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But if you fire all employees overnight, including security, shit happens.

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My friend worked at Lehman in London. People were walking out with racks of equipment. It was crazy.

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Today in 2008, 15 years ago: in the United States, the investment bank Lehman Brothers is declared bankrupt, causing one of the largest global economic crises in history.

#OnThisDay

Interesting footage of WTC steel workers during construction, in a climate of a slow economy and the president himself bitching about unions. The towers were built - nearly *not* built - during a period of uncertainty, and weren't a success for some years.
youtu.be/G8AI2sEmWeg

I don't know what is different about this year but the number of 9/11 truthers coming out of the woodwork seems much higher this anniversary. I've had a bunch of YouTube alerts on old videos I'd commented on years back where they've flocked to the comments in the last day.

Oh God he's here. I can't wait for systemd-mastodond

They should have red flagged that start. Total mess.

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Juri Vips having a pretty good weekend so far in Monterey. He's yet another driver, so it's him, Lundgaard, Illott, and Armstrong who have all had excellent success here. The pipeline is working, just not for .

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just for fun i can add a bit to the xscreensaver drama: one can easily run xscreensaver and swaylock in parallel. swaylock supports transparent (alpha) backgrounds. xscreensaver could also be activated by swayidle. thus, xscreensaver doesn't need idle nor locking functionality under wayland (wlroots at least).

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Ask for help when you need it. It sounds simple, but trying to handle everything without help causes stress and anxiety for a lot people.

I missed lunch because someone scheduled a meeting during it, then I wanted to get out early but ended leaving late. A shit end to a shit day. But it is the weekend, so eyes forward...

Helmut Marko finally being held to account for being a racist shithead is refreshing

Can we convene a special session of the Hague to deal with whoever thought floating notifications were a good idea

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🚨 BREAKING: The UK government has confirmed it is rowing back on its plans to scan private messages.

They've finally back down with an announcement that Ofcom won't use powers in the spy clause contained in the Online Safety Bill until it's 'technically feasible' to do so.

They've conceded that no current technology exists that would protect privacy or avoid breaking encryption.

#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #e2ee #surveillance #ukpolitics

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