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"It'll be better than getting him two smaller gifts each"
FSF program manager Miriam Bastian shares why she thinks the freedom to share is important.
Couple hate Last Christmas by Wham! so much they've raised £50,000 online to buy the song rights so they never have to hear it again (now they only have £19,950,000 to go) (Thanks to Roberto)
Man 'turned away from nightclub' after spending thousands on face tattoos (Thanks to John Lobert, who says "They might as well tear up the Australian Bill of Rights, if there is one [and isn’t poisonous].")
Former prison guard charged with illegal possession of hamburgers (Thanks to Unholy Slacker)
Now: Monopoly (Thanks to Jim Kenaston)
Video shows Florida deputy trying to separate dueling hawk and snake (Thanks to pharmaross)
Chinese Startup’s $140,000 Car Can Fly Over Traffic Jams (For 90 seconds.) (Thanks to coscolo)
It’s that time of year again. No, not the time for peace, joy, and love....
After another stellar year, only slightly blighted by losing Government, Independent Australia looks at what the key figures in the Federal Coalition are doing over their well-deserved festive break. read now...The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Massachusetts 501(c)(3) charity with a worldwide mission to protect and promote computer-user freedom, seeks a motivated and organized Boston-based individual to be our full-time operations assistant.
"We thought they made up 5%, maybe 10% of the population tops"
Santa -- wearing snazzy tropical attire -- is currently at the Brickell City Centre in downtown Miami, and evidently everybody has been naughty, because there's no line to see him.
This is from the charts contained in the the ragingly socialist FT suggesting that our winter of discontent is an inevitable result of austerity. The article link is archived – so no excuse for not reading in full and taking in those charts…. Real wages in the UK are below where they were 18 years... Read more
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December 23, 2022 The Times Deeply Regrets These Errors By Alfie Kohn Due to an editing error, an obituary on Saturday incorrectly described Thomas R. McKeown as having lived in Longfield, NJ. He actually lived in East Longfield. Additionally, Mr. McKeown has not yet died. An account in Sunday’s Vows section of Elizabeth “Tipsy” Wagglesworth’s wedding to Maria ... Read More
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A new film dives into the intricate lives of giant sperm whales.
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Kindness lives in the future-present.
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Identify these people and help chart how they will be remembered or forgotten in history.
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Back in August of this year Cheryl Sandberg stepped down as Chief Operating Officer of Meta, . I’d been keeping a lazy eye of Facebook and Meta for a while: the organization felt sick to me, not in terms of ethics, but in terms of health. Sandberg jumping was a sign: the most important insider other than the founder and CEO leaving.
Then, this week:
Industry icon John Carmack has announced that he's leaving META.
"We have a ridiculous amount of people and resources, but we constantly self-sabotage and squander effort." https://t.co/xl1FQkFYuE
— IGN (@IGN) December 17, 2022
Is riddled with the inconsistency that is the hallmark of this so-called government. We have train fares going up by ‘only’ 5.9% in March – less than the the usual ‘in line with inflation’ increase because actual inflation would dictate a rise of double that. So we have rail workers offered a 4% pay increase... Read more
While US attorneys twisted the Vienna Conventions to fit their case against Alex Saab, a bizarre exchange highlighted the judge’s apparent bias and confusion about U.S. Venezuela policy. MIAMI, FLORIDA – The trial of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab continued on December 20, when U.S. District Judge Robert Scola heard closing arguments in an evidentiary hearing concerned with whether or not the concept of diplomatic immunity applied to his case. The diplomat was arrested on June 12, 2020, while en route […]
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The Grayzone intercepted Volodymyr Zelensky’s Ukrainian diaspora delegation outside the US Capitol and encountered Natalie Jaresko, the corporate operative who helped guide Wall Street’s pillaging from Kiev to Puerto Rico. Jaresko indignantly justified Zelensky’s banning of his political rivals as a necessary wartime measure. Steel fencing and police barricades ringed the perimeter of the US Capitol Building hours ahead of the arrival of Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian president appeared in Washington DC in the early afternoon on December 21, 2022, […]
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