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“How did you turn fascist?” “Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly.” #uspol

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Just received the assembled samples of Soleil v0.2! The main change is the addition of the qwiic connector to easily hookup third party sensors, screens, actuators, etc. #Nerves #ElixirLang

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University professor, circa 2010 : You can’t trust Wikipedia. You cannot use it for your essay. University professor, circa 2025 : Here are powerpoint sildes on how to use ChatGPT to do your essay. Personal conclusion: the only problem with Wikipedia was that it was not corporately owned and […]

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Obviously we have to keep earning a living, caring for our kids, getting dinner ready. But as it sinks in that this is really happening, I find myself wondering how we can possibly talk and think about anything else. I mean, does just going about our normal lives now constitute a kind of denial?

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Well, I never knew (some) Permaculture folks were so anti-city! Some great points from #Edenicity channel about the many things #Urbanism and #Permaculture have in common. - Isn't this just #SolarPunk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVsWevJKhZ8

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Amid U.S. foreign aid pause, some American lawmakers are alarmed China could fill the void. @abc reports on how Trump's aid freeze is impacting demining operations in Cambodia: https://flip.it/YQ6lSx #USAID #USPolitics #China #Trump #Politics

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Governments should be using #AI, but not corporate AI. Turning over your thinking to machines can be very productive, but it can also be very dangerous I fear Silicon Valley is pulling the good ol blitzscaling-#enshittification cycle, but now for governments They’ll make #government depend […]

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New blog post! How Soleil works - a hardware overview This gives an explanation for each component in the design, written in a way that should be approachable for #Nerves / #ElixirLang devs or anyone in the embedded software space. Hopefully the takeaway is that hardware isn't _that_ scary!

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Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/11/tumblr-to-join-the-fediverse-after-wordpress-migration-completes/

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I would like to have micropayments to read articles. People "who know" tell me it will not work because the UX is terrible. But... more terrible than cookie popups & subscribe pop-ups & "can we spam you with alerts" pop-ups that are apparently "OK UX". Surely one popup saying "this article will […]

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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States - The Onion https://theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enjoy-c-1819576375/

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Interesting podcast covering (among other things) Chinese nuclear progress (nuclear at the end). https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/redefining-energy-tech/id1675126007 Pro-nuclear guy argues that: - China now has its nuclear approach proven & will start rolling out nuclear at scale. - […]

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Say goodbye to the US as the best place in the world to be a scientist. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/white-house-budget-proposal-could-shatter-the-national-science-foundation/

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An unacknowledged indication of our culture's hyperindividualism: Most of the developmental milestones for children that we identify focus on what they're able to do on their own, rather than on, say, their growing capacity for deeper connection to others.

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It is once again time to give thanks to Brian Fox, the Black American programmer that has given us BASH and `echo`! Thank you for your INCREDIBLE contributions to open source software, Unix, and Linux. It literally would not be the same without you […] [Original post on social.smallhack.org]

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It takes all the emotional resources I can marshal to live with the fact that the answer appears to be no

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It’s National Thank A Mail Carrier Day! Get out there and appreciate some government workers that keep everything moving. #usps

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I drew the cover for this week's @newyorker.com

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Last year I met a female biotechnologist, one of the very few in Uganda, researching AIDS. She helped me make my new short film, as I researched, conceptualized and built a bedroom lab capable of gene editing. The film is about a woman who genetically engineers a butterfly in a bedroom lab […]

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Wow, just realised the end of Jan was the 100th anniversery of the Nome serum run which you can read about in this great book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cruellest-miles-9780747568582/ #history

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Nice to see the The Dublin Data Protection Commission getting all over Deep Seek with such speed. Maybe they'll finally get round to thinking about maybe starting to consider having a look at Google, Meta, Amazon etc now? (not holding my breath). #GDPR

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I think Nvidia will come out ahead after the deep seek shenanigans play out. If Deep Seek is a winning approach many more players can join (so many more smaller sales), if it isn't then its back to the big players cornering the market. Either way Nvidia has a market (maybe not as big as 2024 […]

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This is a public service announcement to never ever use Oracle

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My wife just aquired this for future expeditions with our grandson. https://geckopress.com/bookshop/the-observologist/ @futurebird there is a sidwalk ant section.

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Not an original thought by any means, but isn't the correct name for people who reject diversity, equity, and inclusion "racist"?

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It's wild to me when I see someone say "Fediverse seems dead" Because at this point, this is one of the most active times I've ever seen Fedi and it feels like they just wanna get attention for some reason.😬 #Fedi #Fediverse

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I'm mad about Apple's packaging today Apple wraps all of their laptops in the densist cardboard ever perfectly packaging the MacBook or Studio inside (I do corporate IT). But because their normal box is so covered with iconic branding and weird bullshit to make the "unboxing experience" worth […]

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Irony is dead.

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Sort of like saying GoogleMaps worked well until we tried to find the Gulf of Mexico?

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@gworkman.bsky.social Is developing a cool #ElixirNerves oriented power management and sleep control board for Raspberry Pi. Looks very cool. and now he is bridging to the Fedi if you want to follow him. #elixir #MyElixirStatus

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https://www.ess-news.com/2025/01/23/somalia-tenders-solar-plus-storage-at-28-educational-sites/ This is interesting if it goes ahead. The more practice at actually installing microgrids the better. #solar #RenewableEnergy

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On #defense campaigns waged with code, law, norms & markets, by @pluralistic: "Breaking #Bluesky open is a priority. Keeping #Mastodon open is a priority. But neither of these are goals unto themselves. The point is to set people free, not set technology free. Willie Sutton robbed banks because […]

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https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/21/ai_pothole_patrol/ Useful AI - note: NOT an LLM

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Go on,cheer yourself up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s53VK_X5c_Y #funny

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"I'm not really a fascist, I'm just kissing the ring and goimg along because shareholder value" is the "I was just following orders" of our time.

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If #Jira would have been written in #Elixir, some really cool stuff could have been implemented...

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