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Geeking Out 0
A VirtualBox virtual machine of the recently released Slackware v. 15 with KDE running on Mageia v. 8 with the Fluxbox window manager. Firefox is shaded, that is, “rolled up” into the title bar, in Slackware (you can’t do that with Windows). The Mageia wallpaper is from my collection; the Slackware wallpaper was included in the install.
Bankrolling Bigotry 0
The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell follows the money.
Russian Impulses 0
I might not have phrased it quite the same way, but methinks Disaffected may be onto somthing.
Hypothetically Speaking 0
At Above the Law, Mark Hermann suggests a change of perspective. Here’s one of this examples; follow the link for some others.
If your answer is, “Exactly as they did for Hillary Clinton; not a thing would have changed,” then politicians are more likely to be acting on principle, rather than partisanship.
Licensed to Kill 0
Thom takes a critical look at “stand your ground” laws.
Roots 0
At The American Scholar, an American descendant of Ukrainian immigrants who is still in touch with her family in Ukraine looks eastward. A bit of what she has to say:
In that time, I have seen the country change in ways big and small. In the past five years in particular, Ukraine seems to have blossomed—while the Russian occupation of the Donbas ground on in the east, it did so relatively quietly, and Kyiv thrummed with youth, style, and energy. The country’s filmmakers have won major prizes at Sundance; Ukrainian literature is increasingly translated into other languages. I have watched my cousins’ children grow up in a Ukraine that is resolutely independent and cosmopolitan; in a departure from previous post-Soviet cohorts, their opportunities seemed to be growing, not shrinking.
Plus ca Change 0
Brian Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, draws a lesson from history. Here’s a bit of what he has to say; follow the link for the rest.
The irony of the 1938 Munich Agreement should not be lost today as we think about the Munich Security Conference held last weekend to figure out how to stop Putin from pursuing his megalomaniacal dream of putting the Soviet Union back together again — starting with Ukraine.
The players are a little different in 2022 but the prize is the same.