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Cobol programmers are down in the dumps.

I just read the sentences "[nyc garbage] Bins will destroy the character of neighborhoods. We will have fewer cars and more dumpsters," and
a) I want my brain cells back
b) if your neighborhood character is "cars", then is it really a neighborhood, or is it a parking lot?

Corruption at the highest levels of American government.
And never forget that we got here because America voted for these criminals.
The reality is "We the People" are part of the dumbest US electorate in the history of the country.
#justice #corruption

#Atomkraft ist eine super Idee in Zeiten von Trockenheit und Hitze https://www.fr.de/wirtschaft/rumaenien-ruft-wegen-stromkrise-den-notstand-aus-zr-94…

Niedrigwasser legt Atomkraftwerk lahm – Rumänien ruft den Strom-Notstand aus
Rumänien ruft wegen niedriger Donaupegel den Notstand aus. Beide Reaktoren des Atomkraftwerks Cernavodă sind vom Netz, auch Ungarn steht unter Druck.

📡 Embedded DNS resolver answers *.test on loopback, plus databases, mail capture, live #Laravel dumps and public sharing
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Tired: Range anxiety on your EV
Wired: Token anxiety on your $20/mo plan when the dumbass thinking sand tells you something categorically wrong, and now you've just wasted 3% of your 5hr window.

Added a new trick to my smartened-dumb EV charger

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 97 nodes and 538 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Alan Kay’s original “Dynabook” vision superficially resembles modern laptops and tablets — uncannily resembles in many ways! — but it’s the opposite in one important respect:
Our modern devices are beautifully designed, hermetically sealed products in which there is a strong vendor / user hierarchy.
The Dynabook, as I understand it, would be the opposite of hermetically sealed. It arrives not as a finished design, but as a starting point. Embedded in that “for children” ethos is the idea of play, tinkering, scribbling, making a mess and cleaning it up — and thus the idea of devices being •reshapable•.
(Image source, with lots of commentary from Kay: https://www.quora.com/American-computer-pioneer-Alan-Kay-s-concept-the-Dynabook-was-published-in-1972-How-come-Steve-Jobs-and-Apple-iPad-get-the-credit-for-tablet-invention/answer/Alan-Kay-11)
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Taxpayers to fund clear-up of illegal dumps in West Yorkshire, Surrey and Kent https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/19/taxpayers-to-fund-clear-up-of-dumps-in-west-yorkshire-surrey-and-kent