Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

Donald Trump said something that almost everyone agrees with,
as seen in this #PoliticalCartoon by John Buss:

The #UN recently passed a resolution declaring #slavery a #crime against #humanity. Only three countries were against.

More info in: https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/03/1167199 and https://www.pulse.com.gh/story/how-all-the-178-countries-voted-on-ghanas-un-slavery-resolution-2026032608162891666

The #war in #Iran is very unpopular among the people of the #US

Imagine Iran could cause a regime change in the USA

@maxleibman The honesty system worked better for everyone. The people serving didn't have to worry about handing out different types of coffee so everything went faster and everyone got the amount of milk they wanted. I would never have dreamed of cheating like this, not just because it wouldn't be fair to the independent cafe owners but because if everyone did that they would have had to move away from the honestly system. But I bet this guy thought he was cleverer than everyone else for having figured out a way to save himself 20p, and in his mind the rest of us were clearly only following the rules because we were stupid enough to think they were enforced not because we realised they made things work better for everyone.

I think about that man a lot. He's probably running a company by now.

@maxleibman when I was a student, and you can tell from the prices of coffee how long ago that was, I used to buy a cup of coffee at the station every morning on the way in to university. A black coffee cost £1, a coffee with milk cost £1.20. You'd pay at the counter and everyone no matter what they ordered got handed a black coffee, then you added your own milk from a jug by the door on your way out on an honesty system.

One morning a guy in a fancy suit pushed into line in front of me, which annoyed me enough to make me pay attention to him. He ordered and paid for a black coffee then added milk to it. And this guy singlehandedly taught me a lot about the sort of people running the world.

A billionaire enters a gas station. Seeing the "Leave a penny, take a penny" dish on the counter, he scoops up all of the coins and pockets them.

"I'm a genius," he says to the protesting clerk. "I earned this money. Anybody could have taken it, but only I had the vision to see what was possible."

Apparently this requires restating:
We should not want a European Palantir.
We should not want an open-source Palantir.
We should not want a non-commercial Palantir.

If it is supposed to do what Palantir does, we should not want it.

And I don't care to what extent Palantir's products are shaped by political or profit motives. We know enough to reject its logic altogether.

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't received any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since grants are typically for 3 years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

In my 25-year career, I’ve never NOT had funding. I typically have 4 to 8 grants, which you need if you’re running an observation science program and have a technician, students, and postdocs.

Anger as EU gets a ‘better trade deal’ with Australia than Brexit Britain

By a former minister’s own admission, Britain’s flagship post-Brexit trade deal with Australia was a failure. The announcement this week of a free trade agreement between the EU and Australia has twisted the knife.

https://www.politico.eu/article/anger-as-eu-gets-better-trade-deal-with-australia-than-brexit-britain/

Task management is just a shell game you play with your future self, who you assume (incorrectly) will have more energy than you do

Try to unsee it

Level: impossible.