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How to Ding, Dong, Ditch Ring’s surveillance network Our picks for the best privacy-focused video doorbells

Ring’s ties to law enforcement have many users rethinking smart doorbells. Here’s how to secure your existing Ring cameras, along with our picks for security cameras that store footage locally or use end-to-end encryption.

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11.03.2026 14:37 👍 283 🔁 142 💬 32 📌 13

every jew in the world could be gone and the rich would still exploit the poor and you'd have to invent us as an explanation

12.03.2026 20:31 👍 295 🔁 35 💬 4 📌 1
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My Year as a Degenerate Sports Gambler Practically overnight, America made wagering on a game as frictionless as checking the weather. I was determined to understand the consequences—for my country, and for myself.

asking my editors to stake me $10,000 to invest in a Warhammer army. like this we are guaranteed to lose it all but at least this way we'll have a banging army of at least 40 space marines.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

12.03.2026 22:08 👍 100 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 0

When I teach this stuff I get people to put their hands up if they've never tried to read and understand something important when they're tired, sick or hung over.

12.03.2026 13:15 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Flashback to the 2024 Republican National Convention 👇🏽

10.03.2026 18:51 👍 1899 🔁 629 💬 38 📌 9

A rich text this, my favourite being the use of the word 'Karens' to describe commodities traders.

Might have to amend 'all stories are about management, other than the ones that are about commodities' to 'all stories are actually about people's weird views on gender'.

12.03.2026 12:51 👍 114 🔁 21 💬 15 📌 2

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

12.03.2026 13:08 👍 4778 🔁 1276 💬 32 📌 45

So we use simple sentences, dot point lists and simple phrasing because clear simple phrasing might help you when you're scared, tired and sick

12.03.2026 13:15 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A story I have told a lot of times was training I did for medical patient writing.

"Patients might be ESL, they might have a grade 4 reading level, but you know else struggles with complex, compound sentences? You, at 3am sitting in emergency with chest pain!"

12.03.2026 13:12 👍 42 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 1
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Buying men shoes that are clownishly big for them and having them feel like they have to wear them in front of the world press is a sex thing, I’m sorry.

11.03.2026 13:21 👍 1980 🔁 263 💬 101 📌 27

Good riddance. Absolutely no loss whatsoever.

12.03.2026 04:50 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Not had enough coffee to process this. Hate gigging.

12.03.2026 08:05 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Thank you you everyone who joined us for tonights CFP Workshop! If you missed it, check out 2026.pycon.org.au/cfp/workshops/ for upcoming workshops in-person and online before the 29 March deadline!

12.03.2026 08:12 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

props

11.03.2026 10:14 👍 554 🔁 112 💬 8 📌 2

Never trust a lawyer who claims they don't understand power.

12.03.2026 04:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power Outside Abu Dhabi, a vast area of desert is being carpeted with solar panels.

Make sure your loved ones aren't operating on out of date priors about intermittent renewables: tell them batteries are now an economical supplement generating full time dispatchable power from them.

"How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power"

11.03.2026 21:11 👍 2275 🔁 658 💬 73 📌 32

Also you could always add a couple of lines from Nanny's song about hedgehogs :)

11.03.2026 14:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Also I am reasonable swayed by the argument that it pushes us away from thinking about upstream/root cause thinking.
Which is not to say that it wouldn't have its own trade offs, but that it focuses on a single decision maker at a point & avoids any discussion of how they were placed in there.

11.03.2026 11:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

No they won't, it's one of the most standard stories playing out yet again ("fascist liar wins over the petit bourgeois, mainline conservatives think they can control him, the left are focused on fighting liberals, and liberals underestimate the stupidity and venality of mainline conservatives")

11.03.2026 06:44 👍 52 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 1

The thing that is worrying me is how many and how good the resumes are in hiring I am doing.

11.03.2026 11:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Now all I need is to manifest this into something other than more JIRA tickets.

11.03.2026 11:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bugs Bunny in a tux saying "I wish all trans children a very live long enough to get revenge"

Bugs Bunny in a tux saying "I wish all trans children a very live long enough to get revenge"

11.03.2026 01:57 👍 10805 🔁 3625 💬 30 📌 28

CENTCOM only blocks the strait when its very upset

11.03.2026 01:33 👍 111 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

the Forever Wars are still underused for tragicomedy, honestly, but 'Arabic interpreter gets deployed to Afghanistan' is a good starting premise

11.03.2026 02:38 👍 730 🔁 71 💬 11 📌 1

I hear someone say, and I think this sums it up: generals warned him about Venezuela and yet it worked out, from that he decided that generals are foolish and unmanly cowards.

11.03.2026 01:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Melbourne Python folks, this one’s for you 👋

The Melbourne Python Meetup is back on Thursday 19 March at 5:30pm, and we'll will be there for a special talk writing workshop.

More details: www.meetup.com/en-au/melbou...

#Python #PyConAU #MelbournePython

11.03.2026 01:15 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

The foreign policy priorities of a 'Taiwan is part of China - the part that should rule the rest of it!' British Chinese hawk, the Middle East policy of a 'a few bombs will make them LONG for Communism' British Persian, the anti-Muslim policies of a BJP auntie, the social policies of an Islamist.

10.03.2026 14:06 👍 54 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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Narrative Integrity Risk: The Next Frontier in Financial Stability AI is already amplifying the destabilization of financial markets.

AI-enabled coordinated market manipulation is well underway—and it’s only going to get worse. Chris Beall, Chris Blask, and Jen Rosiere Reynolds explain how generative AI is damaging narrative integrity, the impact on stock markets, and how firms can respond.

10.03.2026 14:28 👍 36 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1
Domino meme

Small domino: people upset about high food and energy prices 

Large domino: higher food and energy prices

Domino meme Small domino: people upset about high food and energy prices Large domino: higher food and energy prices

This is going to get really old

17.12.2025 02:00 👍 319 🔁 52 💬 7 📌 4
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