đ Articles: Sunday 02.Jun.2024
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Daring Fireball: ICQ Is Shutting Down (Also: ICQ Is Still Around)
Perhaps no area of computing was more disrupted by the smartphone revolution than messaging. Pre-mobile, “instant messaging” had a surprising number of popular platforms. AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) was tops amongst my cohort, almost certainly because Apple’s iChat – the Mac-only predecessor to the app we now call Messages – started in 2002 exclusively as an AIM client. But Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and ICQ were all popular too. The list of protocols that the popular Mac chat app Adium supported was very long.
NYT: In Singapore, China Warns U.S. While Zelensky Seeks Support
âThese malign intentions are drawing Taiwan to the dangers of war,â Admiral Dong told the meeting after making an oblique but unmistakable reference to U.S. military and political support for Taiwan. âAnyone who dares split Taiwan from China will be smashed to pieces and court their own destruction.â
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There is no clear evidence yet that Ukraine has struck inside Russia with weapons provided by its allies in NATO, after the Biden administration acceded last week to a request from the government in Kyiv to be able to hit targets across the border. That shift in U.S. policy had followed declarations from nearly a dozen European governments and Canada that their weapons could be used in this way.
TechCrunch: Icelandâs startup scene is all about making the most of the countryâs resources
With fewer than 400,000 inhabitants, Iceland receives more than its fair share of tourists â and of venture capital. Both are good reasons to pay attention to whatâs going on and coming out of this unique island nation.
âWe need more pillars to our economy,â Ăslaug Arna SigurbjörnsdĂłttir, Icelandâs Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, recently told TechCrunch at Iceland Innovation Week in ReykjavĂk.
Guardian: Editorial: The Guardian view on taxing billionaires: we need to talk about the super-rich
G20 countries will discuss proposals to make the worldâs wealthiest individuals pay more towards funding public goods. The debate is overdue.
Dr Jardim is among just 17 per cent of Australian neurosurgeons who are women.
She juggles three children â aged five, three and one â with a demanding role as a brain surgeon working across the Queensland Children’s and Mater Health hospitals in Brisbane.
ABC (.au): China defence chief says Beijing ready to ‘forcefully’ stop Taiwan independence
National security expert Professor Rory Medcalf called it the “most pointedly intimidating speech” he had heard from a Chinese representative in the past 20 years.
TorStar: Man charged with careless driving in TTC streetcar collision
Toronto police said they charged a man with careless driving after the Saturday morning collision involving a streetcar in the area of Frederick and King Streets.
TorStar: Justin Ling: I asked why the Liberals broke a vow. Their reply shocked me
In 2021, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party, desperately clinging to a minority government in an election they didn’t have to call, made a bold promise on policing. Re-elect the Liberals, the party’s platform said, and the new government would prohibit the RCMP from employing neck restraints–like the ones used to kill George Floyd and Eric Garner â or deploying tear gas or bullets to control unruly crowds.
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But three years on, the government has done little to make any of those promises a reality. In fact, my reporting shows the Liberals have effectively abandoned even their own promised baby steps toward reform. Why? Because the RCMP told them to.
TorStar: If Red Lobster dies, part of me will, too
I know this probably sounds pretty maudlin. And I guess it is. But my point is that we all have these places where our lives unfold. If we’re lucky, they’re perfect places. It could be the crest of a hill overlooking a vista, as the sun sets. Or some lake, or whatever. But if we live, like lots of us live, in the suburbs and exurbs that cling wrap this vast continent, then chances are your life probably doesn’t have a perfect crest, or a vista, or a lake.
Chances are it has an East Side Marioâs, or an Applebeeâs, or a Red Lobster. You know: a place where the staff has memorized an in-house birthday song that they all recite tableside, clapping more-or-less in synch. These places bloom in the memory. And they are in increasingly short supply.
TorStar: How did Justin Trudeau screw up so badly? Maybe the answer was hiding in plain sight
By the fall of 2022, though, the Liberals really started losing the thread. They didnât see the cost-of-living crisis coming on. They failed to come to grips with housing and immigration, and they didnât grasp the connection between those issues. They didnât go at Pierre Poilievre hard when he took over as Conservative leader, leaving him a clear field to define himself as the champion of middle-class Canada.
Most obviously, the Liberals completely bungled the foreign interference file. If theyâd taken it seriously and done what pretty much everyone suggested â set up a foreign agents register and promise an inquiry â they could have contained the damage.
Instead, inexplicably, they dodged and weaved and turned a problem into a crisis. By the summer of 2023 theyâd fallen to 20 points behind the Conservatives and nothing theyâve done since has turned that around.
Last Updated: 02.Jun.2024 23:56 EDT