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**insert joke about Beutsche Bahn being late here**

@dwisk.us maybe you can help Jeff out? 🙂

Got the very same mail. Gotta say, it's a good way to end up being marked as spam and get blocked.

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

Surprising absolutely nobody with even half a working brain cell, the Trump admin is spending all of its time on absolutely trivial shit like this. This change impacted literally nobody but the hurt feelings of racist white men somehow in a position of power.

Senator Ron Wyden told me today it looks an awful lot like a coup - full Decoder coming Monday but it felt like we should get this clip out there

Did anyone buy a "new" Seagate drive recently? I wonder if this is just a Germany/European issue. Start your translators: www.heise.de/news/Festpla...

have to say, all the outrage from FB employees is extremely funny to me. you know you work at the evil nerd surveillance factory - you didn’t realize you were the baddies until now?

Also read @sambiddle.com on the new Meta content guidelines, including a bunch of racist, anti-immigrant stuff that is now fair game theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...

Yeah, add a warning label, that'll do it. 🤦‍♂️ "Prop 65" all the way.

They said it couldn’t be done: a hardware Kickstarter that delivers on time. @jetkvm.bsky.social did it.

We used to just call these people Bladerunners.

And VW is in the news again. The translated #38c3 talk is now available: media.ccc.de/v/38c3-wir-w...

Google Bard is bad at math. This was after it already made some other errors trying to solve a similar, more complex date/time query.

i think a lot of people who get their iDevices stolen wonder if, just what if, they used the Find My app to actually try and track down the thief. Reader, I lived that dream https://defector.com/into-thin-airpods

@darthbluesky.bsky.social I think this one's for you then.

This site is complete. We can close invites now.

Okay, username changed. Is this thing still on?

Oh hi. Not gonna use the “just setting up my…” joke. 🙃