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Finally, there were a surprising number of talks on the merits of IP vs. ATM, on both sides of the argument. Hard to believe that ATM ever had such a bright future (in the eyes of many) given that it now occupies a small space in the set of technologies that sit underneath IP. It turned out that we didn't need fixed length packets to build high speed networks! Full story in our newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/systemsa /fin

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Speaking of fecundity, the #foxglove, native to Europe, was imported as an ornamental garden plant to Australia and in Tasmania's cool, well-watered climate, it has escaped into the wild and spread explosively—it lined many of the roads we drove through yesterday in a conflagration of colour. A showy environmental pest, the foxglove is also poisonous.

#Tasmania: Pyengana, Monday 3:02PM

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"He slid to the ground and lay staring up into the branches with a happy and unseeing interest. He was looking at his thoughts: thoughts that at a less fortunate juncture might have pained him but that now seemed as remote and impersonal a subject for consideration as the sway and lapse of the fronds moving overhead."

Looking at your thoughts—a beautiful image. But an impossibility?

#AmReading MR FORTUNE'S MAGGOT by #SylviaTownsendWarner

#Books #Literature

"Most Englishmen who visit the South Sea Islands are in the depths of their hearts a little shocked at the vegetation. Such fecundity, such a largesse and explosion of life—trees waving with ferns, dripping with creepers...flowers triumphantly gaudy or tricked out with the most sophisticated improbabilities of form & patterning: all this profusion unbridled & untoiled for and running to waste disturbs them. They look on it as some conflagration, and feel that they ought to turn the hose on it."

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From Cantonia Independence Party:

Cantonian activists Mr. Lau Fei-Lung and Chan Chun-Kwai were invited to the Human Rights Day Protest in the Netherlands. They stood alongside activists from Hong Kong, East Turkestan, Tibet, and Southern Mongolia, remembering the victims of China's tyranny.

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Increasing swings in temperature here between night and day. It was cold out this morning, and even frosty on some of the shaded grass areas we walk past on the route to school.

#cold #weather

George Mason, born OTD in 1725, was one of the three delegates to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787 who refused to sign the Constitution cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/p #travel #Philadelphia #history

In an unprecedented move, Special Counsel Jack Smith takes the question of Donald Trump’s liability to Supreme Court.

Polish parliament elects Donald Tusk as prime minister – DW – 12/11/2023

Source: Polish parliament elects Donald Tusk as prime minister – DW – 12/11/2023

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warning! install macOS Sonoma 14.2 at your own risk.

#macOS #apple

Today in 2006, 17 years ago: in Mexico, President Felipe Calderón declared war on drug trafficking, after starting intense operations trying to capture these types of criminals.

#OnThisDay

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