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The people holding up the internet (plain version)
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The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.

“So Much Worse Than People Realize”:
Never-Before-Seen Images Reveal Damage at U.S. Bases
as Troops Describe Being Abandoned
Service members, contractors, and military families share photos, videos, and firsthand accounts of the Iran war that they say the Pentagon has kept from the American public

Microsoft has launched a call for proposals called, honest to god, "AI and Jobs: Designing for Augmented Work." Setting aside the usual puke-inspiring AI garbage that's all over the call, who the hell wants "augmented" work? Could we have reduced work instead?

The Raiders Are Getting Better, So Why Is RB Ashton Jeanty Getting Worse? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/raiders-rb-ashton-jeanty-trending-like-trent-richardson

If you're interested in experimental weaving, community building, and unusual free/open source software, then this opportunity might well be for you:
https://unstable.design/work/community_manager/

Using #PHP arrays as pseudo-objects is almost never the right answer. They're less self-documenting, slower, worse on memory, and more bug prone.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/php-list-ben…

PHP: Use associative arrays basically never
The other day I was working on some sample code to test out an idea that involved an object with an internal nested array. This is a pretty common pattern in PHP: You have some simple one-off internal data structure so you make an informal struct using PHP associative arrays. Maybe you document it in a docblock, or maybe you're a lazy jerk and you don't. (Fight me!) But really, who bothers with defining a class for something that simple? But that got me wondering, is that common pattern r…

Google hat einfach mal 2x3km Wald in Nord-Finnland illegal abgeholzt und den Mutterboden abgeräumt.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre
Company ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push

Monday’s leftover muffins are today’s French toast. Bacon (we’re out of eggs) tea and coffee. Today’s a biopsy, work, and then Getaway Driver at Trinity Rep tonight, before our weekend storm. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/wvNruNRPveaxB6Px5

Why vote for the Regional Transit Measure that's on SF Bay Area ballots?
Because if it fails, congestion will get much worse
&
"The report estimated taxpayers would pay $82 per year on the half-cent sales tax.
Transit riders who switch to driving will need to spend $3,280 per year for increased transportation costs, such as fuel, tolls and parking."
Even if you will always drive, isn't $82/year (or even $164/ year in SF worth it to avoid an …

The latest shudder for stocks in the AI industry pulled markets lower worldwide on Thursday,
while oil prices hit their highest levels since May on worries about the war with Iran.
The S&P 500 fell 1.2% for its worst day since July,
while the Nasdaq composite tumbled 2.6%.
The weakness for tech stocks was so overwhelming that it masked strength for the rest of the US market,
in which the majority of stocks actually rose.
The Dow JonesIndustrial Averag…

Sharp drops for AI stocks overwhelm markets worldwide as oil prices jump
Datacenter and chip costs fueled sharp decrease in AI sector although non-AI stocks still had a strong showing