CarlBLatro
carlblatro@iris.to
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Ageing Pākehā New Zealander. Programmer of sorts. Reckons my own.
Take it away Bette...
"This isn’t just about bad civics education or Fox News melting brains like microwaved Velveeta. It’s about early childhood trauma. Specifically: Authoritarian child abuse—and the way it wires people’s brains, early and permanently, to seek out charismatic narcissistic abusers like heat-seeking missiles launched from the tiny neglected hearts of their own bruised inner children."
Are Americans Just Stupid...
Or is it something else?
"In Sacramento, electricity costs under 17 cents per kWh. Down in San Diego, it costs over 45 cents. Same state. Same grid. Same sunshine. The difference is ownership structure. "
Substack
Howard Yu (@howardyu)
In Sacramento, electricity costs under 17 cents per kWh.
Down in San Diego, it costs over 45 cents.
Same state. Same grid. Same sunshine. The d...
"When she wasn’t looking over my shoulder, I was searching for different things."
Gray Matter
My first PubMed search and the limitations of neuroscientific explanations
In the case of something as wonderfully complex as who we love, it’s unlikely we’ll find it staring back at us on an MRI, a genome sequence, or...
The world is slowly rebalancing...
Also...
Bluesky Social
Kaja Kallas (@kajakallas.bsky.social)
The EU and Ghana have a strong, long-standing partnership.
By signing a new Security and Defence Partnership we are taking it further. This is the...
Bluesky Social
The Conversation AUNZ (@aunz.theconversation.com)
Australia has long had an awkward relationship with the European Union. But after years of often fraught negotiations, the two have finally come to...
"When he pointed out that 80 million households now owned DVD players and nobody wanted VHS tapes anymore, headquarters had a phrase ready: 'The customer is format agnostic.' "
Substack
Howard Yu (@howardyu)
The most profitable Blockbuster franchisee in America spent years sending detailed memos to the CEO showing the stores were failing.
When he prese...
How to make toys and houses and diapers and such...
That time when NZ said no to a US destroyer...
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19850206.2.44
'Western' air defenses in the Middle East seem pretty crap.
7NEWS
Australians caught up in the war as Iranian drones strike base
The Middle Eastern base currently serves as the headquarters of the Australian Defence Force’s Joint Task Force 633 and supports Australian opera...
This is old now, from last Christmas Eve, but well worth a read.
The One Chart That Explains Everything
And the seven books that make sense of America's AI Anxiety and China's AI Optimism
Truth Social bets its future on Green Energy!
#TruthSocial #SocialMedia #Trump
OK. Narrowed the number of clients I'll be playing with down to three. (Meaning web clients.) From a list of eight or so. All of the three are showing reasonably new posts, which is something you can't say about a lot of the nostr clients! Pretty pleased with the progress made from a year or so ago.
Post test 1... (Ignore this - just trying different clients...
Post test 1... (Ignore this - just trying different clients...