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Don’t let the headline fool you, it’s just boring testing results:
“The Value of Selecting Selects by Value”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/11/the-value-of-selecting-selects-by-value.html

The Value of Selecting Selects by Value
This is meant to use voice control to test select menus (and other fields, but the title would be less weird) by their value because their accessible names are hidden. I’m sharing results of that testing. This was partially driven by: WCAG issue #3808 SC 3.3.2: Labels or Instructions and…

"China will use this as justification when they attack Taiwan later this year."
China has just denounced the US for breaking international law. Technically that puts the boot on the other foot, and it would now be hypocritical to point to Venezuela if and when.
Does that lower the probability of them attacking Taiwan? Or of pointing to Venezuela when the US criticizes them for it?
I think we all put too much stock in the value of sound arguments. Any argument wil…

KIVA is crowdfunding for microcredits. I've been using it since november 2007, that's more than 18 years!
Here are some stats about how I use it:
- I've contributed to 1305 loans, usually $25 to each.
- I have around $3k in the system, but as they have been relended several times, I've lended for a total value of $33k
- I have contributed to loans in 79 different countries
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NFL Week 15 lookahead lines: Early best bets worth considering before Week 14

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Raiders’ Ashton Jeanty Makes Feelings Clear on Maxx Crosby Trade Rumors https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/ashton-jeanty-maxx-crosby-trade-rumors/

Use cookies in shiny apps: #rstats #shiny

Oops, #Terraform datasources cannot contain write-only attributes, which means you cannot use a sensitive value in a secure way when configuring a datasource... Which leaves us with ephemeral resources which are not always what we want or passing the sensitive value to the provider (assuming the provider can take that value and pass it along to the datasource), which is not always possible...…

Muddled.
'Value' has specific meanings in Marxist political economy.
It isn't the appropriate term for what Boillier is discussing.
'Wealth' is closer but still not right.
It's a matter of standpoint: the abundance of nature isn't purely for human use, so those two terms don't apply well, or at all.
Toward a New Theory of Value (and Meaning): Living Systems as Generative - resilience

Toward a New Theory of Value (and Meaning): Living Systems as Generative
The bounty brought by rainfall, fertile soil, and biodiversity cannot truly be expressed through quantitative proxies, prices, algorithms, or markets because this “wealth” doesn’t exist in static, objectified forms or essentialist identities

I paid for Pocket Casts Web 11 years ago (before either Automattic or NPR owned it). I use it 5 days per week for roughly 4 hours per day. I think that I got maximum value out of the $9 that I paid.
#PocketCasts #Automattic #NPR

I don’t use AI for anything in my academic or personal life. I value almost nothing more than my ability to think and to freely express myself. Even when I make mistakes, at least they are my mistakes.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-pro…

Imagine a world that we all control together, not controlled by oligarch or dictators, even indirectly. Imagine something truly collaborative. That world would be very different from our own. In some ways many of us could have a lot more opportunity. But in others, we would be restricted.
In such a world, we couldn't really have elite luxuries. Having such luxuries is only valuable so long as others do not.
> Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one.
- The Social Ideology of the Motorcar
Imagine a world in which we think about luxury in a radically different way, not as something that only has value via exclusivity but something that enriches the lives of the owners more as more people have them.
What would living in such a world be like? Can you describe a day in your life?
#SolarPunkPrompts #Writing #Prompts

Apple announces a multi-year deal to use Google's Gemini to power new Siri features later in 2026, saying Google's tech "provides the most capable foundation" (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple-google-ai-siri-gemini.html

Apple picks Google's Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year
Google's market value surpassed Apple for the first time since 2019 last week and topped $4 trillion on the news.

Presumably even more to HostRoyale. They use edgoo for all upstream.
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01K9QJX3EHY2276BFBBCR3JK0Y

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"VODAFONE ONO, S.A." transferred: 82.158.232.0/21 (Taken from 82.158.128.0/17), 82.158.240.0/20 (Taken from 82.158.128.0/17), 85.136.224.0/19 (Taken from 85.136.0.0/15) to "cleardocks LLC" (Estimated Market Value: $288.77 K)

NFL Week 14 lookahead lines: Early best bets worth considering before Week 13

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others) that are most important to assess the added value.
3. What concrete measures and actions may be taken at EU level to support the development and growth of the
EU open-source sector and contribute to the EU’s technological #sovereignty and #cybersecurity agenda?
4. What technology areas should be prioritised and why?
5. In what sectors could an increased use of open source lead to increased competitiveness and #CyberResilience?
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The US military has always had a massive global advantage against enemies by having bases all over the world. There are bases in every NATO country. This would appear to be a powerful threat to anyone willing to oppose American hegemon, and under normal conditions it would be.
But a lot of those kids serving on those bases joined, not because they love America but, because they needed a ticket out of poverty. They joined for the education, for the money, maybe a bit for the adventure, but, more than anything, to escape the ghetto or podunk backwater that trapped them. Under normal times, this is the best deal they could expect. Maybe they risk their lives, usually they sit around being bored for a few years, and they get to come out with respect and paid college.
But what they are being offered is normal in most of the countries they're stationed in. Free healthcare, cheap or free education, is just what citizens in a lot of countries have come to expect. If the US attacked a NATO country, how many would snap up citizenship if they were given a chance to defect? Bonus points for taking some hardware with you, I'm sure.
But there are some who love their country. There are some patriotic Americans on those bases. Some of them joined specifically to protect the US from all enemies, foreign *and* domestic. Given a chance to fulfill that oath or violate international law, what happens?
There are a good number of former military folks too who now are unsafe in the countries they served, who would do just about anything for citizenship in any EU country and almost any NATO ally. Some of those folks know things they swore an oath to never share, but the country they swore an oath to has betrayed them. Today there's no value in leaking those secrets, but in a war between the US and NATO allies things would be different. Some of those former military folks still believe in their oath, and know exactly who the real enemy is. What happens when there's a real threat of war, when they can use their knowledge to fulfill that oath to protect the US against those domestic threats?
There are a bunch of civilian tech workers who have become targets of the regime. Some of them had clearance, or know about the skeletons in the closet. They know about critical infrastructure, classified systems, all sorts of things that would be extremely valuable to an opponent. But the opponents of the US have always been a frightening *other*, never familiar societies these folks look up to, have visited, have thought about moving to, are trying to escape to.
All I'm saying here is that invading Venezuela and kidnapping the president has a very different calculus than does attacking Greenland. I don't know if Trump or his people are able to understand that, but if he and his folks aren't then I hope European leaders are. But more than that, I hope it never comes down to finding out.
But perhaps we should all think about what we would do to make sure things ended quickly if American leadership ever made such an incredible mistake.

NFL Week 17 lookahead lines: Early best bets worth considering before Week 16

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