Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

Look, we can't make the E.T. game fun...or even playable...but we can appreciate the manual artwork from 1982, one of >3 million manuals in our collection: https://archive.org/details/E.T._The_Extra-Terrestrial_1982_Atari/mode/2up

If you're thinking about getting a printer of any kind, read this.

You were warned.

https://www.theverge.com/23648726/hp-officejet-printer-region-how-to-change-why

I'm going to submit a journal paper this year, which means the bill for publication will either come this fiscal year (before March 31) or... next fiscal year... depending on the speed of the reviewer.

Finance wants us to declare this month if we want to rollover any budget, so I asked them how to handle this uncertainty.

They seem completely flabbergasted and I can only assume no one has ever submitted a paper between November ~ February before in the whole history of the universe 🤔

@TonyStark @MartyLemert Don't forget: that insipid NTYimes hed was the *replacement* headline - the original was this:

And it's done! Tell your friends, tell your family, tell your enemies!
#QuantumCommunications #QuantumInternet #QuantumComputing our textbook is now available. Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02367

For nearly a decade, I did national public opinion polling out of 2 large research universities.

As I now watch U.S. election coverage swell, a friendly reminder that polls miss A LOT of people + A LOT of opinions.

So a full year out from the next #election, don’t pay much attention to polls in the #news.

Can people even have babies in space? This is a delightful conversation with @ZachWeinersmith Kelly Weinersmith & Clara Moskowitz about all the ways living off-planet would be dreadful https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-we-even-have-babies-in-space-why-were-not-ready-for-life-off-planet/

12 November 1922 | A Pole, Tadeusz Borowski, was born. A poet, writer & journalist.

In Auschwitz from 29 June 1943.
No. 119198
Liberated in Dachau. A lot of his post-war literature described the horrors of the camp.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2  #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #histodons #Remember #otd #facts #poetry

I hope that young man found some good hardware programming reference books. http://shiftleft.com/mirrors/utzoo-usenet/

A Tesla whistle blower was fired after raising concerns about the safety of Tesla's Autopilot driver-assistance software and has leaked thousands of accident reports.

Anyone who's watched Elon running Twitter into the ground while also unmasking his far right tendencies is probably not surprised that Tesla cut corners on safety and retaliates against anyone who complains.

It's stunning to me how many people keep buying Tesla's each month and put their lives in his hands
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/business/tesla-whistleblower-elon-musk.html

(The progressive delusion that censorship only occurs when the First Amendment is violated is a *wild* own-goal, one that excuses, for example, the decision by school book-fair monopolist #Scholastic to remove books about queers and Black and brown people from its offerings as a purely private matter without consequences for free speech):

https://www.themarysue.com/scholastic-response-to-authors-and-illustrators-on-diverse-books/

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The German eXit from Musk's hate platform is real and ongoing.

I'm seeing accounts for newspapers, courts, libraries, radio stations, cities, nonprofits, etc. getting shut down permanently or moved into maintenance mode. This is all very organic, e.g., the city of Cologne had a vote on withdrawal from X:

https://ratsinformation.stadt-koeln.de/getfile.asp?id=956920&type=do

I can barely keep up. Many of these accounts are now on the fediverse. The ones I've tracked so far are in the eXit spreadsheet:

https://bit.ly/eXit

of all the government sites the I’ve audited in the past half of a year, the sites that have the best frontend (most accessible, most performant) are the ones that were built 20 years ago, but the devs are usually embarrassed that they haven’t kept up with “what’s new” and I always go the extra effort saying “no no no, this is great. you want to look new? over lunch I’ll write 100 lines of CSS to make that happen. but this site is plain old HTML and it is the best.”

“add some headings though.”

Conservatives are (partially) right about woke capitalism. It *is* a threat to democracy. Concentrating the power to decide who gets to speak and what they get to say into the hands of five or six corporations, mostly run by mediocre billionaires, *is* bad for society. The moderation decisions of giant platforms *are* a form of (commercial) censorship, even these don't violate the #FirstAmendment:

https://locusmag.com/2020/01/cory-doctorow-inaction-is-a-form-of-action/

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I see that Sen. Tommy Tuberville has put out a generic statement about military veterans. Has he no shame? He must end the blockade and let the hundreds of stalled promotions go forward. He is harming our military readiness, all to score political points. And his staffers, some of whom are Bannonites, are gleeful about it. It appears they want the military badly weakened so that Trump can come back in and bend it to his corrupt will.

What is especially chilling about Trump’s bloodthirsty Veterans Day rant is, by “radical left thugs” he means basically all Americans to the left of Mike Pence. Which is, most of us.

Today is Hugh Everett III’s birthday. At least in this neighborhood of the wave function.
#QuantumMechanics

Experian is a criminally negligient "credit bureau" that hoovers up personal information, sells it, and lets identity thieves easily steal "your" account.

There is absolutely no accountability because Congress doesn't give a damn -- and Experian blatantly doesn't give a damn.

Read this infuriating blog post by @briankrebs

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/11/its-still-easy-for-anyone-to-become-you-at-experian/