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Finnish telcos co-operate to block spoofed caller id. The technology to do this has always existed - no receiving-side telco has to accept caller id signaling coming from wrong network, nor do the initiating-side telcos have to accept foreign ids in outgoing signals. Most telcos just don't care for their network integrity.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20052128?utm_source=social-media-share&utm_medium=mastodon
If Paris could break the choke hold of cars, why couldn't other cities? No reason. All it takes is decisions.
The most striking part is how the biggest parking garage operator is repurposing the garages to commerce rather than storage.
The mentioned e-scooter ban was voted in this week, with election participation of only 8%. That strikes pretty low. Who voted?
https://slate.com/business/2023/03/paris-car-ban-bikes-cycling-history-france.html
For all the GOP’s talk of “political retaliation” against their presumptive presidential candidate, the real retaliation unfolded on Thursday on the front lines of the fight for gun safety in Nashville, Tennessee. Following a tragic shooting at the Covenant School in the city that left six victims dead, including three adults and three nine-year old children, more than 1,000 students marched on the Capitol building during a session of the state’s House of Representatives. The students, in the tradition of the Parkland and MSU students, went to protest the state’s utter inaction on gun safety in the wake of these shootings.
Just watched the NVIDIA GTC keynote. Inspired and disturbed in equal measure. Without Universal Basic Income and strong civil society /arts training, a whole tranche of society will become disempowered = despair + violence.
The wife of our guard in Ethiopia wasn't able to have children or find a job. And there is no social security there. She got sicker and sicker. We paid for multiple medical tests but they couldn't find anything. I think she died from despair over not being able to be useful.
Does anyone know of a "solo" non-technical founder who has created a successful startup?
Not including media companies (e.g. Arianna Huffington, Martha Steward, etc.) or fashion brands (Chip Wilson, Sara Blakely, etc).
My new post, inspired (not written) by ChatGPT: Might generative AI help expand our definitions of literacy, ending the privilege of writing and the writer?
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