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I just watched episode 5 of Daredevil: Born Again and I know they're going to find a way to not let it happen, but I'm going to be extremely pissed and disappointed if they don't have Kamala Khan featured like her dad on the show, preferably in episode 6 but definitely by episode 9.
We're fucking tired of nothing tying together anymore after they made such a huge deal of everything supposedly being really connected.
#DaredevilBornAgain #MCU #Marvel #KamalaKhan #MsMarvel #DisneyPlus #tv #Fiege
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Power you don't use, you lose...
Harnessing #fans and #develop *your* community as a priority online else you lose touch.
Should be your kind of "product" without exploiting but using their talent & consented energy and examples sent by them...
...because just improving #Tech doesn't work for #DEVELOPING PEOPLE in the #human sense...
Use people / #help them #participate / #cooperate / #crowdsource etc
We had a lot of this #GOOD but limited #forum stuff before - it's people that hold space!
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From the Notebooks of Jaspera von Kupferthal, Part 1
Highsun 8th 501 NMR
Some friends in the Natural Philosophy Society asked for my research from an expedition I did a few decades back. They are creating a book on the Faerie folk.
My little Cinni is one of the cowriters.
Naturally, I was delighted to share my research on modern agrarian fey culture.
Field Notes from an Expedition to Brugh na Ciorcal
Blossombud 10th 470 NMR
I have finished settling into my research blind outside Brugh Na Ciorcal. I found a suitably large hole in an oak tree to serve as my camp, although I am questioning my decision to disguise myself as a robin as I use my beak to write these words. It might be worth relocating to somewhere where a creature that could hold a pen could conveniently dwell. Ugh, I am getting distracted again.
An aerial inspection revealed that the village of Brugh Na Ciorcal is an almost unremarkable average specimen of Fey Enclave except for its location. It is located in the crook of a bend of Gilline Run river (although the locals most certainly do not use that name. Inquire about that at a later date). The village is roughly 1000 feet in diameter as the robin flies, which is rather large for a fey settlement, and is surrounded on 3 sides by the river (did the inhabitants change the river’s course?). The village is perfectly circular, elevated roughly 20 feet above the surrounding terrain and surrounded by an earthen berm about 7 feet high and a ditch 4 feet deep on the landward side. The entrance is flanked by a pair of unusual-looking standing stones, perfectly square columns, definitely fey-related from the spiraling markings, but they look older than the village.
The village itself consists of 120 faerie burrow houses, or brughs, of various sizes, arranged in the typical concentric-ring layout connected by spiraling paths. At the center is a large circular green with expected Fey paganism standing stones and an altar. Surrounding the green is a larger brugh which is almost certainly the headman’s dwelling, what looks like an alehouse, a general store (A rarity in a Faerie enclave, possibly a sign of outside trade), and several larger brughs which likely belong to the headman’s favorite lackeys or druids.
Outside the village for another mile or so on both sides of the river is another spiral, this one made up of paths through enclosures, orchards, and gardens enclosed by wild but trimmed hedges. The majority of these were gardens of semi-wild vegetables and fruit trees. However, I was surprised to see a plowed field at the very outskirts of the clearing and what, to my bird tongue, tasted like common wheat. They obviously were planting the stuff because a youth with a stick chased me away. The presence of domesticated crops certainly raises my eyebrows, and this might suggest a larger societal drift towards baseline mortality in the same region.
Tomorrow I will attempt a full census. This will require either a change in form or a more creative approach; robins, as it turns out, are not inconspicuous when taking notes.
Blossombud 11th
I am so tired.
I have completed my census of the Brugh Na Ciorcal, having changed my shape no less than fourteen times to get into every nook and cranny. This was, in retrospect, excessive.
I assume that none of the residents noticed me, except for the pets.
Note to self: scout villages for cats and dogs before transforming into a mouse, shrew, or bird.
Secondary note: Dogs are enthusiastic; cats are methodical
For the most part, this village’s population is utterly average except for a few deviations.
The village population stands at approximately 650 individuals—give or take a handful, as counting while being chased out of a burrow is imprecise work.
The largest group consists of satyrs and satyrkin (195), followed by a substantial goblinoid population (130) and a notable number of centaurs (95). This distribution is not unusual in isolation, but the balance between them feels… deliberate. I cannot yet say why.
The remaining population comprises smaller fey species (25), various others (30), and individuals of mixed or unclear lineage (65).
Of particular interest is the presence of 15 Fomorians. Their integration level remains unclear. I did not observe them in communal clusters, nor entirely apart. They occupy an uncomfortable middle, which may be more telling than either extreme.
There are 180 children, 115 adolescents, 250 adults, 90 elders, and 15 who are… significantly older than the rest. I am uncertain whether to classify the latter as elders or as something else entirely.
Most of the population (roughly 70%) are farmers and herdsmen working the fields, which aligns with my earlier observations regarding their agricultural tendencies.
Of the remainder, 95 are craftsmen and artisans, suggesting a healthy internal economy. Seven serve as resident druids, with fifteen apprentices—an unusually robust druidic presence for a settlement of this size, though perhaps necessary given the mixed population.
Twenty (mostly the doddering ancients) appear to be unemployed, though I suspect this is a matter of perspective rather than reality.
25 make up the household of Sir Eochaid, the middle-aged centaur who serves as the village’s chief.
The reminder consists of the goblins of the Fòlais’ family, who run the trading post, and Giorsail, a young hobgoblin hedge witch and diviner who seems to serve as an advisor to Sir Eochaid (This is… highly irregular. A non-druid serving as advisor to a village chief suggests either a breakdown in traditional authority or an adaptation I do not yet understand. I will investigate further.)
The village has 2000 sheep, 30 geese, 20 donkeys, innumerable cats, and a few dogs.
The whole village is unified in its dress, which consists of woolen kilts and tunics for the men and boys, and woolen dresses for the women and girls, all in a frankly unfortunate tartan pattern that I suspect is meant to signify unity. The only real visible indicators of status among the villagers are the green robes the druids wear over their clothes at all times, and the jewelry clasps, pins, and broaches the chief’s family, household, and top underlings wear, bronze for the servants, silver for the henchmen, and gold for the chief and his family.
Tomorrow I will start observing Sir Eochaid and his household. Hopefully, I will uncover useful data on the villagers’ social structure and customs and maybe get to the bottom of Giorsail’s presence in the village.
Blossombud 15th
It has been difficult to keep from laughing at Eochaid’s household over these last few days—though I am beginning to suspect that doing so would be unkind.
I spent half a week observing the headman and his household as a mouse and had to stifle myself a few times in order to prevent them from noticing the novelty of a laughing rodent.
The family consists of the Patriarch Sir Labhruinn Eochaid the 10th, his wife, Saraid, his sons, Búadach, Luthais, and Torna, his daughters, Samthann, Teafa, Ealga, and Cathach, and the ancient grandmother, Sìonag. Along with these numbers, Saraid was heavy with child and barely able to move from the master bedroom without help.
Sir Labhruinn fancies himself a valiant warlord in the tradition of the knights of the Round Table—or even King Fredrick himself—and strives to live according to what appears to be a deeply sincere, if somewhat misunderstood, ideal of chivalry.
He refers to his Brugh as his castle, even though it is only marginally larger than the second biggest dwelling in the village and consists of only 18 rooms.
The focus of the brugh is a large circular room at its center, which houses the central hearth. Such chambers are universal to all burghs, but Sir Labhruinn uses them as his throne room and the great hall. He spends all days sitting upon a pallet, adjudicating secular matters, listening to counsel from the druids and Giorsail, and receiving reports from the villagers he calls his “men-at-arms,” a term which appears to confer more dignity than responsibility.
This chamber also holds the family’s greatest treasures: a set of bronze centaur armor, a lance, and a sword, all of Faerie design, all heavily enchanted, and several tapestries that supposedly show his ancestors, who, according to him, were famous Faerie knights in one of the fallen Faerie kingdoms.
The other chambers consist of a kitchen, the bedchamber he and Saraid share, the bedrooms for the children, two guest chambers, a bedchamber/workspace for Giorsail, a room for Sìonag, a library, and a nursery. All the rooms were well furnished compared to the rooms in the other brughs in the village, with well-worn, heavy wooden furniture featuring lots of spiral engraving and various personalization. The sleeping chambers featured straw pallets that centaurs seem to prefer.
When not sitting in court, Labhruinn insists on teaching his sons the “art” of knightly warfare. Every day, just after lunch, they go out to the meadow beyond the fields and practice swordcraft, archery, and jousting. I am no swordswoman, but their efforts resembled rehearsal more than practice.
I also discovered the reason for Giorsail’s presence in the household. Apparently, Sir Labhruinn is doing things quite literally by the book. Le Morte d’Arthur, The Errantry of Frederick von Mountainheart, and several other storybooks in the library. They are heavily bookmarked and have multiple underlined sections per page. Giorsail was recruited to be Sir Labhruinn’s own personal “Merlin,” though I am not certain Giorsail agrees with this designation.
I also have to correct my assessment of her ability; despite not being far out of girlhood, she is more than a mere hedgecrafter. Her spellbook suggests at least a modicum of tuition under a proper wizard. She also has the ability to see magic auras around people and things without using spells, a very inconvenient power for my purposes.
However, Giorsail’s presence seems to have disturbed the household’s harmony. Sìonag and Saraid have gotten into multiple nasty arguments with Giorsail over the last few days, including a few at the nightly feasts. I initially misinterpreted Luthais’s interest in Giorsail as romantic. This was incorrect. He appears instead to be drawn to her craft—specifically, to the possibility of becoming something other than what his father intends.
This is the limit of what I can glean through observation alone. To understand this household—and perhaps this village more broadly—I will need to participate. Giorsail’s abilities present a significant complication. I must consider my approach carefully.
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General J. D. Fessenden’s headquarters, U.S. Army of the Shenandoah at Camp Russell near Stephens City (now Newtown) in Virginia (Lieutenant S. S. Davis, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, December 31, 1864, public domain; click to enlarge).
Erected in November 1864 on grounds that were adjacent to the Opequon Creek, just west of Stephens City (now Newtown) and south of Winchester, Virginia, by Union Army troops operating under the command of Major-General Philip H. Sheridan, Camp Russell was the site where the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was housed from November 1864 until December 20, 1864, while it was still attached to the United States Army of the Shenandoah.
Named after Brigadier-General David A. Russell, who had been killed in action on September 19, 1864 during the Battle of Opequan (also known as “Third Winchester”), which had unfolded just over two miles away during the earlier part of Sheridan’s 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Camp Russell was built using the lumber and bricks from a neighboring African American Methodist chapel that had been dismantled by Sheridan’s troops, according to historians at the Newtown History Center.
It quickly became a two-mile-long complex that consisted of separate encampments for each of the Army of the Shenandoah’s individual regiments, as well as a hospital system, and was protected by a roughly four-mile-long system of earthworks and trenches that had been installed on both sides of the Valley Pike (south of what, today, is the intersection of Interstate 81 and Virginia Route 37).
These earthworks and trenches were subsequently connected to the Carysbrooke Redoubt on the pike’s eastern side, which ensured that the southern end of Camp Russell was also well fortified (a critical planning component since the Confederate States Army troops of Lieutenant-General Jubal Early were positioned to the south during this point in time). In addition, Camp Russell was also heavily guarded around the clock by Union Army soldiers who were assigned to scouting duties and picket details.
During this same time, C Company soldier Henry Wharton penned a new letter to the Sunbury American, his hometown newspaper:
NEAR NEWTOWN, VA.
November 14, 1864.DEAR WILVERT:
The day after election the entire army of the Shenandoah left their old camps at Cedar creek and fell back to this place. The reason of this was the scouts reported a force coming down the Luray Valley and the removal enabled General Sheridan to get a better position and establish lines unknown to the enemy. Intrenchments [sic] have been, and are now being constructed that will baffle the ingeniousness of the best rebel Generals, and such, that behind them our forces can repel double their numbers, and if they have the temerity to make an attack, with the number not slain or crippled by our arms, few could escape being capture. – Such is the position we now occupy.
For the last three days a considerable number of the enemy’s cavalry have been bothering our pickets, with the purpose, no doubt, of finding out our position. Our Brigade, (the 2d) was sent out to give the Johnnies a chance for a fight, but on their arrival, the cavalry of Jefferson D. fell back out of range of our rifles. Since then our cavalry went out in several directions for the purpose of giving them fight or gobble them up, the latter if possible. Brigadier General Powell took the road to Front Royal, met the graybacks, whipped them, captured one hundred and sixty prisoners, two pieces of artillery, (all they had) their caissons, ammunition, ambulances, wagon train, and drove the balance ten miles from where they first met. Of the other cavalry we have had no report as yet, but from the fact that they are led by a man who knows not defeat, the daring General Custer, we can expect news that will cheer the hearts of all who are in favor of putting down the rebellion by force of arms.
The election passed off quietly and without any military interference, not the influence of officers used in controlling any man’s vote. In the regiments from the old Keystone, the companies were formed by the first Sergeant, when he stated to the men the object for which they were called to ‘fail to,’ and then they proceeded to the election of officers to hold the election – the boys having the whole control, none of the officers interfering in the least.
Wharton went on to report the numbers of the election results by company as follows:
- Company A (ten votes for Abraham Lincoln, one vote for George McClellan);
- Company B (twenty-six votes for Abraham Lincoln, two votes for George McClellan);
- Company C (twenty-nine votes for Abraham Lincoln, fifteen votes for George McClellan);
- Company D (thirty-one votes for Abraham Lincoln, eleven votes for George McClellan);
- Company E (twenty-four votes for Abraham Lincoln, three votes for George McClellan);
- Company F (eighteen votes for Abraham Lincoln, sixteen votes for George McClellan);
- Company G (nine votes for Abraham Lincoln, thirteen votes for George McClellan);
- Company H (ten votes for Abraham Lincoln, twenty-four votes for George McClellan);
- Company I (nineteen votes for Abraham Lincoln, sixteen votes for George McClellan); and
- Company K (eighteen votes for Abraham Lincoln, twenty votes for George McClellan).
- Lincoln’s Majority: 73 votes.
According to Wharton, “The battle at Cedar Creek thinned our ranks by which we lost many votes—this number and those away in hospitals would have increased the Union majority to three hundred.”
* Note: To read more of Henry Wharton’s letters from 1864, click here.
A Time of Celebration and Sadness
As evidenced by several of the letters that were written by 47th Pennsylvanians during this phase of duty, life at Camp Russell was a time of both celebration and profound heartache. According to Professor Jonathan A. Noyalas, director of Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute:
In celebrating Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan’s triumph at the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19, 1864, newspapers across the North enthusiastically conjectured that this latest in a series of spectacular Union successes would finally end military operations in the Shenandoah Valley…. On October 23, a correspondent for Iowa’s Muscatine Evening Journal concluded the same, proclaiming, ‘Sheridan’s victory at Cedar Creek makes the third he has gained during the present campaign in the Shenandoah Valley. This last defeat will, it is more than probable, end the campaign on the part of the enemy in that region.’
…. Yet in Sheridan’s army itself, the soldiers’ mood generally remained much more restrained, reflective, and somber. Veterans especially found it difficult to reconcile the joy of victory with the grief they felt….
Beyond such melancholy reflections, the army’s veterans also confronted the stark reality that Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal Early likely wasn’t done yet….
In Cedar Creek’s immediate wake, continued harassment from Confederate partisans, irregulars, and bushwhackers only added to the uncertainty. Sheridan had been particularly annoyed by ‘guerrilla bands’ throughout the campaign [but] was confident these guerrillas could be curtailed by depriving them of potential manpower. On October 22, Sheridan ordered the arrest of every Confederate male civilian capable of bearing arms….
Significant Recognition for the 47th Pennsylvania’s Distinguished Service
Second State Colors, 47th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, showing the battles for which the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was honored for its distinguished service to the United States during the American Civil War (presented to the regiment 7 March 1865).
One of the more uplifting moments in the history of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry occurred in late November 1864 when this regiment’s members were honored by a senior Union Army officer, Brevet Major-General William H. Emory, for their valiant service during the Union’s spring 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana.
GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS, No. 12.
Camp Russell, November 22, 1864.The following-named regiments are hereby authorized to inscribe upon their colors the names of the engagements set opposite their respective names in which they bore a distinguished part:
Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Maine Volunteers-Sabine Cross-Roads, Pleasant Hill, Cane River Crossing, La.; One hundred and fourteenth, One hundred and sixteenth, One hundred and fifty-third, One hundred and sixteenth, One hundred and sixty-second, One hundred and sixty-fifth, and One hundred and seventy-third New York Volunteers-Sabine Cross-Roads, Pleasant Hill, Cane River Crossing, La; Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers-Sabine Cross-Roads, Pleasant Hill, Cane River Crossing, La.; Thirty-eight Massachusetts, Thirteenth Connecticut, and One hundred and twenty-eight New York Volunteers-Cane River Crossing, La.
By command of Brevet Major-General Emory:
PETER FRENCH, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.”A War That Still Needed to Be Won
Charlestown West Virginia, circa 1863 (public domain).
Rested and somewhat healed, thanks to their stay at Camp Russell, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers were informed less than a month after being honored by Brigadier-General Emory that their stay at their new winter quarters was destined to be shorter than they had hoped. They were being reassigned yet again—this time to help fulfill Major-General Sheridan’s directive that the Army of the Shenandoah eliminate the continuing threat posed by Confederate guerrillas and their sympathizers.
And so, after packing up and saying goodbye to the new friends they’d made at Camp Russell, they began a new, thirty-mile march, five days before Christmas. Trudging north during a driving snowstorm, they finally reached Charlestown, West Virginia, where they quickly established their latest “new home” at Camp Fairview, and continued to soldier on.
Sources:
- “Camp Russell.” The Historical Marker Database, retrieved online December 27, 2023.
- “Civil War, 1861-1865.” Stephens City, Virginia: Newtown History Center, retrieved online December 27, 2023.
- “General Orders, No. 12” (Issued by Brigadier-General William H. Emory, Camp Russell, Virginia, November 22, 1864), in The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Civil War: Chapter LV: “Operations in Northern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania: Correspondence.” Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1894.
- Noyalas, Jonathan . “The Fight at Cedar Creek Was Over. So Why Couldn’t Union Troops Let Their Guard Down?” Arlington, Virginia: HistoryNet, 27 February 2023.
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Leaders urge LGBTQ+ Ohioans to protest ICE at national general strike rallies across the state
‘Queer people need to show up because this is all connected.’
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‘Queer people need to show up because this is all connected.’
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Leaders urge LGBTQ+ Ohioans to protest ICE at national general strike rallies across the state
‘Queer people need to show up because this is all connected.’
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‘Queer people need to show up because this is all connected.’
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Leaders urge LGBTQ+ Ohioans to protest ICE at national general strike rallies across the state
‘Queer people need to show up because this is all connected.’
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The Minnesota man who was killed by federal agents on Saturday has been identified as #Alex #Pretti, 37, a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which serves veterans.
It’s the second fatal shooting this month in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in addition to another non-fatal shooting, amid a major crackdown in Minnesota by federal agents.
Pretti attended nursing school at the University of Minnesota, where he was also a junior scientist beginning in 2012, according to his LinkedIn profile.“He wanted to help people,” said Dimitri Drekonja, chief of infectious diseases at the VA hospital and professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, who worked with Pretti at the hospital and on a research project.
“He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients. I’m just stunned.”
He described Pretti as an “outstanding” nurse and a hard worker, quick with a joke and an “infectious” spirit
. “He was such a good dude,” Drekonja told the Guardian.
“I just love working with him.”Michael Pretti, Alex’s father, echoed Drekonja’s assessment, describing his son to the Associated Press as someone who
“cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset.”“He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express that, you know, his care for others,” the elder Pretti said.
Pretti’s father confirmed to the AP that his son had participated in protests following the killing of #Renee #Good by a US Immigration and Customs Law Enforcement officer earlier this month.
Videos circulating online on Saturday show Pretti
directing traffic and filming federal agents,
his right hand holding up his phone
and his left hand empty.Another video shows him being wrestled to the ground by several law enforcement officers
before appearing to be shot several times.At least two officers can be seen with their weapons drawn.
Other videos show Pretti seemingly coming to the defense of a legal observer who was shoved to the ground by a federal officer.
That officer then sprays Pretti with a chemical agent, repeatedly,
before tackling him to the street along with other agents.As at least five agents surround Pretti on the ground, one appears to fire a shot at him at close range,
followed by a volley of more shots, after which his body goes still.“From what I can see, he was trying to help pull someone away, which is just totally in character for him,” Drekonja said.
Police chief Brian O’Hara later said during a press conference on Saturday that Pretti’s only known previous interaction with law enforcement was for traffic tickets.
O’Hara also noted Pretti was “a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry”.Pretti’s parents, who live in Wisconsin, told the AP that during a recent conversation with their son, they warned him about being careful during protests.
“We had this discussion with him two weeks ago or so, you know, that go ahead and protest, but do not engage, do not do anything stupid, basically,” Michael Pretti said.
“And he said he knows that. He knew that.”When Pretti was in nursing school, Drekonja hired him to help support a study on preventing C diff, a devastating bacterial infection.
“He was instrumental in completing our trial,”
Drekonja said.
“He was always asking the rest of the team what he could do. He was always trying to do what he could to free up space for others.”Pretti obtained his nursing license in 2021, and it was active through 2026. He also assisted on research in 2016.
The Minnesota Organization of Registered Nurses (MNORN) released a statement about Pretti’s death Saturday afternoon:
“Today, our nursing community is grieving.
We have lost a fellow registered nurse to an act of violence connected to immigration enforcement.
Regardless of where each of us stands on the issues surrounding this moment, the loss of a nurse, a caregiver, a colleague, a human being cuts us deeply.“This message is not about politics. It is about mourning a life taken too soon and honoring the calling we all share.
As nurses, we understand loss in a way others may not understand.
We know how quickly life can change, how fragile safety can feel, and how pain reaches far beyond one individual to families, coworkers, patients, and communities.
When one nurse is lost, all of us feel it.”Pretti loved mountain biking,
and he and Drekonja always talked about biking together on the trails they both frequented.
“He found humor in life,
and that’s what’s just so sad about seeing this,”
Drekonja said.
“It’s just a huge tragedy -
The Minnesota man who was killed by federal agents on Saturday has been identified as #Alex #Pretti, 37, a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which serves veterans.
It’s the second fatal shooting this month in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in addition to another non-fatal shooting, amid a major crackdown in Minnesota by federal agents.
Pretti attended nursing school at the University of Minnesota, where he was also a junior scientist beginning in 2012, according to his LinkedIn profile.“He wanted to help people,” said Dimitri Drekonja, chief of infectious diseases at the VA hospital and professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, who worked with Pretti at the hospital and on a research project.
“He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients. I’m just stunned.”
He described Pretti as an “outstanding” nurse and a hard worker, quick with a joke and an “infectious” spirit
. “He was such a good dude,” Drekonja told the Guardian.
“I just love working with him.”Michael Pretti, Alex’s father, echoed Drekonja’s assessment, describing his son to the Associated Press as someone who
“cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset.”“He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express that, you know, his care for others,” the elder Pretti said.
Pretti’s father confirmed to the AP that his son had participated in protests following the killing of #Renee #Good by a US Immigration and Customs Law Enforcement officer earlier this month.
Videos circulating online on Saturday show Pretti
directing traffic and filming federal agents,
his right hand holding up his phone
and his left hand empty.Another video shows him being wrestled to the ground by several law enforcement officers
before appearing to be shot several times.At least two officers can be seen with their weapons drawn.
Other videos show Pretti seemingly coming to the defense of a legal observer who was shoved to the ground by a federal officer.
That officer then sprays Pretti with a chemical agent, repeatedly,
before tackling him to the street along with other agents.As at least five agents surround Pretti on the ground, one appears to fire a shot at him at close range,
followed by a volley of more shots, after which his body goes still.“From what I can see, he was trying to help pull someone away, which is just totally in character for him,” Drekonja said.
Police chief Brian O’Hara later said during a press conference on Saturday that Pretti’s only known previous interaction with law enforcement was for traffic tickets.
O’Hara also noted Pretti was “a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry”.Pretti’s parents, who live in Wisconsin, told the AP that during a recent conversation with their son, they warned him about being careful during protests.
“We had this discussion with him two weeks ago or so, you know, that go ahead and protest, but do not engage, do not do anything stupid, basically,” Michael Pretti said.
“And he said he knows that. He knew that.”When Pretti was in nursing school, Drekonja hired him to help support a study on preventing C diff, a devastating bacterial infection.
“He was instrumental in completing our trial,”
Drekonja said.
“He was always asking the rest of the team what he could do. He was always trying to do what he could to free up space for others.”Pretti obtained his nursing license in 2021, and it was active through 2026. He also assisted on research in 2016.
The Minnesota Organization of Registered Nurses (MNORN) released a statement about Pretti’s death Saturday afternoon:
“Today, our nursing community is grieving.
We have lost a fellow registered nurse to an act of violence connected to immigration enforcement.
Regardless of where each of us stands on the issues surrounding this moment, the loss of a nurse, a caregiver, a colleague, a human being cuts us deeply.“This message is not about politics. It is about mourning a life taken too soon and honoring the calling we all share.
As nurses, we understand loss in a way others may not understand.
We know how quickly life can change, how fragile safety can feel, and how pain reaches far beyond one individual to families, coworkers, patients, and communities.
When one nurse is lost, all of us feel it.”Pretti loved mountain biking,
and he and Drekonja always talked about biking together on the trails they both frequented.
“He found humor in life,
and that’s what’s just so sad about seeing this,”
Drekonja said.
“It’s just a huge tragedy -
The Minnesota man who was killed by federal agents on Saturday has been identified as #Alex #Pretti, 37, a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which serves veterans.
It’s the second fatal shooting this month in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in addition to another non-fatal shooting, amid a major crackdown in Minnesota by federal agents.
Pretti attended nursing school at the University of Minnesota, where he was also a junior scientist beginning in 2012, according to his LinkedIn profile.“He wanted to help people,” said Dimitri Drekonja, chief of infectious diseases at the VA hospital and professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, who worked with Pretti at the hospital and on a research project.
“He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients. I’m just stunned.”
He described Pretti as an “outstanding” nurse and a hard worker, quick with a joke and an “infectious” spirit
. “He was such a good dude,” Drekonja told the Guardian.
“I just love working with him.”Michael Pretti, Alex’s father, echoed Drekonja’s assessment, describing his son to the Associated Press as someone who
“cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset.”“He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express that, you know, his care for others,” the elder Pretti said.
Pretti’s father confirmed to the AP that his son had participated in protests following the killing of #Renee #Good by a US Immigration and Customs Law Enforcement officer earlier this month.
Videos circulating online on Saturday show Pretti
directing traffic and filming federal agents,
his right hand holding up his phone
and his left hand empty.Another video shows him being wrestled to the ground by several law enforcement officers
before appearing to be shot several times.At least two officers can be seen with their weapons drawn.
Other videos show Pretti seemingly coming to the defense of a legal observer who was shoved to the ground by a federal officer.
That officer then sprays Pretti with a chemical agent, repeatedly,
before tackling him to the street along with other agents.As at least five agents surround Pretti on the ground, one appears to fire a shot at him at close range,
followed by a volley of more shots, after which his body goes still.“From what I can see, he was trying to help pull someone away, which is just totally in character for him,” Drekonja said.
Police chief Brian O’Hara later said during a press conference on Saturday that Pretti’s only known previous interaction with law enforcement was for traffic tickets.
O’Hara also noted Pretti was “a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry”.Pretti’s parents, who live in Wisconsin, told the AP that during a recent conversation with their son, they warned him about being careful during protests.
“We had this discussion with him two weeks ago or so, you know, that go ahead and protest, but do not engage, do not do anything stupid, basically,” Michael Pretti said.
“And he said he knows that. He knew that.”When Pretti was in nursing school, Drekonja hired him to help support a study on preventing C diff, a devastating bacterial infection.
“He was instrumental in completing our trial,”
Drekonja said.
“He was always asking the rest of the team what he could do. He was always trying to do what he could to free up space for others.”Pretti obtained his nursing license in 2021, and it was active through 2026. He also assisted on research in 2016.
The Minnesota Organization of Registered Nurses (MNORN) released a statement about Pretti’s death Saturday afternoon:
“Today, our nursing community is grieving.
We have lost a fellow registered nurse to an act of violence connected to immigration enforcement.
Regardless of where each of us stands on the issues surrounding this moment, the loss of a nurse, a caregiver, a colleague, a human being cuts us deeply.“This message is not about politics. It is about mourning a life taken too soon and honoring the calling we all share.
As nurses, we understand loss in a way others may not understand.
We know how quickly life can change, how fragile safety can feel, and how pain reaches far beyond one individual to families, coworkers, patients, and communities.
When one nurse is lost, all of us feel it.”Pretti loved mountain biking,
and he and Drekonja always talked about biking together on the trails they both frequented.
“He found humor in life,
and that’s what’s just so sad about seeing this,”
Drekonja said.
“It’s just a huge tragedy -
The Minnesota man who was killed by federal agents on Saturday has been identified as #Alex #Pretti, 37, a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which serves veterans.
It’s the second fatal shooting this month in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in addition to another non-fatal shooting, amid a major crackdown in Minnesota by federal agents.
Pretti attended nursing school at the University of Minnesota, where he was also a junior scientist beginning in 2012, according to his LinkedIn profile.“He wanted to help people,” said Dimitri Drekonja, chief of infectious diseases at the VA hospital and professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, who worked with Pretti at the hospital and on a research project.
“He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients. I’m just stunned.”
He described Pretti as an “outstanding” nurse and a hard worker, quick with a joke and an “infectious” spirit
. “He was such a good dude,” Drekonja told the Guardian.
“I just love working with him.”Michael Pretti, Alex’s father, echoed Drekonja’s assessment, describing his son to the Associated Press as someone who
“cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset.”“He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express that, you know, his care for others,” the elder Pretti said.
Pretti’s father confirmed to the AP that his son had participated in protests following the killing of #Renee #Good by a US Immigration and Customs Law Enforcement officer earlier this month.
Videos circulating online on Saturday show Pretti
directing traffic and filming federal agents,
his right hand holding up his phone
and his left hand empty.Another video shows him being wrestled to the ground by several law enforcement officers
before appearing to be shot several times.At least two officers can be seen with their weapons drawn.
Other videos show Pretti seemingly coming to the defense of a legal observer who was shoved to the ground by a federal officer.
That officer then sprays Pretti with a chemical agent, repeatedly,
before tackling him to the street along with other agents.As at least five agents surround Pretti on the ground, one appears to fire a shot at him at close range,
followed by a volley of more shots, after which his body goes still.“From what I can see, he was trying to help pull someone away, which is just totally in character for him,” Drekonja said.
Police chief Brian O’Hara later said during a press conference on Saturday that Pretti’s only known previous interaction with law enforcement was for traffic tickets.
O’Hara also noted Pretti was “a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry”.Pretti’s parents, who live in Wisconsin, told the AP that during a recent conversation with their son, they warned him about being careful during protests.
“We had this discussion with him two weeks ago or so, you know, that go ahead and protest, but do not engage, do not do anything stupid, basically,” Michael Pretti said.
“And he said he knows that. He knew that.”When Pretti was in nursing school, Drekonja hired him to help support a study on preventing C diff, a devastating bacterial infection.
“He was instrumental in completing our trial,”
Drekonja said.
“He was always asking the rest of the team what he could do. He was always trying to do what he could to free up space for others.”Pretti obtained his nursing license in 2021, and it was active through 2026. He also assisted on research in 2016.
The Minnesota Organization of Registered Nurses (MNORN) released a statement about Pretti’s death Saturday afternoon:
“Today, our nursing community is grieving.
We have lost a fellow registered nurse to an act of violence connected to immigration enforcement.
Regardless of where each of us stands on the issues surrounding this moment, the loss of a nurse, a caregiver, a colleague, a human being cuts us deeply.“This message is not about politics. It is about mourning a life taken too soon and honoring the calling we all share.
As nurses, we understand loss in a way others may not understand.
We know how quickly life can change, how fragile safety can feel, and how pain reaches far beyond one individual to families, coworkers, patients, and communities.
When one nurse is lost, all of us feel it.”Pretti loved mountain biking,
and he and Drekonja always talked about biking together on the trails they both frequented.
“He found humor in life,
and that’s what’s just so sad about seeing this,”
Drekonja said.
“It’s just a huge tragedy -
The Minnesota man who was killed by federal agents on Saturday has been identified as #Alex #Pretti, 37, a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which serves veterans.
It’s the second fatal shooting this month in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in addition to another non-fatal shooting, amid a major crackdown in Minnesota by federal agents.
Pretti attended nursing school at the University of Minnesota, where he was also a junior scientist beginning in 2012, according to his LinkedIn profile.“He wanted to help people,” said Dimitri Drekonja, chief of infectious diseases at the VA hospital and professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, who worked with Pretti at the hospital and on a research project.
“He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients. I’m just stunned.”
He described Pretti as an “outstanding” nurse and a hard worker, quick with a joke and an “infectious” spirit
. “He was such a good dude,” Drekonja told the Guardian.
“I just love working with him.”Michael Pretti, Alex’s father, echoed Drekonja’s assessment, describing his son to the Associated Press as someone who
“cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset.”“He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express that, you know, his care for others,” the elder Pretti said.
Pretti’s father confirmed to the AP that his son had participated in protests following the killing of #Renee #Good by a US Immigration and Customs Law Enforcement officer earlier this month.
Videos circulating online on Saturday show Pretti
directing traffic and filming federal agents,
his right hand holding up his phone
and his left hand empty.Another video shows him being wrestled to the ground by several law enforcement officers
before appearing to be shot several times.At least two officers can be seen with their weapons drawn.
Other videos show Pretti seemingly coming to the defense of a legal observer who was shoved to the ground by a federal officer.
That officer then sprays Pretti with a chemical agent, repeatedly,
before tackling him to the street along with other agents.As at least five agents surround Pretti on the ground, one appears to fire a shot at him at close range,
followed by a volley of more shots, after which his body goes still.“From what I can see, he was trying to help pull someone away, which is just totally in character for him,” Drekonja said.
Police chief Brian O’Hara later said during a press conference on Saturday that Pretti’s only known previous interaction with law enforcement was for traffic tickets.
O’Hara also noted Pretti was “a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry”.Pretti’s parents, who live in Wisconsin, told the AP that during a recent conversation with their son, they warned him about being careful during protests.
“We had this discussion with him two weeks ago or so, you know, that go ahead and protest, but do not engage, do not do anything stupid, basically,” Michael Pretti said.
“And he said he knows that. He knew that.”When Pretti was in nursing school, Drekonja hired him to help support a study on preventing C diff, a devastating bacterial infection.
“He was instrumental in completing our trial,”
Drekonja said.
“He was always asking the rest of the team what he could do. He was always trying to do what he could to free up space for others.”Pretti obtained his nursing license in 2021, and it was active through 2026. He also assisted on research in 2016.
The Minnesota Organization of Registered Nurses (MNORN) released a statement about Pretti’s death Saturday afternoon:
“Today, our nursing community is grieving.
We have lost a fellow registered nurse to an act of violence connected to immigration enforcement.
Regardless of where each of us stands on the issues surrounding this moment, the loss of a nurse, a caregiver, a colleague, a human being cuts us deeply.“This message is not about politics. It is about mourning a life taken too soon and honoring the calling we all share.
As nurses, we understand loss in a way others may not understand.
We know how quickly life can change, how fragile safety can feel, and how pain reaches far beyond one individual to families, coworkers, patients, and communities.
When one nurse is lost, all of us feel it.”Pretti loved mountain biking,
and he and Drekonja always talked about biking together on the trails they both frequented.
“He found humor in life,
and that’s what’s just so sad about seeing this,”
Drekonja said.
“It’s just a huge tragedy -
Steady Hand EEPROM Programmer
After about 6 months, my project is finally complete. It’s the first significant circuit that I’ve designed myself, rather than just implementing someone else’s design:
https://codeberg.org/interrupt_tv/steadyhand
Steady Hand is a digital circuit for programming EEPROMs by hand. It’s inspired by this video by Ben Eater, where he creates a circuit for programming an EEPROM using DIP switches and jumper wires. Steady Hand is much more ergonomic than his design, though it is somewhat more complex.
While Ben Eater provides the “how” inspiration, the “why” inspiration comes from Jeremiah Orians’ stage0 project, and the general concept of bootstrapping: creating a computer software environment from nothing. When building a homebrew computer, one would typically use a significantly more complex modern computer to write the homebrew computer’s software to an EEPROM. I created Steady Hand as a first step towards resolving this problem.
After I’d wired everything up, I was a little afraid something would melt when I plugged it in. While the schematic is separated into smaller modules, the breadboard layout ended up being pretty monolithic. I didn’t do any testing as I was assembling it, so it seemed likely there would be a mistake somewhere. No magic smoke escaped though, and it mostly worked on the first try. There were a few bugs:
The address display was connected backwards, with the most significant digit on the right instead of the left. Easy enough to fix, but the relevant wires were no longer the right lengths to neatly reach their connection points. This trend continued as I had to do further circuit surgeries, leaving things messier than I’d like.
The auto-skip function would cycle endlessly if the byte value to skip matched what was in the write registers. The write registers’ output lines are connected to the EEPROM’s I/O lines in order to be able to write to it. The comparator is also connected to these so that it can compare the EEPROM’s output to the skip value. When it’s time for the multiplexed display to show one of the write nibbles, the EEPROM’s output is disabled and the write registers’ output enabled. This meant that the comparator would now be comparing with the write value instead of the value read from the EEPROM, and would give the signal to skip to the next address.
Disabling the comparator when it’s getting invalid input would have required some additional logic, and at the time I didn’t have any extra gates available. I solved this by using one of the display digit enable lines as the auto-skip function’s clock signal, instead of having it hooked directly to the clock. This ensured that the rising edge would only occur when the comparator had a valid input.
After writing a byte or when auto-skipping past a large number of addresses, the EEPROM would occasionally output
FFinstead of the byte that was actually stored at that address. It wouldn’t do this with any kind of consistency, but theFFwould persist until the address was changed. I thought this was a power issue, but no combination of decoupling capacitors or pull-up resistors would make it go away. After wrestling with it for a long time, I eventually concluded that the AT28C256 just doesn’t like being always enabled. Once I added proper logic to control both the output enable and chip enable lines, the problem went away.
Since I needed at least one more logic IC to solve that last bug, I decided to add a 74HC7266 quad XNOR IC. This allowed me to add a search function alongside the auto-skip function, by just using an XNOR gate to invert the comparator’s output.
I used dupont cables to group related signal lines together, but I’m not sure how I feel about them now. I thought that they’d result in a cleaner layout than if I’d used several additional layers of solid core wire, but I still ended up with a rat’s nest. That was likely inevitable with how densely packed the components are. If I were to redo everything, I’d probably spread them out onto more boards, group them into individual modules, and allow for more redundancy in the glue logic.
Still, I’m happy with how the project turned out overall, and that I can now move onto the next one.
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Steady Hand EEPROM Programmer
After about 6 months, my project is finally complete. It’s the first significant circuit that I’ve designed myself, rather than just implementing someone else’s design:
https://codeberg.org/interrupt_tv/steadyhand
Steady Hand is a digital circuit for programming EEPROMs by hand. It’s inspired by this video by Ben Eater, where he creates a circuit for programming an EEPROM using DIP switches and jumper wires. Steady Hand is much more ergonomic than his design, though it is somewhat more complex.
While Ben Eater provides the “how” inspiration, the “why” inspiration comes from Jeremiah Orians’ stage0 project, and the general concept of bootstrapping: creating a computer software environment from nothing. When building a homebrew computer, one would typically use a significantly more complex modern computer to write the homebrew computer’s software to an EEPROM. I created Steady Hand as a first step towards resolving this problem.
After I’d wired everything up, I was a little afraid something would melt when I plugged it in. While the schematic is separated into smaller modules, the breadboard layout ended up being pretty monolithic. I didn’t do any testing as I was assembling it, so it seemed likely there would be a mistake somewhere. No magic smoke escaped though, and it mostly worked on the first try. There were a few bugs:
The address display was connected backwards, with the most significant digit on the right instead of the left. Easy enough to fix, but the relevant wires were no longer the right lengths to neatly reach their connection points. This trend continued as I had to do further circuit surgeries, leaving things messier than I’d like.
The auto-skip function would cycle endlessly if the byte value to skip matched what was in the write registers. The write registers’ output lines are connected to the EEPROM’s I/O lines in order to be able to write to it. The comparator is also connected to these so that it can compare the EEPROM’s output to the skip value. When it’s time for the multiplexed display to show one of the write nibbles, the EEPROM’s output is disabled and the write registers’ output enabled. This meant that the comparator would now be comparing with the write value instead of the value read from the EEPROM, and would give the signal to skip to the next address.
Disabling the comparator when it’s getting invalid input would have required some additional logic, and at the time I didn’t have any extra gates available. I solved this by using one of the display digit enable lines as the auto-skip function’s clock signal, instead of having it hooked directly to the clock. This ensured that the rising edge would only occur when the comparator had a valid input.
After writing a byte or when auto-skipping past a large number of addresses, the EEPROM would occasionally output
FFinstead of the byte that was actually stored at that address. It wouldn’t do this with any kind of consistency, but theFFwould persist until the address was changed. I thought this was a power issue, but no combination of decoupling capacitors or pull-up resistors would make it go away. After wrestling with it for a long time, I eventually concluded that the AT28C256 just doesn’t like being always enabled. Once I added proper logic to control both the output enable and chip enable lines, the problem went away.
Since I needed at least one more logic IC to solve that last bug, I decided to add a 74HC7266 quad XNOR IC. This allowed me to add a search function alongside the auto-skip function, by just using an XNOR gate to invert the comparator’s output.
I used dupont cables to group related signal lines together, but I’m not sure how I feel about them now. I thought that they’d result in a cleaner layout than if I’d used several additional layers of solid core wire, but I still ended up with a rat’s nest. That was likely inevitable with how densely packed the components are. If I were to redo everything, I’d probably spread them out onto more boards, group them into individual modules, and allow for more redundancy in the glue logic.
Still, I’m happy with how the project turned out overall, and that I can now move onto the next one.
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Just finished up this spectacular connected Icon for @balloonpup and @velvet having a blast at a rave, and consuming questionable amounts of caffeine!
- View on, FA
#CaffeinatedCultist #Anthro #ArtistsOnMastodon #DigitalArt #Furry #FurryArt #FurryCommission #FurryFedi #MastoArt #Rubber #SFWFurryart #Shiny #SparkleDog #Spectacular
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Nearly 90% of adults are at risk for this condition, but most have never heard of it, survey finds – CBS News
Nearly 90% of adults are at risk for this condition, but most have never heard of it, survey finds
Sara Moniuszko, Reporter, Lifestyle & Wellness
Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper’s wellness vertical. She now covers breaking and trending news for CBS News’ HealthWatch.
October 20, 2025 / 1:31 PM EDT / CBS News
About 9 in 10 adults in the United States have not heard of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome despite nearly 90% of adults being at risk for the condition, according to a recent survey from the American Heart Association.
Cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome, or CKM syndrome, is a disorder caused by the connections between heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes and obesity. The syndrome, which was defined by the AHA for the first time in October 2023, reflects how these conditions can influence or worsen each other.
“The health conditions were previously considered separate problems and are often managed separately. With this new designation, the AHA wants people to understand that the conditions are closely connected,” Mass General Brigham explains.
To diagnose CKM syndrome, providers will test different risk factors, to determine your stage from 0 to 4, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Stage 0 means no risk factors; Stage 1 means you have excess body fat; Stage 2 means you have a condition such as Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure or kidney disease; Stage 3 means you have heart disease without symptoms or a high risk of it; and Stage 4 means you have heart disease with symptoms, extra body fat and risk factors for diabetes or other metabolic conditions. Stage 4 could also include kidney disease.
According to a study published in JAMA last year, nearly 90% of U.S. adults have at least one risk factor for CKM syndrome, which include the following:
- High blood pressure
- Abnormal cholesterol
- High blood sugar
- Excess weight
- Reduced kidney function
“The interplay of these risk factors increases the risk for heart attack, stroke and heart failure more than any one of them alone,” the AHA said in a news release about its survey.
Changes to eating habits and physical activity can help prevent CKM syndrome, AHA and other experts say.
In a 2023 interview with CBS New York, cardiologist Dr. Nidhi Kumar said 33% of Americans have three or more risk factors that contribute to this syndrome.
“When we think of danger in medicine, sometimes people think of the words ‘cancer’ or ‘COVID,’ but chronic diseases, like those that make up CKM, are the leading cause of death and disability in the United States,” Kumar said.
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sn-news: #open #space #eo #iot #comms Open Cosmos Announces ConnectedCosmos: A European Alternative For Secure Space-Based Connectivity & Operational Resilience https://www.open-cosmos.com/news/open-cosmos-announces-connectedcosmos-a-european-alternative-for-secure-space-based-connectivity-operational-resilience
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🚀 ASK-ME-ANYTHING session @ GraphGeeks.org ❣️
Join us for this 'connected' discussion -- ask your burning questions -- with Paco Nathan @ Senzing, an evil mad scientist at the cutting edge of AI applications, graphs technologies, and data analytics use cases in general.
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We kinda missed what went on for some years though cos we moved and we didn't have internet that time. I wasn't really bothered when we weren't connected online for a long long while but yeah.
When we were finally back online, things were relatively calm. 2014 to 2015 was pretty calm, but things were definitely brewing by the end of '15. Gmod youtubers, minceraft youtubers, FNAF youtubers, youtubers of variety stuff.. Just a lot of stuff happening..
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We kinda missed what went on for some years though cos we moved and we didn't have internet that time. I wasn't really bothered when we weren't connected online for a long long while but yeah.
When we were finally back online, things were relatively calm. 2014 to 2015 was pretty calm, but things were definitely brewing by the end of '15. Gmod youtubers, minceraft youtubers, FNAF youtubers, youtubers of variety stuff.. Just a lot of stuff happening..
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We kinda missed what went on for some years though cos we moved and we didn't have internet that time. I wasn't really bothered when we weren't connected online for a long long while but yeah.
When we were finally back online, things were relatively calm. 2014 to 2015 was pretty calm, but things were definitely brewing by the end of '15. Gmod youtubers, minceraft youtubers, FNAF youtubers, youtubers of variety stuff.. Just a lot of stuff happening..
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We kinda missed what went on for some years though cos we moved and we didn't have internet that time. I wasn't really bothered when we weren't connected online for a long long while but yeah.
When we were finally back online, things were relatively calm. 2014 to 2015 was pretty calm, but things were definitely brewing by the end of '15. Gmod youtubers, minceraft youtubers, FNAF youtubers, youtubers of variety stuff.. Just a lot of stuff happening..
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Rumor has it that when #Xcode does this, what’s happening behind the scenes is that your iPhone is AirDropping the file via 0.00001% signal strength directly to an original iPhone in a drawer at Apple Park, which is connected via a very long chain of adapters to an Apple III at a different Apple campus down the road, which your Mac downloads it from.
All iOS developers share that one iPhone and Apple III.
My #WWDC wish is that someone finally reseats the RAM in the Apple III to speed this up.
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Rumor has it that when #Xcode does this, what’s happening behind the scenes is that your iPhone is AirDropping the file via 0.00001% signal strength directly to an original iPhone in a drawer at Apple Park, which is connected via a very long chain of adapters to an Apple III at a different Apple campus down the road, which your Mac downloads it from.
All iOS developers share that one iPhone and Apple III.
My #WWDC wish is that someone finally reseats the RAM in the Apple III to speed this up.
