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👨‍💻Software Developer.
💾 Vintage computer retroholic.
⌨️Clicker of a thousand keyboards.
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1968: Canada’s first-ever leaders’ debate. Tommy Douglas shows us what political courage sounds like.
🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PJS...
#TommyDouglas #cdnpol
Tommy Douglas’ Historic 1968 Opener | Canada’s First Televised Debate
YouTube video by Dear Neighbor
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April 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Production at this facility was temporarily shut down as they assessed the impact of tariffs going forward.
April 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/
April 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.

As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.

They can't keep spewing carbon.

They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.

They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out

t.co/LeABrGqDei
April 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Over at Ars Technica, I wrote about the beauty of 1982 Atari 800 classic Salmon Run and how it serves the perfect metaphor for survival during our troubled times

"The timeless genius of a 1980s Atari developer and his swimming salmon masterpiece"

arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
The timeless genius of a 1980s Atari developer and his swimming salmon masterpiece
Doctors said he’d die by 13, but Bill Williams turned long odds into iconic art about endurance.
arstechnica.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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March 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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February 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:

www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
www.404media.co
February 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM