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Jag kan dock inte sluta tänka på att det hade varit en mycket intressantare film om Enola hade tillåtits vara...
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nu i veckan kommer jag att promenera från Värtahamnen till Gamla stan och skulle bli glad om ni kunde rekommendera några bra kaféer på vägen. Jag kan tänka mig att ta en liten omväg för ett bra kafé.
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Jag är uppe på sju nu...
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Annars är the Super Dimensional Fortress : https://sdf.org/ ett ganska coolt pubnix/retrodata projekt.
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","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.sdf.org/@mrg/116204723104967918","date_published":"2026-03-10T11:49:17+00:00","author":{"name":"mrg","url":"https://mrg.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F49%2F1693178.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mrg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-10 11:49","date_timestamp":1773143357,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"85895074","content_html":"@jowolff.bsky.social Move slowly and things brake.
\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bu6i6dhpiiezfl5f4sdicayg/post/3mgpcabxy6s22","date_published":"2026-03-10T11:44:58+00:00","author":{"name":"mrg","url":"https://mrg.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F49%2F1693178.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mrg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-10 11:44","date_timestamp":1773143098,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"85623360","content_html":"Configuring the space bar to be ctrl when pressed together with another key has completely transformed my #emacs usage on modern keyboards where Control is a tiny awkwardly placed key. It changes e.g. C-x C-f into Space-x Space-f; much easier to type.
The next step would be to go full Home Row Modifiers, that...
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\n”…15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime. Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But…my role is to be on the bottom of things.”
\nwww-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email…
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(Jag är Falafelkungen-låg-på-Kungsgatan år gammal…)
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\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAC-2
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\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bu6i6dhpiiezfl5f4sdicayg/post/3mf4urr3qb22n","date_published":"2026-02-18T10:31:05+00:00","author":{"name":"mrg","url":"https://mrg.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F49%2F1693178.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mrg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-18 10:31","date_timestamp":1771410665,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"84588705","content_html":"@samuelwa.de I don’t want to be an enabler here but I’ve had the same thought lately (despise full-time work and full time-family) and I think you should check out Legentibus. Their course is based on LLPSI and seems, IMHO, perfect for false beginners.
\nlegentibus.com
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\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bu6i6dhpiiezfl5f4sdicayg/post/3mf4tcjl5dk2n","date_published":"2026-02-18T10:04:40+00:00","author":{"name":"mrg","url":"https://mrg.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F49%2F1693178.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mrg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-18 10:04","date_timestamp":1771409080,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"84279655","content_html":"@bokane.org Oooh, margin notes that also works on mobile! I’ve been fiddling with that for ages. What’s your setup?
\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bu6i6dhpiiezfl5f4sdicayg/post/3meqey5hkbs2a","date_published":"2026-02-13T11:16:22+00:00","author":{"name":"mrg","url":"https://mrg.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F49%2F1693178.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mrg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-13 11:16","date_timestamp":1770981382,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"84279657","content_html":"@garius.bsky.social What really boggles my mind is that intelligence agencies would buy a something named after a tool of deception.
\nWikipedia: ”The stones were an unreliable guide to action […] users with sufficient power could choose what to show and what to conceal to other stones”
\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palant%…
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Men förutom den, varför händer det aldrig nåt kul? Ska man verkligen behöva hitta på dumheter själv och dessutom posta om dem!? Vem orkar hålla på så?
","summary":"","url":"https://mastodon.sdf.org/@mrg/116019014713945685","date_published":"2026-02-05T16:41:12+00:00","author":{"name":"mrg","url":"https://mrg.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F49%2F1693178.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mrg"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-05 16:41","date_timestamp":1770309672,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"83582943","content_html":"Funderar på att migrera till https://mastodonsweden.se/@mrg eftersom min nuvarande instans är lite skrutttig, fast, till min egen stora förvåning, är jag irrationellt skeptisk till att ha \"sweden\" i domännamnet.
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\nmadeinchinajournal.com/2025/11/13/s…
\nPerhaps best read with Kuo’s original article (which IMHO more reflects US anxieties than ”the West”).
\nwww.theideasletter.org/essay/the-gr…
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\nHere is an interesting article from Made in China Journal that does engage with that question.
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\n(Att ta hand om papper med tecken på var tydligen något som gav hög status i lokalsamhället till den ofrivilligt obsolete konfucianska ämbetsmannen i Henrietta Harrisons väldigt intressanta ”The Man Awakened from Dreams”)
\nwww.sup.org/books/asian-…
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\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cihai
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\nwww.cambridge.org/core/journal…
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\n(The actual subject of the thread (CLB, CDM) makes me so depressed I just had to go along with the tangent…)
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\nI’m revealing my ignorance here but I’d been vaguely aware about Jin and Liu and some of their works but not really connected the dots until I read the short bio at the top of the linked article.
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\ndemocracy and human rights are more than tedious details
\n”the West” does not equal the US
\n”intellectual flexibility” cannot simply mean replacing US exceptionalism with Chinese exceptionalism
\n@beijingpalmer.bsky.social I’m combining these 👆👇 posts by explaining why I have a pile of 1980s rpgs that I’ve never played.
\n(I didn’t have any friends and reading the rulebooks was more interesting than playing the game anyway…)
\nbsky.app/profile/beij…
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\nI suppose the cost of access these days is a certain amount of biaotai 表态.
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\nSaying that China was ”first to withdraw [their ambitions] from the geopolitical scene” and calling the war in Ukraine a ”proxy war” are rather particular ways of framing the issues.
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\nThe book portrays, in a blend of (self) biography, journalism and ethnography, the precarious lives of the author’s mother and many of her peers in the small army of migrant worker aunties and uncles that keep Shenzhen clean.
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