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@jay at first i thought this was your garage filled with bags of coffee that were 8ft tall
PROGRAMMING TIP
avoid repeating the same 4 lines of code twice by writing 270 lines of beautiful, abstract, generic code
@mergesort and mortgages their home to pay for digital access.
Achievement unlocked: felt an earthquake before either USGS or Twitter knew about it

The Big Three automakers taking tens of billions in auto bailouts fully funded by taxpayers—and now refusing to share the resulting record profits with workers—is the epitome of what's wrong with our economy.

Socialism for the wealthy. Rugged individualism for workers. Absurd.

We've recorded the SECOND SERIOUS TROUBLE EPISODE IN TWO DAYS, with guest Georgia attorney Andrew Fleischman, about the Georgia RICO indictment. Watch for it tonight!

The BBC's experiment with Mastodon is pathbreaking in English-language news -- a major organization setting up its own instance. They've really thought this through. Key language:

"We're using social.bbc as the domain, so you can be sure these accounts are genuinely from the BBC. And by linking to and from the BBC’s website, we have verified our identity on Mastodon."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

Welcome to:
@BBCRD
@BBC5Live @BBCRadio4
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC_News_Labs

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.

BBC R&D
@sandofsky looks like you need to get upstate and to get some photos of the natural part of the state. if i were you, i’d plan a trip in october to north of albany for the fall colors.
Some personal news: after 14 years, I’m leaving the Bay Area. Some of my favorite shots over the years…
As always, Mac binaries are on GitHub: https://github.com/saagarjha/unxip/releases/tag/v2.2. If you’re itching to try it out on your beefy Linux machine, it’s easy to build from source using a recent Swift toolchain. I’m still working details out but ideally I’ll have some package manager instructions soon.
Release 2.2 · saagarjha/unxip

Add Linux support and fix a potential hang where unxip finishes its work but fails to exit on very fast computers.

GitHub