Denny
denny@boing.world
<p>Was a geek and fitness enthusiast, then a brain haemorrhage kinda ruined my day. Now I'm trying to get back on my feet and figure out who I am.</p>
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Post #4479205
"This is a man who is a white nationalist. And he is in sole control of #Rails, this framework we all love." https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance
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Post #4265811
&quot;There is something uniquely deflating about watching a figure once synonymous with sharp, absurdist brilliance slip into reactionary cliché.&quot; https://metro.co.uk/2026/03/24/john-cleese-a-comedy-icon-ruining-legacy-27642291/
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Post #4265810
&quot;#Musk is communicating in subterranean tropes that his far-right global audience will instantly find intelligible: He’s advancing the generalized sentiment that due to #DOGE cuts, nobody died for whom we need to feel any passing responsibility. Nobody died who’s worthy of our concern.&quot; https://newrepublic.com/article/213533/elon-musk-economist-interview-doge-cuts-killed-zero-children
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Post #4265809
&quot;Just figured out what the HH in DHH stands for.&quot; #Ruby #Rails https://po-ru.com/2026/07/29/it-doesnt-matter-whether-matz-is-nice
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Post #4265808
&quot;Organic eggs are twice as bad for the climate as eggs from chickens living in cages&quot; 😢 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/29/organic-eggs-climate-caged-chickens-carbon-emissions-environment
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Post #4265807
&quot;A wave of fires has swept over France and Spain, sending hundreds of thousands fleeing. Firefighters on the front lines are facing what a spokesperson for the French firefighter association told AFP was an “operational impossibility”—in other words, a “natural force beyond our control”.&quot; https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/07/france-had-never-seen-a-fire-cloud-until-this-months-record-smashing-blazes/
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Post #2177686
&quot;&#39;Security through obscurity’ has been debunked as a security measure for a long time.” #NHS https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260504-01.en.html
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Post #2177676
&quot;A woman denied a permanent form of birth control on the NHS over fears she might regret it, while men were allowed contraceptive procedures, has won her case with the health ombudsman.&quot; https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/01/woman-denied-permanent-birth-control-nhs-wins-case-ombudsman-leah-spasova
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Post #2177664
&quot;The economics of rapidly deploying AI coding tools across companies are looking more questionable than ever.&quot; https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economics-ai-churn-code
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Post #2177650
&quot; #Hackney is a borough of deep and worsening inequality, and one which far too often has been left behind by a political elite who are more interested in serving the interests of private corporations than of the people that call our borough home.&quot; #GreenParty #UKPol https://www.hackneygreens.org.uk/manifesto
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Post #1648935
&quot;Forty years on from the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Chornobyl is still contaminated with almost half the caesium-137 that exploded from the Unit 4 reactor in 1986, as well as much longer-lived hazards such as plutonium, tritium and americium. But according to some experts, the long-term effects on nature may be less than if the area had been left to humans...&quot; “The ecosystem in the exclusion zone is much better than it was before the accident,” Smith said. “It’s been a ve...
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Post #872797
Somewhere between 50,000 and 500,000 people are marching in #London today in a demonstration against the far-right. #UKPol https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2026/mar/28/london-protest-march-together-alliance-against-the-far-right-latest-news-updates
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Post #744619
Economics: Humans only value things monetarily. Sociology: Uh, I don&#39;t ... Economics: Humans are always rational and value is calculated by a complex inner calculus. Sociology: Uh, Psy, can you help? Psychology: That&#39;s not how humans ... Economics: ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!! Physics: *drops teacup*