Here's an example of money to do nothing:
"Here's money, but to receive it, you have to do nothing and keep doing that."
Here's an example of money to do anything:
"Here's basic income. Do anything! Work to earn more money. Work for free. Enjoy more family time. Go back to school. Gain new skills. It's up to you."
re: A brief history of Gaza
Gaza is a strip of land about as big as Queens in New York City, and about as populous and densely populated, when Israel isn't busy besieging and massacring the Palestinians it trapped there.
A brief history of Gaza (CW: graphic imagery)
Vox, "Gaza, explained" [YouTube, 15:50]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv1SpwwJEW8
"You must disable your ad blocker" is the new "you must disable your antivirus program."
Almost 2% of the population are intersex: they have natural variations which mean they do not fit into binary notions of sex. There are many different types of intersex traits, and some intersex people have uterine tissue, which means they can get endometriosis. But the number of intersex people affected by this isn't known. Why? Let's explore. #IntersexAwarenessDay
In situations like these, I commend to your attention the Breaking News Consumer's Handbook.
Breaking news events are confusing and frightening. Early reports often include things that we later learn are wrong or not related. This guide intended to help you make sense of what you are reading and hearing. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/breaking-news-consumers-handbook-pdf
Why are you stressing about arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in #curl ? You were just going to pipe the output to sh anyway.
FINE FINE I’LL GO FLIP THE DAMN CARD
IT HAS BEEN 0️⃣ DAYS SINCE PHYSICS DOOMED US ALL AGAIN https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/hackers-can-force-ios-and-macos-browsers-to-divulge-passwords-and-a-whole-lot-more/
re: Eldritch data encoding standards
Speaking of, since I saw this going around as well:
"EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR" (Terence Eden’s Blog, 2021):
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/
"Court of Appeal of Brussels - 2019/AR/1006" (GDPRhub, 2019):
https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=Court_of_Appeal_of_Brussels_-_2019/AR/1006
Eldritch data encoding standards
How bad should I feel for having known for years that UTF-EBCDIC is a thing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-EBCDIC
Computing horrors
I've lived a long and content life, ignorant of this horrible fact: there exists a UTF-EBCDIC encoding. Blessed by the Unicode consortium even. The eldrich horrors of EBCDIC unleashed by the Old Ones, now rise again from their slumber into modern Unicode.
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