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August 2016, Vienna
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Christian Cryptschgi 🎃 @christianbrits
This is a crazy one. Vail Resorts wants to spend $17 mil of its own money building housing for its employees on its own property. The town of Vail is using eminent domain to seize their land and stop the project, saying it threatens bighorn sheep habitat
reason.comColorado town seizing ski resort’s land to stop it building employee housingThe Vail Town Council says that while affordable housing is desperately needed in the community, Vail Resorts’ Booth Heights project would threaten local bighorn sheep.
7:21 PM ∙ Oct 21, 2022
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Just, absolutely crazy stuff here, NIMBY cities everywhere continue to fuck around, but the good news is that at least in California, January brings Find Out season.

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Gavin Wildе @gavinbwilde
"Almost 23 per cent of developers in Russia who used the popular coding platform GitHub changed their location information or deleted their profiles between February 2021 and June 2022." This can't bode well for Russia's Belfer "cyber power" ranking...
newscientist.comHundreds of Russia’s top software developers may have left the countryAlmost 23 per cent of developers in Russia who used the popular coding platform GitHub changed their location information or deleted their profiles between February 2021 and June 2022
12:03 PM ∙ Oct 22, 2022
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As Darrell Owens points out, we really need to be accepting Russian refugees right now. Gaining new greatful citizens is doubly better than having them go die fighting Ukraine. Noah Smith points out: Russian losses are "6 times Soviet losses in Afghanistan, in about 1/15 the time period". They cannot sustain that.

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Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani
For people who are skeptical that this could happen, recall that China threatened several countries with reducing their vaccine supplies in the past couple years over geopolitical differences.
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Matt Stoller @matthewstoller
China is going to move on Taiwan. China will stop exports to the US on which we depend. Many Americans will start dying almost instantly when medical supplies stop flowing. This is terrifying and it's going to happen.
3:19 PM ∙ Oct 22, 2022
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The level of economic disruption they've already been able to endure from their zero-covid policy is pretty good evidence that they might be willing (and foolish enough) to do this.

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Maryam Aslany @m_aslany
Tens of thousands of Iranians gathered in Berlin today to say no to the Islamic Republic. Truly amazing. ❤️✌🏻 #mahsaamini #IranRevolution2022
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4:52 PM ∙ Oct 22, 2022
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Greg Lukianoff thought it was an impressionist painting at first

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Code.org @codeorg
The BiMaMa-Net neural network learned to fold clothing after studying 4,300 human- and machine-assisted examples. Now this robot can fold clothes from a random initial position in under 120 seconds (on average) with a success rate of 93 percent! arstechnica.com/information-te…
2:43 PM ∙ Oct 20, 2022
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I'm happy there's progress in this area, but if I'm gonna buy a 58 thousand dollar robot, I'm gonna need it to be multi-function.

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Elle Has SPOOKY Cats @ellle_em
I'm so mad right now
Screenshot of a Tumblr post by thyrell. First panel shows an image of a yellow house at night. Second panel shows a close up of a full moon. Third panel shows the yellow house again with the words "oh no" written on top of the image. Fourth panel shows a warehouse where the yellow house was. Below, user brazenautomaton typed "what does this even oh FUCK YOU"
7:05 PM ∙ Oct 22, 2022
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