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Every now and then I think about Uber's God View and how naive it is to think that most services with widespread consumer use don't have a surveillance God View.

What irks me the most: The potential power this gives over politicians. Never doubt that some people obviously still have this access.

Uber employees 'spied on ex-partners, politicians and Beyoncé'

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21 Aug 2026, 13:13
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Idag fredag 21 augusti arbetar jag från Espresso House vid Odenplan (i Stockholm) efter lunch, fram till cirka 15.30. Den som vill titta in och fika med mig är välkommen 😊

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21 Aug 2026, 09:38
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I'm sure I'll never understand the US practice of public mugshots being used to ridicule, misrepresent and harass. So if someone is convicted of a crime it's apparently open season on doing as one pleases with their likeness. Consent no longer applies. It's a curious phenomenon and I'm sure someone must have written a dissertation about it…

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21 Aug 2026, 07:43
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↩ Replying to @doriantaylor.com

I’ve seen several different women in this meme, and I’m now wondering if any of them are based on something that happened or if it’s an image just designed to go viral. Sometimes it’s Texas, sometimes it’s Kansas.🧐

The blonde woman was apparently arrested in Georgia in 2025. for speeding. No goats.

Or I’m just not getting the joke… 😬

🔗 Originally posted on Bluesky

21 Aug 2026, 06:48
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Idag kan du börja förbereda din budröst inför valet den 13:e september!

Du som är äldre, sjuk, har en funktionsnedsättning eller är intagen på häkte eller kriminalvårdsanstalt kan rösta med bud om du inte kan ta dig till en vallokal.

Material för budröstning måste du beställa senast den 7:e september klockan 12.

BESTÄLL HÄR: https://www.val.se/sa-rostar-du/hjalp-att-rosta/rosta-hemifran-eller-fran-annan-plats/bestall-material-for-budrostning

OBS! Du kan också låta någon hämta material för budröstning på plats i en lokal för förtidsröstning, eller vallokal. De kan då också hämta valsedlar med förtryckta namn, om du hellre vill använda det.

Materialet för budröstning innehåller blanka valsedlar, tre kuvert för valsedlarna och ett ytterkuvert som alla dessa ska läggas i. Instruktioner följer också med.

Gör så här:

1. Förbered i avskildhet. Skriv det parti du vill rösta på i respektive val, på varje blank valsedel. Gul = riksdag, blå = region och vit = kommun. Om du vill kan du också skriva namnet på den person du vill personrösta på.

2. Lägg varje valsedel i varsitt kuvert.

3. Nu behöver du både ett bud och ett vittne som ser på när du lägger in dessa tre kuvert i ytterkuvertet.

4. På ytterkuvertet ska du fylla i dina uppgifter och skriva din namnteckning.

5. Sedan ska både vittnet och budet intyga att allt gått rätt till genom att också skriva sina namnteckningar på ytterkuvertet.

6. Nu kan budet ta ditt kuvert till en vallokal (eller lokal för förtidsröstning), visa sin id-handling och lämna in kuvertet med dina röster.

P.S. Om du inte kan rösta med bud finns möjligheten att kommunen skickar hem två personer till dig som tar emot din röst. Det kallas för "ambulerande röstmottagning". För att det ska ske måste du kontakta kommunen där du bor och be om det.

P.S. 2 Du kanske kan ta dig till vallokalen men inte in i den, även om alla vallokaler ska vara tillgängliga. Då kan röstmottagare ta emot din röst även utanför lokalen. Det är en del av att underlätta för alla!

🔗 Originally posted on LinkedIn

20 Aug 2026, 20:38
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This is such a fun and quirky episode. If you're interested in language and linguistics, and perhaps even ethics and human rights, I believe you will truly enjoy this. Lera Boroditsky has so many great examples.

The studio banter is worth it.

Lera Boroditsky: How Language Secretly Changes Your Personality

🔗 Originally posted on Bluesky

20 Aug 2026, 19:04
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↩ Replying to @deckerharrison.bsky.social

You're thinking of the Spectrum 😊 This one has a membrane keyboard.

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20 Aug 2026, 13:56
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↩ Replying to @blacknext.bsky.social

I also didn't understand the "hunting" reference at first. Made me very curious as well. Good eyes.

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20 Aug 2026, 12:25
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↩ Replying to @xorlou.bsky.social

I do not have the receipt unfortunately, it was a gift from my father 😊

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19 Aug 2026, 15:52
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↩ Replying to @bradfrost.com

Didn't know what to expect but this was actually pretty funny. 😂

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19 Aug 2026, 15:49
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↩ Replying to @lindarn.bsky.social

I got the computer in 1982. I was eight years old.

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19 Aug 2026, 14:17
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↩ Replying to @notinvented.bsky.social

Yes! Though I think I just taped it. I also had the thermal printer.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Prin...

ZX Printer - Wikipedia

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19 Aug 2026, 12:35
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↩ Replying to @sandgrownboy.bsky.social

I went Dragon 32, Atari 600XL, Atari STe. I remember investing in a huge 30MB external hard drive in 1990.

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19 Aug 2026, 12:33
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A computer with built-in BASIC, a membrane keyboard and 1kB memory. I upgraded it to 16kB using an expansion slot.

I also had a thermal printer (7cm wide) and a cassette player for storing my programs.

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19 Aug 2026, 12:30
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↩ Replying to @sparkybrit.bsky.social

Haha, what a nice thing to say. I got this in 1982. I was eight.

🔗 Originally posted on Bluesky

19 Aug 2026, 10:22
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I not only still have my first computer… I still have the box for my first computer.

Per Axbom (middle-aged white guy with glasses pushed to the top of his bald head, sporting a greying beard) smiling and holding in front of him an old, worn box with a picture the Sinclair ZX81 computer.

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19 Aug 2026, 09:01
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The age of probabilistic machines. Why be original when you can be bland and generic?™

Calvin and Hobbes comic.

Panel 1. Calvin is making a classic snowman with a carrot nose, hat, pipe in his mouth and rock for buttons.
Hobbes (arriving): What’s this?
Calvin: A generic snowman

Panel 2. Calvin continues explaining.
Calvin: I used to make original snowmen, but it was time-consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy!

Panel 3.
Calvin: Now I crank out crude imitations of what’s already popular! It takes no time or thought, and most people don’t care about the difference anyway!

Panel 4 (final panel):
Hobbes (contemplating while looking at the snowman): So cynical. Yet so practical.
Calvin: And what good is originality if you can’t crank it out?

The comic characters explained if you are unfamiliar: Calvin and Hobbes is an American daily comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson and syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. The strip centers on Calvin, a six-year-old boy characterized by his imagination and behavior, and Hobbes, his stuffed tiger, whose status alternates between a toy and a sentient companion depending on perspective. There are also several comic strips where Calvin makes surprisingly horrifying depictions of snowmen, in contrast to this one.

🔗 Originally posted on Bluesky

19 Aug 2026, 08:54
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@brianjriddle Tack Brian, jag kollar på det!

🔗 Originally posted on Akkoma

19 Aug 2026, 08:31
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What did the SHIFT key really shift and why do computer programmers still have to care about carriages? Learn all about it, and why the original Qwerty layout didn't offer keys for the digits one and zero. And the R key was somewhere else entirely.

https://axbom.com/typewriter-design/

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19 Aug 2026, 07:58
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What did the SHIFT key really shift and why do computer programmers still have to care about carriages? Learn all about it, and why the original Qwerty layout didn't offer keys for the digits one and zero. And the R key was somewhere else entirely.

axbom.com/typewriter-d...

Typewriter design we still rely on

🔗 Originally posted on Bluesky

19 Aug 2026, 07:56
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