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Neil Brown  

Microsoft is introducing ads into a free version of Office, which seemingly only lets users save to OneDrive.

In other news, LibreOffice is also free, doesn't have ads, and lets you save your documents wherever you want. I use it every day for my work. It is available here:

libreoffice.org/

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Kieran Healy  

Very helpful and accurate answer from Google AI to a search about how many episodes are in this season of Severance. Carefully reasoned.

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useR! 2025 Conference  

UseR! 2025 Call for Proposals is open until March 3rd! We invite R users and developers from around our region and the world to submit abstracts for useR! 2025.
Deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025

useR! will be held from August 8th to 10th at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA.

user2025.r-project.org/call
#RStats

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Matt Panhans  

"Our digital lives are actively abusive and hostile, riddled with subtle and overt cons. Our apps are ever-changing, adapting not to our needs or conditions, but to the demands of investors and internal stakeholders that have reduced who we are and what we do to an ever-growing selection of manipulatable metrics."

Great summary of the importance of changing the trajectory of the tech industry, by Ed Zitron in his article "Never Forgive Them."
wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-

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Matt Panhans  

This was an interesting read:

America’s “First Car-Free Neighborhood” Is Going Pretty Good, Actually?
dwell.com/article/culdesac-tem

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David Zipper  

I joined NPR's Here & Now to discuss car bloat:

“There's been no accounting through regulations or taxes to push people who are buying a car to consider the societal impact...When you don't price [negative externalities], you end up with people buying more big cars than is societally appropriate."

#cars #safety

wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/02/12

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