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Google launches "platform properties" in the Google Search Console, letting creators and website owners see which search terms lead to their social platforms (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/961955/google-search-console-reach…

Google Search lets creators know more about their reach
The Google Search Console’s new platform properties feature will give content creators and website owners a better idea of how people find their social media profiles through search.

Google launches "platform properties" in the Google Search Console, letting creators and website owners see which search terms lead to their social platforms (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/961955/google-search-console-reach…

Google Search lets creators know more about their reach
The Google Search Console’s new platform properties feature will give content creators and website owners a better idea of how people find their social media profiles through search.

Steelers coaches compare Jalen Ramsey to Charles Woodson as DB prepares for versatile role https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-coaches-compare-jalen-ramsey-to-charles-woodson-as-db-prepares-for-versatile-role

What the Lemmings Could Not Do: On Suicide, Cognition, and the Mortal Imagination
Of all the acts a human being can perform, suicide is the strangest. It requires the actor to picture a world without itself, judge that world preferable, and execute a plan…...
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What the Lemmings Could Not Do: On Suicide, Cognition, and the Mortal Imagination | David Boles, Blogs
Of all the acts a human being can perform, suicide is the strangest. It requires the actor to picture a world without itself, judge that world preferable, and execute a plan whose author will not s…

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9th Circuit: Religious exemptions properly denied | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/9th-circuit-religious-exemptions-properly-denied/

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OLTP performance since PostgreSQL 8.3.
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/oltp-performance-since-postgresql-8-3/
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Discover the power of property-based testing in R with the #quickcheck package! Seamlessly integrates with #testthat and offers a variety of generators for atomic vectors, lists, and tibbles. Perfect for ensuring your code's reliability. Check it out:

GitHub - armcn/quickcheck: Property Based Testing in R
Property Based Testing in R. Contribute to armcn/quickcheck development by creating an account on GitHub.

#Panasonic hat eine Luft-Wasser-#Wärmepumpe mit natürlichem CO₂ als #Kältemittel vorgestellt.
Das System erreicht laut Hersteller einen COP von bis zu 6,1, liefert auch bei niedrigen Außentemperaturen warmes Wasser und lässt sich mit einer

Panasonic launches CO₂ air-to-water heat pump with coefficient of performance of 6.1 - pv magazine Global
Panasonic has launched a residential CO₂ (R744) air-to-water heat pump range designed for efficient hot water production, even in low ambient temperatures, using natural carbon dioxide refrigerant. The system offers 4.0 kW or 6.0 kW outdoor units with 250–400 L tank options, up to COP 6.1 performance, around 37 dB(A) operation, PV integration, and a 10-year warranty.

How Proprietary Vendors Make Open Standards Look Broken
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How Proprietary Vendors Make Open Standards Look Broken - FOSS Force
Even when organizations adopt open standards, hidden dependencies can keep proprietary control intact and make open software take the blame.

I had an interesting chat with a friend who mentioned a book called "The Living Company." Apparently Shell was one of the few companies that saw the 1970's oil crisis coming and was able to adapt. They did it by talking to a bunch of people randomly about the future, identifying patterns, and coming up with possible future scenarios. They then formed clear plans for these future scenarios, where those plans would cover as many related scenarios as possible.
This was actually really familiar to me, though I hadn't read the book, because that's very close to what the Seattle GDC disaster prep committee did. We identified possible disaster scenarios, then identified preparedness steps that served multiple purposes. We got boxes of n95 masks in 2018 and 2019 for wildfire smoke and did a bit of work building box-fan air purifiers. Over the years we handed out these masks to houseless folks who were most exposed to the smoke. When the pandemic hit, we were able to take some of those boxes to first responders just as manufacturing in China dropped because of their lockdowns and as others started PPE hoarding. We focused on N95 because that was one of the overlap points between the unexpected but catastrophic "flu pandemic" that we knew was possible, and the regular "wildfire smoke" problem we were just getting used to.
The book sounds like it's at least partially influenced by cybernetics. There's this Dutch cybernetics connection that I haven't quite figured out. Anyway, this guy talked about how a company needs to be sustainable and all that. My dude, you worked for an oil company. That is categorically not sustainable. All this aside, I think there are a lot of things we can and should take from capitalists (or take back, in some cases). This practice is one of them.
So maybe get together with friends and talk about what you think might happen. We live in a world of crisis, so I'll always recommend disaster preparedness. But there's more than that.
What do you think will happen in the next 5 years?
Assuming that happens, what actions would you take to push that towards the most positive outcome?
I'm listening to Revolutions and reminded of how much effort monarchies put in to preventing revolutions. Corporations can be even more advanced in their planning and preemption. What would it look like if we planned like that?