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Haaland would make a great governor for the Land of Enchantment, and is the embodiment of so much that is New Mexico. axios.com/2024/12/17/deb-haala…
#NewMexico
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory

Plato's cave allegory is a timeless journey from darkness into light, igniting a quest for truth in a world awash with shadows.

By Viktoriya Sus

thecollector.com/hidden-meanin…

The Republic by Plato at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/1497

#books #literature #philosophy

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Jira is a proprietary well known data stealing software engineering project management tool. Why not use open source #redmine. Does a pretty good job. May the #foss be with you. #floss

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Trump tells Europe his administration will continue military support for Ukraine – FT byteseu.com/580942/ #trump #Ukraine #USA #War




"86% of open source contributions are employee time" is corporate speak for "We're helping by letting our engineers do the work!" 🤓

Study shows $7.7B annual OSS investment, but companies are fuzzy on tracking details. Probably because "vibing on GitHub" isn't an official timesheet category 😏

#OpenSource #Technology

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I was this many days old when I realized that #python includes the possibility of an "else:" block for for loops, that executes only when you haven't used "break" to escape the loop. #adventofcode


If you're interested in the @furilabs #FLX1 Linux phone, make sure to check out the Furilabs Forum (furilabs.com/forum/), the Matrix Chat (matrix.to/#/#FuriLabs:matrix.o…) or the Telegram chat (t.me/furilabs_chat).

#linuxonmobile #linux

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Short sleepers cruise by on four to six hours a night and don’t seem to suffer ill effects. Turns out they’re genetically built to require less sleep than the rest of us.

Learn more about this in our recent article republished by Scientific American.

scientificamerican.com/article…

#KnowableMagazine
#ScienceMastodon



Victims of forced sterilization in California prisons often weren’t given a choice, says Jennifer James, who works with these women. “They were told they had cancer but they didn’t have cancer, and they were told the only option was a hysterectomy.” boltsmag.org/forced-sterilizat…
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$35K compensation/reparations to victims seems insultingly low. And then to deny 80% of the applications. Insult to injury


China pledges support for Serbia’s sovereignty, development – World byteseu.com/580938/ #Serbia



Okay, having read Google's proposed remedies in its antitrust case, they seem to me deeply unserious. For one thing, it completely bypasses the concept of user choice in favor of manufacturer or vendor choice. For another, "multiple defaults" is a meaningless notion. If The Goog comes as a default, so it will remain.

blog.google/outreach-initiativ…

Full PDF here: storage.googleapis.com/gweb-un…

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@AAKL Or is ready to believe the DOJ's proposals are quite the overreach.
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Toxic flame retardants could face sweeping EU ban.

A class of substances intended to stop plastics catching fire and used in anything from smartphones to sofas could be the next family of chemicals subject to blanket restrictions in the EU amid fears over their health and environmental impact. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

euronews.com/my-europe/2024/12…