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Review of The Fallen by Louise Brangan – an exasperating novel about the Irish Magdalene laundries | History books

Review of The Fallen by Louise Brangan – an exasperating novel about the Irish Magdalene laundries | History books

✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: History books,Books,Culture,Social history,Ireland,Catholicism ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: MAll readers, and certainly most Irish readers, will finish this book in a state of intense anger mixed with sadness and at least a pang of guilt. It is a detailed, comprehensive and harrowing account of the Magdalene Laundries, the best known and best known, of Ireland's expansive and diverse landscape of penal or correctional institutions, which operated for most of the twentieth century (the last of the laundries closed in 1996).As academic Louise Brangan points out in her book…
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YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts

YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: YouTube’s time management settings now have an option to put a zero-minute time limit on Shorts, effectively removing them from your app in Android and iOS. The option is an update to the Shorts timer YouTube originally announced in October; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes.The feature was expanded in January to give parents some control over how long their kids spend scrolling through Shorts, with an option for zero minutes “coming soon.” According to YouTube spokesperson Makenzie Spiller, the option to set the…
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Review of Truth and Betrayal – A compelling and moving treatment of a teenager facing the Gestapo | film

Review of Truth and Betrayal – A compelling and moving treatment of a teenager facing the Gestapo | film

🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Period and historical films,Second world war,Nazism,Mormonism,Culture,Germany,Christianity 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: THis World War II feature film tells the story of German resistance figure Helmuth Hübner, a Mormon teenager from Hamburg who went from being a member of the Hitler Youth to distributing leaflets denouncing the Nazi regime. According to the film, Hübner (Ewan Horrocks) was partly inspired to act because his Jewish friend Salomon Schwarz was shipped to Auschwitz – although Hübner's main motivation, apparently, was that he wanted people to know the truth, hence the film's…
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I Made a Terminal Pager

✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TL;DR: I build terminal applications (TUIs) like kl for k8s logs and wander for Nomad. Core functionality of TUIs includes interacting with large blocks of text, like application manifests and logs. I created a reusable viewport component in Go for text navigation in my projects.Terminal pagers are programs that allow you to interactively navigate multi-page text. I used my viewport component to make lore, which I’m now daily driving as my terminal pager.In this post, I detail the features I wanted to support in…
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“Communication” by John Doyle – A charged introduction to Sin and Consolation | imaginary

“Communication” by John Doyle – A charged introduction to Sin and Consolation | imaginary

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: CDoyle's first novel tells the story of Mac O'Brien, a young man who went to seminary to study for the priesthood but was asked to leave because he had no real calling, so he returned to his family home in Wales to decide what to do with his life. He finds himself drawn to take part in a local theater production – playing a schoolboy in Owen Shears' now-legendary The Passion of Port Talbot, an immersive, community-led re-enactment of the crucifixion that…
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One interface, every protocol — OpenBindings

One interface, every protocol — OpenBindings

🚀 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Earlier this month, Dax Raad (@thdxr) posted something that resonated with a lot of developers: "idk how people manage infrastructure anymore. every service has their own bespoke cli / config file and they don't support terraform well anymore. your system is never just one provider so do people just have a mess of these smashed together?" Within a day, over fifty thousand people saw it. The replies poured in. SST. Pulumi. Ansible. "Just stay on AWS." "Python scripts that make REST calls." "It's job security."…
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Diamante Review – A Glamorous 70’s Fashion Melodrama Is a Sumptuous Soap Drama | film

Diamante Review – A Glamorous 70’s Fashion Melodrama Is a Sumptuous Soap Drama | film

💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Period and historical films,Culture,Fashion,Life and style ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: ITo be honest, this comedy-drama set in a 1970s Rome fashion atelier sheds a slight light on the comedy, while the drama is definitely on the lower end of the scale, even a little silly at times. But there's something irresistible about it, especially if you're in any way sympathetic to queer-accented celebrations of women performed by powerful ensembles in the spirit of George Cukor's The Women, François Ozon's 8 Women, or the films of Pedro…
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Does Gas Town ‘steal’ usage from users’ LLM credits & paid services to improve itself? · Issue #3649 · gastownhall/gastown · GitHub

Does Gas Town ‘steal’ usage from users’ LLM credits & paid services to improve itself? · Issue #3649 · gastownhall/gastown · GitHub

🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: gastown-release.formula.toml and beads-release.formula.toml causes local Gas Town installation to review open Issues on github.com/steveyegge/gastown/actions, burning through usage on subscribed LLMs and credits on LLMs without the user's explicit direction. One assumes usage is being used for their own work that Gas Town is directed toward, but instead there is this functionality in the program that takes from users to work on Gas Town issues. If it's not clear & evident to the reader: Your Claude credits funded fixes to the maintainer's codebase, and your GitHub…
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Post your questions for Adam Scott | film

Post your questions for Adam Scott | film

✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Adam Scott has been a familiar face since the '90s, appearing in everything from Hellraiser IV: Bloodline to Star Trek: First Contact, and comedies including Knocked Up and Step Brothers. You might remember him - and his beard - as a sarcastic boss arguing with Ben Stiller in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ("I was saying you know who looks good with a beard? Dumbledore, not you"), or interfering with timelines in Hot Tub Time Machine 2.It was his role as…
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Farmer Arrested for Speaking Too Long at Datacenter Town Hall Vows to Fight

Farmer Arrested for Speaking Too Long at Datacenter Town Hall Vows to Fight

🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In February, Oklahoma native Darren Blanchard attended a city council meeting in Claremore with the plan to speak out against a proposed datacenter in the community. When he went a few seconds over his allotted 3 minute time limit, the city ordered Blanchard arrested and transported to the county jail. The city charged Blanchard with trespassing, according to police records 404 Media has obtained about the incident. Blanchard has vowed to fight the charges.The arrest occurred on February 17 during a Claremore City Council meeting…
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