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Aram Sinnreich

2 weeks ago • •

Aram Sinnreich
2 weeks ago • •

I can't believe I waited so long to start using Libro.fm. It's a fantastic #audiobook store that allows you to allocate retail sales to your local bookseller. Just as easy to use as Audible, even has #carplay integration.

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Ron Bowes

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I was skeptical at first, but their library and app are both very good!

Ars Technica

2 weeks ago • •

Ars Technica
2 weeks ago • •

Epic Games is addressing one of Windows-on-Arm’s last big app compatibility gaps
Drivers and kernel-level software can't be translated automatically by Windows.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…

Epic Games is addressing one of Windows-on-Arm’s last big app compatibility gaps

Drivers and kernel-level software can’t be translated automatically by Windows.

^{Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)}

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shac ron ₪‎

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Why are games installing drivers and kernel extensions?

The Conversation U.S.

2 weeks ago • •

The Conversation U.S.
2 weeks ago • •

Can the Trump administration legally deport Palestinian rights advocate Mahmoud Khalil? 3 things to know about green card holders’ rights buff.ly/WQUt6xt

Can the Trump administration legally deport Palestinian rights advocate Mahmoud Khalil? 3 things to know about green card holders’ rights

Lawful permanent residents hold many of the same rights that US citizens have, but the government can deport them on certain, often vague, security grounds.

^{The Conversation}

Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

2 weeks ago • •

Emil Jacobs - Collectifission
2 weeks ago • •

"TerraPower has announced a strategic collaboration with South Korean conglomerate HD Hyundai to expand the global manufacturing supply chain for Natrium small modular reactors, supporting the rapid commercialisation of the advanced nuclear technology.

The signing ceremony was attended by Chung Kisun, Executive Vice Chairman of HD Hyundai; Won Kwang-shik, Head of Marine Energy Business Division at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries; Bill Gates, founder and chairman of TerraPower; Chris Levesque, president and CEO of TerraPower; and other officials.

The agreement combines HD Hyundai's manufacturing expertise with TerraPower's cutting-edge reactor technology, and will build new supply chain capacity to enable large-scale production and global deployment of Natrium plants.

The agreement with HD Hyundai Heavy Industries - an affiliate of HD Hyundai specialising in shipbuilding - creates the manufacturing foundation necessary for full-scale commercialisation beyond the initial demonstration project that is currently under development. In particular, HD Hyundai will develop o

This partnership builds upon the relationship established in 2024 when HD Hyundai Heavy Industries was competitively selected by TerraPower to develop the cylindrical reactor vessel to be installed in the first Natrium reactor.

"TerraPower is committed to delivering our first Natrium plant in the United States, as well as rapidly deploying additional units at competitive prices during the next decade in the US and around the world," said TerraPower's Levesque. "The Natrium technology provides crucial baseload power plus gigawatt-scale energy storage; these plants will provide reliable and flexible power to address growing energy demand. HD Hyundai Heavy Industries' manufacturing capabilities are world-renowned, and I look forward to working with them to establish the commercial-scale production capacity that will be essential for successful deployment of multiple Natrium units globally."

Won added: "We expect that HD Hyundai's extensive experience and advanced technological capabilities in manufacturing will help build the foundation for commercialisation of Natrium reactors. Based on this cooperation, we will accelerate the commercialisation of next-generation nuclear energy solutions and create new growth opportunities in the global SMR market."

Natrium technology features a 345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor using high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel, with a molten salt-based energy storage system that can boost the system's output to 500 MWe for more than five and a half hours when needed.

TerraPower is the first and only advanced nuclear developer with a permit application for a commercial advanced reactor submitted to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. That application was submitted in March 2024 and is on track for approval in December 2026.

TerraPower is constructing the Natrium demonstration plant near a retiring coal facility at Kemmerer in Wyoming. A ground-breaking ceremony held in June last year marked the start of non-nuclear construction at the site. Nuclear construction will begin after the application is approved: the company is eyeing the start of work on the nuclear island in 2026."

#Nuclear #News #SouthKorea

world-nuclear-news.org/article…

HD Hyundai to help commercialise TerraPower SMR

TerraPower has announced a strategic collaboration with South Korean conglomerate HD Hyundai to expand the global manufacturing supply chain for Natrium small modular reactors, supporting the rapid commercialisation of the advanced nuclear technology…

^{World Nuclear News}

#news #nuclear #southkorea

Low Quality Facts

2 weeks ago • •

Low Quality Facts
2 weeks ago • •

I know we all love to criticize older generations, but in the 20th century if someone did a Nazi salute you could almost guarantee that a WW2 veteran would punch them in the head, and I think there was a great societal benefit to that.

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Götz Hoffart

in reply to Low Quality Facts • 2 weeks ago • •

The bitter thing in that story is, that it needed a veteran to do that. Find the flaw.

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Jon

in reply to Low Quality Facts • 2 weeks ago • •

I miss the halcyon days of the late 1970s when the Klan, the Communists, and the American Nazi Party were shooting at each other. More of that.

wedge

2 weeks ago • •

wedge
2 weeks ago • •

This is the only angle I have of the stair post and mounted railings before removed, and the red cloth wallpaper was already removed here.

The wife and I are at a crossroads. She wants to leave the bannisters and post out, and go with this open look. I kind of want to put them back, because it was part of the charm. The entry is huge, and this just makes it seem more vast/empty/sterile.

But I don’t know.

I think there’s a safety factor to keep in mind, too.

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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

in reply to wedge • 2 weeks ago • •

It would be a nice corner for some LED strips, recessed in that thick wood and oriented to light the steps.

Yes, I'm working just now on a fixture over my workbench, how did you guessed? 😄

Paul Cantrell

4 weeks ago (Received 2 weeks ago) • •

Paul Cantrell
4 weeks ago (Received 2 weeks ago) • •

A dire warning for everyone in the “LGB” part who thought they could keep themselves safe from the fash by throwing “TQIA+” under the bus:

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…

And if you’re none of the above, if you thought that is an LGB-specific warning and not addressed to •you•, I promise you, whatever •your• letter is, they’re coming for yours sooner than you think. Stop them now or pay later.

Republican state lawmakers galvanize to attack same-sex marriage

The recent wave of GOP-led bills comes as Trump becomes emboldened in orders against LGBTQ+ communities

^{Maya Yang (The Guardian)}

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Possibly a Dog

in reply to Paul Cantrell • 2 weeks ago • •

this is one reason the term should always have been “queer” — the alphabet soup of LGB…+ aspires to be inclusive and comforting but mostly only divides

yes, some people are discomfited by “queer” but its history as a slur actually helps make the point that it’s not any one specific difference that marks you as a target for bullying: bullies will fix on **any** difference as a target for their disgust and fear and hate

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Paul Cantrell

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@possibledog
I'm sympathetic to that argument in many ways — I'm a programmer and a mathematician, and I like to handle things in the general case! — but in the past 10 years or so, I've really come around to the importance of •individually naming• each marginalized subgroup.

BLM activists in particular taught me about this. The danger of using an umbrella term is the “All Lives Matter” pitfall: a term that •theoretically• should include everyone ends up •in practice• only including people culturally regarded as the neutral default. And such terms don't challenge anyone whose thinking dwells in that default: someone who doesn’t really think of Black people at all when they hear “all lives,” or doesn’t think of transgender people when they hear “queer.”

@Possibly a Dog

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Paul Cantrell

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@possibledog
So, yes, I personally like the term “queer” in the broadly inclusive bell hooks sense of capturing a wide spectrum of gender-related experiences that may not even have a good name yet — but I •also• appreciate the specific enumeration of identities in “LGBTQIA+,” even if that enumeration is sort of laborious.

My brother, a math teacher, often talks with his students about the importance of examples, counterexamples, and non-examples. It's not enough just to have a theorem, even if you have a proof! Mathematicians think about specific cases, and ground their thinking in them even when they've found suitable generalizations (or •think• they have; cf Fourier’s heat equation blowing up calculus and forcing the development of Real Analysis). A similar principle applies here.

@Possibly a Dog

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Possibly a Dog

in reply to Paul Cantrell • 2 weeks ago • •

I agree that the alphabet-soup enumeration is useful, but my point is that as a popular term its disadvantages outweigh its advantages. It just sounds elite and effete and academic and pompous and silly, and it's way too hard to deploy in political arguments.

"We're here, we're ell gee bee tee queue eye eh plus, get used to it!" just doesn't have that same ring, now, does it? 😉

Not that it matters, it's too late now; this is just an academic argument about academic terms. Nice chatting with you.

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Paul Cantrell

in reply to Possibly a Dog • 2 weeks ago • •

@possibledog
Yeah, “LGBTQIA+” clearly is not good chant material. The detailed enumeration has its place; so do the catchy single words. Many important tools in the kit!

Nice chatting with you too.

@Possibly a Dog

Auschwitz Memorial

2 weeks ago • •

Auschwitz Memorial
2 weeks ago • •

13 March 1913 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Henriette Roode, was born in Onstwedde.

In November 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

Vintage portrait of a woman, smiling and wearing round glasses.

#auschwitz

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the roamer

in reply to Auschwitz Memorial • 2 weeks ago • •

Henriette Roode, we remember you.

#Shoah #HenrietteRoode

#shoah #henrietteroode

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RedAlert (Michael)

in reply to Auschwitz Memorial • 2 weeks ago • •

🕯🖤🕯🖤🕯
#keinvergessen
#KämpfenBeginntMitErinnern
#niewiederfaschismus

#niewiederistjetzt ‼️

#AllezusammengegendenFaschismus
#afdverbotsverfahrenjetzt
#stopptDieBrandstifter
#WirSindDieBrandmauer

#niewiederistjetzt #keinvergessen #kampfenbeginntmiterinnern #niewiederfaschismus #AllezusammengegendenFaschismus #afdverbotsverfahrenjetzt #stopptDieBrandstifter #wirsinddiebrandmauer

Matthew Reinbold

2 weeks ago • •

Matthew Reinbold
2 weeks ago • •

I read that Meta/Facebook was took legal action to halt the promotion of "Careless People", the recently released tell-all memoire from whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams.

So I did the logical thing and purchased a copy from Bookshop.org. I sure Zuck would hate it if others did the same thing.
bookshop.org/p/books/careless-…

#books #bookstadon #socialMedia

#books #socialmedia #BookStadon

Beate Müller-Gemmeke 🌻

2 weeks ago • •

Beate Müller-Gemmeke 🌻
2 weeks ago • •

Sondersitzung: Der alte Bundestag ist nochmals gefragt
Eigentlich war ich schon raus, doch nun muss der alte Bundestag noch einmal ran: Heute und am Dienstag entscheiden wir über Grundgesetzänderungen – zur Schuldenbremse und zum Sondervermögen Infrastruktur.
Wir Grünen gehen mit einem eigenen Antrag in die Verhandlungen. Was CDU/CSU und SPD jetzt fordern, sagen wir seit Langem – auch im Wahlkampf. Doch erst, wenn die Realität sie einholt, kommt die Einsicht. Das ist nicht glaubwürdig.

Beate Müller-Gemmeke sitzt lächelnd im Bundestag, umgeben von anderen Personen. Der Hintergrund zeigt die blauen Sitze des Plenarsaals. Über das Bild ist ein Zitat von ihr gelegt: „Ja, wir müssen die Ukraine unterstützen, in die Zukunft investieren und den Klimaschutz voranbringen. Aber Herr Merz – das wissen wir nicht erst seit zehn Tagen. Wir fordern das seit Jahren!“

Der Hintergrund zeigt die blauen Sitze des Bundestagsplenarsaals. Darüber ist ein Zitat von Beate Müller-Gemmeke zu lesen: „Gestern noch Verachtung, heute plötzlich hölzerner Charme – so schnell geht Opportunismus bei Merz und der Union.“ Ihr Name und ihr MdB-Titel sind darunter gesetzt.

BBW Femboy Cumslut (or an attempt at being one)

2 weeks ago • •

BBW Femboy Cumslut (or an attempt at being one)
2 weeks ago • •

Why did they give Link vagina bones???

A screenshot of The legend of zelda: Tears of the kingdom, focusing on Link's pelvis

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BBW Femboy Cumslut (or an attempt at being one)

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Whack!

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SpudHead

in reply to BBW Femboy Cumslut (or an attempt at being one) • 2 weeks ago • •

please stop beating me with ichthyoids thanks