Is Threads winning the war with X? - It's becoming more of a place for news since the start of the latest Isreal-Palestine conflict. I still check in every once and a while. www.cjr.org #
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HTML Web Components - I liked where this article was going, but the examples are too simplistic. I still don't really see what these HTML components actually do. They just appear to contain an image. So what? Why is that any different to a div? Quite relevant HN thread with some interesting comments. Seems like others were wondering the same thing I was. blog.jim-nielsen.com #
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French march against antisemitism shakes up far right and far left - The general intractability of the situatiom in Gaza is doing strange things to French politics, something not too disimilar to a complete polarity flipening. www.bbc.com #
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Cameron's return revives memories of Greensill finance scandal - Certainly an interesting turn of events, on several levels. I don't recall a previous priminister ever returning to government. But this lending scandal by the company he was lobbying for sounds like it could be quite bad. I always thought Cameron made quite a good Priminister, but to be honest I've never really followed UK politics that closely. So that's based more on him looking and sounding the part rather than his actual policies or accomplishments. Interested to read more about that and what position he's back in for. www.bbc.co.uk #
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International mafia bust shows US-Italy crime links still strong - Interesting story. I've wondered for ages how modern tech is going to affect these big crime families. Things are going to change at an exponential rate, and I'm not sure that our societies are ready for it. It might get very difficult at the edges. These things are dufficult to talk about too. Families are tricky for regular people, but I bet things get insane complicated in these crime families, because they have such big influence, so it's not just the families, it's all the affiliated families and groups. Looking at it from a purely system's architecture perspective these are likely going to be enormous migration projects. The only thing similar I can think of was how the british royal family has been modernized over the past 30 years. And that was very very painful, in that case for an entire nation. Remember Diana's death and the outpouring of emotion that happened then? Well I wonder if we aren't going to see lots of smaller family modernisations, and somehow our societies are going to have to absorb that. I'm not passing any judgement here, just saying that we might need to think about how best to make such a transition easier. The only thing I would say would be that you probably don't want to over complicate things, could get quite narly for all. The jolly bloke pictured looks very familiar for some reason. www.bbc.com #