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  I woke up thinking about all the places in America named after somewhere else. Should we rename New York as New America? Or New Jersey? Or New Orleans? And what should we do about places like Washington - should that become America, DC? Or America, DA? Curious times...

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  @randahl@mastodon.social Some were born British, some became British, and some had Britishness thrust upon them. But none of that matters. What counts is that they stand up for honesty, integrity and the rule of law...

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  @Dennis@beige.party Sadly, no! But now you know why you don't see those things in many professional kitchens 😱

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  This description from Wolf Blitzer sums up the last DC drama rather well. First, a detailed description claiming to have been just a few feet away. Then "I didn't actually see the shooting". Is it me, or is this like a bad school play??!? #uspolitics

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  Oh boy: we're going to need a bigger, better word. Cory Doctorow's "enshittification" is one thing, but the systematic dismantling of thinking ("cognitive surrender") enabled by these LLM derivatives is mind-bending. The attached is from a LinkedIn post by someone from that Big M software company... Anyone who knows data analysis (remember "big data"?) will surely have had the same visceral reaction as me - ad hoc analysis o...

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  RE: https://mastodon.scot/@Fife4Europe/116493834925308462 This article made me wonder: how many times have US troops in Europe taken action to defend NATO allies, and how many times have the bases been used as staging posts for American military action in other countries?

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  "Monthly users hovered in the low hundreds of thousands" That's the Metsverse, on which some silicon Valley folk have lavished the best part of US$100 billion (or about 1 AI seed round, in new money). How much money did others spend building things in the Metaverse, or buying virtual property there? And is there a more meta company name than Meta, given this grizzly history? https://techstartups.com/2026/03/18/meta-shuts-down-metaverse-after-80-billion-loss-ends-hori...

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  @SKleefeld@retro.pizza The most fun is where the package arrives at your city, and then mysteriously transits another hub 409 miles away :-0