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Kenya’s wildlife conservancies make old men rich, while making women and young people poorer
https://theconversation.com/kenyas-wildlife-conservancies-make-old-men-rich-while-making-women-and-young-peopl…

Kenya’s wildlife conservancies make old men rich, while making women and young people poorer
Conservation strategies should promote equitable benefits across communities.

Body of 10-year-old boy killed in Russian attack found under rubble: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/03/body-of-yearold.html

«Revive that Old Computer with antiX Linux»
#linux

A new start after 60: I’m a 90-year-old drummer with a leather jacket – I’ve unleashed my inner wild woman!
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/04/a-new-start-af…

A common refrain from the older folks in my life:
“I asked my father if he considered himself disabled, or someone who had a disability, or was deaf. He answered no, no, and no.”
https://www.lflegal.com/2024/02/accessibility-for-elders/

iPhone Live Captions Wow My 91 Year Old Dad
My 91 year old father Saul Feingold (pictured here) is a role model of aging. He looks forward and not backward. He has no regret for what he can no longer do and is thrilled with what he can. He's lucky and he knows it. When I asked my dad how old he was when he gave up golf he said he never gav

An old-fashioned…
https://xexyz.wordpress.com/2016/09/20/an-old-fashioned-game-save/

The Quebec born and raised ex-Canadian Armed Forces (Afghanistan veteran) Canada-USA Citizen killed in the Israel airstrike yesterday had a wife and 18-month old son.
His (American) father: “"In my mind, this was a targeted killing of aid workers who happened to be foreign," Flickinger's father said in an interview with CBC News Wednesday afternoon. "
#Israel …

This is a *57 year old man*. Would *you* get in a boxing ring with him?
(don’t lie. No you fucking wouldn’t. In my *prime* when I was in *great* shape and a semi-professional kickboxer, I *still* wouldn't get in the ring with a 57 year old Mike Tyson! 🤣) https://my-spaces.social/@hasani/11220

If you take apart something old and delicate, there is a significant chance you won't be able to put it back together again. Technicians who work with old electronics get this. Plumbers who deal with old pipes know it. Car mechanics will talk your ears off about it.
You know who doesn't get it? Politicians.

A Medieval Islamic #Astrolabe with Hebrew Inscriptions in Verona: https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/39/1/article-p163_9.xml -> This rare 11th century Islamic astrolabe is one of the oldest yet discovered / 1,000-Year-Old Astrolabe Illuminates Scientific Exchange Between Muslims, Jews, And Christians: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/this-rare-11th-century-islamic-astrolabe-is-one-of-the-oldest-yet-discovered/ / https://www.iflscience.com/1000-year-old-astrolabe-illuminates-scientific-exchange-between-muslims-jews-and-christians-73220

Former NFL Pro Bowler Braylon Edwards saves 80-year-old man's life during locker room assault

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/former-

Former NFL Pro Bowler Braylon Edwards saves 80-year-old man's life during locker room assault
Edwards was at the right place at the right time

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

People in the old days sometimes believed there were spirits in water.
I'll never forget the weird, almost hallucinogenic feeling I got looking down at this brook, which sparkled so strangely and seemed to be trying to communicate something.
#silentsunday

I'm extremely proud of all our students, but this is especially impressive! When Njumbe graduates from iunorthwest next Wednesday he will be the "youngest-known college graduate in the Hoosier state."
"Njumbe plans to attend medical school and become an orthopedic surgeon one day, but he has to wait until he's 18 to enroll. In the meantime, he's going to pursue a master's degree, he said." 🤯

Gary 15-year-old Khaya Njumbe set to become youngest-known college graduate in Indiana
At a young age, Khaya Njumbe taught himself how to speak Chinese and play the piano. Now at age 15, he can be found walking the campus of Indiana University Northwest in Gary.

One guy is old and maybe boring.
The other guy is clinically demented and his staff is on drugs.
That’s not counting the other mental illness, being in the pocket of unfriendly governments, the fascism, the racism, the sexism, the disinterest in the job, the sheer incompetence and ignorance, being almost as old, and, oh, allegedly about a hundred felonies.
Hard to choose, huh! /s

Trump’s White House Was ‘Awash in Speed’ — and Xanax
Under Trump, the White House Medical Unit was “like the Wild West,” and staffers had easy access to powerful stimulants and sedatives, sources say.

If you’re frustrated about what the online world has become, and you remember “the good old days” with nostalgia (rightly or wrongly), and you despair about our collective ability to find a way forward, this by @… offers an important perspective. With reason for hope. She has become an essential voice, along with @…

We can have a different web
Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

Via Clue Heywood @ClueHeywood
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18m
When an old band announces a tour they should be required by law to list how many original members are left and what percentage of old/new songs will be played, all in a standardized format, like the Nutrition Facts on food

Uh oh, someone put the Death Star plans on Github!
https://old.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/1cjz81d/death_star_plans_code_on_github/

Uh oh, someone put the Death Star plans on Github!
https://old.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/1cjz81d/death_star_plans_code_on_github/

She was so fcking fabulous. I hope that wherever she's gone, she's enjoying a wonderful new adventure! #IrisApfel https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/29/10-life-le

Iris Apfel: 10 life lessons from a 96-year-old who is probably cooler than you
The fashionista co-founded an international textile company that did work for nine presidential administrations.

Here’s a clear example of how aggressive the #ai image processing has become on newer iPhones. This is a comparison between the iPhone 15 Pro Max and the iPhone 11 Pro Max, taking photos of distant text at equal magnification. Note how the 15 Pro Max’s image pipeline has hallucinated all the details.
Original video:

Comparing the New iPhone to The Old One | Apple got some explaining to do! 🤔 | By LADbibleFacebook
Apple got some explaining to do! 🤔

Work got rid of the magazines and book racks. Ode to an era.
My favourite moment was the old man walking with his wife and he stopped to look at the naked men magazines. To this day I cheer on the bisexual/pansexual old man.

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Lil Nas X:
🎵 Old Town Road (feat. Billy Ray Cyrus)
#NowPlaying #LilNasX
https://open.spotify.com/track/0F7FA14euOIX8KcbEturGH
https://anemo.bandcamp.com/track/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-elektrione-remix

Beat a “neutral” Russian: how a 10-year-old Ukrainian chess player won the world championship: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/03/beat-a-neutral.html

I read the headline thinking "poor old fellow", then woke with a start to the fact he's just a year older than me.
"The #NHS has been systematically underinvested in for 14 years, you generate a system that becomes unsafe, and those cracks in the system are so apparent."
Salford Royal patient's 'nightmare' after he was left lying in urine - BBC News

Salford Royal patient's 'nightmare' after he was left lying in urine
A 73-year-old man says he was denied pain relief and was left lying in a bed soaked with urine.

I'm having ridiculous plans.
Instead of moving the Starship and Tarot projects over to a temp instance, and then back to a re-built server with new software on the old domain... what if I just moved both of their websites to become GotoSocial websites?
They're both currently built with Hugo as static sites anyway, so they could drop into the Assets folder on a GotoSocial site if I accepted the /assets/ in the front of every URL, or renamed that in the source-code.
And with just a bit of template-editing for the homepage I've got essentially the entire old website plus the Fediverse/gotoSocial features on each project's own domain, the /@user URLs leading to an activity-pub feed of stuff I can boost from here.
Course, that means two new VMs/IP-addresses instead of using the existing one. Or I suppose running two GotoSocial processes and a front-end redirector of some sort...
Oh man. That's loads more work than I was hoping but it's obviously the right thing to do really.
They each need their own social site URLs not sharing one with my name.

How to Grow Old Like Isabella Rossellini - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/magazine/isabella-rossellini-interview.html

How to Grow Old Like Isabella Rossellini
“How do I fulfill the rest of my life? That question came to me very clearly at 45, and I didn’t have an answer.”

#IVF #Palestinian mother who lost 5-month-old twins in airstrike spent decade trying to conceive | ITV News

Warren Buffet at 93yrs old manages the biggest portfolio of them all. Biden is too old to be president at 81? really?

Someone suggested that a baby ought to run for President. I think that would be a good idea. There is no law from Congress that defines the Article II 35-year old requirement, so that, under today's decision, must mean that there is no body that can enforce the 35-year old age requirement.
Of course, states will kick the baby off the ballot - but then its parents could raise today's SCOTUS decision to claim that such removal was improper.

The Crime at Camp Ashwood - complete series 🕵🏼‍♀️👻🏕
Dramatized crime mystery series | Total listening time: 3h 03m
Desperate to finally solve the decades-old cold case of her best friend’s murder, Margot Ingell returns to the scene of the crime. Will the discovery of a long-lost diary reveal the killer, or will the secret forever remain at the bo...

The Crime at Camp Ashwood - complete series 🕵🏼‍♀️👻🏕
Dramatized crime mystery series | Total listening time: 3h 03m Desperate to finally solve the decades-old cold case of her best friend’s murder, Margot Ingell returns to the scene of the crime. Will the discovery of a long-lost diary reveal the killer, or will the secret forever remain at the bottom of Camp Ashwood’s lake? Winner Austin Film Festival Fiction Podcast Award 2023. 1 seasons, 12 episodes as of Apr 02, 2024.

"The good news is that the web isn't actually dead dead, just mostly dead. And mostly dead, as well all know, is partly alive."
https://sheep.horse/2024/4/save_the_web_by_being_nice.html
👏

I accidentally an old computer

A look at The Ely Times and The Eureka Sentinel, among Nevada's oldest surviving papers, which announced a deal in January to go online-only under a new owner (Carly Sauvageau/The Nevada Independent)
https://thenevadaindependent.com/artic…

For rural papers as old as Nevada itself, a fight for survival in digital age
In January, The Ely Times and The Eureka Sentinel, Eastern Nevada’s legacy papers and among the oldest surviving papers in Nevada, announced a verbal deal to transfer the papers to a new owner, who is moving the publications from print to a fully digital platform to help cut costs and keep the two papers afloat.

Every once in a while, I'm reminded of how lacking #accessibility's outreach to seniors aging into disability can be, meaning access tools may never make it into the hands of people who could really use them.
This piece from @… reflecting her and her fa…

iPhone Live Captions Wow My 91 Year Old Dad
My 91 year old father Saul Feingold (pictured here) is a role model of aging. He looks forward and not backward. He has no regret for what he can no longer do and is thrilled with what he can. He's lucky and he knows it. When I asked my dad how old he was when he gave up golf he said he never gav

As people yearn for the web's "good old days", bringing those days back is possible with new tech, the possibility of new protocols, and more internet users (Molly White/Citation Needed)
https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/…

We can have a different web
Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

Heh, this is kind of true, but apart from the armoured giants sleeping in their tombs the (non-Royal) Danish national anthem I've always found rather poetic. It only mentions Freya, no God!
But perhaps a little #climateChange warning in last couplet..?
" Denmark shall endure, as long as the beech-tree mirrors its top in the blue wave! "

Former NFL Pro Bowler Braylon Edwards saves 80-year-old man's life during locker room assault

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/former-

Former NFL Pro Bowler Braylon Edwards saves 80-year-old man's life during locker room assault
Edwards was at the right place at the right time

Rescued yet another old smartphone (Palm Treo) whose rubery plastic has become sticky/goo-ey (de-polymerization) by using an ultrasonic bath with Tickopur TR14, a chemical intended for removing flux residue from circuit boards #retronetworking #palm

[DiyOtaku] Gives Old Devices A New Life
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-8b4d1add-4454cb02aa96c4f4
[DiyOtaku] Gives Old Devices A New Life Sometimes we get sent a tip that isn’t just a single article or video, but an entire blog or YouTube cha…

A post from 2006 mentioning old computers that @… left a comment on...
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2006/05/23/geek-dreams/

Geek Dreams
A dream of things...

Antonio Pierce is done with the old ways of the Raiders and their quarterback problems https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/antonio_pierce_is_done_with_the_old_ways_of_the_raiders_and_the…

Antonio Pierce is done with the old ways of the Raiders and their quarterback problems
The Las Vegas Raiders have some very important decisions to make in this upcoming NFL draft,m but it all depends on what they can do to determine what they will do if that makes sense. If the Raiders can trade up high enough, they will go with a quarterback. If not, they may take a different position at pick 13 and go QB in the second round. Then again, when you think about it, this is the NFL, and we really don't know what will happen. For all we know, the Raiders could find a way to get the N…

Since the last time I tried to do this, Firefox will no longer let me connect to http://10.1.1.1, the admin port for my modem. It insists on using https://, which of course doesn't work. I can't be the only person to face this issue but looking on line I didn't find much to help me other than a few setting changes to try that did nothing, such as browser autofill.
How does one use a modern browser to connect to the admin port of a plain old DSL modem?

Is someone on holidays or why is NA playing old shit?

The 40-year-old free agent Cowboys should pursue https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/2024/04/04/cowboys-2024-free-agency-marcedes-lewis/

The 40-year-old free agent Cowboys should pursue
There are cheap options who appear to be perfect solutions waiting in the free agent market for the Cowboys, says @ReidDHanson.

The Pogues - Dirty old town, live 2012
#NowPlaying

While old hat and much critiqued, Merton’s analysis of the social norms of science is a critical steppingstone for anyone thinking about the social structure and processes of science, which naturally includes most of the scientists here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mertonian_norms

Anyone know about office chair wheels? I have two chairs, in my office. Both I replaced the wheels with soft type skate wheels to keep from screwing up the wood floor. Works great. I also have an at least 25 year old Steelcase (?) chair in another room. Its solid, and orange, and I don't want to throw it out. The wheel holes are.. smaller. Amazon seems to have a one size replacement wheel. I am not sure what I am shopping for. (Chair came from a job I left in 2000, and it was old then!)<…

I dunno, Marty, wadda you wanna do?
#DeepThoughtsOfSpringBirds #HashTagGames

Trump confuses Obama for Biden again at Virginia rally speech
:mastodon:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/03/trump-confuses-obama-biden-virginia-rally

"Too old for the job" is a ridiculous claim. Anyone who watches the two of them speak will surely see that Bernie Sanders is perfectly fit to be President.

“my host understood and could speak the old German of the Frontier, Militärgrenze-Deutsch, an amalgam of Slav and German phrases, the most repeated of which, uttered every two minutes, was Ist gefällig, a linguistic corruption of Izvolite, a Serbian phrase which could be translated as ‘Please, after you’, and the Austrian gefällt’s dir, meaning ‘Are you happy?’ or ‘Do you like it?’”
— Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 by Richard Bassett

Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 (English Edition)
Citation partagée via Kindle : « I soon realized that my host understood and could speak the old German of the Frontier, Militärgrenze-Deutsch, an extraordinary amalgam of Slav and German phrases, the most repeated of which, uttered every two minutes, was I...

“Costco has made it easier for members to shell out thousands of dollars on gold bars—and get a $1.50 hot dog while they are at it.”
https://press.coop/@WSJ/112215912230520704

The Wall Street Journal :_p: (@WSJ@press.coop)
The Costco Shoppers Putting $2,000 Gold Bars in Their Carts Young investors say the old-school store of value is a hedge against inflation and catastrophe. #press https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-costco-shoppers-putting-2-000-gold-bars-in-their-carts-d4e8aeb5?utm_source=press.coop

The role of the conservative elite in the Nazi rise to power
The conservative elite were the old ruling class and new business class in Weimar Germany.
Throughout the 1920s they became increasingly frustrated with the Weimar Republic’s continuing economic and political instability, their lack of real power and the rise of communism.
They believed that a return to authoritarian rule was the only stable future for Germany which would protect their power and money.
T…

Don't just settle for some regular or merely LARGE vibrating eye

I love kryptonite ulocks. This thing was probably a good 10 years old before it seized up, but they honor their lifetime warranty.

Twitter
An old twitter friend of mine not only is still using twitter but also paying for twitter blue, and the fact that he’s financially supporting a fascist’s platform doesn’t seem to bother him. What a fucking disappointment…

Uh oh, someone put the Death Star plans on Github!
https://old.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/1cjz81d/death_star_plans_code_on_github/

First, I love this project and want to build it.
However, I'm going to go 'Old Man Yells at Cloud' on calling it open source and how the maker projects and #3Dprinting may be unintentionally damaging the general understanding of #OpenSource.
a) the model is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0…

Watched the old and new Road House movies. Wow the old one did not age too well, it’s fine but the 80s and woman actors just wasn’t a good time it’s pretty cringe.
New one was pretty good for a mindless violence movie

TIL that the German word for "software developer" is
Softwareentwickler
«Entwickler» is absolutely delightful to me as an English word, and I want to use it everywhere
Old and broke: Developer experience
New hotness: Entwicklererfahrung

“You little bastard! You are SO grounded!” 😂
https://press.coop/@CBCNews/112211079125122480

CBC News :press: (@CBCNews@press.coop)
13-year-old charged after crashing Lamborghini in ditch Police in West Vancouver say a "joyride'' by a 13-year-old in their parents' Lamborghini set off a single-vehicle crash that resulted in a total write-off by the insurance company. #press https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lamborghini-ditch-west-vancouver-1.7162865?cmp=rss&utm_source=press.coop

Thank you, Teri @…! (And thank you Chuck @…!) I hadn't read Stephanie Jones' writing until now. She's great. Her writing really gets you, right in your heart.
Here's another blog entry of hers. J…

My Old Man DID Know Something
My father, Judge Nathaniel R. Jones spent his life fighting for justice and change. He first answered the call as a young boy when he saw racial injustice and wanted to do something about it. His m…

Sobs why are old games so hard to make "just work" on recent machines.
I've been struggling to make my GOG copy of Spore work all morning. 😭

google_web: Old Google web graph (2002)
A web graph representing a crawl of a portion of the general WWW, from a 2002 Google Programming contest.
This network has 916428 nodes and 5105039 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_

Joni Mitchell singing Both Sides Now at 80 years old was incredible. I was a little worried at the beginning, but wow did she finish strong.
This Grammys telecast is delivering all the feels.
#Grammys #JoniMitchell

“For the purposes of this column, let’s set aside questions of the merits of the protests and the various police and administration responses to them. It’s incredibly obvious—to me, at least—that pretty much all of the relevant parties here got rolled by the American right.”
https://

The College Protests Were Part of a Perfect Trap. Everyone Fell Right Into It—Again.
The playbook that led to Columbia is old but time-honored.

MM: So far last analyses only include publications until 2018, so not very recent #ecsa2024 // way to make me feel old, for thinking 2018 was like yesterday! 😂

Roadmap to "Herr der Ringe"reloaded:
- Aragorn verbirgt sich als Fahradkurrier im Grossstadtdjungel. Eigentlich ist er der Erbe von "Amatorn".
- Legolas ist nonbinär und Hackerix.
- Gimli ist ein Old White Men, der durch Komplexitätszumutung immer die gleiche Entwicklung durchmacht.
1/4

Republican Oregon man accused of attempting to give date rape drug to three 12 year-old girls during daughter's slumber party - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/03/01/re

Recommendations for a Win XP era laptop? Needs to be able to run Win XP (obviously). Doesn’t need fancy things but ok keyboard would be good. Need it to run old software that requires USB and doesn’t play well with modern Windows. Doesn’t need fancy graphics for games but won’t say no if it has them.
(Please only recommend stuff you personally have experience with and which you know still works well.)

google_web: Old Google web graph (2002)
A web graph representing a crawl of a portion of the general WWW, from a 2002 Google Programming contest.
This network has 916428 nodes and 5105039 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_

Sometimes being a good person looks like updating a 19 year old comment on one of my blog posts so the name matches that which a trans person uses now...

It is absolutely mind bending how many options ffmpeg has. I've been trying to convince it to use the old Radeon 2600 Pro graphics hardware acceleration. No luck finding the magic command yet! :)
#ffmpeg #commandline

So I got a whole bunch of 10-month old @… posts from Bluesky in my Mastodon feed today. Bridgy Fed must be working! But is that date mapping working as designed @… ?

Oh man, i hate installing solar on farm houses.
They are old, steep AF, slippery and today with the liquid sunshine it felt like an ice rink.
And the douche of the company brought only one charger for 6 Makkita power tool batteries 🙄idiot!
Now i feel a little bit exhausted.
Time for the night walk and chillaxing with the dog.

Old but Gold: MORTARS of the Ukrainain Army | War Is Algebra, Episode 21: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/29/old-but-gold.html

Related to that last boost (https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/112212980289113651), I have already encountered orgs who have scaled back their accessibility efforts or plans because they feel automation that can do it *all* for them is right around the corner.…

Watched the old and new Road House movies. Wow the old one did not age too well, it’s fine but the 80s and woman actors just wasn’t a good time it’s pretty cringe.
New one was pretty good for a mindless violence movie

Author William Gibson has 285.9K followers on Twitter and Elmo's gang only gave him one of those ugly blue "B"s, while I've seen some other accounts with only around 20K getting the proper old Blue Tick.
Likely he'll find a way to shut it off, hahaha

The contemporary Republican notion that America is on the brink of collapse is in large part a culture-war trope propagated by activists such as Christopher Rufo,
who have spun their own willful misinterpretations of obscure academic disciplines such as critical race theory into boogeymen with which to terrify viewers and voters into thinking that their heritage is under direct attack.
It’s not hard to understand why the reactionary right bears such a grudge against academia.

The College Protests Were Part of a Perfect Trap. Everyone Fell Right Into It—Again.
The playbook that led to Columbia is old but time-honored.

After the SCoTUS decision, I got thinking of running for President of the US with my six-year-old grandson for Vice.
By that decision, States are now barred from removing us from the primaries ballots. Congress will not pass any legislation regulating exclusions at Federal level before the general election. So I think I have got a good chance.

In memory of Bi Kidude
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bi-kidude-rip/
This post mixes multiple other posts I wrote between 2010 & 2013 on various sites and blogs about Bi Kidude
Sadly, she passed away on April 17th 2013.
I met Bi Kidude, The Venerable Queen of T…

Bi Kidude - in memory of the Taarab Queen - African Music Forum
I met Bi Kidude, The Venerable Queen of Taarab, in February 2011, when attending Sauti za Busara Festival in Zanzibar. A delightful moment.

Anyone remember the old British TV show "That Was The Week That Was" (TW3)?
It could be considered an ancestor of things like The Daily Show or John Oliver's Last Week Tonight.
I vaguely remember it, but I was kinda little at the time.
https://youtu.be/4e4R2038tfU

This is my #BedroomClock. It's an old android phone (#Oneplus 3 running #DivestOS) with very cracked screen and various kinds of water damage. It's charging using a generic cra…

USB-C Type-C Charging Dock Desktop Charger Stand Cradle Dock For Android Phone | eBay
Easily connect the dock to your laptop or desktop computer via a USB port to enable file syncing for all your music, videos and photos. 1 X Charging Dock Cradle. Good buying. Samsung Galaxy Note 8, 9.

Sobs why are old games so hard to make "just work" on recent machines.
I've been struggling to make my GOG copy of Spore work all morning. 😭

My kid is playing Fortnite, on voice chat, with two friends who have not mutually connected.
"I'll relay messages if you need me to," he says, organizing their squad for cartoon murder, "but I'm content moderation, so don't, like, swear at each other".
They're all _eleven years old_ and they have a better grasp of Internet etiquette than most of X.

“For the purposes of this column, let’s set aside questions of the merits of the protests and the various police and administration responses to them. It’s incredibly obvious—to me, at least—that pretty much all of the relevant parties here got rolled by the American right.”
https://

The College Protests Were Part of a Perfect Trap. Everyone Fell Right Into It—Again.
The playbook that led to Columbia is old but time-honored.

Recommendations for a Win XP era laptop? Needs to be able to run Win XP (obviously). Doesn’t need fancy things but ok keyboard would be good. Need it to run old software that requires USB and doesn’t play well with modern Windows. Doesn’t need fancy graphics for games but won’t say no if it has them.
(Please only recommend stuff you personally have experience with and which you know still works well.)

'A step back in time': America's Catholic Church sees an immense shift toward the old ways
https://religionnews.com/2024/05/01/a-step-back-in-time-americas-catholic-church-sees-an-immense-shift…

'A step back in time': America's Catholic Church sees an immense shift toward the old ways
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Generations of Catholics who embraced the modernizing tide sparked in the 1960s by Vatican II are increasingly giving way to religious conservatives who believe the church has been twisted by change,

What do you mean, ancient computers with no stack? My first BASIC interpreter didn't have a stack, and it felt really modern! Well, back then. So I passed arrays around and an index. Worked "fine" even for recursion.
But then I wanted to port my recursive generate-a-christmas-tree algorithm to my little cousin's BASIC interpreter, as a Christmas present, and it wouldn't let me pass the array to the subroutine either. That's when things got a bit difficult ...<…

The ancient world before computers had stacks or heaps - The Old New Thing
A lot of computing got done even before we had stacks and heaps.

A wholesome tweet (kind of)
https://x.com/giammacool/status/1761765151693267132?s=61

Gia Macool (@GiaMMacool) on X
5 years old - Dad knows everything! 7 years old - Dad knows. 10 years old - Maybe dad doesn’t know?! 12 years old - Dad doesn’t know. 14 years old - Dads gone crazy! 16 years old - Can’t take dad seriously. 18 years old - What does dad know?! 22 years old - Dads…

Lost my Mastodon instance #footiMac #selfhost for a minute there! I've been playing around with getting the video drivers working for the old Radeon 4000 card to try to accelerate ffmpeg and so that necessitated a restart.
Turns out dnsmasq didn't start before nginx so it…

In an election year partially defined by Gen Z’s exhaustion with politics, #Joe #Vogel is energized by it.
At 27 years old, the Democrat became the youngest Maryland state delegate in history.
He won his legislative seat in 2022, replacing a 16-year incumbent who retired.
Now, Vogel has his eyes set on Capitol…

Inside a Gen Z campaign to shake up Congress
Joe Vogel is running in the Democratic primary for a competitive district in Maryland. At 27 years old, he's aiming to be the second Gen Z member of Congress.

Woman injured in Feb. 23 drone attack on Odesa dies in hospital: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/03/woman-injured-in.html

Unless you’ve lived paycheck to paycheck (and I have for *decades*) you have no idea the stress and anxiety it causes ALL THE FUCKING TIME…
I drive a 20 year old car. If it breaks down, I lose my job. If I lose my job, I lose my apartment. So I *only* drive my car from home to work to home.
So that means, outside of work and going to get groceries, I never leave my apartment. 😢
BEING POOR SUCKS BALLS. 🤬

Get this: the perv once served as a school resource officer at the older brother's school...
Louisiana Cops Did the Unthinkable to an 11-Year-Old Boy, Illegally Strip- [and cavity] Searched Mom at 'Torture' Site, Sickening Federal Lawsuit Alleges
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Louisiana Cops Did the Unthinkable to an 11-Year-Old Boy, Illegally Strip-Searched Mom at 'Torture' Site, Sickening Federal Lawsuit Alleges
A new federal complaint accuses multiple Baton Rouge police officers of taking a family to a black site called the BRAVE Cave, where one cop sexually

A wholesome tweet (kind of)
https://x.com/giammacool/status/1761765151693267132?s=61

Gia Macool (@GiaMMacool) on X
5 years old - Dad knows everything! 7 years old - Dad knows. 10 years old - Maybe dad doesn’t know?! 12 years old - Dad doesn’t know. 14 years old - Dads gone crazy! 16 years old - Can’t take dad seriously. 18 years old - What does dad know?! 22 years old - Dads…

Governor: Russian forces shell Kherson Oblast, killing 1: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/03/governor-russian-forces.html