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Somehow Detroit got safer without Federal intervention.
I’d bet that a part of that is all the immigrants we have. @… https://mastodon.hong…

CBC Windsor (@cbcwindsor_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net)
Attached: 1 image Homicides continue to fall in Detroit as city mirrors U.S. trend on violent crime Murders in Detroit continue to tumble as the city recorded its lowest number of criminal homicides since at least the early- to mid-1960s. #crime #violence #detroit https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-detroit-crime-2025-9.7036993?cmp=rss

Finding a crate of ancient but precious CD-R and DVD-R's is like finding a chest of scrolls in the basement of a temple that burned down. There's a welcome prize, but many frustratingly missing fragments.
Back in 1994 when asked about the (very popular) bank of Compaq gaming machines packed with latest CDROMs being a core of the Information Highway exhibit at the Ontario Science Centre (god rest its soul), I would explain that the CDROM was a proxy for the bandwidth that was to come.
I think I got that more right than I knew: the CD-R/DVD-R is a TRANSPORT media, and certainly absolutely NOT a STORAGE media. It's charm is transport over very very very slow baud rates of perhaps 4GB/20 years. 😅

Oh dear, one disappointed call centre worker who didn't manage to upsell the insurance that came with the cooker. I know they're probably on commission but in my experience these companies will bend over backwards to wriggle out of paying for repairs so it's not worth it. When the tumble drier conked out a year ago Dad insisted on going through the insurance agreement he had with them and it was dire. After two months of faffing about and several failed repairs we just bought a n…

Nog erger dan Trump in het Witte Huis is Trump die het eind van zijn termijn niet haalt | de #Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/nog-erger-dan-trump-in-het-witte-huis-is-trump-die-het-eind-van-zijn-termijn-niet-haalt~b01daa9d/
In zijn column kijkt Olaf Tempelman vooruit op de presidentsverkiezingen van 2028 in de VS, waarbij het zeker niet uitgesloten is dat Vance een gooi zal doen...

Die Seite für "Gefangen zwischen Eis und Feuer" wurde überarbeitet. Hier findet ihr nun die ersten Links zu einer elektronischen Version abseits von Amazon, ebenso wie ein kurzes Statement dazu, ob ich auch entsprechende Pläne für Prints habe.
TL;DR: Pläne schon, aber könnte ein Weilhcen dauern.
Hier findet ihr die Infos:

Bitcoin has plunged more than 30 percent and Ether is down around 40 percent in recent months,
as gains from President Trump’s pro-crypto policies evaporated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/technology/cryptocurrencies-tu…

Bitcoin’s Predicted Sky-High Prices Have Not Panned Out
Bitcoin has plunged more than 30 percent and Ether is down around 40 percent in recent months, as gains from President Trump’s pro-crypto policies evaporated.

This article by @… describes me this weekend, hacking away with Copilot on two Hugo websites (one new, one 10 years old) and being incredibly productive while at it (and I suck at golang templates)
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This post is why I love #Tumblr:
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Reblog by @sadabeuk
💬 22  🔁 9511  ❤️ 13366 · i have hidden a golden ticket in one of my posts, and whoever finds it will get to go on a Marvelous Tour of my Whimsical Tower in which I Will Not Kill You and You Will No…

Tom Lehrer (1928–2025): A (Mostly) Mathematical Appreciation
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/807373175827677184/this-rank-discrimination-is-not-for-us-we-must?source=share