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Sometimes we sleep, or may as well. The world of possibilities that contains and is contained by a day too much and too overwhelming to be but observed slowly through a fog. What shall I do today? Toss a coin.

Sometimes we remember, or remember feeling. To fetch from the vaults of memory is to remember afresh, and to remember afresh to feel afresh. To feel afresh is to reason afresh and it is all still true: this is still was still am still me I, feeling. But nevertheless afresh.

Sometimes we reach out. So fortunate I, who can be held without holding and still feel the warmth. Waves over waves.

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I discovered the other day that the Scottish Baby Box, available free to everyone pregnant in Scotland, contains condoms. Bit late, you might think.

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Baby box | Parent Club

The Baby Box helps families prepare for the arrival of their baby. New babies need a surprising amount of stuff! Scotland’s Baby Box is packed full of clothes, bedding and lots of other useful things to help give your baby the best possible start in …
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In which the EFF attempt to safe face by showing themselves to be complete muppets mastodon.social/@eff/113794035…

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Update: After this blog post was written, we learned Meta revised its public "Hateful Conduct" policy in ways EFF finds concerning. We are analyzing these changes, which this blog post does not address.

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This is an official translation of the law allowing Greenland self governance. Under it, for Greenland to become independent (to do with that independence what it may) it requires a majority in a referendum of the people of Greenland, an independence agreement with Denmark, and approval of that agreement by the Greenlandic and Danish parliaments. english.stm.dk/media/10522/gl-…

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If you played Jet Set Willy on the Spectrum as a kid you’ll be aware of the notorious Attic Bug. It meant that if you entered the Attic in a game, various rooms became instakills.

Today I read an explanation of the bug: bits of non-screen memory are being written to when one of the monsters in the Attic is “drawn”.

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Jet Set Willy: Bugs

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The original post has been obliterated because of containment breach, but here's the archive: web.archive.org/web/2023112613…

And I found this reblog that has lots of additions as well. 😁 xserpx.tumblr.com/post/7349428…

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the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at...
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In US law they pronounce the “v.” in case names as “versus” or “vee”. So we get the famous case of Roe v. Wade. But in English law for civil cases like this we pronounce the “v.” as “and”, thus rendering the case name as “row and wade”.

Or so I thought. It occurred to me just now that if the case had happened here, it’d be a judicial review. So would be called something like R (Roe) v. Wade, pronounced “the Crown (on behalf of Roe) and Wade”.

But! It was in 1973 when we wrote judicial review case names differently. It would probably have been something more like R v. Wade ex parte Roe.

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Idly reading about New Zealand's court system. Amusing to me was the way Māori introductions in New Zealand courts became the norm. A judge decided it would be good, so did it, and then a barrister for the Crown followed suit. Obviously at this point defence barristers couldn't be outdone, so... youtu.be/ycL-cKQ_0tU?si=imaGLw…

The Honourable Justice Joseph Williams

Maranga ake ai ki te wiki o te reo 2021.
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AI is a marketing term, not a technical term: Exhibit 1 in what is likely to become a continuing series.

This aircon unit is set to auto. But the icon on the remote shows “AI” instead.

I can state with reasonable certainty that there is nothing in this aircon unit that computer scientists recognise as “AI”, even under archaic definitions.

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Looks like this person got a visit from the ghost of cybersecurity "foreseeable consequences".

"I harassed my users into not opening any emails they aren't expecting, and now they won't open any emails they weren't expecting!"

#phishingtraining

#phishingtraining

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What Lego have done with their PoweredUp stuff is very cool. You can control it from a remote control or from your phone using Bluetooth. But this means that when you’ve not played with this stuff for a while and just want to make the train go forward you have all this technological baggage. I miss the joy of being able to press a button to make it go.
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The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED BUT REPULSIVE", "WRONG BUT WROMANTIC", "FREQUENTLY MISUNDERSTOOD", "NOBODY BOTHERS WITH THIS BIT", "SHOULDN'T REALLY BUT WE WON'T JUDGE", "REQUIRED IN ORDER TO WORK AROUND EVERYONE ELSE'S BUGS", "YOU DO YOU", and "OBVIOUSLY ABSURD BUT VERY COMMON FOR SOME REASON" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

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Interesting conversation the other day. In relation to the ban on GnRH agonists I said that the requirement for puberty blockers before hormones at 18 was a sop to the cis. A friend pointed out that my experience was very gender binary and that blockers might have a role for those whose gender identity is more complicated or in flux. Food for thought.

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Curious thing I’ve just noticed about my progesterone prescription. It’s for 28x100mg capsules, fine, but the capsules come in packs of 30. So every month the pharmacist cuts two capsules from the blister pack before sending the rest to me.

What happens to these little pairs of progesterone capsules? Is there someone who finds themselves with a box containing 14 little two-capsule blister packs? Is any of this worth anyone’s time and effort rather than letting me have an extra two?

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I have a medication that comes in 28s, which I am prescribed in an odd multiple of 14. I can receive that as all sorts of random offcuts, presumably from others with more fiddly quantities.
(It's a lifelong, cheap, uncontroversial medication, so indeed it seems like unnecessary faff for everyone to dole it out a month at a time -- even increasing the interval to 2 months would mean no-one would have to faff around cutting up anything.)

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I've been reading this in Portuguese, because I enjoyed another of the author's books and because I find the level of Portuguese very easy to follow. The best thing about it has been some of the idioms I've met along the way.

“Pôr a carroça à frentes dos bois” - to put the cart in front of the oxen.

“Tremer como varas verdes” - to shake like green twigs

"tirar nabos da púcara” - to pull turnips from the clay pot. Metaphorically to tease something out or to go on a fishing expedition in the journalistic sense.

"Engolir o sapo" - to swallow the toad. Kind of "bite the bullet"

"sair pela culatra" - to exit through the breech, i.e. to backfire

"caça às bruxas" - a witch hunt

Nação em Chamas: Intriga e Suspense - Um Thriller Português : Dias, Gonçalo JN: Amazon.co.uk: Books

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"Queer Labour" is like having an "African Americans for the Confederacy"

You are not 'changing things from the inside' you are a prop to be used and discarded by Centrists who only look out for coin, not us.

#Labour #UKPOL #Ukpolitics #LGBTQIA

#lgbtqia #ukpol #ukpolitics #Labour

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Every Queer in England spit in Wes Streetings Queer hating face

#WesStreeting #LGBTQIA

#lgbtqia #WesStreeting

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Why is it that whenever there's an Israeli drama about Mossad or Shabak, the Israeli intelligence services are portrayed as completely incompetent buffoons? Even by the standards of thriller TV, agents are so absurdly unable to follow orders that you do wonder if they'd do better ordering them to do the opposite.

Or maybe this is just the Israeli dramas that are selected to be exported to the rest of the world via Netflix and Apple TV. Perhaps Israel is less threatening if you associate it with 007 in clown shoes.

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