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Finding out that Ubiquiti supplies the russian military with communications gear and helps them wage an illegal war fills me with absolute disgust. I have been using their equipment for the past six years but now I'm fiööed with desire to burn it all down.

HUNTERBROOK

Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia's Drone War

Based on Hunterbrook Media’s reporting, Hunterbrook Capital is short $UI and long a basket of comparable securities at the time of publication. P...

Making something very common and innocent a mostly unenforced but still criminal act is the easiest way to create a police state. If everyone sometimes breaks the law, anyone can be accused when it is convenient to do so. View quoted note →

The lesson here: a writer, podcaster or vlogger shouldn't hand their hard earned audience to a Bigtech platform when the tools exist to create their own community free of Bigtech control. View quoted note →

Good read. Though I doubt Trump resents the game as much as he simply doesn't understand it. We're talking about a man who at his peak had a very self-centered and mercantile worldview and is now operating with a significantly diminished cognitive function. The end result is the same though. View quoted note →

A woman was shot in the face for not being intimidated by a probable rapist. OK. A brown man was shot in the leg for being afraid of armed chasers. OK. A white man was shot in the back while carrying a permitted weapon. NOT OK HOW DARE THEY. There appears to be a beginning of a pattern here. View quoted note →

Please stop thinking of fedi as "social media". This is not media. There is no editor making decisions on your behalf. This is a network. You're connected to only those people you connect to.

The land used to grow biofuels is enough provide 4% of fuel use. If the same amount of land was covered in solar panels, it would produce 23 times more energy and could power all the world's vehicles - if they were EVs.

Our World in Data

Putting solar panels on land used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric

The world dedicates a Poland-sized area of land to liquid biofuels. Is there a more efficient way to generate energy?

Billionaire heir of the Estée Lauder cosmetics brand is to be thanked for Trump's obsession with Greenland. Just so you know what makeup to not purchase, if you were so inclined.

the Guardian

How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory

US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island

I was a bit shocked the other day to learn that someone was running a significant production OLTP database using MySQL MyISAM. Listen, InnoDB has been more reliable, faster, and more scalable for at least 15 years. Don't be stupid with data, please.