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This is a huge opportunity. All of us Linux geeks now need to be on mainstream social media platforms and actively seek out and help everyone who expresses an interest in switching from Windows to Linux.

Just a celebration of using correct geographical names

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/tesla-has-reportedly-been-using-bots-since-2013-to/424590 (from typing the headline into a search engine)

Okay, there's also this.

Elon today announced in a more concrete way that he will step back from DOGE, and more soon-ish than it was previously assumed, iirc.

Seriously, I was thinking about getting evaluated, and this gives me the chills. I will not be seeing an evaluation at this time.

A lot of people are probably going to make the same rational decision — which, of course, will make the number of issued diagnoses go down. These fuckers will most likely try to take that as evidence that their policies worked.

Well, shit. But at least there's this:

It’s also far from clear that the tech industry will prove to be as hungry for fossil fuel power as some predict. First, advances in AI technology could drive energy consumption down. Concerns are emerging that the technology may not fully live up to the hype, at least from investors’ standpoints, with Alibaba Group chairman Joe Tsai telling a Hong Kong investment summit in March that data construction may have already reached “the beginning of some kind of bubble.” Plus, the Trump tariffs have injected extraordinary levels of uncertainty into global markets, leaving some experts wondering if the upheaval could derail an AI boom.

Ableist title.

Rupert, Lachlan and their allies are trying to do that in the Nevada courts currently. But the first lawsuit ended with a judgement that upheld the rights of the three liberal children. He is now preparing to appeal that. However, if I remember correctly, the entire arrangement only applies if Rupert Murdoch dies before 2030 (or so), so if he lives longer than that, he may be able to arrange his legacy in whatever way he desires.

Control over Rupert Murdoch's media empire will probably pass to four of his children, with equal voting rights for all of them. Only one of them (Lachlan) is as right-wing as he is. The other three are comparatively liberal, e.g. they consider man-made climate change a threat. Long-form story: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/04/rupert-murdoch-family-succession-james-murdoch/681675/

Good, but mainly because the opposition can now focus on the more heinous crimes of this administration.

What’s caste blind social security system?

I am thinking of a social security system (or welfare system, or redistribution scheme, or tax scheme) which does not take caste into consideration, but only factors such as income, wealth, parental income and wealth, illnesses and disabilities, ...

In Europe and other Western countries, discontent about immigrants (and their descendants) is on the rise because people who struggle give them the blame for their own hardships, and a lot of politicians gain power by appealing to these sentiments, yet the policies that they then enact just make the rich richer and the poor even poorer.

Could something analogous be going on in India (with the lower castes in the place of immigrants), in that the ultra-rich people manage to avoid paying taxes commensurate to their wealth by making public policy debate focus on DEI or affirmative action programs?