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Postcards from my mind, written for my reader, she knows who she is.

Economy Food for Thought

The Proximate Cause

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This (via Reuters): Twitter has $13 billion in debt after the deal and faces interest payments totaling close to $1.2 billion in the next 12 months. The payments exceed Twitter’s most recently disclosed cash flow, which amounted to $1.1 billion as of the end of June. https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-information-security-chief-kissner-decides-leave-2022-11-10/ The real question is why load it up with debt […]

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Computing Germany History

LGP-30

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What a find: On Monday, a German Redditor named c-wizz announced that they had found a very rare 66-year-old Librascope LGP-30 computer (and several 1970 DEC PDP-8/e computers) in their grandparents’ basement. The LGP-30, first released in 1956, is one of only 45 manufactured in Europe and may be best known as the computer used by “Mel” in a famous […]

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Places & Travel

Must do tours: 1920’s Berlin Today

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This looks very enjoyable – Beautiful, decadent, damaged: a walk back in time through roaring 20s Berlin The Weimar Republic – a democracy imposed on Germany from 1918 to 1933 as part of the Versailles treaty – is regarded as an incredibly innovative time for science, politics, culture and medicine. An entire generation – their understanding of […]

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Journalling

Interesting Bits: Fri, 19th Aug 2022

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Bruce Schneier: “Amazon has revealed that it gives police videos from its Ring doorbells without a warrant and without user consent.” https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/08/ring-gives-videos-to-police-without-a-warrant-or-user-consent.html I find the workings of the Premier League to be intriguing, here’s the story behind Brentford’s rise and rise. Brentford FC beat Swansea this past Saturday in the “World’s Richest Game” — the Championship Play-Off […]

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