House Dem aide arrested for bringing ammunition to Capitol (Andrew Solender/Axios)
axios.com/2024/12/02/morelle-a…
memeorandum.com/241202/p49#a24…
brand new combining diacritics dropping soon in Unicode 17, to be used for transcribing rare historical uses, and even more so for really tryhard conlangs!
#linguistics #unicode #conlang
This autumn, Ukrainian defenders have significantly reduced russia’s ability to spread terror.
In 3 month, Ukrainian defenders destroyed:
◾️877 tanks
◾️2,609 AFVs
◾️3,287 artillery systems
◾️79 air defense systems
Source: Ministry of Defense of #Ukraine
SPARC & @AuthorsAlliance recently released a paper on the Federal Purpose License. It’s part of a series about legal issues surrounding #OpenAccess to scholarly publications under the 2022 Nelson memo.
Click here to read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
OpenAI explores advertising in its AI products.
In an interview with the Financial Times, OpenAI’s new CFO Sarah Friar said that the startup was considering an ads model and it planned to be “thoughtful about when and where we implement” ads.
In a statement following the interview, though, Friar added:
> “While we’re open to exploring other revenue streams in the future, we have no active plans to pursue advertising.”
You Can Actually Smell the Incense, Rainy Meadows and Musty Cloth in These Pre-Raphaelite Paintings
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/you-can-actually-smell-the-incense-rainy-meadows-and-musty-cloth-in-these-pre-raphaelite-paintings-180985553/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Beyond the obvious lack of credentials on his recent selections, Trump’s decision to lean into his family to staff the executive branch is an alarming choice by a politician who banged pots and pans claiming that investigations into his misconduct constituted a banana republic.
#OpenWrt One: A Repairable #FOSS Wi-Fi 6 #Router From #BananaPi
Source: news.itsfoss.com/openwrt-one/
Built with user control in mind, the OpenWrt One is designed to be open and unbrickable, with a switch to separately flash the NOR and NAND portions of the flash memory. This allows anyone to recover their router quickly, even if one of the #firmware partitions is corrupted, enabling easy flashes and unmatched customization potential.
#Linux #wifi #freedom #Software #Hardware #news #project #OpenSource #network #internet
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Does Waze use #OpenStreetMap data? I made some very specific #OSM changes that have showed up in Waze fairly quickly. The Waze website does not provide attribution to OpenStreetMap:
Starting to build out proper documentation for @codeenigma's 'ce-provision' tool:
github.com/codeenigma/ce-provi…
Early days, but feedback welcome.
Also, writing clear docs is really hard.
On pardons, smartglasses, an authoritarian administration, and a case of the Cyber Mondays (Alexander B. Howard/CIVIC TEXTS)
civic-texts.ghost.io/on-pardon…
memeorandum.com/241202/p46#a24…
Statement from President Joe Biden on Omer Neutra (The White House)
whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/s…
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J.K. Rowling harasses African soccer player for not being womanly enough - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/j-k-rowling-harasses-african-soccer-player-for-not-being-womanly-enough/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah says it has fired “defensive” warning shots at the Israeli army, in response to ceasefire “violations” that killed and wounded civilians.
Defence Minister Israel Katz says Israel will have a “harsh response” to Hezbollah’s fire after the Lebanese group said it fired a “warning defensive response” into an Israeli military site.
Israel has violated the ceasefire agreement 73 times since it came into force last week.
not only that, but the creativity and perverse delight on display by western leaders explaining how the rules apply to everyone… except you know there’s this special exception you know and we couldn’t possibly… sigh.
Once the house of cards collapses I’ll be here with the popcorn.
Eugene McParland 🇺🇦
in reply to Eugene McParland 🇺🇦 • • •💬 "Peace is the reward only for those who are strong. Thus, there is no alternative to a strong Ukraine."
- Ministry of Defense of Ukraine