At the same time, Sheinbaum said she expects to have a good relationship with Trump, saying the incoming US president “has his way of communicating.”

oh yeah, that’ll show him …

people still arguing about how much of MS-DOS was copied from CP/M

Steve Wozniak was the tech geek
Steve Jobs was the techbro

Accidental Renaissance had a field day

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“What is so much worse than vigilante violence without accountability is systemic violence without accountability. The most prolific vigilante in the world, hell the most prolific serial killer in the world, could not kill as many people per day as the CEO of United Healthcare is responsible for.”

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• yes, that’s poisonous
• yes, we have food safety standards
• that can be completely ignored if you have the money
• and yes, RFK Jr. will do the best he can to reduce our standards even further
• to give you an idea of how much of a joke it is, the US label for “safe” is GRAS “generally recognized as safe”

just a little more money and that conservative will surely switch sides … anytime now …

Christmas has always been political

• Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread (1892)
• Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom (1982)
• Abdullah Öcalan, Democratic Confederalism (2011)

they just need a cough drop

be sure to hashtag that resistance!

“There are two types of people: those who back up and those who haven’t lost data … yet.”

cell phone providers can, they just won’t (would eat into their profits)

and most of the home internet sold as “unlimited” was a scam – if you started to get too close to some hidden value, they would start throttling your connection

it’s time to return to the roots, FORTRAN and LISP and COBOL – C is the new technology

a pharmaceutical company profiteering off a health crisis? nah …

a couple years later, someone caught Amazon pulling the same thing …

pile on layers of cultural norms – some cultures place a priority on punctuality, and some cultures it’s downright rude to arrive at the time stated – and then there’s the US where workers are required to be on time but bosses don’t even need to show up