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Lenin is with us

ZeroPhone is a $50 open source smartphone based on the Raspberry Pi Zero https://www.crowdsupply.com/arsenijs/zerophone

Parenti responding to the question he’s frequently asked, “Where is it any better?”

Signal says 1,900 users’ phone numbers exposed by Twilio breach https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/15/signal-phone-number-exposed-twilio/

Alexandra Kollontai - 1872-1952; Soviet author, feminist, government official. She broke with Mensheviks in 1915, joining the Bolsheviks, and rising to the position of People’s Commissar for Social Welfare under Lenin. She championed women’s issues specifically as workers’ issues

when your project isn't ready, but you gotta do a customer demo anyway

Earth had its 6th-hottest July and year to date on record https://www.noaa.gov/news/earth-had-its-6th-hottest-july-and-year-to-date-on-record

The real reason for U.S. blockade of Cuba, admitted by a declassified U.S. memo: “There is no effective political opposition [in Cuba]”

Apple Finds Its Next Big Business: Showing Ads on Your iPhone https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-14/apple-aapl-set-to-expand-advertising-bringing-ads-to-maps-tv-and-books-apps-l6tdqqmg

a great watch on how well thought out public transit system is in China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZn1iC9JJRc

cats are liquid

MS publishes a bunch of its emojis under MIT https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui-emoji