Neuroscientists identify a surprising low-tech fix to the problem of sleep-deprived teens https://www.universal-sci.com/headlines/2018/12/2/neuroscientists-identify-a-surprising-low-tech-fix-to-the-problem-of-sleep-deprived-teens
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“Three young men once came to an old Arab and said: ‘Our father is dead. He left us seventeen camels, but he laid down in his will that the eldest son should have a half, the second son a third, and the youngest a ninth part of his possessions. Try as we might, we cannot agree on how to divide up the camels. So we should like to leave it up to you to decide.’ The old man thought it over before replying: ‘I see that you need another camel before you can share them out properly. I have mine, just one, but take it, divide the beasts up, and bring me back whatever you have left over.’ The young men thanked him for his kind offer, took his camel and divided up the eighteen animals as follows: the eldest took a half, which was nine camels, the second son took a third, which was six, and the youngest took his ninth, which was two. To everyone’s surprise, there was still one camel remaining, and this they promptly returned with renewed thanks to their old friend.”
Equifax used 'admin' as username and password for sensitive data: lawsuit - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/equifax-password-username-admin-lawsuit-201118316.html
Hello, production
https://blog.thepete.net/blog/2019/10/04/hello-production/
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In this article, @washingtonpost Media Critic @ErikWemple provides a side-by-side comparison of how The New York Times and NBC dealt with adversity when reporting the Weinstein story by contrasting information from "She Said" and "Catch and Kill."
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A few days ago, based on Zuckerberg's statement about accepting lies in political ads and his meetings with right-wingers, I deactivated my FB account. Then, I started spending shloads of time on Twitter.
I'm an idiot. Twitter's profits from and policy exceptions regarding Trump are so damaging and visible. What was I thinking.
Random fact:
If my niece wants to take some food on the road, she just throws it in a baggie. This includes ice cream and cereal.
RMS pulls a serious power move (read: dick move), unilaterally appointing a maintainer to Guile without consulting the other co-maintainers or community, because the current co-maintainers disagree with him on governance https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2019-10/msg00005.html
@CantankerousMonk That worked (as a mention, not a direct message). I'm going to see if I can do the same, as a DM, instead.
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Happy Trans Day of Visibility!
Here's a fun fact for you today: Trans people have always existed.
My personal speciality is documenting the lives of trans people in Medieval Europe. If you'd like to find out more about this topic, feel free to read my threads:
About a trans woman who lived in London in the 14th century https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/101076816100786504
And about a 13th century French poem which discusses a transmac person's gender-questioning https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/101802067896206745
Microsoft stuff since 1990 or so. It's always DNS. Interested in everything except printers.