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My favorite part of Zoom on my iPad is how it's too loud at the lowest possible volume, and if you try to lower the volume to zero it literally won't let you. I noticed the other day FaceTime is the same way, so maybe this is an Apple thing? YOU WILL LISTEN TO THIS CALL

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I really enjoyed Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle on audiobook (read by Will Wheaton), so I went "back" to the 1st book of the series, Red Team Blues. After 1 hour I am hopelessly lost. I was really into it for about 45 minutes, then 2 scene changes and a couple of new characters and it felt like I understood nothing of the premise or plot. I might try ebook instead.

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From the same: "Lotte Kopecky cannily defended her rainbow jersey, winning a sprint from a reduced group, having earlier survived a staff member leaning out of a moving support car armed with a box cutter to fix a broken zipper"

I've long held that faulty zippers are the enshittification metric of the garment industry

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Consistency and predictability are two of the most important and underrated qualities of a leader.

random note from Sept 21st 2022 I just surfaced

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After publishing this post, I thought about Monty Python. There are too many Illich quotes appropriate for this meme, but I picked one.

A meme with a Monty Python and the Holy Grail still from the peasant scene where he originally says, "see the violence inherent in the system", over top is a quote from Illich: "Whatever structurally does not fit the logic of machines is effectively filtered from a culture dominated by their use"
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Tadej Pogačar is world champion, secures the triple crown, only the third cyclist in history. 50 km solo attack 🤯

escapecollective.com/world-champs-mens-road-race-pogacar-defies-belief-to-take-the-rainbow-jersey-after-100km-on-the-attack/

Tadej Pogačar in the rainbow jersey as 2024 world champion in the road race
World Champs men's road race: Pogačar defies belief to take the rainbow jersey after 100km on the attack
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World Champs men's road race: Pogačar defies belief to take the rainbow jersey after 100km on the attack

The 26-year-old Slovenian makes history by securing a Triple Crown: Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and the world title.

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Team USA had a great showing. Kevin Vermaerke was on Pogacar's wheel during the decisive attack. In post race interview he said "When you look down and you're doing 700 watts and there are 2 km left on the climb...there's not much you can do"