| OS | Linux |
| Internet Currency | Monero |
| Occupation | Software |
| Corporation | Big One |
#nyt : "#trump doesn't want to behave like a superpower; he wants to wield super powers."
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010832503/the-end-of-pax-americana.html?smid=url-share
Some city-dwelling birds are using a peculiar pesticide in their nests: cigarette butts.
Puzzled by observations of birds adding intact or shredded butts to nests, scientists have found that the stew of chemical compounds within them seems to deter parasites such as blowflies and fleas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/science/bird-nests-cigarettes.html
Agentic #ai writing publishable #research papers, apparently solving outstanding problems in #mathematics
"When a public administration archives a document in ODF format, it can be certain that any future government, any future open-source or proprietary application, and any future platform will be able to read, manage, process and transform that document, because the format specifications are publicly available, and are clear, complete and free from restrictions."
#ODF is the future, #OOXML is the past - TDF Community Blog
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/27/odf-is-the-future-ooxml-is-the-past/
Whenever a user, a government, a school or a business chooses the format in which to store and exchange its digital documents, it is not merely making a technical decision, but is placing a bet on the kind of digital infrastructure on which it will depend in the future. In this sense, ODF and OOXML are not two equivalent options on the same shelf, but two radically different solutions: one geared towards a future of openness, interoperability and digital sovereignty, and the other towards a past of defending a vendor’s dominant market position through user lock-in. ODF: designed to be open and transparent Open Document Format was conceived from the outset to be an open standard. It was designed and developed by the community under the auspices of OASIS, and subsequently ratified by ISO, to be implemented by anyone, on any platform, without royalties, without hidden dependencies and without the permission of any single company. These are not trivial technical details, but a statement of political and economic strategy embedded within the format itself. ODF is based on a clean XML schema, easy to read even by non-technical users and reusable. Colour naming follows standard web conventions, and its architecture
I work in Big Tech. This news hurts my pocketbook today.
But I am so, **so** grateful for this ruling.
I am surprised and relieved that average people sitting on juries understand that allowing corporate algorithms to shape growing minds is insanely dangerous.
Especially in the middle of a worldwide information war.
If there is going to be a talking filibuster over the save act, the Dems need to read Epstein files that mention Trump into the record for the entire time.
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