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Man, what can you even say about Dolly Parton? A lot:
https://people.com/dolly-parton-dead-7565853
But that just hits a few highlights. She was an incredible talent, a gifted songwriter, a courageous public figure, an amazing philanthropist, an inspirational role model, and so much more. RIP you legend.
AI in a nutshell.
If you live outside of the United States,
do you know if your country has a plan if the US government decided to cut access to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon products overnight?
What would happen to your work?
What would happen to your hospitals?
What would happen to your emergency services?
What would happen to your banks?
Imagine overnight, for all those public services and private businesses, no more Windows, no more AWS, no more Google and Microsoft office software, no more remote files storage, no more emails, no more online maps, no more videochats.
What would happen?
Is your country prepared?
>If you live outside of the United States,
>do you know if your country has a plan if the US government decided to cut
>access to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon products overnight?
I am sure, this is not the case in germany
>What would happen to your work?
not much, i mostly use FOSS.
>What would happen to your hospitals?
hospitals have been hacked. they go back to pen and paper.
>What would happen to your emergency services?
police and fire fighters would patrol the cities and look for emergencys
>What would happen to your banks?
i would need to travel 25 km to an outlet of my bank to get cash. the local office only has ATM.
>Imagine overnight, for all those public services and private businesses,
>no more Windows, no more AWS, no more Google and Microsoft office
>software, no more remote files storage, no more emails, no more online
>maps, no more videochats.'
good.
>What would happen?
break down of government, economy, schools, airports, postal service, media, ice cream parlors
>Is your country prepared?
no.
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Xcancel mignt not last a long time, we shall see!
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Dolly Parton helped millions of children learn how to read and saved millions of lives by funding COVID vaccine research. She improved more people’s lives than almost any political leader in office. Her impact will be felt by generations.
A very polished and expensive PR operation astroturfing Omarchy.
Looks like there's more than a bunch of hallucinated dotfiles on the line here.
DHH is just a trial balloon, worry about what his backers are actually gunning for next.
In the West, people seem to only understand death as tragedy but in Nigeria where my parents are from, when people die of old age, after living a full and prosperous life, we celebrate them. Dolly’s death feels fully resolved to me. She got her flowers while she was still alive. She knew what she meant to the entire world. If you never listened to the Dolly Parton’s America podcast, you should. RIP to an icon. Her songwriting, her humor, her non-judgmental presence. What an angel. 🦋
X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X frontends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/x-sends-cease-and-desist-to-open-source-project-nitter-over-alleged-scraping/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
I was never a fan of Dolly Parton's music, but I was a huge admirer of her social activism.
She knew her class, and she had sass.
So, memento mori. Here's an [absolutely terrible quality] video of the Sisters of Mercy performing Jolene in Glasgow in 1983. Probably uploaded to YouTube on 56k dialup modem about 15 years later.
And, yeah. I was at this gig.
Be a fourth as good as Dolly Parton and you'd be an amazingly good person.
Books for kids, charitable work, helping sponsor research that resulted in a COVID vaccine; she did so many good things.
May her memory be a blessing.
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Privilege escalation attack grants "full control" and freedom from Meta's servers/apps.
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