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Floppy disks were introduced in the early 1970s and in the two decades before they became obsolete, tens of billions were produced, most of which ended up in landfills, long-forgotten storage, or libraries. Archivist Leontien Talboom has been working for the past few years to preserve the floppy disks in the Cambridge University Library, collaborating with retro-computing enthusiasts. She talked to @PopularScience about the project.

https://flip.it/Hg8Swi

#Technology #Tech #RetroComputing #LIbraries

Floppy disks were introduced in the early 1970s and in the two decades before they became obsolete, tens of billions were produced, most of which ended up in landfills, long-forgotten storage, or libraries. Archivist Leontien Talboom has been working for the past few years to preserve the floppy disks in the Cambridge University Library, collaborating with retro-computing enthusiasts. She talked to @PopularScience about the project.

https://flip.it/Hg8Swi

#Technology #Tech #RetroComputing #LIbraries

Floppy disks were introduced in the early 1970s and in the two decades before they became obsolete, tens of billions were produced, most of which ended up in landfills, long-forgotten storage, or libraries. Archivist Leontien Talboom has been working for the past few years to preserve the floppy disks in the Cambridge University Library, collaborating with retro-computing enthusiasts. She talked to @PopularScience about the project.

https://flip.it/Hg8Swi

#Technology #Tech #RetroComputing #LIbraries

Floppy disks were introduced in the early 1970s and in the two decades before they became obsolete, tens of billions were produced, most of which ended up in landfills, long-forgotten storage, or libraries. Archivist Leontien Talboom has been working for the past few years to preserve the floppy disks in the Cambridge University Library, collaborating with retro-computing enthusiasts. She talked to @PopularScience about the project.

https://flip.it/Hg8Swi

#Technology #Tech #RetroComputing #LIbraries

Floppy disks were introduced in the early 1970s and in the two decades before they became obsolete, tens of billions were produced, most of which ended up in landfills, long-forgotten storage, or libraries. Archivist Leontien Talboom has been working for the past few years to preserve the floppy disks in the Cambridge University Library, collaborating with retro-computing enthusiasts. She talked to @PopularScience about the project.

https://flip.it/Hg8Swi

#Technology #Tech #RetroComputing #LIbraries

Floppy disks were introduced in the early 1970s and in the two decades before they became obsolete, tens of billions were produced, most of which ended up in landfills, long-forgotten storage, or libraries. Archivist Leontien Talboom has been working for the past few years to preserve the floppy disks in the Cambridge University Library, collaborating with retro-computing enthusiasts. She talked to @PopularScience about the project.

https://flip.it/Hg8Swi

#Technology #Tech #RetroComputing #LIbraries

Floppy disks were introduced in the early 1970s and in the two decades before they became obsolete, tens of billions were produced, most of which ended up in landfills, long-forgotten storage, or libraries. Archivist Leontien Talboom has been working for the past few years to preserve the floppy disks in the Cambridge University Library, collaborating with retro-computing enthusiasts. She talked to @PopularScience about the project.

https://flip.it/Hg8Swi

#Technology #Tech #RetroComputing #LIbraries

Floppy disks were introduced in the early 1970s and in the two decades before they became obsolete, tens of billions were produced, most of which ended up in landfills, long-forgotten storage, or libraries. Archivist Leontien Talboom has been working for the past few years to preserve the floppy disks in the Cambridge University Library, collaborating with retro-computing enthusiasts. She talked to @PopularScience about the project.

https://flip.it/Hg8Swi

#Technology #Tech #RetroComputing #LIbraries

Floppy disks were introduced in the early 1970s and in the two decades before they became obsolete, tens of billions were produced, most of which ended up in landfills, long-forgotten storage, or libraries. Archivist Leontien Talboom has been working for the past few years to preserve the floppy disks in the Cambridge University Library, collaborating with retro-computing enthusiasts. She talked to @PopularScience about the project.

https://flip.it/Hg8Swi

#Technology #Tech #RetroComputing #LIbraries

Floppy disks were introduced in the early 1970s and in the two decades before they became obsolete, tens of billions were produced, most of which ended up in landfills, long-forgotten storage, or libraries. Archivist Leontien Talboom has been working for the past few years to preserve the floppy disks in the Cambridge University Library, collaborating with retro-computing enthusiasts. She talked to @PopularScience about the project.

https://flip.it/Hg8Swi

#Technology #Tech #RetroComputing #LIbraries

“Terry Pratchett wrote every decent person’s favorite summary of the bedrock of humanist morality in a fantasy book for young readers called I Shall Wear Midnight: ‘Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.’ Treating people as things can begin in many ways, but I think one of them is the idea that things can be people.” https://www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-people

“Terry Pratchett wrote every decent person’s favorite summary of the bedrock of humanist morality in a fantasy book for young readers called I Shall Wear Midnight: ‘Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.’ Treating people as things can begin in many ways, but I think one of them is the idea that things can be people.” https://www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-people

“Terry Pratchett wrote every decent person’s favorite summary of the bedrock of humanist morality in a fantasy book for young readers called I Shall Wear Midnight: ‘Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.’ Treating people as things can begin in many ways, but I think one of them is the idea that things can be people.” https://www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-people

“Terry Pratchett wrote every decent person’s favorite summary of the bedrock of humanist morality in a fantasy book for young readers called I Shall Wear Midnight: ‘Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.’ Treating people as things can begin in many ways, but I think one of them is the idea that things can be people.” https://www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-people

"Treating people as things can begin in many ways, but I think one of them is the idea that things can be people." https://www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-people

this is good. there is a weird lacuna re: content about this stuff that is adequately

a: technically correct

b: grounded in Thought

i don't think i'm thatttt picky on either criterion but this is good

https://www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-people

“Terry Pratchett wrote every decent person’s favorite summary of the bedrock of humanist morality in a fantasy book for young readers called I Shall Wear Midnight: ‘Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.’ Treating people as things can begin in many ways, but I think one of them is the idea that things can be people.” https://www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-people

this is good. there is a weird lacuna re: content about this stuff that is adequately

a: technically correct

b: grounded in Thought

i don't think i'm thatttt picky on either criterion but this is good

https://www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-people

“Terry Pratchett wrote every decent person’s favorite summary of the bedrock of humanist morality in a fantasy book for young readers called I Shall Wear Midnight: ‘Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.’ Treating people as things can begin in many ways, but I think one of them is the idea that things can be people.” https://www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-people

“Terry Pratchett wrote every decent person’s favorite summary of the bedrock of humanist morality in a fantasy book for young readers called I Shall Wear Midnight: ‘Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.’ Treating people as things can begin in many ways, but I think one of them is the idea that things can be people.” https://www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-people

The current administration is legitimately evil. There’s no other way to describe it.

“500 metric tons of high-energy food, intended for child refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the age of five, were incinerated, as were ten million dollars of contraceptives at a cost of $167,000.”

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-has-done/

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-has-done/

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-has-done/

The current administration is legitimately evil. There’s no other way to describe it.

“500 metric tons of high-energy food, intended for child refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the age of five, were incinerated, as were ten million dollars of contraceptives at a cost of $167,000.”

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-has-done/

Recurring pattern: The US makes policy choices that have massive policy consequences for other countries, but rate at best a couple days of domestic news coverage. Then a decade or two later we’re utterly baffled that people in those places despise us. www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

What Elon Has Done

Recurring pattern: The US makes policy choices that have massive policy consequences for other countries, but rate at best a couple days of domestic news coverage. Then a decade or two later we’re utterly baffled that people in those places despise us. www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

What Elon Has Done

The current administration is legitimately evil. There’s no other way to describe it.

“500 metric tons of high-energy food, intended for child refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the age of five, were incinerated, as were ten million dollars of contraceptives at a cost of $167,000.”

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-has-done/

The current administration is legitimately evil. There’s no other way to describe it.

“500 metric tons of high-energy food, intended for child refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the age of five, were incinerated, as were ten million dollars of contraceptives at a cost of $167,000.”

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-has-done/

The current administration is legitimately evil. There’s no other way to describe it.

“500 metric tons of high-energy food, intended for child refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the age of five, were incinerated, as were ten million dollars of contraceptives at a cost of $167,000.”

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-has-done/

The current administration is legitimately evil. There’s no other way to describe it.

“500 metric tons of high-energy food, intended for child refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the age of five, were incinerated, as were ten million dollars of contraceptives at a cost of $167,000.”

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-has-done/

Nearly two decades ago 'yachtgate', an earlier scandal involving Peter Mandelson, opened a window on the shadowy networks of influence & patronage around Jeffrey Epstein, but we (well, the media) failed to look fully through that window, focussing on only its immediate implications.

Now, looking back, Tamsin Shaw argues it was just one more missed opportunity to shine a light into the shadows... missed wilfully?

#JeffreyEpstein #PeterMandelson #politics #EpsteinFiles

https://www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mandelson-russia-superyacht-yachtgate-epstein-deripaska-global-counsel

Nearly two decades ago 'yachtgate', an earlier scandal involving Peter Mandelson, opened a window on the shadowy networks of influence & patronage around Jeffrey Epstein, but we (well, the media) failed to look fully through that window, focussing on only its immediate implications.

Now, looking back, Tamsin Shaw argues it was just one more missed opportunity to shine a light into the shadows... missed wilfully?

#JeffreyEpstein #PeterMandelson #politics #EpsteinFiles

https://www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mandelson-russia-superyacht-yachtgate-epstein-deripaska-global-counsel

When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paedophile kompromat and New Labour access that shaped a decade of British politics.

https://www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mandelson-russia-superyacht-yachtgate-epstein-deripaska-global-counsel

When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paedophile kompromat and New Labour access that shaped a decade of British politics.

https://www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mandelson-russia-superyacht-yachtgate-epstein-deripaska-global-counsel

When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paedophile kompromat and New Labour access that shaped a decade of British politics.

https://www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mandelson-russia-superyacht-yachtgate-epstein-deripaska-global-counsel

When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paedophile kompromat and New Labour access that shaped a decade of British politics.

https://www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mandelson-russia-superyacht-yachtgate-epstein-deripaska-global-counsel

#JeffreyEpstein #PeterMandelson #politics #EpsteinFiles

https://www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mandelson-russia-superyacht-yachtgate-epstein-deripaska-global-counsel

https://www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mandelson-russia-superyacht-yachtgate-epstein-deripaska-global-counsel

When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paedophile kompromat and New Labour access that shaped a decade of British politics.

https://www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mandelson-russia-superyacht-yachtgate-epstein-deripaska-global-counsel

When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paedophile kompromat and New Labour access that shaped a decade of British politics.

https://www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mandelson-russia-superyacht-yachtgate-epstein-deripaska-global-counsel

Anthropic is different because they're committed to safety.

...I'm being told they are no longer committed to safety.

https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/

Anthropic is different because they're committed to safety.

...I'm being told they are no longer committed to safety.

https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/

Anthropic is different because they're committed to safety.

...I'm being told they are no longer committed to safety.

https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/

Anthropic is different because they're committed to safety.

...I'm being told they are no longer committed to safety.

https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/

Anthropic is different because they're committed to safety.

...I'm being told they are no longer committed to safety.

https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/

Anthropic is different because they're committed to safety.

...I'm being told they are no longer committed to safety.

https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/

https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/

https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/
http://www.techmeme.com/260224/p42#a260224p42

Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge

Link: https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145963

Anthropic is different because they're committed to safety.

...I'm being told they are no longer committed to safety.

https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/

"..today, 27 years after Heather’s death.. the privatised water industry is owned by a medley of private hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds. Sewage pollution is at record levels, companies are staggering under debts of £60bn accrued in part to pay shareholder dividends of £78bn and infrastructure has been left to rot"

#Water #Privatisation #UKPolitics

Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry | Water | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/23/channel-4-dirty-business-clarion-call-nationalise-water-industry

"..today, 27 years after Heather’s death.. the privatised water industry is owned by a medley of private hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds. Sewage pollution is at record levels, companies are staggering under debts of £60bn accrued in part to pay shareholder dividends of £78bn and infrastructure has been left to rot"

#Water #Privatisation #UKPolitics

Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry | Water | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/23/channel-4-dirty-business-clarion-call-nationalise-water-industry

"..today, 27 years after Heather’s death.. the privatised water industry is owned by a medley of private hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds. Sewage pollution is at record levels, companies are staggering under debts of £60bn accrued in part to pay shareholder dividends of £78bn and infrastructure has been left to rot"

#Water #Privatisation #UKPolitics

Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry | Water | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/23/channel-4-dirty-business-clarion-call-nationalise-water-industry

"..today, 27 years after Heather’s death.. the privatised water industry is owned by a medley of private hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds. Sewage pollution is at record levels, companies are staggering under debts of £60bn accrued in part to pay shareholder dividends of £78bn and infrastructure has been left to rot"

#Water #Privatisation #UKPolitics

Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry | Water | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/23/channel-4-dirty-business-clarion-call-nationalise-water-industry

Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/23/channel-4-dirty-business-clarion-call-nationalise-water-industry #Water #WaterIndustry #ThamesWater #Channel4 #Rivers #Pollution #Coastlines #Business #Environment #Media #TelevisionIndustry #UkNews

"..today, 27 years after Heather’s death.. the privatised water industry is owned by a medley of private hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds. Sewage pollution is at record levels, companies are staggering under debts of £60bn accrued in part to pay shareholder dividends of £78bn and infrastructure has been left to rot"

#Water #Privatisation #UKPolitics

Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry | Water | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/23/channel-4-dirty-business-clarion-call-nationalise-water-industry

"..today, 27 years after Heather’s death.. the privatised water industry is owned by a medley of private hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds. Sewage pollution is at record levels, companies are staggering under debts of £60bn accrued in part to pay shareholder dividends of £78bn and infrastructure has been left to rot"

#Water #Privatisation #UKPolitics

Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry | Water | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/23/channel-4-dirty-business-clarion-call-nationalise-water-industry

#Water #Privatisation #UKPolitics

Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry | Water | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/23/channel-4-dirty-business-clarion-call-nationalise-water-industry

Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry | Water | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/23/channel-4-dirty-business-clarion-call-nationalise-water-industry

"Sewage pollution is at record levels, companies are staggering under debts of £60bn accrued in part to pay shareholder dividends of £78bn and infrastructure has been left to rot."

#Capitalism #Water #Sewage #Pollution #Health #UK

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/23/channel-4-dirty-business-clarion-call-nationalise-water-industry

Adolf Hitler's rise to power was marked by early warning signs that went ignored. Politicians dismissed the alarm bells and institutions believed the system would restrain what was coming. History shows clearly just how wrong those assumptions were. Now, as Trump and MAGA test the limits of our democracy, history is beginning to rhyme. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/perfect-storm-trump-nazi-germany

Adolf Hitler's rise to power was marked by early warning signs that went ignored. Politicians dismissed the alarm bells and institutions believed the system would restrain what was coming. History shows clearly just how wrong those assumptions were. Now, as Trump and MAGA test the limits of our democracy, history is beginning to rhyme. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/perfect-storm-trump-nazi-germany

Adolf Hitler's rise to power was marked by early warning signs that went ignored. Politicians dismissed the alarm bells and institutions believed the system would restrain what was coming. History shows clearly just how wrong those assumptions were. Now, as Trump and MAGA test the limits of our democracy, history is beginning to rhyme. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/perfect-storm-trump-nazi-germany

Adolf Hitler's rise to power was marked by early warning signs that went ignored. Politicians dismissed the alarm bells and institutions believed the system would restrain what was coming. History shows clearly just how wrong those assumptions were. Now, as Trump and MAGA test the limits of our democracy, history is beginning to rhyme. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/perfect-storm-trump-nazi-germany

Adolf Hitler's rise to power was marked by early warning signs that went ignored. Politicians dismissed the alarm bells and institutions believed the system would restrain what was coming. History shows clearly just how wrong those assumptions were. Now, as Trump and MAGA test the limits of our democracy, history is beginning to rhyme. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/perfect-storm-trump-nazi-germany

Adolf Hitler's rise to power was marked by early warning signs that went ignored. Politicians dismissed the alarm bells and institutions believed the system would restrain what was coming. History shows clearly just how wrong those assumptions were. Now, as Trump and MAGA test the limits of our democracy, history is beginning to rhyme. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/perfect-storm-trump-nazi-germany

Adolf Hitler's rise to power was marked by early warning signs that went ignored. Politicians dismissed the alarm bells and institutions believed the system would restrain what was coming. History shows clearly just how wrong those assumptions were. Now, as Trump and MAGA test the limits of our democracy, history is beginning to rhyme. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/perfect-storm-trump-nazi-germany

Adolf Hitler's rise to power was marked by early warning signs that went ignored. Politicians dismissed the alarm bells and institutions believed the system would restrain what was coming. History shows clearly just how wrong those assumptions were. Now, as Trump and MAGA test the limits of our democracy, history is beginning to rhyme. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/perfect-storm-trump-nazi-germany

Adolf Hitler's rise to power was marked by early warning signs that went ignored. Politicians dismissed the alarm bells and institutions believed the system would restrain what was coming. History shows clearly just how wrong those assumptions were. Now, as Trump and MAGA test the limits of our democracy, history is beginning to rhyme. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/perfect-storm-trump-nazi-germany

Adolf Hitler's rise to power was marked by early warning signs that went ignored. Politicians dismissed the alarm bells and institutions believed the system would restrain what was coming. History shows clearly just how wrong those assumptions were. Now, as Trump and MAGA test the limits of our democracy, history is beginning to rhyme. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/perfect-storm-trump-nazi-germany

On Software Quality https://pxlnv.com/blog/on-software-quality/

⌥ On Software Quality - https://pxlnv.com/blog/on-software-quality/

Jason Snell has [published the results from his annual survey][1] of a panel of
Apple observers and, as I expected, there seems to be [wide agreement][2] that
the company’s software quality is not...

#mbw

On Software Quality https://pxlnv.com/blog/on-software-quality/

https://pxlnv.com/blog/on-software-quality/

On Software Quality https://pxlnv.com/blog/on-software-quality/

On Software Quality https://pxlnv.com/blog/on-software-quality/

On Software Quality https://pxlnv.com/blog/on-software-quality/