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Google are breaking my mittens - Sonofa. Twelve years ago I knitted a pair of “self-replicating mittens” (web-goddess.org/archive/14046) with a QR code that pointed you to the pattern for the mittens, and I entered them in the Sydney Royal Easter Show. I was pretty proud of my cleverness. In the blog post (web-goddess.org/archive/11192) where I talked about making the mittens, I said:

I wanted my code to be as simple as possible, so I needed to use a URL shortener to mask my intended address. I settled on using Google‘s, reasoning that it was likely to be around the longest. (Though who knows these days, right?)

You can guess what’s happened, right? Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available (developers.googleblog.com/en/g…) as of August this year.

Bastards are breaking my mittens. Perhaps I’ll have to add some embroidery. web-goddess.org/archive/56383

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"Blessed are the peacemakers," said Jesus Christ. Doesn’t quite align with "I'm literally an arms dealer." Selling weapons while preaching heaven on Earth? That's not faith. It's branding, or worse. Keep an eye on Silicon Valley's weird religious shift. www.wired.com/story/christ...

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Peter Thiel has increasingly framed his politics in religious terms. He recently described Trump's return to power as a kind of apocalypse. What does he mean by that? Why are the tech lords trying so hard to clothe themselves in religion? An exploration: www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

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I saw someone mention Purple K fire extinguishing agent and I wasn't familiar with it so I did a web search

well of all the types of container this one manufacturer could put it in to show it off, this sure was one of them

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seed containers! I've seen these before, in my aliexpress browsing. They're a traditional way to display seeds/powders in Chinese markets, apparently.
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@foone ohhhh so that's what those are! Interesting.

I feel like they're probably a little inconvenient to use unless there's some kind of concave device to put them in while filling them.

May you all let your imaginations run wild with this.




Here we go: the rewriting of history has formally begun

"Oklahoma proposes teaching standards suggesting 2020 election ‘discrepancies’"

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Forming close contacts with individuals from "out-groups" can help overcome biases. Two #transgender state reps in Montana recently convinced colleagues to vote against anti-trans bills by making the issue personal: theconversation.com/the-psycho…
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