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Alex Cocotas might just be the best living Anglophone writer about Berlin and its outcroppings thebaffler.com/salvos/break...
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Alex Cocotas might just be the best living Anglophone writer about Berlin and its outcroppings thebaffler.com/salvos/break...
un œuf is un œuf!!
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
French far-right leader hit on the head with an egg
Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
un œuf is un œuf!!
Every white dude is a “systems thinker”
November 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Every white dude is a “systems thinker”
AMA
Even with the inarguable threats posed by the Trump administration, many still see the idea of leaving the U.S. as an admission of defeat.
... But if you find yourself asking the question, some say “you probably are already in the space where you should be making preparations.” trib.al/p0m7HfZ
... But if you find yourself asking the question, some say “you probably are already in the space where you should be making preparations.” trib.al/p0m7HfZ
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
AMA
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Finally, Magic the Gathering quit congress.
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Finally, Magic the Gathering quit congress.
Happy Thanksgiving to all the expats/emigrants! youtu.be/hQEQS8E1zvQ?...
Miss... Sometimes things can happen just like this.
YouTube video by David Samuel Peckinpah
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all the expats/emigrants! youtu.be/hQEQS8E1zvQ?...
Golf is surfing for business people. Prove me wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Golf is surfing for business people. Prove me wrong.
Navy: the USS Ronald Reagan goes by she/her
Transphobes: yes
Me: I have she/her pronouns
Transphobes: OMFG what is this pronoun garbage?!
Transphobes: yes
Me: I have she/her pronouns
Transphobes: OMFG what is this pronoun garbage?!
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Navy: the USS Ronald Reagan goes by she/her
Transphobes: yes
Me: I have she/her pronouns
Transphobes: OMFG what is this pronoun garbage?!
Transphobes: yes
Me: I have she/her pronouns
Transphobes: OMFG what is this pronoun garbage?!
Very nice news to wake up to. There’s a whole marathon ahead!
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Very nice news to wake up to. There’s a whole marathon ahead!
Now is a good time to mention, if you would like your own local copy of Wikipedia or Gutenberg Proejct books, etc., check out kiwix.org
No Internet? No Problem
Download and browse Wikipedia along with hundreds of educational websites. Free knowledge anytime, anywhere, without an internet connection.
kiwix.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Now is a good time to mention, if you would like your own local copy of Wikipedia or Gutenberg Proejct books, etc., check out kiwix.org
Maybe the way we make AI less toxic is that we only allow it to ask questions and never give answers. As long as they’re not rhetorical questions.
October 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Maybe the way we make AI less toxic is that we only allow it to ask questions and never give answers. As long as they’re not rhetorical questions.
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So in other words, data scrubbers like DeleteMe only work well to keep “amateur” doxxers from finding your info but companies like Thomson Reuters still have the full picture of your data for use by governments.
October 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
So in other words, data scrubbers like DeleteMe only work well to keep “amateur” doxxers from finding your info but companies like Thomson Reuters still have the full picture of your data for use by governments.
“[C]oncerned for her safety and that of her family,” Brooks subscribed to a service that routinely scrubbed her personal information from the internet. Still, CLEAR was able to construct, without her consent, a “360-degree view of her life”
Corporate commitments are not “a sufficient alternative to enforcement of international law and domestic laws designed to prevent companies from monitoring individuals and committing human rights violations,” EFF’s Kit Walsh told @InTheseTimes.com. inthesetimes.com/article/ice...
The Data Brokers Fueling ICE’s Deportation Machine—And the Union Shareholders Fighting Back
"As investors, we are thinking about this as a risk to our investments, but also as a social and ethical issue.”
inthesetimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
“[C]oncerned for her safety and that of her family,” Brooks subscribed to a service that routinely scrubbed her personal information from the internet. Still, CLEAR was able to construct, without her consent, a “360-degree view of her life”
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I was giving a lecture and keynote wasn’t playing my video and instead of restarting my computer, I spent 10 min telling students about how often times file types are just secretly zip files and if you rename a .key to .zip you can just open it up and find a video and play it using any video player
October 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I was giving a lecture and keynote wasn’t playing my video and instead of restarting my computer, I spent 10 min telling students about how often times file types are just secretly zip files and if you rename a .key to .zip you can just open it up and find a video and play it using any video player
Rummy rummy rummy I’ve got cards in my tummy
October 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Rummy rummy rummy I’ve got cards in my tummy
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I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
October 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
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Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide!
It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.
It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!
It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.
It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!
September 26, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide!
It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.
It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!
It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.
It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!
Agghh this makes me so sad. The ruby community was so special and now it has been functionally taken over by techno fascists (DHH, Shopify). How can we build and sustain open source infrastructure that isn’t beholden to capitalism?
After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.
Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.
joel.drapper.me
September 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Agghh this makes me so sad. The ruby community was so special and now it has been functionally taken over by techno fascists (DHH, Shopify). How can we build and sustain open source infrastructure that isn’t beholden to capitalism?
Imagine if the US had just rebranded universal healthcare as a “loyalty program” like frequent flier miles. You earn ”health points” for every day you live in the US that you can spend on “health rewards”. People would eat that shit up
September 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Imagine if the US had just rebranded universal healthcare as a “loyalty program” like frequent flier miles. You earn ”health points” for every day you live in the US that you can spend on “health rewards”. People would eat that shit up
El Poblenou necesita un nombre “hip”. ¿Te gusta “PoNo?”
September 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
El Poblenou necesita un nombre “hip”. ¿Te gusta “PoNo?”
I love to see this! I also love that anywhere I am in Barcelona, I can usually hail a taxi quickly. It was sad to see the death of taxis in Chicago and frustrating to find a cab in Chicago only to have the driver refuse to use the meter and charge Uber rates
www.catalannews.com/politics/ite...
www.catalannews.com/politics/ite...
Ride-hailing services will slowly disappear in Barcelona due to new taxi law
Drivers to install location-based device to guarantee taxis and VTCs do not commit any irregularities
www.catalannews.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I love to see this! I also love that anywhere I am in Barcelona, I can usually hail a taxi quickly. It was sad to see the death of taxis in Chicago and frustrating to find a cab in Chicago only to have the driver refuse to use the meter and charge Uber rates
www.catalannews.com/politics/ite...
www.catalannews.com/politics/ite...
Either I’m really grounding into the Spanish speed of life or I’m just old because I’m really into this downtempo/balearic beat
September 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Either I’m really grounding into the Spanish speed of life or I’m just old because I’m really into this downtempo/balearic beat
The real solution to time travel paradoxes
September 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The real solution to time travel paradoxes
In The Jetsons they never explain why this white family had to move up into a towering sky apartment zoom around in their flying cars. What did they leave behind on the ground? Was it the fallout and wreckage of a nuclear war or just redlining and suburban sprawl?
September 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
In The Jetsons they never explain why this white family had to move up into a towering sky apartment zoom around in their flying cars. What did they leave behind on the ground? Was it the fallout and wreckage of a nuclear war or just redlining and suburban sprawl?