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Trump Surprised To Find He's At War in Iran
doomsdayscenario.co · 39 people Worth reading
Once his not-even-half-baked plan failed to materialize in Iran, it’s clear that there’s no Plan B.
The hardest thing for the media to wrap its hands around over the last year is that
⭐️Donald Trump has no plan
— for anything, ever.Time and again, national pundits and the White House press corps invent a logical Donald Trump who sets, announces, and later “changes” real “policies” or “plans,”
failing to convey what is clear to anyone who is actually following events closely:
⚠️In each public appearance and social media post, the Mad King Donald Trump spouts a string of words,
devoid of meaning or purpose,
that may or may not represent anything at all.🔥Every single thing he says may, at any given time, be taken as an official hard-line policy of the US government,
the opening gambit to a long flexible negotiation,
-- or a random pronouncement that will be never be mentioned again.It’s impossible to know in real-time which is which — especially so if you’re actually in the US government and in charge of translating his words into actions and plans
— @cdarwin · Mar 12
Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
newrepublic.com · 157 people
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
“Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of ‘highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat’ while increasing the power of working-class men.”
— @acdha · Mar 12
“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold
samhenri.gold · 127 people
Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.
i really liked this blog post about the macbook neo
— @jacqueline · Mar 12
London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution
theguardian.com · 28 people
Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%
Es gibt diese Top 20 Listen, an denen Deutschland null Ambition hat.
Außer Berlin ist keine deutsche Stadt in dem Ranking, und auch bei Berlin vermute ich einfach, dass die Luftbelastung SO mies war, dass es einfach schon als "Erfolg" gilt, weniger mies geworden zu sein.Ich fahre viel Fahrrad, ich habe seit/durch Post Covid weniger Lungenvolumen - und ich merke einfach, wie stark mit der Müll in der Luft belastet, den ich nicht verursache.
— @SheDrivesMobility · Mar 12
The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away?
grist.org · 12 people
Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos, and Jeffrey Epstein.
The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away?
Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos, and Jeffrey Epstein.
— @kim_harding · Mar 12
"Practically overnight, we took an ancient vice—long regarded as soul-rotting and civilizationally ruinous—put it on everyone’s phone, and made it as normal and frictionless as checking the weather. What could possibly go wrong?" —McKay Coppins for The Atlantic
#Betting #SportsBetting #Gambling #GamblingAddiction #Journalism
— @longreads · Mar 12
Trump Surprised To Find He's At War in Iran
doomsdayscenario.co · 14 people Worth reading
Once his not-even-half-baked plan failed to materialize in Iran, it’s clear that there’s no Plan B.
With a headline that in a sane world would be in the Onion, but is absurdly realistic in this one, Garrett Graff discusses the Sociopath-in-Chief's insane war of choice:
You should subscribe to Graff's newsletter...
— @dangillmor · Mar 13
50 Years of Thinking Different
apple.com · 11 people Worth reading
Read a letter from CEO Tim Cook as he reflects on 50 Years of Apple.
on Apple’s 50th anniversary:
"From the first Apple computer to the Mac, from iPod to iPhone, iPad to Apple Watch and AirPods, as well as the services we use every day — the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV — we’ve spent five decades rethinking what’s possible and putting powerful tools into people’s hands."
What strikes me about this list is that it’s dominated by products in Apple’s very recent history. All of the products except the Apple and Macintosh were created in the last 25 years. Even the iPod is not quite 25 years old.
— @manton · Mar 12
Willingness to look stupid is a genuine moat in creative work
sharif.io · 10 people Worth reading
Looking foolish is underrated.
It takes #courage to dare to look stupid, or to express unpopular opinons.
The willingness to look stupid plays out daily across the world on the boundary between devs and managers. Between where #tech is created and where it should earn income for the whole group.
Of course the general sentiment on the tech side is that all managers are fools with their unrealistic #expectations and demands. And vice versa on the #manager side they think you can never trust a techie to build the right thing, because #devs live in their own world where everything is tech.
Those who have to navigate the boundary between these classes should face the willingness to look stupid to both sides and defend the most rational middle way of the road. I am talking about the poor Jen's in "The #IT Crowd".
— @smallcircles · Mar 13
chicken nuget
daniel.haxx.se · 11 people Worth reading
Background: nuget.org is a Microsoft owned and run service that allows users to package software and upload it to nuget so that other users can download it. It is targeted for .Net developers but there is really no filter in what you can offer through their service. Three years ago I reported on ...
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