“There will be times when struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this: freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And remember this: the imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this: the day will come when all of these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this: Try.”
The irony is not lost on me. I honestly can’t believe Disney allowed Andor to made with that story. Maybe Disney execs were too distracted by scrubbing out the queer identity of the main character in Elio.
Star Wars has always been about fighting against fascism. The difference between Andor and the rest of the franchise is that Andor has painted a much more detailed picture of what the Empire is, how it works, and why it is still vulnerable despite all its power.
@madeindex Ha - no! Kind of a long-running inside joke
When I was in high school, my buddies and I always said when we grew up we wanted to run a company called Malicious Enterprises that did some sort of unspecified volcano-lair ominous stuff
My in-laws have a farm outside of Oklahoma City they call Green Acres
So we call our ranch Malicious Acres
My sister-in-law made the logo and we stamp it on everything. Hence the Malicious Gym sign
Almost a dozen malicious extensions with 1.7 million downloads in Google's Chrome Web Store could track users, steal browser activity, and redirect to potentially unsafe web addresses.
La Corte penale internazionale ha emesso oggi dei mandati di arresto per alti leader talebani in Afghanistan per la persecuzione delle donne, un crimine contro l'umanità. (ANSA)
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The realm of Korinthia spans from rugged mountains hosting mysterious temples honoring little-known gods, to sunny islands in a wine-dark sea. Learn to speak about bold actions in their tongue. #travel #historycromwell-intl.com/travel/greec…
Secondo il Washington Post, che ha raccontato il caso in esclusiva, l’intento era quello di ottenere informazioni sensibili. Anche stavolta utilizzata la app S…
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Las fuentes de luz sonunaviejaobsesiónmía. Afortunadamente lo son también para Alec Watson aka "el gordito de Technology Connections", quien le dedicó media amorosa hora a un invento que en cada una de sus partes hubiera hecho enloquecer y perpetrar crímenes para obtenerlo a nuestros antepasados.
(Hablando de locura y criminalidad: "carrera hacia el abismo". O "al hoyo". No importa qué tan buena sea una idea, siempre algún delincuente la arruina, sea minimizando componentes electrónicos, buscando los más baratos que hacen funcionar el aparato UNA vez, diseñando mecánicamente para "fabricabilidad" y no "reparabilidad"... Recordemos no confundir, la "rotura programada" es simple y común, no pide ofrecer mejores productos ahora o en el futuro, sólo más de lo mismo.)
Los subtítulos traducidos automáticamente al español no son precisamente cuidados, pero sin habérmelos fumado enteros me atrevo a suponer que entenderán lo que decía el guión original. Y si no, me preguntan.
Volviendo a mi problema, agradezcan que nunca les curtí la paciencia con la lámpara de Nernst, por la que me preguntó @beckermatic en otra red hace algo de cuatro años, capaz porque en esos días salió este detallado video de otro enfermo a quien se extraña. Si viéramos en una longitud de onda más larga hubieran sido la lámpara incandescente, nada de filamentos siempre al borde de partirse suspendidos dentro de vidrios aún más frágiles.
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Hoy finalmente retiré del servicio las dos últimas lámparas fluorescentes compactas que había en mi casa--mientras todavía les queda algo de vida útil, porque soy una vieja sensiblera y no las quiero guardar ya muertitas.
Fueron unas lindas décadas, y una tecnología disfrutable para nosotras las enfermitas. Después de los años de laburo que insumió adaptar tubos plegados al formato requerido y construir bases que incluyeran un balasto, en su versión original magnético, que las hacía pesar arriba de medio kilo sumado al grueso vidrio difusor, y desde fines de los ochentas en adelante electrónico (pero miren la bestia que fue al principio, con un capacitor electrolítico grueso como un dedo), se llegó a productos razonablemente eficientes y longevos si no se los maltrataba.
Me limitaré a contemplar en mi mente cada uno de los desarrollos que culminaron en estos objetos de complejidad decididamente moderada para nuestra época, pero demencial para cualquier artesano o ingeniero de principios del siglo XIX. (Sí, cuando se estaba aún desculando la electricidad. Buena época.)
¡Brindo por la feliz jubilación de quienes me iluminaron por tanto tiempo!
Y no teman encariñarse con las herramientas que nos han servido. Es bueno ser agradecidos en la vida.
It really was a bright idea.Links 'n' stuff!Old videos referenced:LED bulbs that flicker, and CFLs that almost never didhttps://youtu.be/pAqGpoWLLZcGE's biza...
The Windows hate gets more justified with every revision. Windows even shows advertisements as system tray notifications now. As well as the ones crammed into the start menu, and into search results there.
Immer mehr abgesagte Volksfeste: Sie sorgen dafür, dass es keine Sicherheit mehr gibt, und lassen die Deutschen dafür bluten journalistenwatch.com/2025/07/… Niemand hat die Deutschen je gefragt (geschweige denn darüber abstimmen lassen), ob sie eigentlich “bereichert” werden wollen; ob sie zustimmen, dass ihnen durch wahllose Massenmigration ihre Heimat zunehmend
Venerdì iniziano i giorni di San Paolino. Prima la Luminara poi Gazzarra e Palio Al via le giornate dedicate al patrono della città con le attese rievocazioni
#OtD 8 Jul 1978 an outdoor by-election meeting of the fascist National Front in Moss Side, Manchester, was attacked by 70 anti-fascists. Anti-fascists and locals piled into the group, eventually forcing police to escort them out of town stories.workingclasshistory.co…
Ora la Lombardia ha una legge per tutelare e valorizzare la tradizione artistica e culturale artigianale della liuteria cremonese, quella che affonda la sua tradizione nei capolavori di Stradivari e Guarnieri del Gesù. (ANSA)
Moonvalley releases Marey, its fully licensed AI video model, available for $14.99, $34.99, or $149.99/month; 80% of its footage is from independent filmmakers (Andrew R. Chow/Time)
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@Giornalismo e disordine informativo articolo21.org/2025/07/dual/ Basta saperlo. Se il trucco per finanziare un’iniziativa con la mega quota del 5% del Pil prevista per il riarmo è quello di dire che può servire anche per la difesa (dual use), allora è fatta. Propongo di inserire il potenziamento del Sistema Sanitario Nazionale tra i progetti sia di uso civile che militare – […] L'articolo Dual proviene da Articolo21.
It’s Prime Day, and these are the best deals we could hunt down Summer heat got you down? Perhaps some retail therapy is in order! arstechnica.com/shopping/2025/…
Liberals are gutting workers’ rights with legal trickery while pretending to respect them. The tactics include bypassing unions, killing strikes through imposed arbitration, and, ‘Independent’ inquiries justifying wage cuts.
The goal is to crush union power under Carney’s ‘prosperity’ agenda.
Liberals frame labour fights as individual greed obscuring the class struggle. This is a slow-motion union bust on national scale.
I've been really lucky lately re-entering the Linux world. Sites and people are offering me GUIs whether I want them or not. I think that's kind of nice and would like to see more of it.
I'd like to see what @altbot will think of this photo. This is me circa 2000 performing a Rock Bottom, The Rock's signature wrestling move, on one of my friends.
Back when we didn't take "Don't try this at home" too seriously.
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Die Stiftung Kinder forschen (= eine relativ große Organisation im Bereich der frühen MINT-Bildung) setzt organisationsintern mit Mistral auf ein #OpenSource KI -Sprachmodell, weil Offenheit und Mündigkeit wichtige Grundwerte sind. Ein tolles Beispiel, das zeigt, dass KI-Nutzung nicht automatisch proprietäre Modelle bedeuten muss. Bitte mehr davon! 👍
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“The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it.” — Karis Nemik
“I’d rather die trying to take them down than die giving them what they want.” — Cassian Andor
"The imperial need for control is so desperate because it's so unnatural,".
"Tyranny requires constant effort,".
"Oppression is the mask of fear,".
-Maarva Andor
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“There will be times when struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this: freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And remember this: the imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this: the day will come when all of these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this: Try.”
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