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Tech guy who also loves some urban planning. Watch out for the NIMBYs.

Be kind and listen to others. We only become better people by talking things through not talking over or around.

The Utah Lt. Governor's Office says the citizen ballot initiative to put the new state flag up to a public vote has FAILED to qualify. Under Utah law, supporters of the "Restoring the Utah State Flag" initiative needed to submit 134,298 valid signatures by Feb. 15. They submitted 99,125. #utpol

@taylorlorenz

Okay, sure, but the article is doing exactly what it's critiquing. Lots of opinion, no citation to any research that actually looks at the impact of porn consumption on how men view women, how women view women, or men's self-image, and so on.

Not sure what to make of this article. Sponsored by PornHub?

How can any serious reporter publish this without discussing the serious mental health impacts of this type of media on especially women, but also men, discussed for decades now?

My end of the year post on optimism this year has a slightly different tone, in which I explain how my tech optimism differs from Marc Andreessens, and I see his more as pessimistic cynicism, not optimism. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/29/new-years-message-moving-fast-and-breaking-things-is-the-opposite-of-tech-optimism/
New Year’s Message: Moving Fast And Breaking Things Is The Opposite Of Tech Optimism

Every year since 2008, my final post of the year for Techdirt is about optimism. This makes this year’s post (which will be the only post for today — go out and enjoy the holiday times, people) my …

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Popular Science magazine shifted to an all-digital format a couple of years ago, and now even that’s gone. https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/27/23978042/popular-science-digital-magazine-discontinued
After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine

Popular Science is doing away with its magazine format as the publication looks to “evolve beyond the digital magazine product.”

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Indie authors, today's the day to promote your work to tens of thousands of readers at the Whatever Holiday Gift Guide! Follow the link for instructions on how to post about your work available to purchase as gifts.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/11/28/whatever-holiday-gift-guide-2023-day-two-non-traditionally-published-books/

Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2023, Day Two: Non-Traditionally Published Books

Today is Day Two of the Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2023, and today the focus is on Non-Traditionally Published Books: Self-published works, electronically-exclusive books, books from micro presses…

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Turned this week's rant about ongoing sloppy security at Experian into a blog post. Thanks to everyone here who helped with the research.

It's Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian

In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply re-registered the accounts using a different email address. Sixteen months later, Experian clearly has not addressed this gaping lack of security. I know that because my account at Experian was recently hijacked, and the only way I could recover access was by recreating the account.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/11/its-still-easy-for-anyone-to-become-you-at-experian/

It’s Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian – Krebs on Security

Step 1: Get every nerd and weirdo in the world onto a Framework Laptop.

Step 2: Get everyone else.

You’d better believe I’m going to upgrade to it this weekend!

From: @frameworkcomputer
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Framework :fedora: :ubuntu: (@[email protected])

And so a new era in distro awesomeness begins with @fedora 39 - https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-39/

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Just spoke to our #Amazon delivery guy and asked him about his #Rivian EDV delivery truck. He says he loves it. Much better than the older ones they had. And more space in them too.

#ElectricVehicles

Framework: Building an Open, Reliable Laptop (Ubuntu Summit Presentation)

https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/videos/watch/1a9a76da-aa28-48a0-a3e1-7e828547632e

Framework: Building an Open, Reliable Laptop (Ubuntu Summit Presentation)

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