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5G Was An Over-Hyped Dud. Prepare For Nobody To Learn Absolutely Anything From The Experience by Karl BodeKarl Bode

We’ve noted for several years how the “race to 5G” was largely just hype by telecoms and hardware vendors eager to sell more gear and justify high U.S. mobile data prices. While 5G does provide faster, more resilient, and lower latency networks, it’s more of an evolution than a revolution. But that’s not what telecom giants […]

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If you think we should care more about refugees than billionaires then, please, go ahead.

Care more about refugees.

Talk about them. Post articles. Boost other’s posts. Take action. Pressure the media and governments to pay more attention to the crisis. Keep the conversation going.

It’s just that I’ve seen so many hot takes about this, and it would be such a shame to see them all going to waste, as if they were a load of hot air.

#RefugeesWelcome
#RefugeeWeek

—@ProjectFearlessness

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When you learn about engineering failures in school you quickly understand that it’s not that people were unintelligent, it’s because they were careless. And good engineering practice builds layers to make sure that carelessness doesn’t propagate.

The rigor of engineering is not the technical complexity of the problem space, it’s everything else around it.

In other words, literally everything the silicon valley grindset devalues.

—@emilygorcenski

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Kevin Fox (@kfury@mstdn.social) (Mastodon 🐘)
By Justice Alito’s logic any seat on any private plane can’t count as a gift because if he didn’t fill it it ‘just would have gone to waste’. So if I put $100,000 in a box with a explosive set to detonate in 24 hours and I told Alito he could pick up the money today and keep it because if he didn’t it was just going to go to waste it wouldn’t be a gift or a bribe. What a legal genius. https://www.axios.com/2023/06/21/alito-propublica-alaska-fishing-trip
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In reply to @glaroc.

@glaroc I don't necessarily want billionaires dead. But based on everything I've read about the sub situation, it seems to be a play stupid games win stupid prizes situation, and yeah, the fact that this one sub of billionaires on it got way more coverage than any of the boats of migrants fleeing because they pretty much had to in favor of some billionaires cutting corners because they could leaves a real bad taste in my mouth.

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This is your regularly scheduled reminder that ‘cis’ literally means ‘on this side’. It’s a term with Latin origins that has been used in scientific language for 135 years, and it’s not a ‘slur’.

The opposite of ‘cis’ is ‘trans’, which means ‘across’, and ‘transgender’ is just one of its many uses. You have probably eaten trans fats, for example, or perhaps you have been on a ‘transatlantic’ flight.

Ain’t science and language grand?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cis

—@sindarina