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Sibling comments have made their point. I'll just add:

“But the book was on the shelf…”

“On the shelf? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find it.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the book, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on a shelf in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”


Amazing that choice of curricula for elementary schoolchildren draws such a reaction.

Kids can read whatever they and their parents want. Schools don't have to teach it.


Bida Manda?

That's it. I would have had to look it up and I was lazy.

Noted, thanks to you and the parent post for the info.

Ah, so it could be used in the daytime. I read the whole article assuming it was only useful at night. (When else would you be flying a bomber and need high accuracy?)

The SR-71’s star tracker was so sensitive it could track stars during the day.

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-sr-71-blackbird-astro-na...


being halfway to space probably helped


It's the first song mentioned in the article, but oddly no link to a performance. There's links to two other of her songs. The cover is lovely, as is the rest of that artist's music.

Gosh, "Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains)" is heartbreaking:

https://youtu.be/W3IfRX3NwbA?si=BTC9teo4q0BH5DE5


Talkin' Like You is incredible

Here's the bill straight from congress.gov:

https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr8250/BILLS-119hr8250ih....

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250...

It's short and in plain language. The article is longer than the bill. Here's the totality of the requirements:

(a) REQUIREMENTS.—An operating system provider, with respect to any operating system of such provider, shall carry out the following:

(1) Require any user of the operating system to provide the date of birth of the user in order to—

(A) set up an account on the operating system; and

(B) use the operating system.

(2) If the relevant user of the operating system is under 18 years of age, require a parent or legal guardian of the user to verify the date of birth of the user.

(3) Develop a system to allow an app developer to access any information as is necessary, collected by the operating system to carry out this section and any regulation promulgated under this section, to verify the date of birth of a user of an app of the app developer.

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This part from REGULATIONS is also nominally important:

(B) Data protection standards related to how an operating system provider shall ensure date of birth collected by the operating system provider from a user, or the parent or legal guardian of the user, to carry out this section and any regulation promulgated under this secion—

(i) is collected in a secure manner to maintain the privacy of the user or the arent or legal guardian of the user; and

(ii) is not stolen or breached.

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I find it somewhat easier to read here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250...

I appreciate the brevity of the bill, but it delegates a lot of discretion to the FTC to regulate things like "How an operating system provider can verify the date of birth of a parent or legal guardian", so it's up to the discretion of someone in the executive branch as to whether GNU and/or Linux will have to scan your driver's license and upload that scan to some government contractor's servers, say.


It's Stephen Miller, enabled by Trump.

By Colson Whitehead[1], and yes, it's a tongue-in-cheek rant. Gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opinion/art-artificial-in...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colson_Whitehead



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