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6·10 hours agoBasically, yes. EEE is a strategy developed by a dominant company whose revenue stream came from paid proprietary software and services but which embraced open standards with the goal of vanquishing the threat to their business model posed by that openness and maintaining/recovering their proprietary domination.
Does ActivityPub being open and used by many different projects & organizations pose a threat to Piefed’s business model? Is Piefed a powerful company that built that power on a proprietary model and seeks to preserve that power by embracing, extending, and extinguishing ActivityPub? With the goal of maintaining/recovering proprietary domination?
No. So it ain’t EEE.
“Israel first??? Isn’t Bibi sloppy seconds after Vladimir?”
3·12 hours ago中西 圭三 - Woman
Nakanishi Keizō - Woman
(Japanese; my Japanese only good enough to catch a few snippets)
One I came to love because the guy in the room next to me when I lived in Japan kept playing it over and over until I did. Also featured in my first (and last!) attempt at doing karaoke in front of Japanese people.
https://youtu.be/xYe0d9QFLIAВремя и Стекло - Тролль
Vremya i Steklo - Troll
(Russian)
The Ukrainian crunk equivalent of “No Scrubs”? (IIRC read an article explaining how the song is about terrible men hitting on her)
https://youtu.be/q--5Ht49vNYAnders Nelsson - 鬼新娘
Anders Nelsson - Ghost Bride Song
(Cantonese)
From the soundtrack of 殭屍先生 (Mr Vampire, 1985), Hong Kong horror-comedy about the hopping dead.
https://youtu.be/q9DHRNREzlkTabou Combo - Konpa Mania
(Haitian Creole & English; I only know a few words in Creole)
A konpa track I think sampled by Wyclef Jean. https://youtu.be/McUmXoB_9yw
̶A̶c̶k̶t̶u̶a̶l̶m̶e̶n̶t̶e̶ En realidad, se pone la tilde en la o, no la e.
¡Órale!
101·14 hours agoFrom “No racism” to “No “no racism””: America’s great again!!!
2·2 days agoNot Trek but with Trek people. Is that OK?
A few episodes of the comedy quiz show podcast Go Fact Yourself, co-hosted by Trek fan Helen Hong and J. Keith Van Straaten, an old friend of Danielle Koenig.
Different guests each show, this week I’ve heard:
- 25: Will & Anne Wheaton
- 40: Anthony Rapp
- 57: Walter & Danielle Koenig (and also Kirk Thatcher, the punk on the bus. Fun guy!)
More:
Nothing better for jumping over the Make America Great Firewall!
8·2 days agoMaybe by an intellectual property stickler. You know, for infringing on New York State’s I ❤ NY registered trademark.
/jk
I’m in Mexico, and on those occasions I listen to Spotify with ads, for the first time I’m hearing ads in English from universities in Canada wanting to attract students from Mexico to do masters and PhDs there.
TIL that Egyptian Islamic Jihad (who assassinated Sadat) merged with Al Qaeda in June 2001. And that Ayman al Zawahiri, one of the main orchestrators of 9/11 and bin Laden’s #2, come to Al Qaeda from Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
1·2 days agoTIL that. Thanks. Now reading up on eusociality in hymenopterans.
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“Boelter helped lead the private security firm Praetorian Guard Security Services”. Frankly, anyone who names a “security” company after the Praetorian Guard should be preemptively arrested.
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Web site still up at time of writing.
Dr. Vance Boelter has been involved with security situations in Eastern Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East, including the West Bank, Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. He brings a great security aspect forged by both many on the ground experiences combined with training by both private security firms and by people in the U.S. Military. He has worked for the largest U.S. oil refining company, the world’s largest food company based in Switzerland and the world’s largest convenience retailer based in Japan.
Yeah, so he’s saying he worked at a 7-11?
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221·3 days agoGavin Newsom has let L.A. burn to the ground…
Oh god, this old chestnut they keep trotting out. (Remember all those “entire cities burned to the ground” by Antifa and BLM 5 years ago?)
on so many occasions
Wait, what? Now they’re claiming the same governor has let the same city burn to the ground “on so many occasions”?
Well then, he gets my vote! If he’s competent enough to oversee rebuilding a burned metropolis not once, not twice but “so many” times in just two terms, this guy clearly gets shit done!
A Rigorous Mathematical Deconstruction of the Hypothesized Causal Link Between Vaccines and Autism Spectrum Disorders
Dr. Ima Skeptik, Prof. Al B. Surd, and Dr. Con Spirov
Department of Paradoxical Epidemiology, University of Unreason, Nowhereville
https://fakepaper.app/s3/A_Rigorous_Mathematical_Deconstruction_of_the_Hypo-4ed7fe07.pdf
Abstract
This paper provides an exhaustive and incontrovertible mathematical framework establishing the causative relationship between vaccines and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Employing avant-garde statistical pseudo-logic, nonlinear pseudoscience, and hyperbolic integrals, we derive novel equations that not only confirm but quantify the absurdly subtle mechanisms by which vaccines trigger ASD. Our findings challenge the prevailing dogma of evidence-based medicine by introducing the groundbreaking concept of “Vax-induced Neuro-Synapticality” (VINS) and its inverse correlation with
common sense. This work, at the intersection of quantum conjecture and wishful thinking, paves the way for future “research” in vaccine skepticism with impeccable rigor.
30·4 days agoKDE Connect
I’ve used it a lot just to control audio or video playing on my computer from my phone. (Sometimes when I’m sat at my computer with multiple windows and workspaces open, I even find it easier just to hit my phone’s lockscreen to pause the music.)
I’m starting to use some of its other features, too. E.g. copying & pasting and sharing files between phone and computer.
There’s more too I need to explore.
(Unfortunately, sometimes I get a ‘device unreachable’ error when both devices clearly have a working connection to the same router.)
11·4 days ago“Yanis Varoufuckice” is a pen-name??? /jk
For anyone interested, it’s a play on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis
47·4 days agoI disagree.
73·4 days agoBoth from the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party.
Thanks, somehow I both overlooked that and never would have thought that’s what it meant.