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On 25 August 1991, Linus at age 21 announced Linux project/system in a Usenet posting to the newsgroup. Here is original email that changed IT world forever. Happy Birthday, #Linux kernel.

A 66-year-old mother of 9 was murdered by a deranged wingnut who was incensed that she had a pride flag outside her store. Her blood is on the hands of every right-winger who hasn't condemned their movement's relentless attacks on the #LGBTQ community.

https://abc7.com/lake-arrowhead-store-owner-killed-mag-pi-clothing-laura-ann-carleton/13673754/

#fascism #maga #gop

Lake Arrowhead store owner shot and killed over Pride flag hanging outside shop, officials say | abc7.com

A%20beloved%20store%20owner%20in%20Lake%20Arrowhead%20was%20shot%20and%20killed%20during%20a%20dispute%20over%20a%20Pride%20flag%2C%20officials%20say.

Montana loses fight against youth climate activists in landmark ruling

Emotional testimony leads to plaintiffs' win in first youth-led climate trial.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/montana-loses-fight-against-youth-climate-activists-in-landmark-ruling/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Montana loses fight against youth climate activists in landmark ruling

Emotional testimony leads to plaintiffs' win in first youth-led climate trial.

Ars Technica

The new U.S. majority isn't just young, tolerant and diverse. They vote. The right hates that, and it hates what it sees when it looks at something like U.S. women's soccer

They hate America AND democracy, and it's devolving toward violence.

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...🧡

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/us-conservatives-embrace-authoritarianism-anti-democracy-20230813.html#loaded

From a Kansas newsroom to a soccer pitch, why the right hates America and democracy

The right's hatred of young, multicultural America β€” epitomized by U.S. soccer women β€” is driving its push to end democracy.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

This looks like the most brazen and direct government attack on freedom of the press in a long, long time.

https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/

No doubt, Big Journalism will speak as one to denounce this almost certainly illegal raid and confiscation of computers and more.

I hope our nation's journalists will realize that the extremists who run one of our two major parties are itching to bring our news media to heel, and killing democracy is the way they will start.

Wake the hell up, folks.

#journalism

Police stage 'chilling' raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones β€’ Kansas Reflector

In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper's reporters, and the publisher's home.

Kansas Reflector
The FBI shot and killed a Utah man suspected of threatening President Biden ahead of his planned trip to the state Wednesday. https://t.co/ikjr4Bq4iy
FBI fatally shoots Utah man accused of threatening Biden

The incident occurred when special agents attempted to serve arrest and search warrants at a residence in Provo, the FBI said.

Axios

honestly, it’s hard to argue with this

case in point…

I wrote about how Amazon’s bookstore is filling up with deepfaked authors and AI sludge β€” an early warning of the challenge that text generation poses to platforms. https://www.platformer.news/p/writers-are-getting-deepfaked-on
Writers are getting deepfaked on Amazon

Platforms are filling up with AI-generated spam β€” and it's not clear who can build the tools to stop it

Platformer
Perfect.

I have just been requested to commute three days a week 135 miles away each way from my home (I have not moved) to an office I was never required to attend before the pandemic starting end of September.

If anyone needs remote product/infrastructure/platform engineering or backend developer who has 15 years cloud deployment experience and data center to cloud migration experience, email me on [email protected].

#haskell #PureScript #Deno #typescript