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Sören Meyer-Eppler retweeted
Amazing idea to break up an alliance that has kept the West safe for 80 years after two World Wars, and fulfill Putin’s lifelong dream, because the EU is being mean to Elon.
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Lindner has the dubious distinction of Nobel laureate economists warning in the press that he's a nutcase and shouldn't be near the finance ministry.
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"precision" strikes - if you're aiming to eradicate a people that is.
Nearly 70% of Gaza war dead are women and children, UN says bbc.in/4fH3RfP
"In the age of Trumpism, simple decency is revolutionary. Be revolutionaries."
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Sören Meyer-Eppler retweeted
Donald Trump — the twice impeached former president, Jan. 6 coup leader, convicted felon, adjudicated sexual abuser, and man who mismanaged the 2020 economic implosion and coronavirus disaster that killed more than 1 million people in this country — has convinced American voters to give him another term in the White House.
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Sören Meyer-Eppler retweeted
Scholz’s address is the best speech he has given in a long time.
And it is absolutely scathing about Lindners behavior.
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So Trump returns, but Europe has changed. In many ways, its hand is poorer. War in Ukraine, UK out of EU, Paris and Berlin weak, Covid economic scars, societies polarised, Hungary full rogue, bit player in ME. Some progress too, but the truth is, vital action will now be harder.
Sören Meyer-Eppler retweeted
Only 8% of Finns would vote for Trump.
Both Trump and Harris are right wing by our standards. All right wing conservatives in Finland support free healthcare and free schools/universities. There's never any debate about those topics here. They are considered basic rights.
"Trump is simply the perfect stooge of hostile powers — someone so focused on fighting internal enemies that he refuses to do anything about external ones."
This seems to be an issue that republicans usually care about? Hopefully it can swing a few votes
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Sören Meyer-Eppler retweeted
Trump is clearly easily manipulated by his desire to get applause from whoever - so who will actually hold the strings after this election? Bannon? Kushner? More opaque this time around.
Sören Meyer-Eppler retweeted
This is so weird. I am going to vote for the guy that did not accept the election results and staged a coup, told us he won’t accept these election results, and wants to be a dictator, but let me give you a lecture on unity and civility. So weird.
I believe that @realDonaldTrump will win in a decisive victory and potentially a landslide Electoral College outcome tomorrow. I could of course be totally wrong, but that helps elevate an important point.
Approximately half the country will be unhappy about the election outcome, potentially devastatingly so. In this context, I think it is important to remember that we are one country, and we will survive whoever is our next president.
What we must avoid, however, is a world where our fellow citizens who are disappointed raise hell or otherwise revolt about the outcome. The peaceful transfer of power is a critical feature of our democracy that must be maintained for us to succeed.
The system is stronger than any one candidate. We will thrive long term no matter the outcome of this election because the system will heal itself. That’s been a feature of our democracy for nearly 250 years and I expect it to continue.
Let’s therefore be civil and accept the collective will of our democratic process. We have many enemies that want internecine battles in America to weaken us. We cannot let this happen. The world is a dangerous place and we need to be unified to protect our country and our children.
Still totally not a genocide. Fencing in millions of people, continuously bombing them while starving them to death is a perfectly acceptable strategy of war. Why do we in the West keep supporting this atrocity?!
No one can ever say; 'We never knew'. theguardian.com/world/2024/n…
Sören Meyer-Eppler retweeted
File over app
File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.
File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.
In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last.
The pyramids of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than the type of chisel that was used to carve them.
The world is filled with ideas from generations past, transmitted through many mediums, from clay tablets to manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. These artifacts are objects that you can touch, hold, own, store, preserve, and look at. To read something written on paper all you need is eyeballs.
Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases, gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible with older systems.
Paraphrasing something I wrote recently:
> If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s.
You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format you can’t retrieve.
These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian (@obsdmd), but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile.
