Chris Kubecka
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It's still #caturday where I am, so here's a throwback pic to the day I adopted Misha and Henry. They now both weigh in at around 17 pounds, but they're still just as adorable as they were when the nice foster lady took this picture of us.
For those of you wondering about stablecoins, John Naughton (Observer, but no paywall for this article) sets out a summary of the political economy of their development, drawing a parallel with the petro-dollar move that cemented the place of the dollar as the world's reserve currency.
Of course currently there are many aspirant stablecoins, but as he points out, given the tech sector trends to monopoly, at some point a dominant stablecoin will be clear.
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Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.Servo
"Nederland, dat eigenlijk óók een Engelstalig land is" say what?
nos.nl/artikel/2594484-nederla…
Nederland populaire bestemming onder Amerikanen die de VS willen verlaten
Een groeiende groep Amerikanen vertrekt naar Nederland. Ons land is een populaire bestemming, mede dankzij een verdrag tussen de twee landen uit 1956. Daarnaast proberen ook meer Amerikanen hier asiel aan te vragen.Brian van der Bol (NOS Nieuws)
European Commission Welcomes Political Agreement on Major Reform of EU Pharmaceutical Rules
The European Commission has welcomed the political agreement reached between the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament on a comprehensiveBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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✨ Your Social Anxiety Wrapped, 2025 Edition ✨
You avoided people 397 times this year (but to be fair December isn't over yet).
You relived an embarrassing moment from 30 years ago 6 times.
You forgot 13 people's names, or maybe 14, who knows?
You attended 1 parties this year, and left early for 1 of them.
It's been 76 seconds since you checked your phone.
15 people are looking at you RIGHT NOW.
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Why does Trump hate Europe? – The Irish Times
United States president Donald Trump has described Europe as “weak” and “decaying”. A strategy document published by the White House states that theBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Libcom: **Fuck Off! pilot issue (1982)**
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Fuck Off! pilot issue (1982)
"A fanatical magazine for Wales" produced by Ian Bone in 1982. Contents include: repression of Welsh nationalists, against the right to work, CND = the campaign for real warfare.libcom.org
Geraint
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •An interesting read, but I find the conclusion unconvincing. The clear analogue to oil is electricity, not GPUs.
And even if it were GPUs, Taiwan leads on chip fabrication, not the US.
But, in the digital era, I think judicial certainty and consistency of policy is more likely to be a deciding factor for international business transactions.
In a transaction between two non-US actors, given a choice, who in their right mind would choose to loop the US into that transaction now?
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
in reply to Geraint • • •@drgeraint
yes, the last point is key - the pivot away form the US may undermine Naughton's conclusion(s)