What's the most political colour?
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    Not a single color, but in Chinese tradition there were five colors of equal political significance corresponding to the Wuxing cycle of changes—black, red, cyan, white, and yellow. Each dynasty was associated with a color (with other associated traits), and was expected to be followed by one of two other colors (depending on whether the succession would be orderly or revolutionary).

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  • If I was a secret immortal how long could I keep the same US ID for before I get taken away for study. I'm thinking 150 years.
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    The circumstances where you’d be most likely to run into issues is where age plays an active role—e.g., Social Security or insurance. But those are probably avoidable if you’re careful. Otherwise, there’s no law against being really old or looking young, if you’re not trying to claim age benefits—for anyone else where the date of birth wasn’t relevant to their job, they’d probably just ignore it or assume it was a typo.

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    Nonfiction readers. Do you feel guilty reading fiction?
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    I try to always have three books in progress that I cycle between—one fiction, one history, and one science. I think they’re complementary and mutually-enriching modes of engaging with the world.

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  • [Discussion] AI companies using the fediverse to scrape data
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    My main issue with the Reddit deal (and similar data grabs) is that major AI companies are hoarding user-generated content to give themselves a competitive advantage. I have less of an issue with them using non-exclusive public content like Wikipedia, fediverse comments, and public-domain historical works.

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  • Boycotts aren't the only way to hold companies accountable
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    Boycotts have one advantage over “consistently directing your money to companies in which you are confident”—they can work even if there aren’t any better alternatives. A coordinated campaign to target one company at a time can eventually force a whole industry to change, even if the industry offered no meaningful choices to start with.

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  • Anti-abortion leaders undeterred as Trump for the first time says he’d veto a federal abortion ban
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    He might hypothetically veto legislation (which would never get through Congress anyway), but he'll appoint Supreme Court justices who will effectively do the same thing.

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  • Is it possible to run a reverse proxy only on a specific service or port?
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    A typical use case is to forward a single port to the proxy, then set the proxy to map different subdomains to different machines/ports on your internal network. Anything not explicitly mapped by the reverse proxy isn’t visible externally.

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  • Tim Walz Said He Was in Hong Kong in 1989 During Tiananmen. Not True.
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    Contemporaneous news reports in Nebraska indicated that Mr. Walz was still in his home state during the spring and did not leave for China until August.

    Any link to these contemporaneous news reports?

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  • California bans legacy admissions at all colleges
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    Like other states, California won’t financially penalize violators, but it will post the names of violators on the state Department of Justice’s website.

    Sounds like the state is just giving the violators free advertising to potential donors who want to exploit the practice.

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  • YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.
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    Yeah. In my case, though, a lot of my library consists of relatively expensive reference works that I use regularly and that would be prohibitive to replace if Amazon decided to play games with them.

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  • To clarify: I’m not suggesting animals think all sounds are songs—just that songbirds and humans are the only common animals that combine sounds into arbitrary sequences where each individual sound doesn’t have a single fixed meaning.

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    The Elitzur–Vaidman bomb-tester is a quantum mechanics thought experiment that uses interaction-free measurements to verify that a bomb is functional without having to detonate it. It was conceived in 1993 by Avshalom Elitzur and Lev Vaidman. Since their publication, real-world experiments have confirmed that their theoretical method works as predicted.

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