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Politics and the English Language
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/, posted Jul '23 by peter in howto language literature opinion writing
Being George Orwell's thoughts on how to write well, and his formulation of six rules:
i. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
ii. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
iii. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
iv. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
v. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
vi. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
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Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body
https://www.uclahealth.org/news/eating-microwave-popcorn-increases-the-level-of-pfas-in-body, posted Jun '23 by peter in food health science
Studies have linked PFAS to adverse health effects, including high blood pressure, decreased fertility in women, liver damage, cancer, low birthweight and an increased risk of asthma and thyroid disease. The use of some of the more common PFAS was gradually phased out in the United States between 2000 and 2015. However, other variations of the chemicals have taken their place. The newer PFAS tend to have shorter chains of the carbon-fluorine bond, and are thus more rapidly eliminated from the body. But the FDA says they continue to present a concern for human health.
Research suggests that people who regularly consume microwave popcorn have markedly higher levels of PFAS in their bodies. A study published in 2019 analyzed a decade of data about the eating habits of 10,000 people, which was collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention between 2003 and 2014. Blood samples from the study participants were also collected. The researchers found that people who ate microwave popcorn every day over the course of a year had levels of PFAS that were up to 63% higher than average.
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Town transforms marine nuisance into local delicacy
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2023/06/09/food/urchins-marine-delicacy/, posted Jun '23 by peter in food japan
A town in western Japan has turned the hatpin urchin, seen as a nuisance of the ocean as it devours seaweed, into a local delicacy.
Ainan in Ehime Prefecture has released a variety of the sea urchin fed with scraps of the town’s signature agricultural products of broccoli and citrus.
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progress: Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd, ...
https://github.com/Xfennec/progress, posted May '23 by peter in free linux opensource shell software
This tool can be described as a Tiny, Dirty C command that looks for coreutils basic commands (cp, mv, dd, tar, gzip/gunzip, cat, etc.) currently running on your system and displays the percentage of copied data. It can also show estimated time and throughput, and provides a "top-like" mode (monitoring).
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Self-hosting SSO with Nginx (Part 1): Keycloak
https://joeeey.com/blog/selfhosting-sso-with-nginx-keycloak-part-1/, posted May '23 by peter in development hosting howto security toread
There are many tools that we can use for SSO, such as Authelia, Authentik, or Keycloak.
Although some of the aforementioned SSO tools may be easier to set up, I decided to go with Keycloak. Keycloak is an enterprise-level tool that is supported by Redhat. Using Keycloak will give us a lot of flexibility, and ticks the boxes for acceptable memory usage, theme-ability, and multi-factor authentication support.
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Ed Sheeran, Once Again, Demonstrates How Modern Copyright Is Destroying, Rather Than Helping Musicians
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/08/ed-sheeran-once-again-demonstrates-how-modern-copyright-is-destroying-rather-than-helping-musicians/, posted May '23 by peter in business copyright law music opinion
To hear the recording industry tell the story, copyright is the only thing protecting musicians from poverty and despair. Of course, that’s always been a myth. Copyright was designed to benefit the middlemen and gatekeepers, such as the record labels, over the artists themselves. That’s why the labels have a long history of never paying artists.
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Krig leder alltid till fred, förr eller senare. Men vilken fred?
https://cornucopia.se/2023/04/gastkronika-krig-leder-alltid-till-fred-forr-eller-senare-men-vilken-fred/, posted Apr '23 by peter in inswedish opinion russia ukraine war
Det går därför inte att generellt hävda att en förhandlingslösning alltid är att föredra framför fortsatt krig. Det går heller inte att påstå att varje fred är att föredra framför krig. Kostnaden för freden måste vägas mot kostnaden för fortsatt krig. Det finns många exempel på historiska fall där lidandet, också kostnaden i människoliv, varit större på grund av fiendens brutalitet efter att striderna upphört än under själva kriget. Den fred som uppkommer kan råda mycket länge, och effekten av sådant som förlorad demokrati och nedtrampade mänskliga rättigheter kan då komma att påverka många generationer, vilket gör att kostnaden med en dålig fred växer när det långa tidsperspektivet beaktas.
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git-remote-gcrypt: PGP-encrypted git remotes
https://github.com/spwhitton/git-remote-gcrypt, posted Mar '23 by peter in development free opensource software versioncontrol
git-remote-gcrypt is a git remote helper to push and pull from repositories encrypted with GnuPG, using a custom format. This remote helper handles URIs prefixed with
gcrypt::
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The A to Z of economics
https://www.economist.com/economics-a-to-z?etear=nl_special_1, posted Mar '23 by peter in finance list reference
Economic terms, from “absolute advantage” to “zero-sum game”, explained to you in plain English
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During wartime, Europe’s strongest leaders are women
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/720628/during-wartime-europes-strongest-leaders-are-women/?unlock=NLSJ5PO6BPJFXO6K, posted Mar '23 by peter in eu politics ukraine war
Women are now playing a significant role in international security and foreign policy. And experts say they are changing how the international community responds to military aggression.
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