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Today is objectively a great day for #RockNRoll. On my way to the studio, where S1E10 of "The Adventures of Dirk Balsäk", the season finale, is being handed over for audio post!!
2.5yrs since I started editing...
#filmmaking

Fun fact, your computer doesn't have USB ports (USB is a protocol, not a connector).
Funner fact, even if your computer has USB-C receptacles it might not be using any type of USB as protocol for a specific connection.
Funnest fact, there's at least a dozen different types of cables that use USB-C plugs with various capabilities, sometimes mutually incompatible and often silently falling back to slower protocols.

"Tree planting can combat urban heat, but some neighborhoods are falling behind"
#Trees #Environment
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💥2000 meters to Andriivka
The closer you get to combat, the more jarring it becomes.
Death comes randomly.
The noise is terrifying;
the fear is stifling.
And most people can’t bear to see what war actually does to the human body
—how a brief instant can transform a living, breathing person
into ugly scraps of flesh.
The fighting in Ukraine has, in many ways,
transformed the nature of warfare.
As many as 80 percent of battle casu…

”My argument is that the current structure of public conversation has the same effect on human cognition that a botnet has on a web server. It's simply exhausting you. And an exhausted mind defaults to heuristics and tribal allegiances, aka whatever position allows it to conserve the most cognitive energy.”

”What I do know is that the feeling of being overwhelmed, of never being able to keep up, of having strong opinions about everything and confident understanding of nothing, is n…

Filing: Sony and Tencent reach a "confidential settlement" over Tencent's Light of Motiram, a game that Sony alleged was a "slavish clone" of its Horizon series (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/847080/sony-

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
AVON: We will do nothing to counter the force acting upon the Liberator. We then plot the Liberator's course on the main battle computer flight predictor to see exactly how she is behaving. Once we understand how the force is operating we may be some way toward defeating it.
TARRANT: Strange. The Liberator's following a curve. Traction beams produce straight-line motion. Zen, I want a prediction of the Liberator's course based …

Metacurity is the independent, non-hype, non-personality-dependent cybersecurity newsletter that delivers a daily dose of critical developments you need to know.
Check out today's issue, which covers
--CISA warns US infrastructure owners following Russian attack on Poland's power grid,
--Russia throttles Telegram accusing it of failing to protect personal data or combat crime,
--N. Korean hackers targeted crypto company with unique malware and multiple scams,…

The consequences of the 996 working hour system:
"On the Chinese internet, the country’s current predicament – slowing economic growth, a falling birthrate, a meagre social safety net, increasing isolation on the world stage – is often expressed through buzzwords. There is tangping, or “lying flat”, a term used to describe the young generation of Chinese who are choosing to chill out rather than hustle in China’s high-pressure economy. There is runxue, or “run philosophy”, which re…

DOJ Flames Judiciary Over Impertinent Demand For Competent US Attorneys - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/02/doj-flames-judiciary-over-impertinent-demand-for-competent-us-attorneys/