The economist is simply right: NIMBYism and restrictive zoning explain high housing prices far better than wealth inequality does.

What frustrates me though is that tax fairness and abundance keep getting pitted against each other, as if we have to choose.

We don't. Tax the rich. Build the homes. Do both.
https://bird.makeup/users/piersuncensored/statuses/2074958450866663693

@decryption tempting.. i really only have one tape to digitise though 😅 30 year wedding anniversary next year, so maybe i should see if we can get the recording out 😂

If you want ti change society, its not necessary to mobilise a majority, rather engaged but active minorities (around 10-15% of a society) have often driven profound national social change(s) for good & for bad.

So we can be optimistic that radical minorities can impact society positively (think Greens or those fighting discrimination), but sadly it is also clear the Right knows this & has taken advantage of it time & time again.

#politics #Brexit #greens
https://anuncommonland.substack.com/p/we-are-led-to-believe-that-it-takes

First talk of the day for me at #Steelcon

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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK’s Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed

Has to be stopped.

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/peter-thiel-and-reform-uks-cambridge-university-pipeline-project/

@iris_meredith yes.

I am wholly committed to people needing to modulate their own behaviour, but my rant this morning is fertile ground for coercion

@h3artbl33d yeah apparently the ones in train stations are owned by NS

@forteller @Vivaldi Something happened in the last update as streaming via Netflix, Tv2 and NRk is no longer working.

@neil Glorious! Mainly because there was a breeze 😎

Let #ChatControl be a reminder that elections matter. Whenever conservatives and right wing populists nowadays have a majority they’re going to use it to push their agenda against freedoms and liberal ideas.

Keep this in mind for the next election to the European Parliament. #EU #Europe

That being said, the first order of the day was to work out which way to go.

From her notional start time of 9am (we are working on timetabled time here), and assuming she took a long distance train, she could only have gone North towards Berlin and Stralsund or South towards München. We didn’t think Leipzig was likely.

So in order to work out which direction to go, we asked her if her location was closer to sea level than we were at 110 metres. They are closer, and so we can discount the more mountainous southern region.

And we are now on a train heading North…

Fat is beautiful.

Pass it on.

*Especially* if you don't feel it belongs on your account.

*Especially* if you've ever been bullied, harassed, or made to feel lesser because of your weight.

*Especially* if you're not fat.

*Especially* if you are fat.

Let everyone know it's not just acceptable or okay, but completely welcome to be any size.

#Fat #BodyPositive

well that was an interesting link to stumble upon

https://danluu.com/input-lag/

@wynke I see those spork things on the ground near the office buildings on my island so they have become napkin-level cheap disposable item in my head now. Personally I spend so much money at AH To Go that I would never feel bad about taking any of those things

I’ve been working with computers for five decades. Some people view me as an “expert” in certain subjects.

And I can tell you that when I am learning a new technology I still feel like the dumbest newb on the planet. I make tons of mistakes. I go down stupid rabbit holes of my own making. I have tons of self doubt.

So give yourself some grace. Everybody goes through this phase. Take a deep breath. Believe that you can do this.

@jamey m4 is one of the genuine early-Unix kind of artefacts: a big leap forward in its original context, but designed with such an aggressive focus on premature optimisation that it kind of froze in time, and once better tools became available, newcomers started to point their fingers at it and laugh impolitely. I have some fondness for #retrocomputing stories like this.

In this case, I'm curious, but I don't have a specific use case for it, at least for now. Knoing how #ADHD minds work, I might stumble upon the useful rule at some point in the future, while working on something entirely different.

FWIW, once upon a time, I had a reason to re-implement the SAS macro language as a stand-alone preprocessor. Because in SAS Institute's usage, the preprocessor's output is virtually always directed directly into the main compiler, and hardly ever visible by a human, SAS Institute kind of gets away with leaving many of the lineation processing details only vaguely specified, but in my use case, looking at the preprocessor's output was an important debugging facility (and, tbh, we typically didn't feed the result into SAS but various SQL engines directly). As a result, I did some kind-of ad hoc refinement of the spec on whitespace handling, much of which amounted to something that might be thought of as corresponding to implicit dnl:s in strategically placed points of m4 code. It's possible that something like this might also be useful for m4 itself.

Yeah, they are not even remotely similar, nice newspaper you got there, shame if something were to happen to it.

@burgervege Mais qui va aller là ? Je ne comprends pas comment ça peut être rentable