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Things are never so bad they can't get worse. This likely applies to the cinema as well.
PLAN 9 (2015) Trailer - Plan 9 From Outer Space Remake
#doIdare

Jury rules that 1971 deed covenant forbidding residential use of property in downtown Columbia MD is void because it conflicts with county's 2010 Master Plan.
Could be an important precedent, if it applies to covenants banning ADUs, duplexes, etc where county ordinances or state laws have legalized them in 1-family zones.

$17 million jury verdict paves way for major development on Columbia’s lakefront
Howard Hughes Corporation now owes more than $17 million in damages to a Howard County construction company.

“After the Supreme Court blocked Biden’s sweeping student loan forgiveness plan last June, his administration has explored all of its existing authority to leave people with less education debt. It has now canceled debt for almost 3.9 million borrowers, totaling $138 billion in relief.”

Allies of former President Donald J. Trump and officials who served in his administration are planning ways to restrict abortion rights if he returns to power that would go far beyond proposals for a national ban or the laws enacted in conservative states across the country.
Behind the scenes, specific anti-abortion plans being proposed by Mr. Trump’s allies are sweeping and legally sophisticated.
Some of their proposals would rely on enforcing the 

Abortion Foes Plan Onslaught of New Restrictions if Trump Wins
Well, that was fast!! At 9 a.m. I posted about a New York Times article published yesterday revealing that Trump wanted a 16-week ban on abortions. Since 93% of abortions are performed by the 13th …

2021 retro-link! https://github.com/plan9foundation/plan9 - Plan 9 history in git, from 1992-09-21 to 2015-01-10.

Bloomberg: EU set to approve Ukrainian reform plan in May, unlocking billions in aid: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/12/bloomberg-eu-set.html

Spotify launches the Audiobooks Access Tier, which gives free users in the US access to 15 hours of audiobooks per month for $9.99 per month (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/01/spotify-launches-a…

Spotify launches a $9.99/mo standalone audiobooks service for its free users | TechCrunch
After adding 15 hours of free audiobooks listening to its subscription plan late last year, Spotify today is introducing a $9.99 per month option that

Brüssel will russisches Vermögen für Ukraine-Millitärhilfe nutzen
Der EU-Außenbeauftragte Josep Borrell will am Mittwoch einen Plan vorstellen, wie Europa eingefrorenes russisches Vermögen für Waffen- und Munitionskäufe für die Ukraine nutzen kann. Borrell sagte in Brüssel, mit seinem Vorschlag könnten mindestens "drei Milliarden Euro pro Jahr" abgeschöpft werden, wenn die Mitgliedsländer zustimmten. Davon sollen 90 Prozent in…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russland will Tausende Kinder evakuieren ++
Die russische Region Belgorod will nach eigenen Angaben etwa 9.000 Kinder von der Grenze zur Ukraine in sichere Gebiete bringen. Bundeskanzler Scholz kritisiert die "Taurus"-Debatte scharf. Die Entwicklungen vom Dienstag zum Nachlesen.

Spotify launches the Audiobooks Access Tier, a $9.99 per month tier that gives free users in the US access to 15 hours of audiobooks per month (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/01/spotify-launches…

Spotify launches a $9.99/mo standalone audiobooks service for its free users | TechCrunch
After adding 15 hours of free audiobooks listening to its subscription plan late last year, Spotify today is introducing a $9.99 per month option that

Seit Anfang des Jahres hab ich übrigens auch ein Balkonkraftwerk. Hochparterre, 1380Wp, 800Wac, alles selbst zusammengestellt und aufgebaut. Mit etwas Glück darf ich es sogar demnächst ganz legal benutzen...
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Das war so mein Hobby-Projekt im letzten halben Jahr.
Wen's interessiert:

Gee, $10 for 15 hours of audiobooks or $12 for the same amount plus music?
Spotify you really are deluded if you think people will spend that for 15 hours of listening.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/01/spotify-l…

So I just switched to #Kagi family plan very recently - if anyone wants to yoin, there are open slots left. It's basically the professional plan (unlimited searches) for 3 USD/month/user instead of 9 USD/month.
Drop me a line if you want to join :)

How nice: a plan to collect 1 Mt in macroplastic from the ocean by 2050.
Too bad the USA increased the *yearly* production and export of its primary ingredient by *30 times* that amount in a couple years.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61704<…

Even as U.S. President Joe Biden flew to Israel after the Oct. 7 catastrophe to show his complete support
—the Biden administration began warning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government not to make the same mistakes the United States did after its own 9/11.
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Israel's 9/11: How Its Invasion of Gaza Is Becoming Iraq-Like
Six months in, there’s still no plan for after the war, U.S. officials say.

One of the lovely (sarcasm) little details about UTF-8 is that the original paper first appeared in the Usenix conference proceedings without the appendix that defined the encoding. The appendix was just the Plan 9 man page for UTF, but it was important to the presentation yet was dropped during the publication process - and not by us.
I've still never seen the paper appear with its appendix. It probably doesn't matter now, but it sure irked us at the time.

Hey everyone, we're doing this again:
#IWP9, the International Workshop on Plan 9, is going to happen this very week(end)!
Keep checking https://iwp9.org/ for details, such as the schedule.
We will d…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18446 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

A Novel Skip Orthogonal List for Dynamic Optimal Transport Problem
Optimal transport is a fundamental topic that has attracted a great amount of attention from the optimization community in the past decades. In this paper, we consider an interesting discrete dynamic optimal transport problem: can we efficiently update the optimal transport plan when the weights or the locations of the data points change? This problem is naturally motivated by several applications in machine learning. For example, we often need to compute the optimal transport cost between two …

Hey everyone, we're doing this again:
#IWP9, the International Workshop on Plan 9, is going to happen this very week(end)!
Keep checking https://iwp9.org/ for details, such as the schedule.
We will d…

New book details #Steve #Bannon’s
‘Maga movement’
plan to rule for 100 years
#Isaac #Arnsdorf’s
💥Finish What We Started 💥
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How Steve Bannon guided the MAGA movement’s rebound from Jan. 6
This is an excerpt from “Finish What We Started,” by Isaac Arnsdorf, which will publish next Tuesday, April 9.