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Grumpy viking. Reader, gamer. Professionall data manager / hobbyist coder. He/him.
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Aaron Swartz was sentenced to 35 years imprisonment and $1 million in fines for downloading JSTOR articles, and subsequently took his life, but apparently we should allow OpenAI to have unfettered access to copyrighted material?

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When Timothy Zahn's Thrawn-trilogy started with Heir to the Empire in 1991 it was the first piece of original Star Wars fiction in a long time. Sure, there was the Marvel comics (ending in '86) and adventure of Han Solo and Lando Calrissian, but this was something else.

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Partiet FOR følast stadig meir og meir som noko Folkeopplysningen har dikta opp for å teste korleis norske journalistar vil dekke det

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The Great Extended Universe Re-reading Thread: For various reasons I've fallen down the rabbit hole of re-reading the old Star Wars Extended Universe novels. For those unfamiliar with the term, these are the books published before the great Disney takeover and purge.

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I see it's time to talk about heat waves and caffeine again. All right fine, let's do this. The fundamental problem with coffee in a heat wave is not dehydration! www.newsweek.com/thousands-to...

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⚒️🧪 Thick black goop pouring from the earth is a horror often seen in TV shows or movies. Fortunately this is an amazing geological feature, and not a malevolent monster! This 1956 pic is of a natural bitumen or asphalt seep pouring into a mine shaft in Lettomanoppello, Italy. 🧵 Pic: Cazzini (2018)

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What fun to discover £7,000 of book royalties, due today, aren't actually going to be paid. Not today. Maybe not ever. So now it's time for yet another round of "What Do I Tell My Mortgage Provider?", and a quick game of "How Do I Feed My Dog?" Fuck you, publishing. What a turd of a profession.

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I don't have an ADHD diagnosis, never tried, but thought I'd try to describe what reading a book is like for me. It's these things, simultaneously: 1) reading the words 2) being aware I'm reading words 3) understanding the words 4) thinking about how I'm doing the above ...

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For noen kan et lite regnbueflagg bety at vi føler oss tryggere. Man ser flagget og tenker; « her kan jeg passe inn» En enkel måte å vite at jeg også blir satt pris på. Veldig fin video Oslo Pride🌈

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The real scandal in 1930s German politics was Kaiser Wilhelm’s cognitive decline

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oh look it’s the thing everyone said wouldn’t happen and hadn’t happened, happening

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For 40 years, Americans have lived shorter lives than people in other rich countries. For 10 years, that's been rapidly getting worse. New research: in 2022-2023, there were 1.5 million "missing Americans," who died--but wouldn't have, if America didn't have such uniquely high death rates.

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Noko som er verdt å ha i minnet når politikarane maser om at me må vere konkurransedyktige på digitalisering, er at Noreg faktisk låg sjukt langt framme i løypa pga entusiastiske fagfolk fram til ca. Kvalitetsreformen.

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Pentagon Leak Investigation: Either Illegal Surveillance Happened Or Everyone’s Lying About Everything What the fuck is going on at the Pentagon? We’ve talked about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s apparent penchant for exposing attack plans over unsecure, easily hacked messaging apps. But there…

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“This production makes that queerness explicit, reclaiming the story through the lived experiences of trans and nonbinary artists.” #TransRightsAreHumanRights www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/28/s...

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"The team used video game collision detection methods — which work by calculating the distance between two objects before they collide — as inspiration for the algorithm. They found that the algorithm reduced the calculations required to predict particle collisions in fusion reactors by 99.9%."

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This cover of "Don't Stop Me Now" is art.

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Krugman on Ireland's role in the imagined trade deficit with the US. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...

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So what I learned of this story not all of which is mentioned in the article and I'll be going off memory, we're pretty sure the woman was the carver. Here's why. Her hut and burial site were a little separate from the rest of the people. Which also had her kiln. She's the only one buried there.

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Heinrich Kemmler says asking villagers for corpse permission would ‘kill’ the necromancy industry

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