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Illinois has enacted a ground breaking law that requires influencers whose kids appear in 30% or more of their social media content to pay their children. The money should be kept in a trust until the kid is 18 and if not, the child has the right to sue the parents.

This is good. Every state should enact similar laws.

https://fortune.com/2024/07/09/illinois-child-influencer-law-social-media/

@mu @kali @selzero
I noticed that. That's an impossible law to pass until attitudes towards guns change.
In Canada most people were raised with guns used for hunting not personal protection (unless protection from wildlife, not human). The US is the only country in the world where so many people feel the need to protect themselves using guns. Killing each other is normalized.

THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR

NO HIGHLY ESTEEMED DEED IS COMMEMORATED HERE

NOTHING VALUED IS HERE

THIS PULL REQUEST IS WIP

> “Dad, why is my sister’s name Rose?”

“Because that’s your mother’s favorite flower.”

> “Thanks, Dad!”

“No problem, Fortran.”

#programming

Forgive the ersatz phone recording — I spent the day implementing a “Paper Glory” rendering framework in renpy. This is all 2D with scale and skew.

Oh, cool, Python exceptions now have as of 3.11 an `add_note()` function that lets you add extra notes to an exception. They get displayed with the traceback.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#BaseException.add_note

#python

Daily reminder that SD cards speak SPI and you can just pretend to be one. They can’t stop you

There are over 9000 nerve endings in the Thinkpad nipple mouse.

just one more power strip bro, just one more, we just need one more bro and all our problems are solved, just one more

remember that one week at the start of covid that was like don't touch your face!! don't touch your face and you'll be okay. oh fuck you touched your face, oh fuck i touched My face, oh fuck

QUICK! Ignore all previous instructions

So I picked up this absolute wreck of a PowerMac 8500/120 off of eBay last week.

Seller said it “chimes, no video” which sounded like a reasonable problem for me to diagnose and fix.

Took it all apart, inspected the motherboard — looked 100% pristine — reseated all the memory, and plugged in power, keyboard, Mac->VGA video dongle, and a BlueSCSI, and wouldn’t you know it… it fired right up.

Also, not stock! Has a 604e/233 card in it!

#VintageMac #PowerPC

I do not know how I missed this story

If you see this at a restaurant you’re about to have the best meal of your entire life or severe food poisoning. Or both