Proletarian Rage
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Policymakers cannot take tech giants’ claims at face value. Companies have every incentive to resist interoperability and raise costs for switching to a competing services. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/interoperability-vs-security-why-not-both
Crazypedia won't Comply 🧿
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Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...
Alex is Canadian now
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There's an academic paper analyzing how linguistics is portrayed in ~100 novels over the past ~100 years, if anyone is looking for a lingfic reading list
Good news: the rate of linguistics in fiction seems to be increasing!
journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/...
@jwildeboer that runoff should be nearly instant though? You would presumably read all of the second choices when you scanned the ballots the first time.
Even if they have to reprocess the ballots it'll be faster than the first round because they have all the ballots. The slow part of the first count is waiting for delivery of all of the ballots from the (many) remote parts of the state to arrive by mail.
@andy Countries like Iceland and Brazil, who also have to deal with remote parts, manage to count far faster. Maybe Alasks should visit those places to learn how to become better ;)
Alex is Canadian now
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Any marine biologists on here? Friends of mine found these cocoons on the beach in Portugal and are wondering who made them. They're very fragile and beatifully made.
#marinelife #seacreatures
Politico also has a story up mentioning this panic scheme by Schumer to change the caucus rules and move up the Majority Leader vote to next week.
And it all is incredibly shady: "A waiver vote would be conducted by secret ballot, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, which could help take pressure off Democratic senators wary of public backlash."
As public momentum for Van Holland builds, Schumer's strategy seems to skulk into the job.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/11/13/van-hollen-schumer-senate-democrats-01166260
Proletarian Rage
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“That’s not complicity,” said Feroze when asked about the U.S.-made missiles used in the attack. “That’s active participation in the murder of physicians and other healthcare workers.”
#IsraelRogueState #USpol #Palestine #Gaza #WarCrimes #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #SolidarityWithPalestine #Genocide
Israel Used a U.S.-Made Missile to Kill Six at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital
https://theintercept.com/2026/11/13/israel-gaza-nasser-hospital-attack/
Interesting. Wondering if this is a crew-is-not-available-or-here or timed-out problem. Two SWA planes not yet departed out of BUR, very late... planes are where they need to be. #aviation
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Picard management tip: Ignore rules that make no sense.
william ⁂ maggos
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The Sporting Scene
An N.B.A. Player Got Hooked on Sports Betting. Soon, He Became the Bet
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/11/16/the-nba-player-who-got-hooked-on-sports-betting?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into The Sporting Scene @the-sporting-scene-NewYorker
@lowqualityfacts So, not just Spanglish? Huh.
@ramsey @lowqualityfacts Spanglish is a multiple language, not a single language.
Jason Lefkowitz
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“Mainly it was hordes of heterosexual couples and single women — the only clientele permitted inside — who flocked to Plato’s after 10 p.m., feverish to shed their sexual inhibitions, and clothes. Couples forked over $25, plus a $5 temporary membership fee, to gain access for two.
“Once inside, they were welcome to enjoy the lounge, which featured an Olympic-sized pool, a 60-person jacuzzi and the legendary ‘mat room’ — where a sea of mattresses accommodated orgies.”
https://nypost.com/2023/02/27/inside-larry-levensons-nyc-sex-club-platos-retreat/
Jason Lefkowitz
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The nationwide ground stop on airline flights has been lifted, which is good, because if it had gone on an hour or two longer the airline club lounges would have turned into Plato’s Retreat
@molly0xfff I’m a subscriber. Thank you for all you do and report
@dpp thank you!
lafnlab
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I wonder if the guy who coined the term, "One Hit Wonder" had any other phrases.
Space Catitude 🚀
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No site that handles payments should be using LLM-generated code for anything more function-critical than a stylesheet, and even then I think you're willing the dice.
I'd go so far as to say "no site you can log into."
Have a peaceful weekend, #BSDCafe
Have a peaceful weekend, #illumosCafe
Have a peaceful weekend, #Fediverse
