Tim Cook thought he had saved Apple’s stock valuation by giving Trump his fake award, but, like the businessman who pays protection money, he merely marked Apple out as pliable. Now it’s the Apple News “radical left bias”. After Cook personally intervenes and gets the algorithm to deprioritise The Guardian and Mother Jones and boost Fox News and The Daily Stormer, Apple stock will shoot up for a week or two, only to be brought low by a complaint about Apple TV shows being “woke”. Then they’ll have to drop some non-white and LGBT characters, commission a Turner Diaries show and hastily rewrite the next Ted Lasso season to work in a Great Replacement storyline, which will work until the next complaint.

So, national stack ranking?

An unfortunate name in the German-speaking world.

Russia has been on the verge of collapse for the past 3 years. One can regard it as a zombie nation, lurching forward despite there being no way it could be viable.

Police have UPS-like devices which splice into existing mains cables to keep machines alive on the way into the forensics lab. Presumably it’s standard practice to use those.

Of course, the server could be configured to wipe itself if it loses connectivity for more than a few seconds, or its routing changes. The police would need devices that route Ethernet traffic over 5G, though those would presumably be detectable as bandwidth goes down and latency goes up.

The Tangara is interesting technically, but the firmware is a bit half-baked, and large parts of it are written in Lua, and thus slow. I had one but sold it, and got a Rockboxed HifiWalker H2.

He rescued Millei, by throwing US beef farmers under a bus

Star Trek fandom. The series appears to be the moral compass of Mastodon.

Mastodon is for kind middle-aged trekkies to hold forth about how to live a good life (it involves Linux, and stopping to look at the flowers)

Lemmy is for goblin-moders to vent about their mental health issues using memes

My first thought on seeing the photo: “Christ, Billy Idol’s looking rough these days”

“Ronnie” has a nice midcentury vintage feel, if that’s of any value to you one way or the other.

Given that the Republicans just voted to allow Trump to unilaterally wage war in Venezuela, I have my doubts.

Also, in the age of online communications, when information can be limitlessly copied, it’s impossible for authoritarians to destroy information they disapprove of. It is possible, however, for them to make it difficult to find by flooding the world with vast quantities of plausible-looking alternatives to it, making it hard to identify what is real. Before LLMs, doing this at the sort of scale that would have been effective was prohibitively laborious.

That sounds really… economically anxious

How about “jackanapes”?

I wonder how long until they quietly resume running them

I love Weimar America as much as I love Weimar Germany. ICE can have jazz, rock’n’roll, the beat poets, David Lynch, Prince, Bikini Kill, Calvin & Hobbes, etc. when they take them from my cold, dead fingers

The 3.5” disk was designed as a consumer product by Sony, whose industrial design is second to none. (Compare the 5¼ “ and 8” floppies, which were designed by IBM engineers and only intended for use by technical specialists.)

She’ll be the next DNC-backed vice presidential candidate, because big tent or something.

The deal may now involve the US invading Greenland, specifically to neutralise NATO and hand Europe over to Russia.