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DST change reminded me of that time QA discovered that, if you build a date from NSDateComponents, any missing items will not be set to zero, but will be set to the corresponding value from the current date and time.

Which meant that my March 30th, 12:00 would get random one-minute-drift like 12:00:59 because the user entered the date right before a minute change.

Makes sense for the date, but was a bit bewildering for the time, especially seconds.

Sometimes it’s horrifying how some websites talk absolute nonsense.

Deadline just wrote this regarding Asimov’s #Foundation series in an article about a possible Season 4 for the AppleTV+ show.

“Based on Asimov’s trilogy, Foundation chronicles the saga of The Foundation, a band of exiles who discover that the only way to save the Galactic Empire from destruction is to defy it. ” It’s not a trilogy for a start. And they don’t save the Empire.

I hope Season 4 comes to pass, the story needs it.

Last month, the Jewish-American news site #Forward reported a shocking scoop:
The #Heritage #Foundation,
the conservative think tank behind Project 2025,
is planning to “identify and target” Wikipedia editors.
Through analyzing text patterns, usernames, and technical data and employing social-engineering tactics,
Heritage aimed to reveal the identities of anonymous Wikipedia editors it believes are “abusing their position” on the platform.

In the culture of Wikipedia editing,
it is common for individuals to use pseudonyms to protect their privacy and avoid personal threats.
Revealing an editor’s personal information without their consent,
a practice known as #doxing,
is a form of harassment that can result in a user’s being permanently banned from the site.
Although this behavior is strictly prohibited by Wikipedia’s rules,
Heritage has endorsed these scorched-earth tactics in response to what it perceives as antisemitism among certain editors covering the Israeli–Palestinian conflict on Wikipedia.

slate.com/technology/2025/02/w

Slate · A Powerful Conservative Think Tank Is Targeting One of the Last Good Things on the InternetBy Stephen Harrison

“FreeOurFeeds” project launched to build
a new social media ecosystem on top of the AT Protocol, an open, decentralized framework designed to enable interoperable social media platforms. Bluesky uses AT.

The project seeks to create a social media ecosystem free from control by a single company or a billionaire, and is focused on individual control, creativity, community well-being, and free expression. Learn more here: freeourfeeds.com/ #FreeOurFeeds #ATprotocol #bluesky #socialmedia #foundation #twitter #socialapplications