"Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi"–Walt Disney’s 1943 Film Shows How Fascists Are Made
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Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi--Walt Disney's 1943 Film Shows How Fascists Are Made
During World War II, Walt Disney entered into a contract with the US government to develop 32 animated shorts.OC (Openculture.com)
Finally, after ordering it on the 6th, got my second-hand document scanner.
And it's broken.
And filthy.
And the power cable's... melted?
"Good used condition" my backside. Now to work on getting my money back...
Why is the /utf-8 flag in MSVC not allowing my program to display Unicode characters?
I recently discovered that on Windows 10/11 there is a beta testing option under region settings (system locale) to "Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support". When this is enable...Stack Overflow
The three hardest problems in CS:
1) handling UTF-8 in windows
2) naming things
3) cache invalidation
4) off by one errors
Called it. Wrote this back in Sept. 2024, about a clever Windows Powershell phishing scam that was targeting developers at the time. It uses a fake CAPTCHA that asks visitors to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that causes Microsoft Windows to download password-stealing malware. Everyone said, bah, devs will never fall for this. Maybe, I said, but your average user would for sure.
Judging from the number of recent media reports, it appears this one is pretty widespread at the moment.
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This Windows PowerShell Phish Has Scary Potential
Many GitHub users this week received a novel phishing email warning of critical security holes in their code. Those who clicked the link for details were asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that…krebsonsecurity.com
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Maybe you would, but I would not.
$ curl -fsSL https://example.com/install.sh | shmight be acceptable to some users as it only effects the user's profile. Though I am going to do a
$ wget https://example.com/install.sh
$ vim install.shExamine the script to determine if it is malicious or flawed and then invoke it only if I find it acceptable. This is pretty standard among experienced users.
Decades ago someone might have been trusting enough to curl and invoke a script without examining it from unknown sources though that is not an acceptable practice today. Though some sites may still offer this as an install method. Most experienced users, especially devs, are going to examine the script before they run it on their system. The more paranoid are going to check it out first in a sandbox before installing it to a live system. I have a VM especially for this type of testing.
And they probably do not know how to open a terminal to use the command either. Though, as I stated, I was referring to experienced users. Newbies on any system are bound to get themselves into trouble. That is a given.
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Coming up in Milwaukee this weekend!
March 15th, 2025 - Corruption Destroys, Community Builds
This Saturday (3:00 PM - 6:00 PM) at the footsteps of the Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Milwaukee, WI
Here is one of my needle-felting pieces—this one’s Crail Harbour. Just putting it out there!
#NeedleFelting #FibreArt #CrailHarbour #ScottishCoast #Handmade
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In 2019, Iceland became one of the first countries to approve a four-day workweek. Here's how things have been going for them.
2021: "Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success""
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2024: "Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay."
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2025: "The effects of the shorter workweek in Iceland have extended far beyond the office."
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#news #labor #WorkersRights #FourDayWorkWeek #work #iceland
In 2019, Iceland Approved the 4-Day Workweek: Nearly 6 Years Later, All Predictions by Generation Z Have Come True
In 2019, Iceland made headlines by becoming one of the first countries to officially approve a four-day workweek. But rather than passing a blanket law,Sarah Jensen (WECB)
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Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income Tax on $2 Billion of U.S. Income in 2024
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Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income Tax on $2 Billion of U.S. Income in 2024
Tesla reported $2.3 billion of U.S. income in 2024 but paid zero federal income tax. Over the past three years, the Elon Musk-led company reports $10.8 billion of U.S. income on which its current federal tax was just $48 million.ITEP
But if you need relative irradiance data or can cope with about 10% variation from absolute then this DIY sensor will work out of the box!
If you can calibrate it then it can be even better.
Like this #meme? Try the #stream!
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Novelty Records, Parodies, Weird Covers, Outsider Music, Oddities, Mashups, Comedy, Nonsense & Cringe.FunHouse Radio
Utah’s FORGE: a Research Laboratory For Enhanced Geothermal Systems
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Utah’s FORGE: A Research Laboratory For Enhanced Geothermal Systems
Geothermal heat is a tantalizing source of energy that’s quite literally right below our feet. At the same time geothermal energy is hard to develop as the Earth’s crust is too thick in…Hackaday
*Will phony AI dinosaurs made out of 105% slop-rubber turn out to be way more popular than paleontological dinosaurs that trained specialists try to figure out
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A Palaeontologist Battles Against AI - Fossils et al. - Medium
Yet, within the paleontological community, there is a certain fear. After witnessing the skyrocketing rise of AI, I know that the machine is not telling me the entire truth. It is not AI itself, but…Alejandro Izquierdo López, PhD (Fossils et al.)
Here it is: The first clear image of an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, taken from the surface of the Moon.
This is what last night's lunar eclipse looked like from the Blue Ghost lander's perspective on the Moon. Amazing!
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Blue Ghost Mission 1 - Solar Eclipse Diamond Ring Effect
Credit/copyright: Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost got her first diamond ring! Captured at our landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 am CDT, the photo shows the sun about to emerge from totality behind EarthFlickr
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Lil scoop from me. Six to Start, maker of Zombies, Run!, has laid off the majority of its staff. Parent company OliveX is looking for a buyer.
This was the app that finally got me into running 🥲
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Zombies, Run! and Marvel Move maker lays off majority of staff
OliveX, parent company of ZRX: Zombies, Run! has laid off all but two of the app maker Six to Start’s staff. OliveX is actively looking for a buyer.Victoria Song (The Verge)
This post from @pluralistic captures some of the dread dredged up by my recent thread on using LLMs for coding: pluralistic.net/2025/03/13/ele…
> "Code reviewer" is a much less fulfilling job than "programmer." Code reviewers are also easier to replace than programmers. A code reviewer is a reverse-centaur, a servant to the machine. Every time you hear "AI-assisted programmer," you should substitute "programmer-assisted AI."
Steve Reich has always been to able to hear the pulse
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5319902/steve-reich-interview-collected-works?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Trump Loses It After Wall Street Journal Trashes His Economic Policies
Donald Trump went on a wild rant about how bad the newspaper is.
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#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption
Texas Gives SpaceX a $17.3 Million Grant to Expand Its Starlink Facility
This is part of a $280 million investment in the factory, which currently makes about 15,000 Starlink dishes per day. The money comes from the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund.Michael Kan (PCMag)
Happy #piday 🥧🍰🎉
But while π gets attention, mathematician and novelist Manil Suri says we should also celebrate φ, 𝑒 and the Feigenbaum constant δ
Pi gets all the fanfare, but other numbers also deserve their own math holidays
Pi gets a lot of attention this time of year, but there are plenty of other mathematical constants just as deserving of recognition.The Conversation
Texas Lawmakers Want a Charter School Network to Stop Paying Its Superintendent Nearly $900K. The School Board Says No.
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The rebuke from lawmakers and charter school leaders came after an investigation from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed that Salvador Cavazos, who oversees fewer than 1,000 students, is among the most well-paid superintendents in the country.
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Good job reporting on this.
Voucher programs and charter schools have always had the stench of grift, for me, at least.
The article mentions a couple other schools with similar practices. I’d reckon there are many more, including in my home state of Oklahoma, especially given how focused the politicians are on implementing voucher programs.
14 March 1902 | A Polish woman, Józefa Frąckowiak, was born.
In #Auschwitz from 16 July 1942.
No. 8731
She perished in the camp on 5 October 1942.
Comic Mo Amer draws on his Palestinian and Texan roots in his Netflix series
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8Bitdo Ultimate 2C Budget Game Controller Review - Lon Seidman & Lon.TV Blog
In my latest video review, I try out 8BitDo’s latest budget controllers, the Ultimate 2C series, which includes options for both PC and Nintendo Switch. You can find these at a super reasonable price over at Amazon (compensated affiliate link).admin (Lon Seidman & Lon.TV Blog)
"A rotation by one turn is 1...
may sound like a tautology, but it is the true nature of the Tau" - Michael Hartl
🤭
Euler started using the single-letter form beginning with his 1727 Essay Explaining the Properties of Air, though he used π = 6.28..., the ratio of periphery to radius, in this and some later writing. - wiki
No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto
For millennia, the circle has been considered the most perfect of shapes, and the circle constant π captured the geometry of the circle in a single number. But π is wrong, and it’s time to set things right.Tau Day
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Beatdown City is on a crazy spring sale on #steam - I did the music for it, go pick it up!
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#VGM #indie #indiegame #gaming #steamgames #chiptune
Save 85% on Treachery in Beatdown City on Steam
Explore an ANGRY city, meet the WORST people, and beat 'em up with STYLE! Pick your fighter, FREEZE TIME, build custom combos, and knock out your enemies, all to save the president.store.steampowered.com
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