Found a new quote for the books:
"I remember taking the red pill that unplugged me from the WYSIWYG Matrix."
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Scialom and Bonnet play Enescu, Ravel and Fauré in La Chaux-de-Fonds - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Iris Scialom, violin, and Antonin Bonnet, piano, play: ENESCU: Sonata No. 2 in F minor for violin and piano, Op. 6.www.worldconcerthall.com
“Netanyahu rinuncia al viaggio a Roma per l’insediamento di Papa Leone XVI: teme di essere arrestato”
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“Netanyahu rinuncia al viaggio a Roma per l’insediamento di Papa Leone XVI: teme di essere…
Secondo il sito israeliano "Ynet", il premier non ha avuto sufficienti garanzie dalle autorità italiane e vaticane sul fatto che il mandato dell'Aja non sarebbe stato eseguitoIl Fatto Quotidiano
Ask Slashdot: Would You Consider a Low-Latency JavaScript Runtime For Your Workflow? - Slashdot
Amazon's AWS Labs has created LLRT an experimental, lightweight JavaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient serverless applications.developers.slashdot.org
Speed running the worst ideas from communism. From copying Pol Pot and Mao’s vision that the college educated should work menial jobs in factories instead of office jobs to dictating what prices businesses should charge.
A bonfire of bad ideas.
London-based Origin, which offers software to help HR teams administer employee benefits, emerges from stealth with a $21M Series A led by Felix Capital (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)
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UK-based Origin raises $21M Series A to tackle fragmented employee benefits
British startup Origin has launched out of stealth with $21 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Felix Capital, with participation from Acadian Ventures, Notion Capital, and a angel investors from across the HR, tech, and enterprise sect…Lucy Adams (Tech.eu)
🔥 Trump’s corruption goes global — $3.5B arms deals to Qatar & UAE reek of payoff. Sen. Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov just filed resolutions to BLOCK the sales. This isn’t diplomacy. It’s organized crime in a suit. #TrumpWatch #Corruption #NoMoreDeals www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releas...
As Trump Racks Up Corrupt Deal...
As Trump Racks Up Corrupt Deals, Kaine & Colleagues File Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to Block $3.5 Billion in Arms Sales to Qatar and the UAE | U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Brian Schatz (D-HI), all members of the Senate...www.kaine.senate.gov
Victoria announces free public transport for under-18s in 2026
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From 1 January 2026, anyone under 18 can travel free on all forms of public transport including trams, trains, buses and coach services. This will apply in Myki and non-Myki areas throughout all of Victoria.
I see this as good for public transport and reducing reliance on cars, great for students, and progress on tackling the cost of living for families.
#AusPol #VicPol #PublicTransport #CostOfLivingCrisis
Victoria announces free public transport for under 18s, as state’s debt projected to rise
The Jacinta Allan government says more than one million children and their families will benefit from the $318m programTory Shepherd (The Guardian)
Ednaldo Rodrigues pede ao STF suspensão das eleições da CBF - Gazeta Brasil- Notícias do Brasil e do Mundo
Afastado da presidência da Confederação Brasileira de Futebol (CBF), Ednaldo Rodrigues apresentou nesta sexta-feira (16) um pedido ao Supremo Tribunal FederalGazeta Brasil
—Heather Cox Richardson, May 16, 2025
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May 16, 2025
MAGA world is performing over-the-top outrage over a photo former Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey posted on Instagram, where he has been teasing a new novel.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
—Heather Cox Richardson, May 16, 2025
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BBC’s ‘The Settlers’ refuses to scratch beneath the surface of Zionist settler colonialism
Louis Theroux’s BBC documentary on the Israeli settler movement in the West Bank fails to recognize how it is a natural extension of over a century of Zionist settler colonization.Fathi Nemer (Mondoweiss)
Darby Creek, PA
I had a couple of hours in the evening, so I visited my usual creek. I ran into my fishing buddy. We never plan to fish together, but when we meet, we always have a lot to catch up on😊
#FlyFishing #Fishing #Nature #Hiking #Walking #Creek #Photography
Bebês Reborn: A Psicose de uma era em ruínas - Karina Michelin
O que está acontecendo com o mundo? Em que momento a civilização decidiu que fingir que um boneco é um ser humano seria normal, aceitável, até “terapêutico”?Karina Michelin
FDA Approves Novavax Covid-19 Shot With Unusual Restrictions
https://www.bloomberg.com/en/news/thp/2025-05-18/fda-approves-novavax-covid-19-shot-but-with-unusual-restrictions?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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This comes from Meta’s 9-year experiment on the impact of Facebook ads on user welfare.
Since 2013, Facebook has randomly assigned 0.5% of its users to a “no-ads group.” These users have not seen any ads for nine years, without being aware of it. In 2022, researchers recruited over 50,000 users across 13 countries to compare the experiences of users with and without ads.🧵1/5
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トランプ米大統領、19日にロシア・ウクライナ首脳と電話会談 | ロイター
トランプ米大統領は１７日、ロシアのプーチン大統領およびウクライナのゼレンスキー大統領と１９日に個別に電話協議を行う予定だと明らかにした。写真はイスタンブールで行われたロシアとウクライナの協議。１６日トルコ外務省提供（２０２５年 ロイター） - トランプ米大統領は１７日、ロシアのプーチン大統領およびウクライナのゼレンスキー大統領と１９日に個別に電話協議を行う予定だと明らかにした。ロシア大統領府のペスコフ報道官も国内メディアに対し、米ロ首脳の電話会談に向けた準備が進められていると述べた。またプーチ…WALKNEWS (WALK NEWS)
Thanks ABC Radio Canberra for having us on their Sunday Brunch show this morning to talk all about @sci_burst and #scicomm 💖💃👩🔬
@theEllamo and I had a great time chatting with Kim Huynh! Honoured to be called a Can-Do Canberran on my live #radio debut 💪🎙️
You can listen to the interview here, starting at about 34:52 minutes left: abc.net.au/listen/programs/can…
#womeninstem #popculture #Canberra #ABCRadioCanberra #SundayBrunch
Sunday Brunch
Tuck into a tasty and nourishing feast of locally grown stories on Sunday.Kim Huynh (ABC listen)
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Looking at the gender gap from the 2016 to 2024 election #shorts
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Looking at the gender gap from the 2016 to 2024 election #shorts - Spineless News Channels
#politics #2024elections #gendergap sourcespinelessnews.com (Spineless News Channels)
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Lucchese, è salvezza! Superato il Sestri all’ultimo tuffo
Con un gol di Badje al 44' del secondo tempo la Lucchese ha battuto 1-0 il Sestri Levante nello spareggio salvezza disputato al Porta Elisa davanti a 4.500 spettatori.
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Gilly & Billy Enamel Pin — MULE BOOKS
2″ of mighty soft enamel for your jacket, backpack, whatevs. Show your support for wealth distribution with this delightful pin designed by Adam Koford. Less talkin’, more loppin’!MULE BOOKS
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in reply to Ian Malcolm • • •If it's like the "The Wasp Factory" which I read last year it will be disturbing and a little confusing?
Curious to know if you like it.
Ian Malcolm
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Wasp Factory _really_ disturbed me when I first read it, admittedly quite a while ago - it was my second Banks book, after Consider Phlebas.
I really like some of his other contemporary novels though, particularly Crow Road and Espedair Street.
Will let you know how I get on with Canal Dreams - might be a while though, my to-read pile is piled ridiculously high! 😉
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I was confused about if it was trying to make some kind of point about gender or being trans. I decided it wasn't and that it was more about how the violence and cruelty of cultures that thrive on war is a kind of cancer that never goes away.
I don't really get why the main character was someone who would have been AFAB if they didn't have such a horrible parent and was stuffed into the role of son and so committed to it.
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There is something in the story about how many of the things taught to little boys about what it means to be "a man" and toxic. But, the revelations about the main characters biology were uncomfortable, but also less interesting to me than really know who they would have wanted to be if no one had been telling them who to be if that makes sense.
I really liked the bit about the buried mines in the beach.
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Also since I like wasps as animals I had to keep adjusting the lens I was view those bits of symbolism through.
Banks often writes in a way that exposes the toxicity and arbitrary nature of gender in ways that I really enjoy in the culture series. But Wasp Factory left me more confused and disturbed than anything.
But maybe that is the point.
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@futurebird
There's definitely some of that, albeit an extreme case where someone AFAB is raised to believe they're not only male, but an intrinsically (and extremely) damaged one for as long as they can remember, lacking defining physical characteristics.
The father's actions and web of lies are SO extreme - it felt like a first time novelist trying to see just how far they could push.
It's terrible, but the mine incident makes me laugh when I remember it...