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Retired SAP BASIS dude.
Time Magazine Person of the year 2006.

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Three and a half years after Jan 6 and America is still getting (rightful tbh) shade thrown their way
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Politics. My @smh cartoon.
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"Fellow-citizens! I will not enlarge further on your national inconsistencies. The existence of slavery in this country brands your republicanism as a sham, your humanity as a base pretence, and your Christianity as a lie. It destroys your moral power abroad; it corrupts your politicians at home."
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My friend @maryrobinette.bsky.social, who if you don't know is a Hugo, Nebula and Locus award-winning writer of some of the best science fiction of the last decade, has a new Kickstarter for a story collection set in her Lady Astronaut universe. Check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...
Silent Spaceswww.kickstarter.com Silent Spaces is a collection of short stories from Mary Robinette Kowal's award-winning Lady Astronaut series!
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Someone made this reading guide for Discord. Basically there are a few common plotlines in the series (The Watch, The Witches, etc.) it's usually good to start at the beginning of one of those plotlines, like with Guards! Guards! or The Wee Free Men.
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The AI facility in Musk’s new Gigafactory in Texas will house 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. Each one consumes about 3,740 kWh annually. So *just to power the GPUs,* Musk will need 187GWh per year. This is higher annual consumption than some entire countries.
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Every time I see someone mention Threads, the Meta product, I always think about the movie of that name from 1984. But it's easy to tell them apart. One documents the slow, frightening disintegration of human society, and the other is a 112-minute film.
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the Kenyan National Parks annual reports are a joy to read
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The Texas GOP might recreate the old schemes that segregationist Democrats used to shut out urban voters & let white rural conservatives dominate politics. The Warren Court struck those schemes down, but the Roberts Court seems ready to roll the clock back. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...
Coward of the Countyopen.substack.com I noted in my last post that the Republican Party is engaged in an anti-democratic campaign of minority rule, and the Texas GOP has helpfully provided yet another stark illustration of that fact. The ...
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Representations of (if the museum card is to be believed) the penises of the 2008 Icelandic Handball Team, which won silver that year. And indeed, the penises are silvery.
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@NBCNews: Social media has been buzzing with examples of Google’s new, “experimental” AI tool going awry. A Google spokesperson said the company believes users are deliberately attempting to trip up the technology with uncommon questions. https://t.co/Wj9iuKzzHk
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I just used the instructions here to add the UMD-14 to a search in my browser. it's basically add a new search and make this the url: {google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s
Bye Bye, AI: How to turn off Google's annoying AI overviews and just get search resultswww.tomshardware.com You can configure your browser to return only web page results.
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udm14.com: An easy-to-use shortcut for an AI-free Google search. (Try it!) udm14.com
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Here's the latest ep of my Cool Zone Media/iHeartRadio show Better Offline - it's the ugly tale of how Mark Zuckerberg and a rogues' gallery of rot economists spent 16 years deliberately making Facebook worse in search of perpetual growth. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline
‎Better Offline: How Mark Zuckerberg Deliberately Made Facebook Worse on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show Better Offline, Ep How Mark Zuckerberg Deliberately Made Facebook Worse - May 21, 2024
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The people killing the internet have names - Sam Altman, Steve Huffman, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella - these men believe they're the new Leonardo Da Vincis, but they're little more than petty kings and rent-seekers creating useless clones of useful things. tinyurl.com/wyea31124
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When we say “tech guys need the humanities too” we’re not talking about diluting the pool of Linus Torvalds with underwater basket weavers, we’re talking about arming them with enough literacy to comprehend Sci-Fi in a way that doesn’t get them sued by Scarlett Johansson
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NONE OF THIS EXPLAINS WHY YOU WOULD HANG A FLAG UPSIDE DOWN.
More details on the Alitos vs. the neighbors story, none of which actually explain the upside-down flag