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To review: Putin's intelligence service hacked the DNC email system in '16 to help Trump. In '16, Putin offered Trump a Moscow building development deal. Trump’s '16 campaign chair, Paul Manafort, was in business with a Russian intelligence officer. Those are just the things in the Mueller report.

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Cass report would be underwater on Rotten Tomatoes by now.

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Trump wants an excuse to hand over Ukraine to Putin and split the proceeds. Pure mob mentality.

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Trump appears to be arguing at Putin should be forgiven here's genocidal invasion because it's all the fault of Hunter Biden. Hillary Clinton, Obama and an unspecified Bush also to blame for hurting Putin's feelings.

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"Changing the meter settings in ProTools changes the sound of the audio" may not be the craziest thing I've heard a sound engineer say, but only if you include the stuff about the lizard people.

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Scared of alternative viewpoints much?

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Farage and Truss tooling about in the US have been nicknamed 'the slug and lettuce', I am reliably informed.

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Listening to Daniel Levitin on the radio talking about music, neuroscience, ourselves and the wonderful mysteries. Had a sudden vision, a baby in the womb listening to her mother's heartbeat, then years later her own baby doing the same. Unbroken rhythm, stretching back forever.

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America, you do know how to get rid of insane monarchs.

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TIL Robert Fripp has a pet rabbit called Eno. To be accurate, he and Toyah Willcox have two pet rabbits called Fripp and Eno. They fight a lot, but are to be neutered. I am unsure of this reality, tnh.

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Thinking as always about marketing and brand management. Only Fans should really have been called Spurtify. On the other hand, whoever chose Posh Cow as a butter brand nailed it.

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Certainly installed here. And uninstalled here.

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My Edinburgh bus app just told me that 'live progressive times are not available'. Even the machines know.

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Fun doc on The Prisoner. Never seen the original Rover, which was comically bad, although I did know a bit how off the rails PM got as he took on more and more production power before realising he couldn't find an ending. BCNU. youtu.be/jDgKwGQfC_M?...

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The BBC contacting Tory Trumpists for comment today is the cruelest and most effective kind of cancej culture yet.

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what's the betting that plans are already being made to pervert the mid-terms?

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The trouble with a neutrino experimenter's version of Once In A Liftetime is that it works too well. Waters glowing underground? My god, what have I found? After the money's gone... with some work, it could very fab. if I was a musically talented post-doc on the right project.

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"Once the aircraft had rolled over on the runway, with the tail detached, the right wing ripped off and the undercarriage no longer in contact, the usual systems of control were no longer available to the pilots" - from 'I Have No Insights And I Must Post, the tragedy of aviation blogging'

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And you may ask yourself, how did that get here?

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Perhaps JD Vance can lecture them on freedom of speech next

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The Portal of Truth! Behold! Out main prop for the Hack Your Age workshop stage show in Leith this evening. It's a digital ouija board for the noosphere, man...

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Just realised I've passed the fifth anniversary of my Register column, which started in late January 2020. It got pulled during Covid and I missed one the day my mother died, otherwise it's been there every week. Even that one time I turned in a complete lemon that had to be rewritten in a hurry...

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It is time for a complete moratorium on the use of the word 'iconic'.

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I have only gone and won What's On My T-Shirt on Riley and Coe on 6 Music just now, by guessing Jefferson Airplane on the first clue. Thanks, @marcrileydj.bsky.social - feed your head, man, even if only with Lemsip...

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Streeting saying trans inclusive terms 'erase women's is as fatuous and harmful as saying marriage equality erases heterosexuality. People say that too, it is nonsense on a unicycle and barely encrypted bigotry.

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"jf we don't fight transphobia now, they're going to come after everybody" which part of that did you not understand?

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Why doesn't Apple - and anyone else affected - distribute their crypto as source code with a source code tool chain to compile it automatically on host devices? Everything has such stupidly high octane processors that there'd be minimal inconvenience, and the spooks can go boil their bottoms.

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It's Thursday, which means I have a Register column deadline, and it's a rare sunny day here on the Forth at the edge of Edinburgh, so I have an excellent choice of procrastinaria... the plantive cry of the gulls battling the buzz of the drones.

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If there are astronomers there looking precisely in our direction at the nonent captured here, they'd see nothing of us because the Sun wouldn't begin to form for another billion years

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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

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It's not out of the box thinking. It's out of the gourd.

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Destruying Operational Government Everywhere. This is why Trunp turned off state cybersecurity oversight - how else to install all those back doors?

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Guess we're finding out whether a constitution designed to prevent autocracy can fend off dictatorship.

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Hard to grade the mix of factors - restricted vision, TCAS RAs off, n0 common mil/biv ATC freq, v demanding approach for the civ jet, ambiguous traffic to visually ID, etc, but golly does this feel waiting to happen. All hole, no cheese.

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The amunt of danage /trumpco is doing across the board is hugely unreported in the UK. Replacing a state of rules about oversight, fairness and mission with a near-medieval system of unhindered patronage andaggressive persecution of all who disagree. \if someone makes a fascist salute, believe them.

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The new 15.3 MacOS enables Apple intelligence whether you want it or not, so desperate. Is the fruit farm for our data. Can be turned off in Settings, if you don't mind red text warnings about your dire lack of faith.

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Those who praise Trump's 'energy, positivity and focus' have to answer why these and other moves are different to historic parallels by authoritarian regimes destroying civil society. The mic is open.

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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