“Do that with Acrobat”

I can’t even view a PDF, Adobe. WTF have you done? Morons.

Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

Couriers like Wake would take messages and materials such as explosives, guns or grenades around the patch their network covered.

Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

people say that "you are not your work product", and "don't let work define your life", and "you have worth independent of that assigned to you by capitalist society", but consider

i've just submitted an application for settlement (permanent residency) in the UK. out of the 45 documents they wanted me to upload, 43 were confirmation of my ability to earn money, and 2 were pure formalities

this is what determines if i have a right to be alive

I do find some use for LLMs when I need to make a genuine natural language query:

Is there a name/theory describing a shift in the political spectrum (left or right) that results in what were once moderate left/right views becoming considered “extreme”?

Turns out there is a thing called the Overton Window 🤷‍♀️

Though, not sure I agree with Lehman right now:

The most common misconception is that lawmakers themselves are in the business of shifting the Overton window. That is absolutely false. Lawmakers are actually in the business of detecting where the window is, and then moving to be in accordance with it.