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• Right-wing media generating hysteria over trans women running non-competitively in London Marathonwww.thepinknews.com ↗
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• Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025www.techradar.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just pointing out that whether you use women’s bathrooms or men’s, the same point applies: this concern about the genitals of the person in the next stall is a weird non-problem cooked up by bigots, yet the politicians scramble to appease them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, and we get this headline too today:

  Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Then when was the last time you looked down a man’s pants in a public toilet, to check they had the approved genitals?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pandering to the most awful bigots in the country is an awful thing to do. This is a spineless government with no principles other than “don’t offend the right wing”.

• Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 sayswww.bbc.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if the drive prices are not raised to unreasonable levels, if ever Synology decides to stop selling these drives the NAS you have purchased will become useless. Think I’ll pass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One minister said: “Trump and [the vice-president] JD Vance have shown the advantage of getting out there and not worrying about making mistakes.

  Yeah, they have a whole cult behind them that will interpret their every idiotic blunder as an inspired move. Starmer, not so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump administration orders halt to in-progress wind farm construction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a foreigner with an opinion. I talk to American friends every few days. I have some idea of what you’re up against and I recognize it’s not easy to do anything to slow this down or stop it. Trump’s threatening my country and so are our own right-wing politicians, and I’m aware we all face similar difficulties: it’s not easy to know what to do, and not easy to organize it even when you have an idea. But I can see it will take something unusual in the USA, not just waiting for an election.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump administration orders halt to in-progress wind farm construction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Every single bad thing you can imagine, they are doing. The USA simply has villains in charge, and they’ve set themselves the task of destroying anything that might sustain or improve life for anyone except themselves. In movies when this happens, real Americans take them down. In real life apparently they just sit and watch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is shutting down Assistant on Fitbit smartwatches⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Never depend on anything Google.

• China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defensefortune.com ↗
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• Weighing 42,600 tons, this new Chinese “monster” was built for one purpose: to break the world record for the deepest drill at 7 miles.farmingdale-observer.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing that really attracts me about these glasses is that you could hold your head up instead of looking down all the time at a laptop or a portable monitor. But most of the time I need more than one display, while the glasses only offer a single, expensive, fairly low resolution screen. I also wonder what it does to your eyes to use this for long periods of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re all doing it. Most tech these days just isn’t exciting enough to attract attention without them pumping it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fund managers worry about Trump’s mental state amid tariff debacle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to question most of what you said, but he’s only 78 years old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose it’s naivety to think that Wikipedia articles are written with good intentions.

  I think the amazing thing is that most still are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect that isn’t the picture these two have in mind. It’s going to be the same as the demand for free speech, which just turns out to mean “let me be an asshole and you’re not allowed to complain.” This one is going to be “I get to profit off your ideas, but you’re not allowed to use mine.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nazi government uses Nazi platform. We could see this coming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And damn, is it expensive. Sold in 2ml bottles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tax cut for Musk, Bezos and other tech billionaires on the table, Starmer confirms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From an international perspective, it just makes the British government look scared and weak.

• China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantechcleantechnica.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How is discoverability in PeerTube? That was the sticking point for me with PeerTube as with Mastodon last time I looked. It was not easy to discover what’s out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We need sites that are decentralized and make clear where their funding comes from. In the end, users need to be prepared to fund the services they use to keep them honest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube on mobile is intolerable these days. NewPipe is the way for Android, though Google is in a constant battle to disable it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe proposes backdoors in encrypted platforms under new security strategy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  a new strategy to enhance internal security across the entire European Union.

  By making encryption weak. What a duplicitous use of language.

• Raid on Quaker Meeting House, mass arrests by London Metropolitan Police of Youth Demand memberswww.wsws.org ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they meant you’d have to design a combination of hardware that’s all compatible with Linux - that is, that has Linux driver support.