UP8

UP8, 3 months ago to Russia

🪦 Putin has no successor, no living rivals and no retirement plan – why his eventual death will set off a vicious power struggle

https://theconversation.com/putin-has-no-successor-no-living-rivals-and-no-retirement-plan-why-his-eventual-death-will-set-off-a-vicious-power-struggle-224485

#putin #russia #politics #future

UP8, 7 months ago to Vintage

Anybody need 40,000 antique telephones?

https://madison.com/news/local/phoneco-wisconsin-telephones-knappen-business/article_90116a8a-734c-11ee-a555-f74104c683cf.html

#telephone #antiques #vintage #technology #retro #electronics

UP8, 4 months ago to climate

✊🏽 From throwing soup to suing governments, there’s strategy behind climate activism’s seeming chaos − here’s where it’s headed next

https://theconversation.com/from-throwing-soup-to-suing-governments-theres-strategy-behind-climate-activisms-seeming-chaos-heres-where-its-headed-next-219545

#climatechange #activism #politics #environment #climate

UP8, 1 year ago to random

Lately I've been building applications based on HTMX, which lets you write web applications the way you did in 1999, avoiding the complexity of React, Vue and all that, but add substantial helpings of Javascript 'magic' by putting special attributes on your HTML tags

https://htmx.org/

UP8, 3 months ago to climate

🏖️ Not such a bright idea: Cooling the Earth by reflecting sunlight back to space is a dangerous distraction

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-bright-idea-cooling-earth-sunlight.html

#climate #climatechange #geoengineering #conference

UP8, 10 months ago to Health

🫁 Study reveals unexpected importance of the thymus in adults

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-reveals-unexpected-importance-thymus-adults.html

#health #medicine #thymus

UP8, 10 months ago to wildlife

🐉 Texas woman injured after hawk drops snake on her

#wildlife #birds #snake #hawk #animals

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66446697

UP8, 8 months ago to california

🌧️ California's epic rain year boosted groundwater levels, but not enough to recoup losses

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-10-13/californias-epic-rain-year-helped-boost-groundwater-levels

#california #water #climate #environment #sustainability

UP8, 4 months ago to Aviation

😳 A flashlight caused $4 million in damages left inside an F-35 engine

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/flashlight-f35-damage/

#military #aviation #usaf #f35 #mistake

UP8, 3 months ago to DigitalNomadHub

‘It has really gotten out of hand’: wage theft rampant in US construction

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/14/construction-worker-unions-wage-theft

#construction #labor #work #crime #theft

UP8, 3 months ago to internet

👉🏽 Threads widens the gap with X, with triple the daily downloads on iOS

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/27/threads-widens-the-gap-with-x-with-triple-the-daily-downloads-on-ios/

#socialmedia

UP8, 10 months ago to politics

🪛 Big Tech Rewrote the Nation’s First Cellphone Repair Law: Here's How They Did It

https://themarkup.org/news/2023/02/08/how-big-tech-rewrote-the-nations-first-cellphone-repair-law

#repair #righttorepair #politics #cellphones #newyork #ny

UP8, 1 month ago to NFL

🏈 NFL draft pool shrinks as NIL money entices more players to stay in school

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2024/04/25/more-sports/nfl-draft-nil-money/

#nfl #sports #football #americanfootball #nfldraft

UP8, 16 days ago to politics

✊🏽 Regents and UAW bureaucracy seek to contain political rebellion of UC academic workers

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/20/fzgt-m20.html

#politics #protest #california #gaza #strike #union #labor

UP8, 1 month ago to Japan

🦋 Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/02/harajuku-change/

#japan #design #culture #business

UP8, 1 month ago to Electronics

🚧 How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fab

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-a-20-billion-semiconductor

#semiconductors #electronics #business #investment #construction #technology

UP8, 1 month ago to IT

🫥 Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/novel-attack-against-virtually-all-vpn-apps-neuters-their-entire-purpose/

#computers #security #vpn #cyber

UP8, 1 month ago to animals

🐬 We’ll Get You Out of Here—Just Follow the Sound of My Voice

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/well-get-you-out-of-here-just-follow-the-sound-of-my-voice/

#whales #animals #ocean #conservation #alaska #goodnews

UP8, 1 month ago to skateboarding

🛹Skateboarding’s Latest Trick: Reviving Cities

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/cities-skateboarding-public-spaces/

#skateboarding #sports #cities #urban

UP8, 1 month ago to food

🧑‍🌾 Bangladeshi farmers find zucchini’s high yields & low costs palatable

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/bangladeshi-farmers-find-zucchinis-high-yields-low-costs-palatable/

#food #agriculture #zucchini #Bangladesh

UP8, 23 days ago to workersrights

💪 University of California grad students overwhelmingly authorize strike against campus crackdowns

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/16/tqjn-m16.html

#labor #strike #college #gaza #protest #union

UP8, 22 days ago to goodnews

📈 Graduate Workers at UPenn Just Won a Union

https://jacobin.com/2024/05/graduate-workers-penn-union-organizing/

#union #students #labor #organizing #goodnews

UP8, 1 month ago to ocean

🐟 Alaska has a plan to save its salmon but some Native leaders are wary

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/28/alaska-salmon-conservation-native-indigenous

#salmon #fish #rivers #ocean #alaska #indigenous #envrionment #conservation

UP8, 22 days ago to science

Last week there was a meeting of the Institute for Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems in the Duffield Hall Atrium

https://web.cvent.com/event/1c0810c7-1820-42de-9a6e-c9b1612f051c/summary

This vendor exhibited a camera that can take 100,000 frames per second, other vendors had demonstrations where you could see individual droplets in a shower.

#cornell #science #conference #camera #photo #photography #engineering

flockofnazguls, 12 days ago to random

I still remember back in 1984, when talking about the same-titled Orwell novel, pundits were confidently declaring that such a surveillance state couldn't happen simply due to the sheer manpower required to monitor everyone in real-time.

LOL