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Roger Simon, who wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune before becoming Politico's chief political columnist, died Thursday at 78 of pneumonia (Dan Balz/Washington Post)

Remembering Roger Simon, a political journalist with toughness and wit
Dan Balz pays tribute to “a craftsman of the first order,” who wrote for Chicago newspapers before joining Politico as a columnist. He died Thursday at 78.

The feeling of unity soon gave way to anger and division,
in large part due to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars,
begun by the George W Bush administration
and framed as necessary conflicts to help the US win the "war on terror".
“We launched two forever wars that were wholly ineffective at making us safer militarily,
and only sank our prestige in the world
– especially [in] Europe and the Middle East
– at the cost of thousands of American sold…

Americans on how 9/11 changed their lives: ‘It completely unraveled the US’
Twenty-five years later, the Guardian asks US readers how the attacks affected their lives, and their country

Remembering Dolly Parton With The Late Country Icon's Best Sports Moments https://www.foxsports.com/stories/other/remembering-dolly-parton-late-singers-best-sports-moments

Remembering woke George W. Bush

"Remembering summer 1976: how the historic heatwave has become our new normal"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Heatwave

Remembering summer 1976: how the historic heatwave has become our new normal
Half a century on, Britain braces for temperatures up to 40C as global heating brings yet more extreme weather

Cliff Sekel passed away end of last year, who had led the #PureDarwin project. #RIP
https://www.puredarwin.org/news…

Rod Liddle is dead, apparently.
Humanity is very diverse, so it is possible that there are people to whom he was near and dear. We can have sympathy for them, if they exist, while remembering his life: a study in living as a horrible human being.

14 year old comes into my office and asks if he can borrow my copy of Snow Crash.
Me:
“Oh you’re interested in that kind book now, I suppose. Cool. Yeah you can definitely borrow it!”
*me, remembering how that book ends*
“Ummmm maybe we should save that one for later. Here’s my copy of Cyptonomicon. You’ll love it.”
He’s on a pretty long leash as far as content goes, but he does not need to read about the events surrounding the dentata quite yet… 😬

Remembering that classic song Madonna wrote about Bill Oddie as news of his death breaks: https://rathergood.com/2017/01/26/madonna-loves-bill-oddie/

Madonna Loves Bill Oddie
A classic rathergood misheard lyric. You can get the song here

The Journey Back Home
Your roadmap to returning to who you were before the world told you who to be. It's about waking up to your own life and remembering yourself beneath the fear, the noise, and the conditioning...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the…

I wrote a blog post on using #Wikifunctions to determine the correct German article (der, die, or das) for a noun. It's an explainer for a tool I recently wrote and walks through calling Wikifunctions and how to fetch lexical data from #Wikidata.

@… yeah! I am now remembering Copa America 2024 had a pink card too

@… @… stunning food there! I'm still crying remembering fideuš here:

Mick Shots: Making huge personnel difference https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-making-huge-personnel-difference

I use many boards in #CircuitPython. Remembering how each board names its pins is a pain. So I slop-ily made a tool to help https://todbot.github.io/CircuitPython_BoardViewer/

I use many boards in #CircuitPython. Remembering how each board names its pins is a pain. So I slop-ily made a tool to help https://todbot.github.io/CircuitPython_BoardViewer/

Remembering dear Roman Verostko, who died this month two years ago, aged 94. An highly influential figure, not just for algorithmic art in general, but also for younger me personally, after meeting him during a panel discussion at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and then corresponding for several years after...
Living as a monk and ordained priest in the 1950/60s, he absolutely cherished his limited computer time which he had first access to as student. The more he learned a…

My god I am so tired and I cannot sleep. I am at about 6% of my normal mental capacity and the best I can do is scream into the void. I keep remembering and I hate it. I want to forget the world.

Mick Shots: Making huge personnel difference https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-making-huge-personnel-difference

Want real executive presence?
It's not about lowering your voice or cutting slides.
It's about remembering that authority lives inside you. Not in a title or rank.
When you stop performing for approval, you find groundedness. You listen fully. You respond in your own time.
That's gravitas.
What would change if you led from sovereignty instead of hierarchy?

how to get that corporate "it" factor
the surprisingly simple fast-track to gravitas

Today, I'm remembering that time on January 6, 2021 when Lindsey Graham indicated he might actually have a backbone by speaking out against the illegal coup attempt and said that Biden legitimately won the election.
It didn't stick though. He returned to his cowardly support of Turnip leading up to the 2024 election.
https://www.

From Bill McKibben
Lee Raymond, former Exxon CEO who denied climate change, dies at 87,
when people think back in a hundred years or a thousand or ten thousand, the one thing worth remembering about him will be the crucial role he played in holding back action on climate change.
I would like to add a link but all I could get was a promo for the Substack app

On Monday, Trump remembered
Lindsey Graham as someone who called him too much, as a poor golfer and, in the manner of a person remembering a pet labrador, as someone who “loved being outside”.
There was praise, sure, but it was tempered with criticism, as if the president’s famously fragile ego meant he needed to assert dominance over Graham, even after the latter’s death.

Trump’s barbed eulogy for Lindsey Graham reveals how fragile his ego is
In interviews and social posts, the loyalty-obsessed president couldn’t help but weave criticism into his praise

What should we give academic credit for? Should the resolution of White's conjecture be published in a very good journal with lots of credit for the author? Even if it was just remembering this hard conjecture and pushing the button?
(I have no idea how much AI actually went into the counterexample!!)
And if not, then what to make with this conjecture and result?

I'm riding around the northshore while listening to a podcast where they're talking about pulping unsold books and I'm remembering my days working at Barnes and Noble. We would try to sell a bunch of cheap paperbacks, and a lot of them wouldn't sell. Most book publishers will buy back unsold books but the cheap paperbacks weren't worth the shipping cost so we were told to tear the covers off, mail those back, and throw out the rest of the book.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
Doves:
🎵 Pounding
#Doves
https://deggman.bandcamp.com/track/remembering-doves
https://open.spotify.com/track/478PWxN5mJisvnGaOvItX4

As always, I wonder what the hell investors are thinking. But I always keep remembering the same thing:
- Investment isn’t about •actual• value, except maybe asymptotically. Investment is about correctly predicting what others will •perceive• as valuable.
- When some asset is hot but sketchy on the fundamentals, it doesn't matter whether some people know it or everyone knows it. It's just a game of chicken: just don't be the last to bail.
- Thus the old saying about betting against ill-founded popularity: the market can stay irrational a lot longer than you can stay solvent.

I have a hard time remembering that Fedora uses something called DNF to update itself. What does DNF stand for, I wondered? "Dandified YUM". YUM is Yellowdog Updater, Modified", an evolution of YUP which was some PowerPC thing.
Actually it's all just RPM.

is remembering that I have summer sausage in the kitchen.

I use many boards in #CircuitPython. Remembering how each board names its pins is a pain. So I slop-ily made a tool to help https://todbot.github.io/CircuitPython_BoardViewer/
With it you can see how three ESP32-S3 boards differ:
- board.IOx - ESP32-S3 DevKitC
- board.Dx - QTPy ESP32-S3
- board.GPIOx - YD-ESP32-S3

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Doves:
🎵 Pounding
#Doves
https://deggman.bandcamp.com/track/remembering-doves
https://open.spotify.com/track/478PWxN5mJisvnGaOvItX4

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Doves:
🎵 Pounding
#Doves
https://deggman.bandcamp.com/track/remembering-doves
https://open.spotify.com/track/478PWxN5mJisvnGaOvItX4