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Really enjoyed this collection of Soviet anti-religious posters https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/oct/23/down-with-god-how-the-soviet-union-took-on-religion-in-pictures

I can't believe I never realized Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" is about Dune https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_of_Choice_(song)#Background

And the sad part is that NordVPN is one of the *least* shady VPN providers

In which #NordVPN mocks the term "triggered" while apologizing for its bad security practices https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/21/nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked/

Also interesting to hear his thoughts on why QT (ie: KDE Plasma Mobile and UBPorts) is a better-suited framework for mobile devices than GTK https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zlatan-Todoric-Interview

This is a really damning indictment of Purism from its former CTO. While the majority of its employees are well-meaning FOSS advocates, they're hamstrung by the founder's toxicity, from withholding employees' salaries to regularly lying to customers https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zlatan-Todoric-Interview

I finally got around to seeing Hustlers and it's every bit as good as critics say. J Lo definitely deserves an Oscar for it

ifl r/MemeEconomy

For its October releases Ubuntu should change its hosts file location to /etc/ghosts

Ugh Android's new version of Google Assistant will only work with gesture navigation enabled -- which means you won't be able to use it with third-party launchers https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/10/17/new-google-assistant-gesture-navigation-only/

lol remember that time the washington post tried to make the natsec white lady "squad" a thing?

Google’s new auto-delete tool is practically worthless: "by the time three months rolls around, Google has already extracted nearly all the potential value from users' data" https://www.fastcompany.com/90416822/googles-auto-delete-tools-are-practically-worthless-for-privacy

Holy shit not just AOC but the whole squad! https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/10/16/by-endorsing-sanders-aoc-omar-and-tlaib-spark-a-berniesquad-trend/

I really enjoyed this photoessay about life in Norilsk, a Russian city 400km north of the Arctic circle http://www.bbc.com/culture/gallery/20190321-norilsk-the-city-where-the-sun-doesnt-rise