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Sophie Gilbert’s book Girl on Girl vividly shows how 2000s pop culture shaped girls and young women — with sexualized advertising, reality TV, and an ideal of womanhood that confuses power with attractiveness. The New Yorker piece makes clear why this era still reverberates today. Smart, angry, and full of aha moments. Must-read: “[What Did the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Do to Millennial Women?](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/16/girl-on-girl-sophie-gilbert-book-review „What Did the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Do to Millennial Women?“)” by Dayna Tortorici. ...

In the photo I took, bright red poppies stand in a lush green field against a pale sky. The shot captures a quiet moment in nature, with delicate flowers gently swaying in the breeze. You can download this and more photos for free and in full resolution from unsplash.com. Click here for the photo The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

Here’s a less technical post. A song — more precisely a remix — that I’m really enjoying right now is Beluga Lagoon - The Glen (HYPER BUNKER Techno Remix). It works for me on the bike, while jogging, and at parties. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

No one ever tells you that bravery feels like fear. – Mary Kate Teske The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

In »Open Source: A capitalistic value engine« Christian Paterson was quoted for opensource.net as follows: Equally, clever engineering that separates commodity – or core – core-functionality with value-added functionality enables companies producing Open Source software to embrace an open and collaborative developer community whilst not providing a completely free lunch for competitors. Of course, if competitors start to feed back into the project because that makes operational sense for them, they effectively become co-investors. That may not stop them from obtaining an advantage, but it helps make the relationship less unidirectional. In this manner, one of the best defence tactics against competitors gaining an unfair advantage is to co-opt them into the project through a genuinely open and meritocratic governance structure. ...