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OH: I have a Home Warranty. You pay them a monthly premium, then when something breaks, you pay them a flat fee. Then the technician diagnoses the problem, and the company finds a reason why your plan doesn't cover that. Feels like American insurance in a nutshell.
#uspol #insurance

Sources: C3.ai is in talks to merge with Automation Anywhere, which would go public in the deal; C3.ai's market cap is now ~$1.7B, a tenth of its 2020 valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/c3-ai-talks-merge-startup-autom…

C3.AI in Talks to Merge with Startup Automation Anywhere
C3.AI, founded by tech industry veteran Thomas Siebel, is in talks to merge with privately held startup Automation Anywhere, which will effectively go public in the deal, according to people familiar with the discussions. C3.AI, which sells AI to large companies and government agencies, was the ...

from my link log —
EDSAC 1951 (YouTube)
https://youtu.be/6v4Juzn10gM
saved 2020-10-28 https://dotat.at/:/5E7P7.html…

Bizarrely warm end of the winter, here in the Netherlands: average temperature in the last part of February (21-28/29) was more than a full degree higher than the previous record set just five years ago:
10.5°C, that's warmer than the already warmed 1991-2020 average for April!
Peak was above 17°C.

According to journalist Jen Psaki of The Briefing with Jen ,
Trump’s administration has
seized the physical ballots from the 2020 election,
all tabulator tapes,
and all ballot images from the original ballot count,
breaking the line of custody
and contaminating the files.
Crucially, they also seized all voter rolls from Fulton County.
“This is a seismic event,”
Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) told Psaki.
“This should have people across…

January 28, 2026
Federal agents continue to rain terror on Minneapolis, Minnesota, and other U.S.

F.B.I. Agents Search Election Center in Fulton County Over 2020 Election (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/politics/fbi-search-election-center-georgia.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p2#a260129p2

from my link log —
Switching from i3 to Sway on Ubuntu 20.04.
https://www.autodidacts.io/switching-to-sway-wayland-from-i3-x11-ubuntu/
saved 2020-08-19

Switching to Sway (Wayland) from i3 (X11) on Ubuntu 20.04
When I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 LTS, I finally took the plunge and switched from the i3 window manager on X11 to Sway, an almost drop-in Wayland replacement. Here's my experience of the transition. Here be Dragons Tiling window managers are not for the faint of