Attached: 1 image VATICAN CITYβ Pope Francis died on Monday aged 88, a day after making a much hoped-for appearance at Saint Peter's Square on Easter Sunday, the Vatican said in a statement. READ: https://www.manilatimes.net/2025/04/21/world/pope-francis-has-died-vatican/2095605
Our secular Democracy implicitly grants religious freedoms to all. A good thing. But if you're Christian and want to vote into law tenets of Christianity, you open the possibility of a different religious majority in the future out-voting you, instituting their laws instead.
One idea floating around is for the PH Government to regulate social media platforms. This is funny. Implement Net Neutrality, this is a way to even out the reach of social media platforms by giving the same privileges (cheaper access) to platforms that don't peddle fake news. Another is for the government to deploy their own platforms and NOT be dependent on these fake news promoting social media platforms.
ME A DECADE AGO: Superman is completely unrealistic. People would β’neverβ’ just straight-up elect a comically evil billionaire to be president. ME NOW: Superman is completely unrealistic. They made Lex Luthor β’wayβ’ too smart.
Happy international asexuality day! And that of course incudes greyaces, demisexuals, aroaces, and any other microlabels π€π€π #asexual #greyace #greysexual #greyasexual #demi #demisexual #ace
@wikipedia@wikis.world has been added to the Registry of Digital Public Goods which is maintained by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA). https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/02/12/wikipedia-recognized-as-a-digital-public-good/ #Wikipedia #DigitalPublicGoods
Book burning? If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."
Equivalent of book burning in the digital age
π§ https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3368829Attached: 1 image You've probably heard that "we are stardust," but this graphic breaks it down further & tells you what kind of stars your dust came from--and which elements didn't come from stars at all. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13873/ #science #nature #space
Origins of elements
π§ https://www.frederickcalica.com/?p=3368761Hot take: news articles about dangerous disease spreading, crucial weather information, food contamination and recalls, or widespread data breaches should NOT be behind paywalls EVER
"Legacy code" is often code that you want to replace because you don't understand it. The problem is, before you can replace it, you need to understand it, and, once you understand it, replacing it is rarely the cheapest option any more. #SoftwareEngineering