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just added to Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobache...
July 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator
Trump’s decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico may be upsetting to some, writes @giladedelman.bsky.social, but “in a democracy, values are determined by majority rule, and they don’t shift in only one direction. They can shift back”:
‘The Gulf of America’ Is the Wrong Fight to Pick
The more that politicians mess around with place names, the more important it is to respond according to consistent principles.
www.theatlantic.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Something we all should remember, as we talk about worst case scenarios and ways to plan for and survive them:

It's very much worth remembering that we collectively can and will survive them.

And, we will build something beautiful on the ashes of their corrupt and childish violence.
February 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Just discovered that while I was writing yesterday, Adam Levitin at Credit Slips published “Debanked by the Market”, a much longer explanation of something I briefly mention in my piece:
creditslips.org/creditslips/...

Worth a read, and I’ll add a footnote to my article to link to it.
February 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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NEW EPISODE we talk with @molly.wiki about the recent crypto takeover, how every grifter has their own memecoin, and what it means for the future. we now live in scam nation
Scam Nation Ft. Molly White | Western Kabuki Podcast
YouTube video by Western Kabuki
youtu.be
February 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted.
Yet somehow Musk isn't.
February 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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I am so delighted that this @wired.com feature, from the inimitable @laurensmiley.bsky.social is an ASME finalist - deservedly so!

Give it a read if you haven’t already:

www.wired.com/story/prisci...
She Made $10,000 a Month Defrauding Apps like Uber and Instacart. Meet the Queen of the Rideshare Mafia
Priscila Barbosa came to the US with a dream of making it. Using gig-economy platforms she built a business empire up from nothing. There was just one huge problem.
www.wired.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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So the US is now kidnapping whole families and trafficking them to random countries that the US has coerced into imprisoning them for some unspecified period of time
Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste.
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...
February 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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lol
February 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Allowing the administration to define broad swaths of history, programming and civil rights compliance as “DEI” and then regurgitating that language instead of clearly articulating what specifically is being targeted is spreading disinformation and propaganda.
February 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This is my team at WMF and we are hiring!
We're hiring a software engineer in my team at the Wikimedia Foundation!

We work on wikitext support for Mediawiki & associated services for the Wikimedia projects, and it's a great team to be in :)

Oh, and it's a full remote (many countries) position.

grnh.se/4b15b3581us
January 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM