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Multiliterally@multiliterally.bsky.social |
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Amateur... trombonist, writer, composer, tenor, engineer. Generally interested, gets things wrong, multiple points of view. Tea or coffee.
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Another perspective comes from John Wall's "Give Children the Vote" (subtitle: on democratizing democracy), which also provides a deep analysis of the limitations of the electoral system and how the very idea of extending the franchise leads to better results
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Thanks for the article, a reminder both of our duty and the need to think clearly about what exactly is happening here. I also enjoyed David Van Reybrouck's 2013 book "Against Elections", but my 2016 edition, annoyingly, has the picture of a certain former US President on the cover
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...the article hints that there's still a chance that it *won't* be called Capri
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Oh my automotive deities: what a depressing sight of the test mule of the forthcoming Ford Capri, a dumpy "sports crossover" www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new...
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Ah, that wonderful smell of fresh FFP2 mask can mean only one thing: I've got covid again. A delight.
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The next development in display tech should be the Doppler Effect display... xkcd.com/2926/
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SpaceX calling its biggest upper stage Starship is like Tesla calling its cruise control Autopilot. Both monikers infer far more than they can realistically deliver
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Interesting to compare the latest news on CO2 reductions from the EU and USA:
www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
arstechnica.com/science/2024...
Both grids are reducing, but EU manufacturing emissions are also dropping, US not yet...
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need practice on linking things, it would appear! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Sounds about right, though I'm biased towards hoping that the surveys would say this anyway: It’s clearer than ever that Brexit has failed – let’s not inflict its miseries on young people | Zoe Williams | The Guardian
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Really enjoyed this post on Wired about the damage done to Effective Altruism by the exposure of SBFs fraud, and how "AltEf" is based on very similarly flawed thinking (/arrogance): www.wired.com/story/deaths...
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Our first weekend of concerts behind us, one more to go and then a hopefully well-earned break! This season is all Grieg - a really enjoyable program.
Photo from the Epiphaniaskirche in #Mannheim
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Encountered one of my favourite error messages so far on a business platform at work success: false
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Rehearsal Saturday, from 10 am to 7 pm (with breaks, of course!), but really feeling the tromboning lips by the end of it. Hopefully that's a good thing, getting fitter, rather than wrecking them! More tomorrow, then we enter the concert phase.
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Hi @proton.me , your privacy washing email makes for good, if concerning reading, thanks! This one statement at the end felt too similar to the bad guys' style, though:
"Our revenue comes from community support, not advertising." What is "community support", other than subscriptions?
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So happy to learn that the UK has re-established the franchise for Britons who ended up living abroad for more than 15 years!
There were good reasons for the rule, but I never felt "not British", nor uninterested in what's going on back home (!)
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Fantastic day meeting up with family in Strasbourg, scurrying from café to restaurant to café to avoid the biting cold, occasionally appreciating the city itself
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Overheard on the train the other day: an Australian student chatting about her impending flight back home after her first lengthy solo trip away: "In my head, I'm the same, but in my soul, I've changed." Lots to unpack there, but the main thing was, she sounded reflective and content about it!
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(ha!, MS Edge's clever URL naming feature messed with pasting the link into Bluesky...)
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arstechnica.com/space/2023/1...
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Suntracks! Daily Telescope: Tracking the Sun’s path every day across the sky | Ars Technica
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Oh joy, Deutsche Bahn has struck / is stricken again: my commute today took an hour, only for me to end up back at home, having given up on the enterprise for today. Thank goodness for working from home!
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Barely a day into escaping that libertarian authoritarian Muskovite's domain for Bluesky, my first and so far only follower is... @thedevil.bsky.social
A sign of things to come?
On the other hand, he/she/they/it seems a nice enough sort, so: OK here?
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