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That photo of people wearing 'Nebraska Walz's for Trump' shirts? They're distant cousins (Steve Karnowski/Associated Press)

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Heavy rain is moving across... the Sahara Desert? 🤔

Mali and Mauritania are experiencing unusually high levels of rainfall right now.

This may be one reason why the Atlantic has had so few hurricanes so far. Tropical waves, which often develop into hurricanes, have not been emerging as strongly from central Africa... 🧵

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@gueuledatmosphere Ah! Yes, this is the ICON model.
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite Yes, it was expected to be a hyperactive season. There’s still time…


It is the considered opinion of the #WashingtonPost Editorial Board that American oligarchs should be allowed to foment fascist insurrections in South American countries and then ignore any efforts by the governments of those countries to hold them accountable for it and prevent it from happening again. 🤦
I guess that's pretty consistent with historical U.S. foreign policy. 🤷
#politics #USPol #ElonMusk #Brazil #AmericanExceptionalism #TrumanDoctrine #KennedyDoctrine #X #Twitter
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“Follow the money” as the Post used to say. WaPo sees its own increasingly rightward tilt - in the interest of increasing “engagement” to profit from - potentially threatened. All speech, including intentional disinformation, must be protected speech in their view (as long as “journalists” are the gatekeepers and can lazily continue to use X for their reporting.)


Mobile phones are not linked to brain cancer, according to a major review of 28 years of research - Via @TheConversationUS - theconversation.com/mobile-pho… - Glad to see this one put to bed.

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It’s hard to move an #OpenSource project beyond hobby status. Julia Machado shares her ideas on how to do it. opensource.net/demystifying-op…



It's official! "The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first release candidate of PostgreSQL 17 is now available for download...

The planned date for the general availability of PostgreSQL 17 is September 26, 2024."

postgresql.org/about/news/post…

#PostgreSQL #Postgres #technews #opensource #foss #database #databases #developer #dba #sql



Firefish is going away. What's notable, to me is how common the things in Naskya's goodbye message are for #OpenSource maintainers of popular things: no help for maintenance, or future features, abuse because some devs think it's ok to threaten & insult maintainers when they don't like something about their FREE software.

Open Source Maintainers are people. They need help, support, and respect if you want them to be able to keep making the thing you want them to make.

info.firefish.dev/notes/9xsukr…



Und noch einmal was zu Nemo: Das Menü lässt sich über Bearbeiten/Einstellungen/Werkzeugleiste anpassen.
Hilfreich finde ich "Im Terminal öffnen" - damit wird der aktuelle Ordner im Terminal geöffnet.

(Klappt natürlich auch über das Kontextmenü - aber wenn man einen Klick sparen kann ... ;-) ).

#linux #terminal #nemo



New Report From Bay View Analytics: Survey Results Show U.S. Higher Ed Faculty Increasingly Reliant on Digital Course Materials infodocket.com/2024/09/05/new-… #OER #textbooks


💬 #Fediverse-Service-Information

Falls ihr ALLE Postings lesen wollt, aber nicht alle Accounts abonnieren möchtet, die mittlerweile auf social.bund.de vorhanden sind, dann abonniert einfach:

👉 @instance-social.bund.de



I still #AmReading Madhulika Liddle's "An Unholy Drought" and this comment from one of the characters shows the writer having fun with history.

"Perhaps, a hundred years from now, no one will even remember the name of Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar"

Not one hundred years later, but nearly FIVE hundred years later, Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar is of course, well remembered. As in this catchy panegyric from Jodhaa Akbar
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#HindiCinema

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Les pluies historiques au #Niger causent l'effondrement de la plus ancienne mosquée de Zinder.

Du fait du réchauffement climatique, certaines zones du Sahara ont reçu l'équivalent de plusieurs années de pluie en quelques heures.

rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20240904-nig…

#inondations #climat

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"For the past week [Trump] has been telling a story about a residential building in Colorado taken over by a gang from Venezuela. But it appears the story is entirely made up. Similarly, Trump on Friday said at a right-wing Moms for Liberty event that public schools in America kidnap children and operate on them to change their sex."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #crime #BigLie #immigrants #MomsforLiberty #trans #Putin #disinformation
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@MoiraEve Thank you. I'm glad to know it was helpful.



We have raised almost £15,000 in our campaign to fund our menopause exhibition when arts and heritage funders will not. Will you join more than 300 people in creating the cultural space around menopause that's been missing for millennia? gofundme.com/f/r9tszw


Harris or Trump? The Prophet of Presidential Elections Is Ready to Call the Race. (New York Times)

nytimes.com/2024/09/05/opinion…
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@KamalaHarrisWin For those wishing to not give the NY Times their clicks or eyeballs, Lichtman's model predicts a Harris victory.

cnbc.com/2024/09/05/harris-tru…



GOP slur. “Democrat” is a noun, “Democratic” is an adjective.

“Sen Joseph McCarthy helped popularize the term.

Over the decades, Democratic party became assoc w liberal policies, & eventually, “the ‘Democrat party’ slur became condemnation of liberalism itself”..Phrase was huge hit in 90s & 2000s; Gingrich, Limbaugh & GW Bush played it on repeat. By following decade, Trump was mandating the word: “The Democrat party. Not Democratic. It’s Democrat. We have to do that.”
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I was convinced St. Joe was awful, but didn’t realize how evil until listening to Rachel Maddow’s Ultra season 2.

Appalling we don’t teach that history as a cautionary tale about the frailty of democracy.

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@geos they think it bothers us. Ha!


Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more "nontechnical nonsense"

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…

Discussions: discu.eu/q/arstechnica.com/gad…

#linux #technology #unix

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I feel this will become more of a problem as time goes on and C devs that are stuck in their ways and unable/unwilling to work with other tech will cause Linux to loose quality developers for other, possibly upcoming OSs, like Redox