Prof. Sam Lawler
Zach WeinersmithOne of the weird thing about growing plants is you go from thinking plants need constant watering to being nervous about ever giving them water.
Ian.Burnette
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@ianburnette on the bird-site. 🇺🇸➡️🇳🇱 He/him. Woodworker, pole dancer, python developer, and I can bake a pretty mean cookie too. DFTBA!
I managed to proofread and comment on the entire 6 page American Astronomical Society draft response to Reflect Orbital's reply and also write my own draft response and not throw my laptop out the window with rage over Reflect Orbital's absolutely fucking terrible plans. Please clap.
Do I think this will actually help? No, not really, the FCC is evil and blinded by $$$. Do I still have to do this? Yes. Yes I do.
Nowhere Girl90% of my interactions with government and business entities go like this.
THEM: "You did not follow the rules. Please start the process over from the very beginning and -- "
ME: "No, fuck you. Your rules are stupid but I already followed them. Here is the proof."
THEM: "Oh. Okay. Here you go."
Brian BilstonOn World Poetry Day, here’s a reminder of the power of poetry and its potential to change the world.
Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥Meanwhile, the year is 2026 and the entire world slowly realises cooperation with American businesses is not okay. The entire world? Well, not entirely. One small country of indomitable Dutch still holds out against sanity.
It decided to place all inhabitants' tax data on American servers, granting America access to these servers while being locked out themselves.
Of course, there will be a debate to reassure the people the decision is well thought through 🙄
EDRiFrom recent leaks, a first Council compromise on the #DigitalOmnibus scrapes out some of the most dangerous changes in the original proposal…Yet, let’s not be fooled: the threat to our rights is still very real.
Even with changes, it still reduces companies’ obligations rather than strengthening accountability.
The safest way to protect the 🇪🇺 digital rulebook is to reject the #DigitalOmnibus entirely.
Read our latest analysis & recommendations ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/the-digital-omnibus-a-step-back-from-the-brink-but-the-risks-remain/
Koen van HoveI just managed to make another watchface, this time (pun intended) it's always 11 AM, but the timezone changes every hour to where it's 11 AM in the world.
Omar Antolín
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Ian R Buck@pluralistic side note, since Cory has guested on so many podcasts, I propose something similar to the Erdős number: anybody who has appeared on a show with him has a Doctorow number of 1. Anybody who has appeared on a show with any of those people have a Doctorow number of 2. Et cetera.