The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a Buddha or as a patron of Buddhists.
#WritersCoffeeClub March 18. Happy Awkward Moments Day! What’s the most awkward moment you’ve ever written?
Possibly the woman who received a blessing that she would "would succeed all day at the first thing she attempted in the morning" - and then went to the lavatory.
You can read the entire account of the incident here:
Grönland kämpft seit Jahrzehnten um Unabhängigkeit. Inmitten des Regierungswechsels auf der größten Insel der Welt steigern die USA und Dänemark ihren Besitzanspruch. 11KM über die Frage, inwiefern Grönland das für sich nutzen kann.
Grönland hat sich für einen politischen Kurswechsel entschieden. Gewonnen hat überraschend Jens-Frederik Nielsens Demokraatit; eine Partei, die wirtschaftliche Beziehungen zu den USA befürwortet. Doch Trump will Grönland besitzen.
outgoing officials warn that Trump Corp is repurposing a $42.5 billion broadband grant program to shift money away from local rural ISPs to Elon Musk's congested, expensive, ozone-layer depleting satellite broadband service you know, because he hates subsidies so much
1. Andrew Cuomo, a frontrunner for NY Mayor, has tapped an ex-employee of "the Coalition to Protect Kids," an anti-trans org, to serve as his treasurer. His campaign would not commit to EITM that it would protect gender affirming care. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Hey, while we're talking about Mark Rober and his gentle, subversive, kid-friendly pushback on racism and prejudice, reminder of how he framed the tech scene in Rwanda and what Zipline is doing there.
I love the subtle pushback against racism and stereotyping that happens in Mark Rober videos. I wish more SF tech people were a little more like him. ♥️👍🏿
Plus, this Zipline drone delivery is pretty cool.
If you’re designing a robot for a specific purpose, you’re probably ordering fresh parts and going with a clean sheet design. If you’re just building for fun though, you can just …
The dawn of the internet promised a more democratic and connected world. Tech philosopher Cory Doctorow returns us to this vision in his new novel, ”Picks and Shovels.”
Slate: Reddit Is Restricting Luigi Mangione Discourse—but It’s Even Weirder Than That
The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet
"...Last week, Reddit administrator Worstnerd shared a significant update to the social network’s content-moderation standards. As of March 5, “users who … upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies will begin to receive a warning.” They added that the company will “consider adding additional actions down the road.”...
Apparently saying ‘luigi’ is now against the rules too even though they never told us. All comments with the word ‘luigi’ get flagged as possible inciting violence,”
Holy shit. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say they’re trying to kill us all.
“The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
Steps to reproduce the problem Click to focus on the pane. Begin scrolling with my mouse wheel. Stop to read something. The mouseover appears and obscures the thing I was reading. Scroll the mouse ...
Had to check what project you were filing the bug against, and hoped from the subject line that there’s just an “all of them” option on GitHub. Like a whole-market index fund for software issues.
Trump is exploiting rifts in the Jewish community in order to target Jews and Palestinians—and ultimately to build power to crush any speech he dislikes and to deport anyone he dislikes.
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