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NEW REPORT: A company with 46 shopping centers in California is tracking customers with automated license plate readers. The data goes to ICE contractor Vigilant Solutions.
eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/cali

Tinkerers, chemists, students or anyone else who needs a lab notebook in a rush

I made a printable lab notebook for you to use :
github.com/cypnk/Lab-Notebook

PDF download and original LibreOffice Calc sheets are provided in case you want to tinker with the layout

License is public domain. No credit necessary

Not everybody knows this, but "XP" stands for "extra pain", which is French for "more bread".

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Sports Tip:
1. Turn on Tour de France live coverage.
2. Mute the sound.
3. Turn on some Italo-Disco.

Ok so if the US pays too much for defense compared to NATO allies, why don't they just stop whining and reduce their own military budget? They could spend the savings on healthcare or giant statues or something.

wow this site with current state of the art results for a bunch of nlproc tasks is super helpful and interesting github.com/sebastianruder/NLP-

There's an #ActivityPub federated calendar/events site in development called Calendar.social at @calendar_social

It's still very early days, but if you're interested or want to help out, have a look:

social.polonkai.eu/@calendar_s

gitea.polonkai.eu/gergely/cale

The developer is @gergely

#FOSS #Calendar #Events #Federation #Fediverse #OpenSource

The biggest organism in the world is a mycelium that spreads across 3.8 km (2,384 acres) in Oregon’s Blue Mountains. It’s called Armillaria Mellea, or the honey fungus, and is thought to be over 2,000 years old: scientificamerican.com/article bbc.com/earth/story/20141114-t

We have been in this lab for at least nine hours.

twitter.com/cstross/status/101

<< Elon Musk currently occupies the niche in our cultural weltanschaung created by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. But can you imagine a Bond villain getting into a copyright dispute over a farting unicorn logo on a coffee mug? >>

theguardian.com/technology/201

twitter.com/abolibibelot/statu

<<We're into Doctor Evil territory, and I think that even this sub-plot would have been rejected in Austin Powers 4 for being too gross. >>

The TS100 is a soldering iron with an STM32 microcontroller and published firmware making it hackable. This guy added an oscilloscope feature:

befinitiv.wordpress.com/2017/0

I have an STM32 and installed a #FORTH on it; you see where this is going...

You can't convince me this isn't the best way to browse Mastodon.

#brutaldon