Git 2.23 was released: "git checkout" becomes "git switch" (change branch) and "git restore" (set contents of file to a previous revision). "git checkout" still works (and probably will work forever). https://lwn.net/Articles/796563/
Large pro-europe march through London TOMORROW. Starts midday at Park Lane. Last time it was HUGE. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/47680979/brexit-people-s-vote-march-to-parliament-square-sped-up
The Overwhelming Historical Evidence that Galileo was a Hack
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019/03/20/the-historical-evidence-that-galileo-was-a-hack/
The nice vs nasty of copyright enforcement: The End of Hellwig vs. VMware from Free as in Freedom podcast http://faif.us/cast/2019/apr/22/0x66/ #podcast #gpl
For tactical voting nerds, a list of remain parties which can win in each constituency. If only one remain party could win (even under others' best polling assumptions), then it's easy to know who to vote for. Hopefully PeoplesVote will come up with an answer for more difficult cases. https://dontsplittheremainvote.com/
A very strange-looking paper airplane. https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A656859 #maker
Coming up in python 3.8: https://lwn.net/Articles/793818/ #python
I have a Fairphone 2, which I love: it encourages you to open it up and look inside. I'm very likely to get the Fairphone 3. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/18/fairphone-3-review-ethical-phone #mobile
Remember the old orange square hazard pictograms for toxic, flammable, etc? They got replaced by red and white GHS pictograms way back in 2008 (EC 1272/2008), but only fully disappeared in 2017. Standardization is great, but I miss the attention-grabbing orange. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_hazard_symbols#Former_hazard_pictograms #chemistry
Malaria was common across half the world – since then it has been eliminated in many regions
https://ourworldindata.org/malaria-past-prevalence
The past exonerative tense. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-ambiguous-grammar
A visitor has arrived from a distant star - a comet this time, which is much easier to spot than Oumuamua was.
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/why-the-interstellar-comet-matters.html #space
Alternatives to fossil fuels when making useful chemicals https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/05/06/switching-out-of-fossil-fuel-feedstocks #chemistry #climatechange
How democratic is each country? Polity4 is a dataset which will give you long-term trends for each country (up to 2013). Many huge countries are sort-of democratic: Indonesia, Brazil, India. China is the big autocracy. https://www.systemicpeace.org/polity/polity4x.htm
Pirate music for #TalkLikeAPirateDay https://www.jamendo.com/track/902951/captain-blood
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