Why walking around in public with Vision Pro makes no sense.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/why-walking-around-in-public-with-vision-pro-makes-no-sense/
Microsoft to Stop Showing Intrusive Bing Pop-ups to Chrome Users on Windows 11 https://www.thurrott.com/windows/287864/microsoft-to-stop-showing-intrusive-bing-pop-ups-to-chrome-users-on-windows-11?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
@adam and @Johncdvorak Thanks for your hard work on the BPITU. Episode 1579, "Cash over Country" was a BANGER (as the kids say).
Thanks for 15+ years of critical media deconstruction. Please never find an exit strategy. ITM
It was just a few days ago that I was spontaneously praising @kevin for his work transforming Bloomberg’s culture with respect to open source. You could do much worse than hiring him.
@adam @Johncdvorak last day of 2023 will be 123123, might be a good donation drive. It's also a show day.
Reading Stolen Focus. The chapter, "The Collapse of Sustained Reading", revealed that the screen is "training" us to read differently.
We tend to skip and scan when reading on screens. But if we do it long enough, it will bleed onto other areas, causing us to read on paper the same way. - Anne Mangen, professor of literacy at Stavanger University in Norway
Apparently you can't read my post on micro.blog without logging in. So here's a screen shot of the post. Sorry for the screwup.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks about Fred Brooks: "The most important single decision I ever made was to change the IBM 360 series from a 6-bit byte to an 8-bit byte, thereby enabling the use of lowercase letters. That change propagated everywhere." May his memory be a blessing.
Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia: lessons for democracy of 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia: lessons for democracy of 1989
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November 17 is the anniversary of the 'Velvet Revolution' in Czechoslovakia when in 1989 after massive protests in the country the Communist regime stepped aside and a democratic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opIOZ1r-PqA source : UATV English #Ukraine
Our hearts swelled reading this @gauteweb ♥
We launched Vivaldi Social, our #Mastodon instance, just yesterday. Chcek it out: https://social.vivaldi.net
US Political inteference in Ecuador.
#Assange was used as a bargaining chip by the US when the USA meddled in Ecuador election!
https://multipolarista.substack.com/p/capaya-us-meddled-ecuador-election-assange
European energy crisis is ‘good’ – Bill Gates — RT World News https://www.rt.com/news/564994-europe-energy-crisis-gates-renewables/
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