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• 21-Apr-2024
  Slava Ukraini I don’t talk politics on this blog. There’s beach photos mostly these days. But the news of the US Congress finally sending some dough to Ukraine makes me very happy. Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter of April 20, 2024: Cheering broke out in the gallery and among Democrats on the floor of the House of Representatives...

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• 15-Mar-2024
  Cease. HCR, yesterday’s letter: This morning, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), one of the highest-ranking Jewish officials in the U.S. government, said Israelis need to call new elections to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who, Schumer said, “has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel.”...

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• 06-Mar-2024

  
  Reading “I don’t like your examples” in 2024 One of my favorite pieces of writing, technical or not, is called “I don’t like your examples!” by Steven Feuerstein which he first published 2 decades ago on the O’Reilly website [internet archive link]. It has a publish date of 11 October 2000. In the essay, he writes about his book on PL/SQL for Oracle....

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• 12-Feb-2024
  QOTD: Tim Synder Putin makes a mistake about the Ukrainian language, over and over, that is typical of imperial deafness. It is true that Ukrainians today can speak Russian (although many also, for understandable reasons, refuse to do so) as well as Ukrainian. When they encountered Russians, until very recently, Ukrainians would switch to Russian. This courtesy gave...

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• 27-Dec-2023
  Quote of the Day (on Substack allowing Nazi writers to use their platform) I am not an economist, but I am pretty sure that limiting the ability of Nazis to acquire money actually does “make [the Nazi problem] worse.” I am pretty sure that money helps Nazis, actually. It certainly helps everyone else. The question of free speech is...

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• 24-Dec-2023

  
  Merry Christmas & Peace on Earth & Cease Fires Now

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• 21-Nov-2023
  Quotes of the Day When trust and safety is going well, no one thinks about it or talks about it. And when trust and safety is going poorly, it’s usually something that leadership wants to blame on policies. Quite frankly, policies are going to be a Band-Aid if your product isn’t being designed in a way that actually doesn’t...

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• 15-Nov-2023
  Torment Nexus, oi This speech by Charlie Stross matches the painful assessments I’ve slowly come to in my decades reading SF and watching the tech boom. I didn’t *want* to go to a cyberpunk dystopia so much as thought it was inevitable we would end up there. But no destination is inevitable. Human beings can steer. We can...

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• 08-Nov-2023
  More I didn’t learn in school The Wilmington insurrection of 1899: The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, was a coup d’état and a massacre which was carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, on Thursday, November 10, 1898. The white press in Wilmington originally...

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• 21-Oct-2023
  Snyder on Musk It’s troubled me for a long time how much people I respect put faith into Elon Musk. Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands and On Tyranny articulates that and far more in this newsletter from earlier this month: How can we be alone in the universe?: Musk himself exemplifies the anti-scientific method. On X, he limits...

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