep in movies!
Features discussion of Ghostbusters Afterlife, I Saw the TV Glow, Lisa Frankenstein, Monkey Man, Next Goal Wins, The People's Joker, The Substance, Transformers One, and many more!
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Trans Representation in 2024 media part 1: movies - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays
Welcome to Trans Tuesday! Over the course of 2024 I tracked every movie and tv show I watched as itβs time for TILLYβS 2024 TRANS REP IN MEDIA, part 1: MOVIES! Letβs talk the good, the bad, and the oh god not again! Okay, this is going to be a three-β¦Tilly Bridges (Tilly's Trans Tuesdays)
this week we begin our deep-dive into trans rep in tv, and thereβs so much to talk about itβs gonna take two weeks to get through
hereβs last weekβs part 1 on movies if you missed it!
Trump orders all federal diversity, equity and inclusion employees placed on paid leave starting Wednesday (NBC News)
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Trump orders all federal DEI employees placed on paid leave starting Wednesday
The Trump administration also directed government agencies to draw up plans for firing workers in DEI roles.ZoΓ« Richards (NBC News)
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