@Mapache

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Trickster god. Snarky progressive curmudgeon. Swears in four languages. I stand with 🏳️‍⚧️ & 🇺🇦.
I know it’s not exactly the point but like… Someone just rented an excavator and… drove it to the White House? And someone else said “Great, the excavator’s here” and was like “Just rip down that wall, don’t worry about the windows or anything, just maximum ripping please.”

Google ending support for USENET.

https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538

The winners of this year's "Small World" micro-photo competition are out. I'm especially intrigued by this astonishing shot: a struck match, caught at the exact moment of ignition.
(It ended up in second place, go figure.) #science #photography
https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2023-photomicrography-competition
2023 Photomicrography Competition

View the winning entries from the 2023 Photomicrography Competition

Nikon’s Small World
@cstross oh I know, the conclusion section is also very funny. I just like the out of context title.
"Randomized controlled trial"

I wish hard

#gamedev

putting a pronoun picker in your game is not only the right thing to do it makes the worst people in humanity have huge meltdowns basically for free so i can only say i recommend it highly
Well this is fucking clever - hide a malicious powershell script inside a license file, assuming (correctly) that no one EVER looks inside a license file. #DEFCON31 (from Andrew Brandt' War Stories presentation)

Film studios: Pirating films is bad because it prevents all the hardworking people who make these films from being paid.

Also film studios: Streaming is good because it prevents all the hardworking people who made these films from being paid, except us.

LOL avast matey, I'm in the clearrrrrrr.

This is a huge victory not only for workers' rights, but for climate justice. One of the main reasons for the strike, which would have been the largest single-employer strike in history, was the lack of protections from heat-related injuries. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/business/economy/ups-teamsters-contract-strike.html
UPS and Teamsters Reach Tentative Deal to Head Off Strike

United Parcel Service faced a potential walkout by more than 325,000 union members after their five-year contract expires next week.

The New York Times