Safe Enough to Soar - Fred Miller, Judith Kat

GoodReads Summary: Some organizations pay a great deal of attention to ensuring the physical safety of their team members, but do the team members feel safe enough to speak up and raise tough concerns or share bold and still-in-formation ideas? In this book, bestselling authors and inclusion experts Frederick A. Miller and Judith H. Katz introduce the concept of "interaction safety" and demonstrate how it can help create a work environment of trust, inclusion, and collaboration.

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FSF and rms (Again)

About six months ago, in 2020-09-16, Richard Stallman, a.k.a. "rms", resigned from FSF (the Free Software Foundation, maintainer of the GPL family of licenses) with not-so-great headlines. A week ago, in 2021-03-22, rms told the world that he is back.

And now we have a huge mess. Again.

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Kill Switch (2008)

IMDB Summary: A troubled detective travels to Memphis in order to track down a pair of serial killers.

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Unhinged (2020)

IMDB Summary: After a confrontation with an unstable man at an intersection, a woman becomes the target of his rage.

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Good Omens (2019)

Wikipedia Summary: Set in 2018, the series follows the demon Crowley (David Tennant) and the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen), longtime acquaintances who, having grown accustomed to life on Earth as representatives of Heaven and Hell, seek to prevent the coming of the Antichrist and with it Armageddon, the final battle between Heaven and Hell.

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13 Hours (2016)

Wikipedia Summary: The film follows six members of Annex Security Team who fought to defend the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya after waves of attacks by militants on September 11, 2012.

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Commented Link: Google slams Microsoft for trying 'to break the way the open web works'

Weird are the times when Google, trying to break the web, accuses Microsoft of doing it so.

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The Geek's Guide to Dating - Eric Smith

GoodReads Summary: You keep your action figures in their original packaging. Your bedsheets are officially licensed Star Wars merchandise. You're hooked on Elder Scrolls and Metal Gear but now you've discovered an even bigger obsession: the new girl who just moved in down the hall. What's a geek to do? Take some tips from Eric Smith in The Geek's Guide to Dating. This hilarious primer leads geeks of all ages through the perils and pitfalls of meeting women, going on dates, getting serious, breaking up, and establishing a successful lifelong relationship (hint: it's time to invest in new bedsheets). Full of whimsical 8-bit illustrations, The Geek's Guide to Dating will teach fanboys everywhere to love long and prosper.

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Greenland (2020)

Wikipedia Summary: The film follows a family who must fight for survival as a planet-destroying comet races to Earth.

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Crap Dates - Rhodri Marsden

GoodReads Summary:

A good date can be exhilarating: a shared joke, an improbable spark, long moments of gazing fondly into each other's eyes. Not so for the dating disasters featured in this collection of laugh-out-loud actual tweets about the most terrible evenings imaginable. From seriously unwelcome confessions, to dousing dates in wine, to bringing them back to creepy apartments to meet favorite stuffed animals, here are the funniest and most alarming reports from dating's front lines. Along the way, author Rhodri Marsden offers tips on how to identify and avoid the worst of the bad daters, including married men, blatant liars, deluded optimists, and more. This harrowing collection of real nightmare dates will amuse anyone who's suffered through one of cupid's off nights.

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