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I like how the answer to "how do magnets work" is just "they're made of lots of smaller magnets"

How do those magnets work?

"They're made of even smaller magnets"

What's the smallest possible magnet

"An electron"

A single electron is a magnet

"Yeh because it's spinning. Kinda."

Why does that make a magnet

"Idk that's just what a magnet is"

So we have no idea

"No we have no clue"

Google PR sure is taking its sweet time getting back to me about the finding that Chrome has a hidden extension that allows all *.google.com domains to monitor your CPU usage and other private system info. I'm sure they're working just as fast as they can.

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs/

We colonialised half the world over centuries for spices, and this is what we eat.

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.