hesgen @hesgen@social.cleverlibre.org

MAGA: We need to run the country based on the Bible

Leviticus 19:34: The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself

MAGA: Not that part

Deut 27:19: "Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner."

MAGA: Or that part

Tech is full of people who won the lottery then convinced themselves and others they are geniuses.

The tragedy is the people who’ve followed advice that is the tech equivalent of “buy a lot of lottery tickets” who are slowly and painfully figuring that out.

@zakalwe @rbreich

Banana Republican

We previously reported that Douglas Barrowman's companies had unlawfully hidden their ownership of PPE Medpro and the companies holding Barrowman's Belgravia house. We can now identify 25 additional companies where Barrowman's group has unlawfully failed to disclose the ownership, abetted by what appears to be a rogue company verification agent.

(This isn’t the big Douglas Barrowman story we’ve mentioned - that’s coming soon. Think of this as a taster...)

https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/01/14/25more/

This is the Guardians of the Galaxy sequel nobody asked for! (source: @law_geek )

probably the worst that anything has ever aged

Welcome to X.
Mayor: Elon Musk
Population: dwindling

Cartoon for Trouw.

#ElonMusk #Twitter #X

German mathematician Hermann Minkowski died #OTD in 1909.

By 1908 Minkowski realized that the special theory of relativity, introduced by his former student Albert Einstein in 1905 and based on the previous work of Lorentz and Poincaré, could best be understood in a four-dimensional space, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime", in which time and space are not separated entities but intermingled in a four-dimensional space–time.

#books #science #physics
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Thanks, American Dialect Society, for choosing "enshittification" as the 2023 Word of the Year. @pluralistic's apt term describes how online platforms decay by showing users less and less of what they came for, while keeping them trapped and unable to exit for better alternatives. https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/

AfD-Politiker geben offen zu, dass die Pläne von Massen-Deportationen wahr sind. Es kann jeden von uns treffen. AfD-Fans fordern ethnische Säuberungen in den Kommentaren. Die Maske ist gefallen. https://www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/afd-gibt-alles-zu-sie-werben-offen-fuer-massen-deportationen/?utm_source=mstdn

The New York Times has recognised Bannau Brycheiniog as an important travel destination. Perhaps soon we can move on from faux outrage about people using their own language in their own country and expecting that others will respect that.

https://bylines.cymru/voices-lleisiau/hanes-cyfoethog-bannau-brycheiniog/

Nature: So, what shade of blue would you like to be?

Splendid Fairy-wren: Yes

#urbanNature #wildOz
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If you want to learn something about how to not create software, have a read of paragraph 251 in https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/bates-v-post-office-appendix-1-1.pdf

This is a court document from the Post Office scandal's litigation, in which post masters were held liable for accounting losses due to (very) broken software (more on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal).

This whole document is a fascinating read of failure in the software, and the criminal cover-up that followed.

#PostOfficeScandal #SofwareDevelopment

William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus #OTD in 1787.

Titania and Oberon are named after the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Titania´s orbit lies inside Uranus's magnetosphere while Oberon´s orbit lies partially outside Uranus's magnetosphere. For nearly 50 years following their discovery, Titania and Oberon would not be observed by any instrument other than Herschel's. via @wikipedia

#science #astronomy