Notices by Nitin Pai (nitin@thinktanki.social), page 2

@codeyarns Isn’t recovery mode working? Turn off device, hold up-volume & power button until it turns on into recovery.

@amodm Firefox remains the best option.

As I said, this pier is a metaphor.

“The Pentagon will again sideline its floating pier off the Gaza coast…as U.S. military personnel attempt to relocate and shelter the structure from another blast of rough seas, American officials said Friday.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/14/gaza-pier-pentagon/

Recalled? 🤣

Of course I am truly happy for the 4 hostages and their families to be reunited today. But I cannot stand Western media and leaders celebrating this today without even mentioning that 200 Palestinians were killed during the rescue and that IDF soldiers - as I understand it - came hidden on humanitarian aid trucks, using the humanitarian pier. And that none of this would have been necessary if Israel had accepted any of the ceasefire deals #Gaza 1/2 https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112342311753280104

@carlmalamud It’s called soap

The Guardian: “The carbon cost of rebuilding Gaza will be greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated individually by 135 countries…

Reconstructing the estimated 200,000 apartment buildings, schools, universities, hospitals, mosques, bakeries, water and sewage plants damaged and destroyed by Israel in the first four months of the war on Gaza will generate as much as 60m tonnes of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e), according to new analysis by researchers in the UK and US.”

@harshad You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
- Douglas Adam HHGTG

#TIL That Tintin and the Land of Black Gold was originally set in Palestine (British Mandate). In 1971, at the request of his British publishers Herge changed it to a fictional country called Khemed.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Black_Gold)

Well, this happened faster than I thought. I wonder how long Biden will continue to wipe the egg off his face.

I wonder what Biden will do if Hamas accepts the ‘Israeli proposal’ he outlined yesterday, but the Israeli government doesn’t.

@pvonhellermannn I wonder if there are two types: wilful and unconscious.

I can understand why governments have double standards; and why they must obfuscate or lie.

I cannot understand why newspapers have double standards; and why they obfuscate or lie. Especially after claiming lofty moral standards.

What the New York Times and Washington Post don’t cover tells you how high their horses really are.

@carnage4life Will take a thinner MacBook over a OS-embedded AI any day. Any day!

This guy comes to mind

#Spokesperson

@suzannealdrich

I use scrivener!

I’m not sure it’s future proof though. You can (and I do) export projects to rtf files to save in case the software and/or the firm goes poof … but it’s arguably not as portable as markdown with Obsdian

But! The reason I stick with Scrivener is I’m a non fiction writer — while researching a book I might take 2 million words of notes, in thousands of note-files. While writing, speedy search is crucial …

… and Scrivener’s search is LIGHTNING fast

“The Pentagon said Tuesday that it has suspended the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza via its floating pier after mishaps in which four U.S. military vessels were beached, one U.S. service member was critically injured, and sections of the structure were ripped free in bad weather.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/05/28/gaza-pier-pentagon-weather-damage/

@ElleGray @gregeganSF Sounds like a headline in the Stranger Times

#CKMcDonnell #Fiction

@jordinn One key issue is the free rider problem. If institutions are set up to prevent abuse of power, they themselves are comprised of individuals who can pursue their own interests unless citizens can & do take an active interest in their functioning.

Most citizens often don’t. Within a generation people take the good things for granted and as a birth right, and then are shocked to find that that’s not so.