Genital mutilation is also avoidable.

This has already happened in France and I'm loving it. The new solar panels over the parking provide shade, keep the rain off, power EV charging stations, send power back to the grid and some of them channel the rain water back into the system instead of letting it escape as unmanaged run-off. Paid for by the parking owners (mostly supermarkets). It's a good policy that would not have happened spontaneously by free market forces alone.

Tenacity - a pre-enshitification fork of Audacity. An audio recorder and editor that does multi-track recording, effects and much more in a really simple UI.

The funds set up for baddies like Jonathan Ross are even more depressing... Celebrations of evil.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Unrelenting mawkish sentimental slop with a big old dollop of new-age spirituality. Repulsive.

Can confirm, binmen hate coffee bin juice

Most recently, 2005 Wikipedia

Also in France... I have new neighbours since 2022 because the old people next door refused to get vaxxed. They both died from covid.

Puppy? A cute little puppy?

Stefan Milo - real archaeology, not ancient aliens

Cool Worlds - real astrophysics, not aliens

PBS Space Time - it's never aliens

twoodford - Zen and the Art of Guitar Repair

This is anecdotal but there are several new Ram ♈ giant monster trucks in my corner of rural France (as well Mustangs, Camaros, etc.). These are not work vehicles. They are kept spotlessly clean. The owners most likely drive a tractor in their day job. Also there are giant Fiat trucks, which I can understand even less. So many narrow streets around here. I suppose they are symbolic icons in the mind of the drivers.

I've had my pair of DT-100 since 1993. Still going strong, although very much the headphones of Theseus by now.

The OG Wichita Lineman, huh?

Mistral.ai Le Chat has the appearance of being more responsible and is offering open source models. I'm making no claims on their behalf, though.

They have an RSS feed... You can read the articles they publish on there without impediment.

Also true in the west, where I am, so I presume the same all over France.

Brushcutting now illegal.

I made a similar comment on this thread but I'm back-tracking now I've read about Marc Andreessen.

Now do Ivan the Tolerable.

First step in building The Singularity's Dyson Sphere? This is probably Grok's idea.