⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

The word "excellent" is derived from the Christian practice of giving up the use of Microsoft Excel for 40 days to commemorate Christ's sacrifice.

It is a period of great productivity.

The date of lent is calculated by using an obscure Excel macro on a field that didn't originally have anything to do with dates, but Excel converted it to one anyway.

@glyph @vrsamuk these sorts of crosses? Yes! Today is a day about burning Catholics in very particular. (Not condoning actually burning Catholics, but this is what it’s about)

Today’s #ukPol #spicyTake

The horrifying “anyone undermining the UK is an extremist” thing emerging from the government is indeed completely fascist. Obviously.

But what’s really going on? (A thread 🧵)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/04/plans-to-redefine-extremism-would-include-undermining-uk-values?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Once again, "AI" is revealed to be an army of mechanical turks in a call center.

Cruse "autonomous"vehicles require 1.5 drivers, and manual intervention every two and a half miles:

Half of Cruise's 400 cars were in San Francisco when the driverless...
https://jwz.org/b/ykFs

Surprising fact: no major professional scientific organization has flipped from a paywalled publishing model to 100% Open Access.

The @ACM the world's foremost professional computing organization, is going to be the first on January 1, 2026, when its entire digital library will become freely available to the public.

Do any electronics buffs know how/if I could buy a small number of very small, custom color e-ink displays somewhere? Is there any company that let's you specify desired dimensions of the display?

Why stop there?

Severely physically or mentally impaired? Lifestyle choice

Living in an abusive environment? Lifestyle choice

Literally drowning right now? You should have chosen a lifestyle with better access to air

Don't have to fund support for anything if everything is a choice, after all.

I wasn’t sure how much credence to give to that article about how it’s worth catering to Linux users because they file overwhelmingly more and higher-quality bugs but here I am at seven AM on a weekend trying to figure out how to file a startup race condition bug against my car that I just spent 20 minutes reproducing so I guess it’s legit.

Love is….

Your wife bringing you a surprise bacon butty to the hot tub…

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Morning.

Here it is, several thousand years in the making: the protostellar jet HH212 as seen in the infrared by #JWST.

We discovered this jet in 1993, glowing in the light of shocked molecular hydrogen at 2.12 microns, as gas emerges symmetrically at about 100 km/s from the two poles of a young protostar not far from the Horsehead Nebula in Orion.

Our new JWST image spans six wavelengths & is ten times sharper than any previous infrared image.

#Astronomy #SpaceScience #Astrodon

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"The police told me I can't be a doctor, but whenever they show up I just go into the Google Maps settings page I found and change the house to 'Police Headquarters' and then they have to do what I say."
https://xkcd.com/2850/

Penn Jillette (Penn and Teller): "The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, without God, what’s to stop me from raping all I want? And my answer is: I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is zero. The fact that these people think that if they didn’t have this person watching over them that they would go on killing, raping ram[pages is the most self-damning thing I can imagine." #atheism

EU Tries To Slip In New Powers To Intercept Encrypted Web Traffic Without Anyone Noticing - https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/03/eu-tries-to-slip-in-new-powers-to-intercept-encrypted-web-traffic-without-anyone-noticing/ outrageous move, done in secret; it must be stopped... #certificates #encryption