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The Zipper Is Getting Its First Major Upgrade in 100 Years
By stripping away the fabric tape that’s held zippers together for a hundred years,
Japanese clothing giant YKK is designing the future of seamless clothing
https://www.wired.com/story/the-zipper-is-

The Zipper Is Getting Its First Major Upgrade in 100 Years
By stripping away the fabric tape that’s held zippers together for a hundred years, Japanese clothing giant YKK is designing the future of seamless clothing.

Decibel just posted their top 40 (metal) albums of 2025, but they blew it by posting it two days before the new Degraved record even came out, so, yknow... fail.😂
None of my personal 20 are on it, but I'm actually impressed to see Haggus, Terror Corpse, and Decrepisy here. Anyone's thoughts?
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SPOILER: Here Are Decibel’s Top 40 Albums of 2025 - Decibel Magazine
Yes, we know that it’s November. No, we didn’t forget your favorite album. Yes, we’re sure about that.

Something that just drives me up the wall about this particular area of Git (merge conflicts) is that, beyond the all-too-typical Git problem of sloppy terminology, this is bad feature design. In most situations, “use ours” and “user theirs” are •both• the wrong answer! There are two doors, and they’re •both• trapdoors.
If you have a merge conflict, that means that you changed something •and• somebody else changed something, and your job is to •synthesize• both changes. To use one is to discard the other, which is usually not what you want!
The thing Git (and every Git GUI) ought to surface is a three-way merge: show me what I changed and what they changed ••relative to the nearest common ancestor••. Yes yes yes, I know it’s possible to finagle that into view with Git. It should be the danged default. It is what I should see first. It is what I should see if I have no idea what I’m doing.
1/ https://hachyderm.io/@jeremydmiller/115741417416659492

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So at the risk of TMI: have my first colonoscopy tomorrow (Zoidberg: “guess again”) which certainly involves some interesting prep (liquids only whole day before & a “flush” of my system tonight
Yes yes folks my age are supposed to have already had this done, whattya want.
Can I watch a show during?

“TABS [by Mozilla] pulls exactly the data you need—from HTML to Markdown to JSON—using the fastest, most efficient method for each page. It adapts to the structure and complexity of the site, staying stealthy and reliable so your [AI] agents always get what they need without friction.”
Ethical Stealthy AI Scraping (tm) by Mozilla.
#Mozilla

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
RO: [Into intercom] Bring them both to the palace. Remove the communicators first.
GUARD: Yes, sir.
[Teleport section. Avon enters, followed by Gan. Vila is seated at the console, drinking green liquid]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/171 B7B2

USC Levan Book Chat—Jessica X. Zu, Just Awakening
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Yes, forest trees die of old age. But the warming climate is killing them faster #environment

Yes, forest trees die of old age. But the warming climate is killing them faster
Across Australia, forests are quietly changing. Trees that once stood for decades or centuries are now dying at an accelerating rate. And this is not because of fire, storms, or logging. The chronic stress of a warming climate is killing them.

I know, I know, I should not send work-related messages after office hours. But sometimes I forget to schedule the delivery for “tomorrow at nine.”
But then, colleagues (yes, plural!) accepting meetings at 23:14, what’s wrong with YOU?
#AcademicChatter