RE: https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless/115888215303647458
True...
On the other hand, too many car drivers confuse immortality (with regard to an accident involving pedestrians) with right-of-way...
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Magdalena Bay:
🎵 Human Happens
#MagdalenaBay
https://magdalenabay.bandcamp.com/track/human-happens
https://open.spotify.com/track/40ATtBjYoYuJxKGfrqJwJl
With all these UX disasters from Windows 11 to Liquid Glass, it's interesting how UIs from the 90s mostly feel just right to me—and I don't think that's just purely nostalgia or growing up with it.
Things like window borders that are visible so you know where to resize things and scrollbars that indicate the current viewport.
One point this Economist piece also misses is that China's impressive high speed trains are mostly built with German technology..
Are liberal values a luxury the West cannot afford?
https://www.economist.com/international/2026/02/10/are-liberal-values-a-luxury-the-west-cannot-afford?giftId=NjBhM2I5MDUtZjI2MC00YTFmLWJmYzYtN2ZmN2Q4YmJmYTc1&utm_campaign=gifted_article
Darren Woods is known mostly as the chairman of ExxonMobil,
the largest U.S. oil company.
On Friday, however, he made noise in a different sphere by placing an obscure financial term into the political lexicon:
"#Uninvestible."
That's how Woods described Venezuela
—more specifically, Venezuela's oil industry.
His remark came during a meeting of s…
euroroad: Euroroad network (2011)
A network of international "E-roads," mostly in Europe. Vertices represent cities and edges represents roads. Metadata includes names of cities.
This network has 1174 nodes and 1417 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/euroroa…
Behörden machtlos - Wie Frauen vor Gefährdern geschützt werden können #News #Nachrichten
Courier expands to nine more US states, bringing the progressive news network to 20 states, and says it has 104 employees, mostly working at local news outlets (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/11/courier-expands-to-nine-more-states
Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began with Windows on ARM, which to this day is still held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility (Steven Sinofsky/Hardcore Software)
https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/…