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Reading: ur
Meaning: dog, beast

#cuneiform #sumerology #civilisation #Akkad #learning

honestly? You should probably literally go to jail for applying to host a World Cup, or an Olympics or anything like that.

I mean let's say I decided to pass a law to give public funds to, I dunno, the Mafia? Some objectively corrupt organization that has been caught embezzling and misappropriating funds dozens and dozens of times, with a full menu of kickbacks, graft, and bribery involved.... you would rightly say I was stealing from you.

But do it for FIFA/the IOC? And you're a hero? Naw.

@janvlug sounds like our national food agency and maybe the European EFSA should get a bit more funding

@Sascha Ok, so hatte ich das ja schon mal gemacht, nur eben auf eine echte Instanz und dann wieder zurück hierher.
Aber ich komme nun noch durcheinander, was auf dem Blog machbar ist. Ich nehme an, der Tab Social Web stammt auch vom Activity? Da kann ich Leuten folgen, das wird auch hübsch dargestellt, ist aber nicht interaktiv. Null. Was ja nicht Sinn der sache ist. Oder bin ich da auf dem falschen Pfad?
Lustig auch - über Elk versucht, mein Blogprofil zu editieren. Hat dann einen Satz als

@neil If the presence had been feline, would that have made it a catastrophe?

"... study has found banned #pesticides in tea, rice and spices... exceeding the legal #EU limits."

"The findings have led... to a renewed debate about the so-called #BoomerangEffect in which chemicals produced in Europe come back into the country via imported goods."

"For now, the chemicals in question are still flowing in both directions: out of Europe in ships and tankers, and back into European homes in tea, rice and spice jars"

https://www.dutchbrief.com/p/banned-pesticides-found-in-food-products

#poison #food #Netherlands

That's crazy.

Good to be home but who left the heaters on?

@infobeautiful that's amazing!

@michcampbell Colour Magic?

I got a label maker and had the strangest experience. I opened the box, loaded the sample roll of label ribbon, inserted 6(!) AAA batteries, and it worked.

No apps to download. No account to log into. No firmware updates. No pop-over "helpful tips" about how it's "now enabled with AI" or whatever.

I just typed in the label I wanted and hit "print", and it did it. Astonishing. Nostalgic.

US and Iran Remain in Holding Pattern
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-05-23/us-and-iran-remain-in-holding-pattern-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Bloomberg Television @bloomberg-television-bloomberg

This week's net.wars, "First, do no harm", visits the UK's latest attempt to centralize the nation's patient data into a single database: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/05/22/first-do-no-harm/ #NetWars #health #privacy

Wie kann ein einzelner Mensch nur so viel Unsinn in einen Artikel schreiben wie Justus Bender von der FAZ am Sonntag? Gegen Vorratsdatenspeicherung seien vor allem Raubkopierer gewesen … Man dürfe nicht gegen VDS sein, weil ja alle Google & Co. ihre Daten gäben … in der Pandemie habe Datenschutz effektive Infektionskontrolle verhindert. Oh, Mann. Ach so, Artikel natürlich hinter Paywall

This is what we've sunk to: begging the newly rich to have the charitable impulse to build nicer mansions so future generations can look at them:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/opinion/artificial-intelligence-philanthropy-beauty.html

or we could tax the fuck out of them and fund things people actually want

Game of Trees 0.126 released https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260523115158

RE: https://rivals.space/@nini/116617698168068068

Énième rappel de ne PAS donner à la fondation Wikimedia globale quand vous avez les bandeaux giga longs qui vous disent que si tout le monde donnait 2€ Wikipédia serait sauvée en quelques heures. La fondation globale n'a aucun problème d'argent, et a une gestion très problématique.

Donnez, en revanche, aux actions locales qui soutiennent les projets Wikimedia, comme Wikimédia France.