Andres Plaza @AndresPlazaR@qoto.org

The philosopher Karl Popper published what came to be known as the Paradox of Tolerance in his book "The Open Society and Its Enemies" in 1945.

It dealt with the question of how a society that promotes tolerance is to deal with those who are intolerant.

#Paradox #philosophy

Q. Why do mathematicians confuse Halloween and Christmas?

A. Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.

(gotta go now!)

I like this kind of Humor.

Carabineros y encuesta CEP: De chivo expiatorio a una de las instituciones mejor evaluadas. Ricardo Brodsky https://www.ex-ante.cl/?p=120592 #Política

Creative Technology founder and CEO Sim Wong Hoo dies https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/sim-wong-hoo-dies-creative-technology-founder-ceo-3184226 I still remember how awesome my Soundblaster 16 card was, and blown away by the sound quality while playing games. Every geek/IT folk in 80s/90s used those cards at some point. #RIP

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#NewYearsEve

Actually cannot believe this. After 13 years, Sony/BMG have decided to take down Rick Astley's "Never gunna give you up" due to a dispute with Youtube over ad royalties.

It's completely blocked globally. Actual end of an era.

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

I had no idea Moose could even hold swords.

#Canada

100% due to Musk's own irresponsible actions...
-- Elon Musk is defending his massive cost-cutting at Twitter as necessary for the social media platform to survive next year, due in part to debt payments tied to his $44 billion takeover of the company.
“This company is like, basically, you’re in a plane that is headed towards the ground at high speed with the engines on fire and the controls don’t work.”
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-business-san-francisco-fa63069c6cb48850f3c36d052bd96044

LastPass breach update: the attacker got (encrypted) vaults.

If you have users with weak vault passwords, now’s the time to change any creds those users had access to, and of course enable 2FA everywhere it wasn’t already. #infosec #security https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/

You’d think since they’re called Zoom calls they’d go a lot faster.

I had some MIDI fun on the Atari 520ST for Holiday Music Week X at r/Retrobattlestations!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuTzp6hAKYw

#Atari #AtariST #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #MIDI #keyboards #synthesizers #videos #Christmas #holiday #music

"No one is obligated to tolerate intolerance. That's not how 'tolerance' works."

Grace Hopper, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy
#Quotes #Tolerance #EmotionalIntelligence

the guy at the pet shop warned me not to get him wet