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On the Arsenio Hall Show, Macho Man Randy Savage had a GREAT answer to the question if he ever cried. Happy Men's Mental Health Awareness Month.

submitted 15 hours ago • 103 comments

There are way too few books on Dutch culture/philosophy/aesthetics. Do you have any #bookrecommendations relating to Dutch culture and philosophy, lifestyle or aesthetic, even just history that covers more than just Amsterdam? Already reading why the dutch are different, undutchables, and niksen

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@andyw8.bsky.social Hey Andy, reading one of the updates on the Open Pocket initiative you started, am I to believe that the initiative is no longer being sought? The blurb about Readwise's Reader app

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Oh and this is your notice that Michelin stars were bourne out of the Michelin tire company's desire to get people to drive more. Yes, Michelin stars are literally rooted in carbrain thinking aka motonormativity :P

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

I travelled to Japan last month. Risk aversion was a little bit of a culture shock to me. It took hearing it from a different perspective to calm down my instinctual aversion to risk aversion. www.bnolet.me/posts/2025/0...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

End-to-end encryption is secure because it protects the contents of your communications in transit between the endpoints. If you make one of those endpoints an editor at The Atlantic, no amount of encryption is going to save you from your own stupidity.

submitted 95 days ago • 71 comments

Short Tesla?

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@wired.com's out here stoking the flames with "It's worse than you think" instead of telling folks what people are doing to fix the shit that's gone from bad to worse in record time. If the "bad news" article doesn't end with "and here's what folks are doing to fix it" choose a difference source.

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Managed to get #DeepSeek to reveal topics of #Censorship by asking it to use l33t5p34k. That being said, this could simply be a list of things that it knows are publicly talked about in terms of censorship. There might be other things that have not been publicly revealed that are also censored.

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Ontario's reliance on oil from pipelines that pass through the US really highlights the need for further electrification of infrastructure. With the US now unpredictable, I fear that access to the oil will be wielded as an economic weapon, or we shoot ourselves in the foot with a kneejerk reaction

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Follow up question for #nonfiction readers, are there any good recommendations out there for topics relating to Canada? I see so many good American-centric ones and while I think there is a lot of overlap, I would love to get some focusing on things like Canadian politics and history 👀 #booksky

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Guys, why didn't you tell me my forearm would be in SO MUCH DAMN PAIN after playing badminton??

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If you're concerned about the types of obscene comments that are now allowed on your Instagram posts, you should try out PixelFed: www.androidheadlines.com/2025/01/pixe...

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