"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

#Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’. When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired

"Firings, resignations and attempts to ‘dilute and delay’ research"

#slavery #history #genealogy
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/21/harvard-slavery-decendants-of-the-enslaved

The more I learn about atmospheric chemistry, the more terrified and angry I am about satellite companies' blatant lack of consideration for how their actions will harm the atmosphere. I hope this gets a lot of press. Great work by a whole team of scientists, including @astrokiwi.bsky.social!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-025-01098-6.epdf

If you buy a formerly stand-alone product that requires a connection to the Internet to use it -- such as a car in this example -- you are increasingly asking for trouble.

Believe it or not, it is legal for a company to brick a car -- to turn it, as one "owner" said, into a "lawn ornament".

The people who write the laws are as responsible for this as the scumbags who run/ran the bankrupt company.

https://www.teslarati.com/fisker-bankruptcy-approved-tech-support-deal/