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@[email protected] @[email protected] Putting aside whether or not passkeys are a good idea, such patterns make me suspicious. That's a nudge: they make the usual login flow painful, and make the passkey flow as easy as possible, because the latter is what they prefer you do. I inevitably put my guard up whenever I notice a nudge, and start asking questions about why I'm being coaxed down this particular flow.

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Dan Gillmor 1d ago

Google's autonymous taxi company says it won't obey traffic safety laws because its customers want convenience, so screw those bicyclists who don't want to be injured or killed.

https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo

Expecting driverless taxis to respect bike lanes “too high a bar” – because customers want to be dropped off in them, autonomous vehicle firm Waymo tells cyclists

Waymo, the autonomous driving tech firm whose so-called ‘robo-taxis’ are now roaming the streets of London, has told cycling campaigners that expecting their driverless cars to respect cycle lanes is “too high a bar” – because their customers want to be dropped off in them.According to the Highway Code, motorists “must not drive or park ... Read more

road.cc

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Servelan 1d ago

"China has mostly stopped buying American soybeans. U.S. rice exports to Latin America have also cratered, and corn prices have. plummeted. [C]otton prices have bottomed out.

"They quit buying all of our crops. We have lost customers forever. They will never come back. Because we're deemed an unreliable supplier.""

'Lifelong Republican' losing patience with Trump in deep red state - Alternet.org

https://www.alternet.org/trump-farmers-fertilizer/

'Lifelong Republican' losing patience with Trump in deep red state

NPR reports the Trump effect on fertilizer and fuel prices is pushing President Donald Trump supporting farmers “to the brink,” despite Trump’s $12 billion Farmer Bridge Assistance Program, which delivers a one-time payment to offset farmers’ losses because of Trump’s tariff policies.“If somebody to...

Alternet.org

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Servelan 1d ago

‘The damage is done’: global oil crisis has changed fossil fuel industry for ever, IEA chief says | Oil | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/24/global-oil-crisis-changed-fossil-fuel-industry-for-ever-iea-chief-fatih-birol

‘The damage is done’: global oil crisis has changed fossil fuel industry for ever, IEA chief says

Exclusive: International Energy Agency’s Fatih Birol, the world’s leading energy economist, also says UK should largely forgo North Sea expansion

The Guardian

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Passenger 1d ago

@aud

Okay so there was this knife found by archeologists in Istanbul. Really old knife, probably Late Eastern Roman period. Unusually for a knife made in a Greek-speaking Roman empire, it had a Norse runic inscription.

This is not that weird, because the Emperors kept Norse bodyguards, most famously the Varangian Guard. But while Istanbul had loads of archeologists who could read Greek, none of them knew Norse runes, so they contacted an outside expert. It turned out that the inscription on the knife, when translated, said "KNIFE."

Every person I have ever met with a label machine has had exactly this sense of humour. And now that includes you.

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Sam Litzinger 1d ago

They don’t even bother trying to hide the corruption now:

“Firm Building Trump’s Ballroom Got a Secret No-Bid Contract for a Nearby Job”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/us/politics/lafayette-park-fountains-trump-contract.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Here’s the construction company’s website. I’m sure it would love to hear from taxpayers!

https://www.clarkconstruction.com/about-us/offices/bethesda

Firm Building Trump’s Ballroom Got a Secret No-Bid Contract for a Nearby Job

The National Park Service increased the value of the contract several times over and then awarded it to Maryland-based Clark Construction, in a process that experts said was highly unusual.

The New York Times

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Servelan 1d ago

Why a century-old naval disaster means Trump can’t take the Strait of Hormuz by force | The Independent

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/strait-of-hormuz-trump-iran-blockade-dardanelles-1915-b2964375.html

Why a century-old naval disaster means Trump can’t take the Strait of Hormuz by force

As Donald Trump and Iran insist on keeping the Strait of Hormuz firmly closed while a shaky ceasefire persists, John W S Clark looks back at a similar stand-off more than a century ago, which did not end well

The Independent

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idunn 1d ago

#funny #humor #dogs

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Myk 1d ago

#batman #memes #humor #nerdhumor

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idunn 1d ago

#funny #humor #fail

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