The EU needs Britain as much as Britain needs it. Where is Starmer’s solidarity? - William Keegan makes the case that similar to the post world war I period, there is a need for a european "esprit de corps". I like this entire line of discourse, I’ve been thinking along similar dimensions recently. The 'le triple non' bit is a helluva quote. www.theguardian.com #
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SpaceX Just Caught Its Starship Booster With Giant "Chopsticks" Arms - The video for this is pretty fucking rad. We are definitely more in the future now than we were in the year 2000, which was the year everyone looked at throughout my youth as the year of the future. It turned out to be quite normal in comparison, though some of the parties were mindbogglingly excellent. From what I’ve seen in the press recently parties appear to have gotten kinda nasty, and not good nasty. futurism.com #
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In latest move against WP Engine, WordPress takes control of ACF plugin - Holey moley Mullenweg is impressively ruthless. What interests me with this story is that due to the fractal nature of reality, and because of how foundational Wordpress is, I expect there to be a lot of unnexpected externalities and weirdnesses in strange places. Like a collective discovery that there is nobody driving the bus, so to speak. A lot of previously hidden oddities mught start coming into view. techcrunch.com #
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Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it? - I feel like at some point this story becomes, is it okay to defend yourself against somebody using your creation against you. What a bizare situation. torment-nexus.mathewingram.com #