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🏴‍☠️ Captain’s Blog - 2024-20-PM Edition JW Sat, 01/20/2024 - 21:20 🌎 Planet News

• Pluralistic: 2600's amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down to enshittification (19 Jan 2024) - Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

🏪 Business

• Why SpaceX Is Joining Forces With a Tractor Company - Gizmodo
• Study: Thousands of businesses just love handing over your info to Facebook - The Register

📲 Tech

• OpenAI, Microsoft’s Partnership May Be Killed Off Before the Dawn of AGI - Gizmodo
• A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine - VICE US

💾 Software

• Floorp Browser: Is It The Most Advanced Cross-Platform Firefox Derivative? - It's FOSS News
• Campfire is ONCE #1 - David Heinemeier Hansson
• For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything a company needed - The Register

💻 Hardware

• Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather. The struggle is... - kottke.org
• Eriba Car camper van taps into fun and flair of vintage VW camping bus - New Atlas - New Technology & Science News
• This new induction stove seems interesting: it runs on 120V, it has... - kottke.org

🌊 Drifts

• Old’aVista, a guide to the old internet - Waxy.org
• Learn Something New: 20+ Top Online Learning Resources - noupe
• A Website Where You Can Virtually Drive in Cities All Over the World While Listening to Local Radio Stations - Laughing Squid

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Paul Krugman today: For people who say that Americans care about the level of prices, not the inflation rate, note that cumulative inflation under Biden so far is close to the number under Reagan. Which is why Reagan lost the 84 election in a landslide. Oh, wait pic.twitter.com/KhThKZOZ3A — Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 20, 2024 ...continue reading "Why doesn’t Joe Biden get credit for taming inflation?"

The clinics have greatly reduced the number of patients landing in the emergency room because of uncontrolled symptoms, and patient success stories abound.

For people who want to compost without the hassle, curbside food-waste pickup is one way to go.

A statewide rule designed to help with heat-related utility bills, while at the same time, protecting residents from a utility disconnection during the winter months, took effect in November and runs through March.

Five Years Ago This week in 2019, an appeals court let the FBI off the hook for breaking the law during its Playpen investigation, while a federal judge said compelling people to unlock their phones with fingerprints or faces violates the Fifth Amendment, and another judge recommended vacating the sentence of one of the FBI’s […]

It's a continuing curiosity that, generally speaking, it seems like the greatest fear of illegal immigration comes from states that are nowhere near the southern border. It turns out that Pew Research has state-by-state figures, so I went ahead and plotted it: The four border states are California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Their population ...continue reading "Raw data: Illegal immigrant population in border states"

More than $7 million will go to the State's Department of Transportation to maintain electric vehicle chargers.

Officials with the LGBTQ+ advocacy groups the Human Rights Campaign, in Washington, D.C., and PROMO, in Missouri, accused the board of not understanding transgender students, and called the policy a thinly-veiled attempt to discriminate against them.

A woman is accused of stealing more than $150,000 from her employer while she worked as a hotel manager in Richmond Heights.

'You don’t drive through Olive Crossing, you drive to Olive Crossing,' the owner of Keat Properties said.