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Here’s my 35th “Long Links” outing, curation of long-form offerings, which assume that nobody has time to read all this stuff but one or two of the pieces might brighten your day. This one is mostly political but some of the politics are from France and China. Plus a way-cool analytical history of blogging and a section labeled “wonderful things”.

I has a bed.
No mattress until Monday, but a bed fully stained and varnished and constructed.
Had to wait a couple of days for varnish which never came. Went out to an actual DIY shop in the end. Gonna have a lot of spare varnish soon.
Varnished the whole room with two more coats as well as the bed twice.
A few more things to buy after Xmas and the full media setup can't happen until the new Steam Machine at its heart is released. Maybe cobble together something to plug a laptop into in the meantime? All for next year though once the mattress arrives and I can actually sleep in the bedroom.

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Zelf heb ik de luxe gehad om ooooit, helemaal in het begin, aan te lopen tegen een heel vervelende lock-in van mn data. Daardoor ken ik al heel lang de waarde van data.
Jarenlang leefde ik dus in een parallel universum wat Windows betreft en kijk eigenlijk met stomme verbazing hoe MS kennelijk de kans kreeg om dat de facto monopolie op te bouwen.
M365 is een logische stap om verder elk tarief te kunnen gaan vragen.
En dat dan helemaal los van de toegang tot -alle data- als t zo uitkomt.

Dropped in the new 9800X3D today, as well as the Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE. Booted up, and it posted, phew. Set the RAM Expo profile again and rebooted, logged in to desktop and started checking stuff. Launched The Last Caretaker and opened up MangoHud. 90C??! "Yo wtf is up with these temps.. OH SHIT" *shutdown*
Yes, yes I had done the thing everyone does at least once. As I was getting everything set up and pulling out the old parts and such, I looked at the new …

Steve Cropper - a musician who wrote or played on many of the best American pop recordings of the twentieth century - is no more. Here's a track you may have heard before, co-written by Cropper and Redding. the latter tragically dying before the song's release.
Otis Redding, "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" (1968)

[Sittin' On] the Dock of the Bay - YouTube Music
Provided to YouTube by Elektra Records [Sittin' On] the Dock of the Bay · Otis Redding The Dock of the Bay ℗ 1968 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the U...

ICE and DHS have spent more than $10 million on advertising in just the first three weeks of October
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ice-spending-big-ads-government-shutdown-1235457329/

ICE Isn’t Letting the Shutdown Stop It From Spending Big on Ads
New data shows ICE, DHS spent nearly $10 million on ads promoting deportation and recruitment — even as the shutdown furloughs thousands.

Klimaschutz ist auch auf linker Seite out, es gibt wichtigere Themen
https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/polizei/blockade-am-hamburger-hafen-aktivisten-fordern-stopp-der-waffenexporte-nach-israel/

Keith Jarrett - "Restoration Ruin" (1968)
Jarrett does baroque folk pop? He sings on most every track. Bizarre and excellent.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_khgwHqVIpM86rxzv9RGHHloQGWdicKHm4

Chancellor Thomas Gibson is offering a challenge to #UWM faculty and staff: Raise a total of $1,000 by the end of this week, and he will match with a $1,000 gift. Visits to the UWM food pantry rose more than 41% from September to October, as the federal government shutdown cut paychecks and certain government benefits and demand is expected to spike in the coming days as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are interrupted.
It's a good cause.
#Milwaukee

Around 13,000 air traffic controllers and 50,000 TSA officers are facing work without pay,
leading to surging absences and sick says.
Since the shutdown began on October 1, staff absences have contributed to 53 percent of all flight delays compared to the usual 5 percent.
On some days almost 6,000 flights have been hit by delays, with several major airports forced to impose ground stops due to the shortages.
On Friday, more than 4,000 flights were delayed across the c…

Travel chaos as unpaid air traffic controllers abandon towers... while Thanksgiving threat looms
Americans will face more flight interruptions after Congress failed to provide last-minute relief for air-traffic controllers and aviation workers whose paychecks will stall due to the government shutdown.