"The degree to which British people understand Mexican food — especially compared with our American cousins — is somewhere beneath basement level. This would be fine and dandy if we all remained silent when it comes to the cuisine, or confessed to our ignorance, but instead of keeping our mouths shut we exhibit severe foot-in-mouth disease."

"Take, for example, the correctly castigated “Mexican week” episode of The Great British Bake Off in 2022, which not only reduced Mexican culture to sombreros, cacti and moustaches, but also displayed a general British ignorance of how to pronounce Spanish words. Send Paul to LA and have him pronounce pico de gallo as “picko de gallow” and it will earn him a Hollywood headshake!"

https://www.thetimes.com/article/b47ed1b2-e21f-4b8e-a697-a64997ae7dd4?shareToken=f5d1b6bcd51187a57ebcca0ddab22973

Not to mention the 'your rendang wasn't crispy' debacle on Masterchef UK

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/04/asia/masterchef-malaysia-indonesia-crispy-rendang-intl/

#Food

@nathandyer Also to be clear for that flatpak it does not download it in the background. That happens once as part of the build (repack). It is fetched by users from flathub. Individual flathub user machines never contact Canonical servers.

MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/macbook-neo-benchmarks-analysis/

#HackerNews #MacBookNeo #Benchmarks #WaferEconomics #8GBGamble #TechAnalysis

@Brendan Ha!

Cavaliere di Gran Croce dell’Ordine Piano
(ordine di Pionove, quello che i romani stavano a buttá a Tevere da morto durante i funerali nel 1878 gridando "A fiume il papa porco")
L'ambasciatore iraniano presso la santa sede Mohammad addirittura ayatollah Hossein Mokhtari, zí prete del mondo, con barba.

@TheJen WTF did he do now?

Ben Morea in Exarchia

A Eulogy and Paean to Freedom

https://crimethinc.com/BenMoreaExarchia

Ben Morea has passed away. Known for his participation in Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, the self-styled “street gang with an analysis” active in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the late 1960s, he withdrew from the city and pursued a path into revolutionary animism. In this visionary eulogy, Tasos Sagris of Void Network recounts Ben’s subsequent visit to Exarchia, the Athenian neighborhood famed as a hotbed of anarchism.

Today, the Exarchia that Tasos describes has also changed. To mourn a single person is to mourn an entire vanished world. Yet, as Tasos explores, there is a silver thread that connects Ben’s life and the legacy of Exarchia to our own present and possible future.

🏴

@Gina How about some Happy Tree Friends?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmXL6-F3vZQ

@cwebber @eniko when i was learning Autodesk Maya for a 3d animation course, the Z-axis definitely is backward/forward : in viewport and in render. All is right with the world.

then when i decide to pick up blender.... i questioned reality.

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@KevinCarson1/116568023194305154

If you're on other platforms, I'll greatly appreciate anyone sharing this there.

@i quick, get an issue open for people to pile in on

Hoot 0.9.0 released! With several quality of life improvements and bugfixes! https://spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-9-0-released.html

And just in time for the Lisp Game Jam, which starts Friday! https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2026

We have a game jam template you might want to use for putting Scheme games in the browser! https://codeberg.org/spritely/hoot-game-jam-template

RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116567154245513238

“Developers say the facility could eventually require up to 9 gigawatts of power. For perspective, Utah’s current statewide electricity demand typically peaks around 4 to 5 gigawatts. That means a single AI-focused campus could theoretically consume more power than the entire state currently uses.”

Gotta always appreciate Yahoo! News for doing the math for us! 💪🤔

@catsalad

waggles his tail, happily

Chip knows that he is Best Cat

@Saltssaltgirl I’ll remind you when I unclench mine

Que l'IA générative permette de découvrir de vraies vulnérabilités en masse, c'est une chose (et je doute que ce soit une bonne chose pour la santé mentale des mainteneureuses), par contre si les gens qui les découvrent pouvaient au moins faire semblant de respecter le principe de non-divulgation au public jusqu'à sa résolution, ça serait pas mal.

#Linux #CopyFail #DirtyFrag #Fragnesia

@akkiesoft@misskey.io San, I'm wondering about Orange Pi as alternative. Do you have any opinion about this?

@neil

In college (1979 - 1981) I owned a 1968 Triumph Spitfire. When I told someone about my (horrible) experiences with it, they said they saw a bumper sticker on a Triumph or MG that read:

The parts falling off this car are of genuine British quality.

On the positive side, it was very easy to work on (lift the bonnet that hinges around the front bumper and sit on the front tires to adjust the dual carburetors) and it honed my car repair skills. Spun a bearing and rebuilt the engine.

@davidgerard This fucking guy has never met a war he didn't love