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The Australian state of Victoria was due to enforce a legal right to work from home starting September 2026.
But just weeks away from its implementation, the new premier, Ben Carroll, has announced a year’s delay in response to fierce business opposition.
Thousands of miles away, in Portugal, parents of young children already have a legal right to work from home without needing their employers’ approval.
All of these developments raise the question:
How should workers b…

Working from home should be a right, not a reward
An Australian state is set to introduce a law supporting the right to work from home, and it’s already in place for some parents in Portugal. Should it happen elsewhere?

I long for the days of the "baseball interview" pie-in-the-face. 😂
▶️ Mike Maddux interviewed by Ron Futrell- Pie in face, early 1990's
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yuguJbQf3xo&si=C1aICKJTb7KDHZ2u

Ik stuurde de #trike over een, voor hen, nieuw fietspaadje door het Kotterbos, dat inderdaad uitkwam op de fietssnelweg, met een voorrangskruising mèt haaientanden
#regel17

First chart is logarithmical because starting this effort showed how bad performance was.
The second chart is closer to "This is where SwiftTerm" stands compared to Ghostty today. In the second chart, the yellow bar is where I am at, ghostty in green.
To get this, I will have to break API compatibility in SwiftTerm, so will need to split 1.x vs 2.x but the Delegate pattern with "weak" variables is just too damn expensive as well as things that at the time lo…

Furbland pulls “worst prank ever”, asked to leave household

"Removal of African elephants causes coextinction of dung beetles, study finds"
#Africa #Elephants

Removal of African elephants causes coextinction of dung beetles, study finds
Researchers in Kenya found that removing elephants from the landscape causes local extinction of dung beetles and a cascade of ecological harms.

Indian AI coding startup Emergent raised a $130M Series C at a $1.5B post-money valuation, up from $300M in January, bringing its total funding raised to $230M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/indi

Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C | TechCrunch
The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.

Four days of extreme rain killed 7% of world's rarest orangutans, study says #Indonesia

Four days of extreme rain killed 7% of world's rarest orangutans, study says
Climate change-induced weather events are pushing orangutan populations to extinction, says a study.

Wow, a friend of mine here in Wisconsin got this in the mail... 1/2
"A fake 'newspaper' called The Wisconsin Transcript.
It’s 12 pages of fear-mongering. Fear of foreigners and immigrants, fear of “Socialists”, fear of Medicare fraud, fear of Democrat “extremism”.
Nowhere was there information on who the publisher was, or who paid for it."
#wisconsin

Democratic congresswoman
Ilhan Omar introduced a resolution on Wednesday
urging the United States to join the international criminal court (ICC),
marking the first congressional pushback against the Trump administration’s pledge to
“systematically disable” the war crimes tribunal through sanctions and diplomatic pressure.
Omar’s bill came two days after Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, vowed to dismantle the court.
“The ICC is a crucial tool for jus…

Ilhan Omar introduces resolution urging US to join international criminal court
Exclusive: bill from Democratic lawmaker comes two days after Marco Rubio vowed to dismantle war crimes tribunal